Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated.

The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

TL;DR AI shills don’t know or care why people connect with art. Their experience of art is as little posts scrolling by with numbers affixed to them, and they think that’s all there is. Sad, clueless dilettantes at life.

Hey it's early Sunday morning, how about preordering my little zine of writing from the year. shop.dansinker.com/products/the...

Here, for your heart: A decent human being doing good with his wealth in his community.

If you live in one of the TWENTY-ONE (WTAF) states who want to tell you what you can and cannot read by banning library books, call your attorney general. Talking points for calling are in this post. This is disturbing. Get mad. Get loud. Don't let up.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Each summer, I lead a week-long creative retreat for environmental researchers & academics on Catalina Island. We develop your most ambitious project ideas. It's truly life-changing. Applications for the 2026 Storymakers fellowship are now open! Deadline is Feb 1. dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/enga...

I can't believe we made it to 150 editions of New-To-Me Phrases, but we did it! If you love learning new things and silliness, this is the newsletter for you. Check it out! www.newtomephrases.com/p/ntmp-150-p...

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

i welcome our q-tip overlords

Why does this photo look like a still from the Genesis “Land of Confusion” video

LFG! 🪑

Love this web comic!! Beautifully illustrated and written with a sharp eye for what it’s like to be a teen. It’s set in the early aughts but it’s still relatable to this Gen Xer.

Hey I forgot to say anything but did you know that this is the 600th page of Rigsby??? That is a lot of pages!! And they’re all free to read at Rigsbywi.com !!!

Some people (not me) use Sunday morning to catch up on their politics, so here was my Say No to AI piece from this week for that. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

The wild turkey who lives at our place has switched from roosting in our trees to the neighbors' roof, next to the chimney. A boss move. #birds #addbirder

No newsletter this week, but did you know there's a huge archive of nearly 150 editions of New-To-Me Phrases? www.newtomephrases.com Perfect Sunday reading if you love learning random cool new things along with funny wordplay.

Our entire disability and fledgling UBI systems need to be rebuilt and reimagined under this working assumption.

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www.patreon.com/posts/how-to... "I’ll take a lecture from a man about “hard work” the day I know that he’s the one who scheduled the doctors’ appointments, bought the holiday presents, booked the babysitter, and planned the parties. And that he paid his workers fairly."

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

Thanksgiving travel is a fantastic time to catch up on Cancel Me Daddy episodes. Check out this episode about how the 2025 off year elections killed the anti-trans ad. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Because numbers and spatial relationships are meaningless to me, I've made several online grocery purchases that my family mocks me for. A barrel-sized pickle jar, a comically huge container of minced garlic, and today, a box of crispy rice the size of a semi trailer. I will never live this down.

New old person complaint just dropped: The back of my neck gets cold now? And stays cold until I don a hoodie or turtleneck?

www.wired.com/story/the-pe... Everybody: read this.

The food safety news in this update is so worrisome. Excellent work by the @unbreaking.org team, as usual!

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

environmental storytelling

an actual not-made-up death panel, except there’s only one guy

Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution

www.patreon.com/posts/you-ca... "Running the same old centrists wearing their flannel and leaning against a pile of hay is the kind of thinking that keeps voters and politicians locked in losing cycles. We need a new kind of politics for a new kind of era."

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. These are *easy* and *vital* things. Let's save CPL's budget. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

She murdered this man in his own house.

They also made a card for the hot beekeeper who came to the rescue

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.

Rec request from the hive mind: Patreon or Ghost for an email newsletter + blog archive?

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

The site, which is known by both archive.today, archive.is, or any number of other mirrors, started in the early 2010s but rose to prominence during the GamerGate movement. It's widely used archiving tool and resource, with hundreds of millions of pages saved. www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

Sad to see this go; it's hard out there for indie publishers and writers. TIL there's a Farmers' Almanac and an "Old" Farmers' Almanac—the one that is likely most familiar to us. I'm gonna need someone to write the miniseries about this rivalry.

Temu Kristi Noem was back at it this week www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.