I know I won’t shut up about this but we did the same thing except with CDs. It was shocking to me to see just how bad streaming services got and how easily I could get distracted playing music on my phone or laptop

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

Describing AI marketing as a traveling salesmen shoving their foot in the door is as on point as it gets

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

For her birthday my wife asked for a couple of CD players for the around the house. It worked so nicely that I got one for my home office. This whole thing has given me a new appreciation for purpose built devices because it works so much better than listening to music on my phone or laptop

Turns out that the neighbor that drives a giant pickup that no one likes is definitely MAGA. I assumed as much with fake bullets he bedazzled onto it but now he’s got one of those KKK flags to remove all doubt

hey troops this guy thinks you’re stupid

From the same person that brought you the definitive “Roblox is terrible and you should never let your kid anywhere near it” thread comes the definitive “editing posts is an abuse nightmare” thread with bonus “starter packs were a mistake” content!

The rare exception to Betteridge's law of headlines

In college a bunch of us would go to a theater that did two dollar Tuesdays no matter what was playing. The most memorable for me was when we had the entire theater to ourselves for Batman & Robin. I impressed everyone by declaring “I’m wearing lip condoms!” MST3K style right after Ivy kissed Batman

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

In a sane world Waymo would have been fined out of existence by now www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Last night I did nothing but dream I couldn’t fall asleep

All of my congressional representatives, @repscottpeters.bsky.social, @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov, voted for the legislation Rep Casten talks about here. All are democrats and Senator Padilla voted for this a day or two after he was roughed up by ICE

Downtown Ocean Beach right before the Christmas parade

I’m still holding out for the NFL’s concussion awareness and prevention prize. I think I have a real shot!

Trump take video game

The reason I want to see Secretary Hegseth and Admiral Bradley charged with murder, based on what we know, isn't because I hate the US military. It's because I served in the US military and respect it, and want to see its honor restored.

For those of you wondering how things are in San Diego: We were forced to eat our thanksgiving dinner outside

I am really not appreciating how much Gangsters of Capitalism is increasing in relevance the more I read it. I’m starting to wonder if @katz.theracket.news cast some kind of curse

The platform being referred to here is Roblox. This is the *tame* bit of a jaw dropping thread

So Bezos is in them too then?

Even though @kedseconomist.com and @rauzi.bsky.social are on a break they did a PSA podcast to arm yourself with counterpoints to the dumb things your drunk uncle, Fox News watching aunt and cryptobro cousin are going to say when you’re over for Thanksgiving rss.com/podcasts/opt...

I’ve told this before but I had a coworker go to an AWS event that had Mike Tyson doing selfies. The bit was that he’d tap you lightly on the shoulder and you had a picture where you took a punch from Tyson. I asked my coworker what a light tap from Mike Tyson was like and he said “it fucking hurt!”

Working from home and got randos just walking up to my window. #notmycat

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

My train reading this time around is some non-fiction by @katz.theracket.news. It starts off with a plan by oligarchs to recruit a popular general by offering to pay off his mortgage and have him lead a militia to storm the capital so they could get the dollar back on the gold standard

it’s about ethics in pedophile journalism, but like, actually

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

I forgot that there was a season two of The Ark so I started watching that as a treadmill show. I don’t know if the show’s Sanctuary Moon level of camp is on purpose but if that’s your thing then season two delivers just as well as season one did

REVTURN

A massive economic bubble is on the verge of bursting, a new Simpsons movie is on the horizon, and someone decided to start manufacturing plastic drums again. I've seen enough. 2007 Part II is finally here.

I could smell the mustard and the onions

I’m not voting today because I’m in California so I voted two weeks ago. If you don’t have this excuse then go vote!

This thread reads like an Arrested Development episode

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My wife picked up a little battery operated bubble machine a few years back that we always put out for the trick or treaters. A lot of the real little kids like it more than the candy

Back before unlimited PTO I used to tell my employees not to give billion dollar companies money by maxing out PTO. Now I just rant about unlimited PTO being a scam

I wonder if your baseball game or this meeting I’m in will finish first

We’ve had something like 6-7 (?) pedestrian traffic deaths, including 2 children, in San Diego County this month alone. If it had been 7 stabbings, the national media would be all over it and we’d have emergency city council meetings Kill someone with a car, though? Barely a blip

At this point it really doesn't matter what new additional tariffs president dumbass announces because increasing rates have sharply diminishing returns. A 30% across-the-board tariff basically makes that country's products unmarketable in the US so adding another 10% doesn't actually do anything

This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

Most of California's congressional delegation is demanding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth answer questions about who ordered artillery fire over Interstate 5 on Saturday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bY...

This applies to every service, AI or not: If you are designing a popup window and neither of the response options is "no," you don't actually believe in your product's ability to stand on its own feet and also you are the baddies