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Mayor Brandon Johnson gave his “full and complete endorsement” on Monday to a push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort. @wttw.bsky.social

I…love this

So the CIA got away with a clandestine attack and the gossip-in-chief in the White House blurted it out on a podcast. Neat.

The regime can sue all they want for breach of contract or whatever but all that will do is ensure new contracts never get signed. The Kennedy Center is still operating on old agreements scheduled during Biden admin. Their next step is attempting to get artists blacklisted from other venues.

Strangely, people seeing their insurance premiums increase by 200% take offense when a billionaire confidently scolds them that “actually universal healthcare can’t work, you stupid peasants.”

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever." - Dept. of Education to ProPublica's @megomatz.bsky.social "Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But ... their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated."

The current attack on higher education is an attack on subject-matter, evidence-based expertise—the subject specifics are now completely irrelevant.

The EFF offers a Travel Checklist and a series of guides on how to respond to a potential search. They recommend practices like using long passwords; backing up devices; encrypting data; printing out travel documents. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Welp. It was bound to happen. If you’re a WIRED subscriber, your personal data was likely exposed in a September breach from Condé Nast. Time to change your password.

Somewhere a chemist is sitting at a lab table doing beaker stuff when a young assistant barges into the room, out of breath, to tell them there’s someone on the phone who needs to know how many gallons on sulfuric acid in a body of water is too many gallons.

This discourse is weird because last year we spent weeks during the election talking about how Dems struggling to find a message should be doing services and mutual aid as campaigning. Republicans just do it with pardons and like attorneys fees for murder charges.

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

Some of my first haters on bsky came from buttons v touchscreens discourse and I dunno what happened to them but I assume they’re dead now because they were using touchscreens and driving. RIP.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Oh my fucking god I just saw an ad with a voiceover from trump talking about his imaginary healthcare plan that says “thank trump for taking on big insurance” while everyone just saw their ACA bill go up $2,000 because republicans won’t extend the subsidies. The fucking nerve.

As a chronically dehydrated person I can tell you this theory does not, uh, hold water. But MAHA will quickly become much easier to defeat when they’re all moving to the sunbelt and bursting into dust.

Gambling is a sucker’s bet under the best circumstances but this is asking to get rolled. These prediction markets are RIFE with manipulation. And it’s only gonna get worse.

I often watch a show or movie I really want to like and yet am left disappointed wondering why so much is so much worse than it used to be and I think this has a lot to do with it. Without a proper training pipeline, the experience and therefore the craft just isn’t there like it once was.

I dunno what “being present” means but I almost walked into the shower carrying my clean pajamas.

Straight white dudes who can’t get published are just untalented. I have a white dude name. No one is asking for a photo and DNA test in the slush pile. I didn’t meet my agent until like two years after my first book pub’d. I could have been anyone.

A whole article about the collapse of Target and it doesn’t once mention the word boycott.

Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival | via Maya Smith #ksleg

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

“You don’t understand, loser. I’m doing a TikTok trend” is not a thing I would ever sincerely say out loud. Not for all the gummy bears in the world.

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

“‘Every American should be able to drive to a store, buy a system and start generating energy within minutes — that’s our mission,’  Chou said.”

You’ve got roughly a week to figure out how to cryo-sleep through 2026. Or cure bird flu. Probably not enough time to do both.

“Today, ProPublica is launching Rx Inspector, a first-of-its-kind database that provides answers to what the FDA won’t tell us: where our generics are coming from and the track records of the factories that made them. The information is harder to find than you may think.”

There is no such thing as an “AI detector” for language models. There are a lot of con artists cashing in on intentional obscurity of the technology.

The @princetonupress.bsky.social needs to pull the book and issue a correction while investigating what other errors, omissions, and disinformation they allowed to go to print.

Because Musk isn’t content to destroy only one Texas ecosystem.

Countdown to FBI kicking in your door to rip out your roomba, as sacrificial pyres are built in cul-de-sacs across America to destroy the roving robots, while America The Beautiful echoes through the suburbs.

Alright, fine. They can all have their private jets and armored BMWs but they gotta start driving a federally funded Uber.

To recap: maybe just stick to turkey and dessert.

Pandemic times were weird because we went from like a year and a half in lockdown/wfh to moving overseas under quarantine and spending like a month in military barracks then basically another year under pandemic precautions but on another continent.

Anyway, I'm very good at forgetting that I've lived a life. Here's a time lapse video I took from quarantine. I was there in like July so the sun didn't set.

It’s good to laugh.

No one is stopping you from promoting the entirely true story that Stephen Miller has a face tattoo.

Folks, you don’t gotta do this to yourselves when coquito exists. Break free from your chains.

The thing about Bari Weiss is she’s always been bad at her job and her whole shtick was it’s illegal to criticize her being bad at that job so she invented a new job where she could be as bad at it as she wanted and that ultimately earned her the dream job of being the useful idiot to billionaires.

In August FDOT painted over the rainbow crosswalk near the Pulse memorial, setting off a protest that included repainting and chalking the crosswalk until state troopers were sent to guard the intersection and threaten residents against restoring the memorial. Now the Orlando Sentinel is suing.

Earlier this year Orange County entered a standoff with DeSantis over ICE detention. Ultimately the county relented under threat of DeSantis removing and replacing the entire county government. But a major sticking point in their dispute remains: The county is being forced to foot the bill.

The Authors Guild did a survey in like 2023 and it seemed only to exacerbate their acceptance of model training and LLM use even when the numbers did not reveal widespread member interest. Mostly because the questions were so poorly designed they made some level of acceptance the baseline.

This shit is not nearly useful or competent enough to justify its continued existence when it can and continues to do this to people.

I’m voting for whoever runs on the platform of renaming all our stuff that jackass slapped his name on. I’m voting twice for whoever promises to replaces his name with cat stuff.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

I make it a point not to know too much about what celebrities are up to but sometimes…