Ted Cruz is the shitty human version of the Waffle House Index.

Just watched the most recent Fallout episode and have to say I love the season leaning into the moral choices that have been the best part of all the games. Also still taken aback by how much they can make actual people look like janky Bethesda NPCs. 😆

Solicitor General John Sauer made this two days in a row of me writing about the degradation of DOJ in the second Trump administration. www.lawdork.com/p/dojs-defen...

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

*Hits head on desk* PUTTING ALL PERSONAL OPINIONS ASIDE... it would be so, so easy for Dem leadership to say what's happening right now is making it harder for actual law enforcement to do their job. It's removing trust and safety from the community! Etc! They could spin this SO easily.

Trump just declared his intention to make his favorite horse, Incitatus, a Senator. What? Yeah, okay, but for a minute there you were like, shit, I don't know if this is biting satire or...

way too many outlets are running with "Trump says he 'won't use force'" headlines, when they should be more accurately representing the obviously implied threat - like this Sky News headline does pretty well.

There are frankly hundreds of terrific games to play instead of AI-generated live-service slop meant to waste your time and money. This is such a pathetic vision of the future of games lmao

Ice belongs in your fridge not in our streets. These refrigerator magnets will help you remember while helping others- with $2 of each sale going to local organizations that help immigrants. #abolishice

"…the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings." This was the decision stopping studios from owning movie theaters

People who don’t know how to make a PDF: “AI is inevitable.”

This effort to curry favor by acting like an insult comic will be forgotten within the Trump administration in a day, but will make headlines and be remembered for decades in the countries being insulted.

If I walk up to you with hammer and say “I could break your knees if you don’t give me $20 but I won’t,” would you feel relieved that I’d ruled out breaking your knees?

10 years of this shit

Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao

It's humiliating but also somewhat poetic that the chosen avatar of American business genius shuffles into the world's preeminent economic forum like a stack of reeking pancakes and starts hollering ignorant schoolboy bullshit about WW2

Like any snake oil salesman, when the patent medicine isn't working, he tells you that you need to take more and he'll be glad to sell you extra. 🙄 When this all comes tumbling down, get ready for them to blame everyone but themselves.

I hope so much of this happens that the companies that abandoned the user market to focus on data center growth (Micron, etc..), just collapse entirely.

ICE plan to allow detainees to simply die, so that they don't have to pay doctors, and arrange deportation.

I would also question any of the minority who did say they saw either increased profits or lower costs as I suspect their accounting is mistaken or dodgy. None of this stuff works at enterprise scale and certainly not in a way that is good for businesses, workers, or consumers.

Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it.

"Varonis discovered that these guardrails were applied only to an initial request. Because the prompt injections instructed Copilot to repeat each request, the second one successfully induced the LLM to exfiltrate the private data." Microsoft doing Microsoft things 😆

This article is *chef's kiss*.

“Bandcamp feels like the indie game equivalent of music.”

"This MITS Altair 8800 kit was partial assembled with some errors but never completed. It sat for decades but now it has finally been corrected and completed with a new power supply." This is so cool!

via @melodyinminneapolis The Art Sled Rally took place today in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis and Minnesotan’s continued to get creative in their resistance. #minneapolis #minnesota #twincities

DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

behold, this is it. the peak. Breathe it in gang

Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind construction to resume after the Trump administration takes yet another L in court because "the president is a whiny manbaby about wind turbines" is not a valid basis for issuing a stop-work order on a permitted project. Sic semper energy idiots, y'all.

Always was curious how the Nintendo Virtual Boy headset worked given the technology at the time, and it's way weirder than I ever guessed. Also, I'm always down for a Slow Mo Guys video 😀

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

And for something completely different than that last one, Sweet Megg has new original music out! Highly recommend 🎵

Maybe I'm showing my age, but I would love a lot more weird stuff like this on the Internet than have to see any more AI slop.

fucking yikes.

Omg 🤣🤣 futurism.com/artificial-i... (via @jermops.bsky.social)

Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...

Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...

Neighbor who helped stop a data center in Caledonia now advising people nationwide spectrumnews1.com/wi... #wipolitics

Could things get worse? Well... I'm sorry. I should just stop sharing this stuff. Like that movie, Don't Look Up...

the best 2020s espionage black comedy is about the construction crew on the White House ballroom gradually realising that they're *all* spies from different countries, except for one undocumented immigrant who has to teach them how to do things

"The VoidLink interface is localized for Chinese-affiliated operators, an indication that it likely originates from a Chinese-affiliated development environment. Symbols and comments within the source code suggest that VoidLink remains under development." And it's targeting Linux in the cloud

a man tried to kill protesters with his truck and the headline focuses on the victims "attacking" the perpetrator. incredible.

As an atheist it's very frustrating to have my non-belief in the antichrist tested in this way

Ignoring the real problem of adding more AI to more devices, this has to be the dumbest move by Apple since the Sculley era. Might as well hand over the keys to the front door of One Apple Park Way to Google at this point. Doesn't make sense for the business or from a technological standpoint.

Good. Now let's see the same resume-work ruling for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, because this administration has no evidence-based argument to bring against wind power. (Five days until we have a state AG who will join the lawsuits brought by other states.)

If you're among the dwindling demographic who get the print edition of the Washington Post, you may have seen one death notice in what's left of the Metro section that ran longer than usual. (I didn't, but my wife did.) It is some remarkable testimony about mental illness and well worth reading.

It's almost impressive how Sweeney manages to have the most wrong take on every single issue.

Powell reports that the DOJ is threatening him with a criminal indictment for his Senate testimony over the Fed's office-buildings renovation, says this is really about whether the Fed will stay independent or if "monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation." 🚨

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted. ‘Add blood, forced smile’: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...