LISTEN: TikTok and other digital venues becoming tools of the Right was all foreseen in 1996 when 3 Repulicans (Pressly, Blighly and Gingrich) maneuvered Clinton into signing the Telecomm. Reform Act, spawning most of our modern media ownership crises.

Is Disney is pulling a head fake by "reinstating" Kimmel show? With scores of Trump-ified affiliates still refusing to air it, Disney could announce soon that it can no longer afford to keep the program going. In other words, don't assume that Bob Iger has grown a spine […]

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Since English is an Anglo-Saxon language, we refer to its speakers as "Anglophones". We missed a trick not being called "Saxophones".

Some days it feels like every big biz is becoming part of the Trump Command Economy. #nvidia https://mastodon.social/@searls/115249753668628954

The bigger, systemic challenge is the corporates have so many far-flung business interests, some of them will be in front of the DOJ and the evil cowards will never back down. This is like cancer: when they win you die, so gotta pull a Jimmy Valvano. #jimmykimmel

Pressure works "Disney Co. said Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to the air on Tuesday, ending a suspension imposed following controversial remarks ..." "...“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having […]

@phillycodehound @andypiper I know, it’s hard…but there is the fediverse and the open web to believe in and advocate for.

I don't need AI to feed me bland affirmations, I have #telegram spammers.

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

Finally got around to integrating some ratings of cities/states for "Picking a Future Home Recognizing #climatechange". Not necessarily done yet.... http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/PickingAFutureHomeRecognizingClimateChange gsheet […]

Which country music has-been will write the Charlie Kirk Anthem? #horstwessel

"Lutheran Church Missouri Synod to Resurrect Charlie Kirk via Claymation"

Interesting that Newsweek listed the Democrats who voted Against/Present/NoVote on the Charlie Kirk resolution, but didn't list the Yes voters. https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-resolution-house-vote-democrats-list-2132640 https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025282

"you and your government have chosen the easy way out for yourselves, and the most dangerous road for society: the path of inner decay for the sake of outward appearances; of deadening life for the sake of increasing uniformity; of deepening the spiritual and moral crisis of our society, and […]

@dangillmor Mickey Mouse is now another 'fluffer'; keeping Trump erect between takes.

That #ICE raid on the #Hyundai plant in #Georgia has #Koreans so pissed off they're shunning American cars. #Trump#koreans#georgia#hyundai#icedestroying our economy. https://insideevs.com/news/772867/koreans-cancel-tesla-orders-hyundai-immigration-raid/

So @openculture posted about this amazing archive of root system illustrations and I responded it would be a lovely to have a bot that posts them periodically and @stefan made it a reality! So if you like @roots in your timeline give it a follow! […]

well, I guess TikTok is going to be state media now.

Word. The US used to have 50 media companies. We are down to five. — The Onion’s Ben Collins wrote on Bluesky, “Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is […]

“The FBI recorded Tom Homan, White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help agents posing as business executives win government contracts in a 2nd Trump administration… Trump’s DOJ shut down the investigation…” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

hey @KevinCarson1 is there any "recent" update on the Las Indias phyle? Is it still active? What's the max number of "employees" it has had?

I am a long-time and documented probably irrational SPA hater, but when an SPA doesn't include page state in the navigation stack, such that the back button leaves the entire application instead of navigating within the SPA.... that's when I get extra salty.

Note the ability of the DHS director to exempt specific companies (and individuals or occupations) if it is deemed in the national interest. Yes, this is a reasonable exemption. Specific individuals, companies, and occupations are so critical we need them. It also is a pathway to patronage.

@MishaVelthuis "The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, had told Democrats in a closed-door caucus meeting Thursday morning that leadership would vote for the resolution" Of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/house-resolution-charlie-kirk Representative Ocasio-Cortez, who voted no, said in a statement: “We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was: a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted Black Americans the right to vote was a […]

Gulf of New Afghanistan

Are my methods unsound? https://imgflip.com/i/a6nf9w

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

Grilled Vietnamese style pork chop, snow pea tips, frozen spring rolls, leaves of perilla, basil, and mint for wrapping.

"Your Review: Project #xanadu - The Internet That Might Have Been" https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-project-xanadu-the-internet?publication_id=89120&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=n9nf&utm_medium=email

Chicago Tribune: Cook County commissioners seek cooperation from other officials to alert when ICE arrives https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/cook-county-commissioners-cooperation-other-officials-alert-ice-arrives/

Mathematicians occasionally uses "tack" symbols, ⊥ and ⊤, for various purposes. They're called that because they look like thumb-tacks from the side. But if you need a particular tack, what do you call it? Is "⊥" the "up" tack, because the pointy bit is up? Or is "⊤" the "up" tack, because it's […]

Biblically Accurate "Bob" https://www.SubGenius.com/

Cursed polycule

“But if we block the street to cars, it will kill local businesses!” #carsRuinCities #urbanism

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

When a company says it has "no plans" to enshittify its product, you should take that to mean it will proceed fairly soon with enshittification. Today's example is Samsung: https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

J.R. "BOB" DOBBS AND THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS by director Sandy K. Boone is out and available for streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube(recommended)…! (So far.) See http://dobbstown.org for a constantly-updated list of all streaming and virtual theater venues, plus links to dozens of […]

#fediforumfriday: this week I've mostly been working on a side project experimenting with OAuth for decentralized & distributed web; To bootstrap this, rather than writing it all from scratch, I worked on reusing the atproto/oauth-provider package, which provides a LOT of functionality […]

you know things are great when @matt-levine.bsky.social is posting this warning in his newsletter, and the section above it is about xAI valuations

everyone's like "ai is a bubble", which, sure, but i think that means stonks will continue to go up until we've seen memecoins of ai labubu nfts

Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company. This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.

I am a META employee, and I know for a fact that several corporations are working closely with the United States government. The U.S. is not a safe jurisdiction. We're not just targeting criminals or terrorists — we're targeting people. Everyday people. People like YOU — who choose to use a […]

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