Listening to ...And Justice for All this morning, for no particular reason youtu.be/HbokBTEBEOE?...

think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them

It's a totally crazy idea my colleague has here, but what if Elon, the second-dumbest man alive... just turned Grok off, just for a bit? www.engadget.com/he-could-jus...

Maybe she should try not sucking and being incompetent? bsky.app/profile/medi...

I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

First sensible things these motherfuckers have felt since they put on those masks. We need to make it 100% clear that we will be coming for them. They will be identified, prosecuted, and imprisoned. And if formal justice falls short, they will nonetheless be hounded for the rest of their days.

Today would be a great day for Donald Trump to stroke out while taking a crap, J.D. Vance to sever his dick with his zipper, and Stephen Miller to fall into an open manhole. If you can dream it, it can happen.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Fuck ICE with the power of one million suns and every fiber of my being

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Lots of details in this story that get into just how awful Bari Weiss is, and has been for the entirety of her career: substack.com/home/post/p-...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

This is Colonel Nicole Malachowski. A 21-year veteran of the #AirForce, she is the first woman to fly with the #Thunderbirds & flew 26 missions in Iraq. #Trump has removed all mention of her from federal websites. Please reshare if you stand with @RealMalachowski against Trump!

In Boston, every day is No Kings Day

#Boston shows up. #nokings

Politicizing tragedy is always out of bounds and a horrific desecration of the victim if it’s in service of trying to prevent future tragedy by taking obvious and proved remedies. But it’s perfectly fine if it’s in service of demonizing an out-group for retaliation with literally zero .

Sure, the world is absolutely on fire, but the weather in Boston is CRISP and I'm wearing a flannel and generally feel rather cozy, so I'm going to try to enjoy that. Also, fuck Mitch McConnell, Trump, ICE, and most of the corrupt and racist SCOTUS.

This is fucking horrifying and I cannot believe that it is real, except that this is the world we live in. In case you don't see what's going on in the preview for this story: "The former CNN host "interviewed" an AI avatar of one of the Parkland shooting victims." It's as bad as you can imagine.

Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.

Love this detailed report @cheymac.bsky.social put together on an ongoing attempt by the UK to agree on how to curb plastic pollution. I did not even know this was a thing. www.engadget.com/science/will...

Second big story of the day is here: a deep dive into iPadOS 26. If you've been craving better multitasking, I think Apple is finally delivering on what you are looking for. It's quite a major update, even in beta form. www.engadget.com/mobile/table...

I've been in a bit of a gaming rut for a while. Fortunately, Donkey Kong Bananza absolutely slammed me out of that rut — I've been plowing through this game and loving everything about it, even though 3D platformer isn't my favorite genre. www.engadget.com/gaming/ninte...

Lol, bye-bye Linda www.engadget.com/social-media...

Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/the-nyt-ha...

You'll be shocked to learn I had feelings about what Neil Druckmann's departure from HBO's The Last of Us means for both the show and Naughty Dog's future. The timing is particularly interesting with Microsoft doing its best to single-handedly blow up major parts of the games industry yesterday.

The Xbox / Microsoft layoff situation is wild and depressing. So many of these studios are doing good work and Microsoft's bottom line continues to grow but and getting cut because MAKE MORE? www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/...

Hmm, big changes afoot for The Last of Us season 3. I still liked season 2 a lot, but also recognize that there were a lot of legitimate issues with the plotting and pacing. Just a difficult story to adapt to TV, so shaking things up isn't a huge surprise. www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

Jim Spanfeller is a fucking joke and I am glad that the fine folks at Kotaku no longer have to work under him. Also, he's a shitty writer (assuming he didn't have AI write the bullshit missive that went out today).

Meanwhile, the bill that passed the Senate can fuck off in innumerable ways, one of which is what it may do the US solar energy market www.engadget.com/general/trum...

I heard UPenn is now offering degrees in cowardice, kowtowing, and boot licking.

Lost in all of today's terrible news is that Penn is full of cowards.

The leadership at UPenn are fucking shameful cowards thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

Just got back from a lovely few days with the @engadget.bsky.social team doing strategy and hanging out and discovered this takedown of Peter Thiel's latest bullshit on the site. I love it when Avery goes to work on goons saying stupid stuff. www.engadget.com/science/pete...

It takes an extremely big business brain to destroy your beloved gaming brands right before a hot new console launch AND the most highly anticipated video game of all time

I am among the MANY folks who got laid off today. Don't have anything good or thoughtful to say on it atm. gutted, sad, feel completely fucked. Fuck vox media management forever. they did this shit on may day. vox media union forever.

Polygon was easily one of the best things Vox had going, so of course it's getting sold and gutted. The media industry sucksssssss

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.bsky.social Podcast, starting in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfF-... @nateingraham.bsky.social and I will be chatting about the New York Auto Show, as well as the latest DOGE and tariff mess

The Last of Us season two is coming soon to crush you with horror and beauty. It's going to be a long wait for season three. www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Here are the GLAAD standards for reporters covering transgender people, topics, and legislation. Given how poor so much of the media is at covering these topics (and it's just getting worse), it feels worth sharing today. glaad.org/fact-sheet-e...

Whether you’re a journalist or working in a high-level government position, Signal can be useful! But group chats are always so tricky! We have a little advice for you on how to add and (more importantly) remove people from a thread.

Wrote about the most ridiculous part of Amazon's Alexa+ launch, which is definitely the price. Also gave me a good excuse to use an outstanding stupid headline that we all came up with www.engadget.com/ai/20-a-mont...

I wrote about the fascist party that's taking power, the deepest natural laws that they oppose, the ways that this opposition renders them fundamentally, illegitimate no matter what power they hold, and what that means for all of us. www.the-reframe.com/the-moon-is-...

The perfect headline doesnt exi— www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And one more for now. Feels weird to do self-promotion in light of literally everything going on, but hey, I had fun doing this last week. And we might as well share fun things that happen to us, right?

This billboard says it all.