New enshittification speed run just dropped

Spectacular.

Now down to only three people named in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" who are still alive. Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz.

Bobbie is a great interview! Go listen to this one.

I didn't grow up religious, but I did attend a Sunday service at Southside Presbyterian in Tucson in the early 90s. I was as moved as I have ever been in a house of worship. The world needs more Rev. John Fifes --living your beliefs, no matter the cost, as an example to us all.

No I'm 48 years old and I love DS9

Oh, you mean THOSE Epstein files? Sorry, we'll get right on that with our black markers.

Quick, someone remind me who else figured out how to quickly house tens of thousands of people in concentrated facilities in the name of efficiency www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Biden commuted 37 death sentences to life sentences. So the Trump administration is sending them to ADX Florence, where they spend 22 hours a day in a cell the size of a parking space, even if they need a catheter to pee. The cruelty is always the point. www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

J.D. Vance: "Your hosting skills are unmatched, sir. No one hosts as well as you."

This is the best example of the Streisand Effect in history -- and I'm including Barbra in that.

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Well look at that

At some point #Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is going to have to admit that Flock is not a good actor and the city is putting its residents at risk. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Quick check in on everyone who sponsored the Abundance conference last fall. The Koch network? Niskanen? Or maybe the Abundance $$$ isn't actually about more of everything and it's just about taking folks like Matty and Ezra for a ride and pretending we can permit our way out of this.

It would sure be a shame if the finished segment made it off a CBS server and on to YouTube today.

What a 🤡 show. "National security" my ass. Doug Burgum is a national embarrassment. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

CBS is gone. Ed Murrow is rolling in his grave. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

$2 million! This is what philanthropy and leadership looks like. What a treasure.

The worst people you know are fighting

The difference between Gemini 2.5 (Benj's test) and Gemini 3 is NUTS. This is result of the exact same prompt, but using Gemini 3 (high) in Antigravity: aaronwe.github.io/minesweeper-...

So @benjedwards.com and @arstechnica.com ran a test of AI agents, asking them to create a web version of Minesweeper while adding "a surprise, fun gameplay feature." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/t... Benj had access to Gemini 2.5 CLI, which crashed and burned. 🧵:

ICE is quickly introducing an entire nation to the concept of jury nullification. Impressive.

It's incredible how quickly AI slop has enshittified Slack. (And I consider myself an AI optimist!) At this point I'd pay an extra $2 a month for a plan that doesn't include constant AI upsells in the UX.

What a fucking joke

Every word of this from @allencowgill.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/d...

This must be a new world record for failing up.

Do you get smited if you fry latkes in bacon fat? Asking for a friend

Rage.

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I didn't realize the Nobel family was giving The Onion a run for their money

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

The moment when AI news summaries accidentally create the murder mystery we deserve

I'm sitting here horrified and angry reading about yet another school shooting. I'm about to head up to my kid's holiday concert in Evergreen, where the sheriff's office has still not said anything about how the teen who tried to kill these kids got the gun.

We're 4 performers in to this winter music recital and 2 of them have played variations on Steve's Lava Chicken

This is a spectacular read on how a small team of journalism students used open source intelligence to track how Russia is deploying drone fleets across Europe. www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

Kyrsten Sinema drops the mask, admits she's "working hand-in-glove" with the Trump administration, tells the city of Chandler to comply or face the consequences.

I'm pretty sure that learning about impact play from a toy bunny is a kink in and of itself, right?

I wish I could say this headline is hyperbolic. It's not.

Ten current and former BLM rangeland management employees told PP and @highcountrynews.org that they felt pressure to go easy on ranchers — including downplaying the environmental harm of grazing in permit reviews.

This is leadership. Thank you, @hickenlooper.bsky.social. Now the question is whether the new Senate Stewardship Caucus stands for anything at all. Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy, Martin Heinrich: You're up. Time to draw a bright line on selling off public lands.

A real snoozefest aside from the racism and war crimes

We interrupt your public lands news for a flowchart laying out all the scenarios for the who wins the #F1 drivers' championship this weekend

I'm sorry, Donald, but you've already made it clear we have to refer to national laboratories by the names they were assigned at birth. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/01/n...

New from me in the Denver Post: Trump's BLM nominee wants to liquidate public lands. So does the new "Senate Stewardship Caucus" stand for anything at all? We're about to find out. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/01/s...

What do you mean by "with ketchup?"

Rest in humor, Sir Stoppard. We didn't deserve you, but we're all better for it. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Starting to get the hang of these. I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 27th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 21 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

A terrible loss for Colorado.