"Popular pressure, protests, and civil society’s mobilization now appear as the sole safeguard for democracy and human rights in the United States." www.commondreams.org/newswire/uni...

"Trump, more than anything, wants to be popular. His sense of what leads to popularity is deeply broken, as are the moral values around it, but it's just a fact of the man that he wants people to praise him and doesn't like it when they don't." www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mdgqfumjy22f

"Pendulums swing; surprises erupt; public opinion shifts; the kind of campaigns that are initially dismissed or sneered at or attacked nevertheless often continue until they prevail" www.meditationsinanemergency.com/past-perform...

"There are more of us than there are them. There are more good people in the world than bad. There are more virtuous people who believe in community than angry insecure people who believe that everything is a zero sum game. " www.techdirt.com/2026/01/28/m...

Can you actually use WiGLE to automatically alert you of nearby Flock/Axon devices or is that all blogosphere sensationalism?

And fuck the #NRA too. "They don’t honestly care how many people are killed by law enforcement officers. The only thing they care about is being able to open carry while shopping at Walmart or invading federal buildings to overturn elections." www.techdirt.com/2026/01/28/g...

"We’re all in this country and world together with our fates inexorably intertwined. These are crimes being committed against all of us, trying to destroy the fabric of our nation, its values, and all the law that is supposed to protect us all." www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/s...

"It’s a game to them to lie because it “triggers the libs.” They will justify and celebrate murder so long as they can meme it and parade around how mad it makes empathetic people to see their friends and neighbors murdered." www.techdirt.com/2026/01/26/a...

"ICE agents are not acting like federal officials trying to serve the community - because that’s not what they are doing. In Minneapolis, the federal government is laying siege to an American city." steady.page/en/democracy...

Just me spending the day charging every device I own while braving the roads to go hoard various soups.

If you want to help Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Mutual aid resources for Minnesota right now: linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

@feedly.com Is your firewall documentation still accurate? I'd like to keep your crawler from being blocked in Cloudflare but it doesn't seem like your IP listed in the docs is the one I'm seeing. Alternatively if you can just get your bot verified by Cloudflare then this isn't an issue.

Pikapods is a good place to run Immich, right? I always have anxiety over whether or not I'm spending the appropriate amount of both time and money on purchases like this.

It's wild to read this work I edited back in 2021, and see the rights of vulnerable groups in STEM further regress due to ongoing anti-"woke" moral panics. You can't even use the term "DEI" in a governmental setting anymore. And oh, Gavin Newsom vetoed a bipartisan bill banning caste discrimination.

Does anyone know off the top of their head if there's a limit to the level of subdomains you can have in a single Bluesky handle? Like: "abc.def.ghi.whatever"? Can't seem to find any specific mention in any documentation.

Yep

First, far-right influencers demanded that the DOJ charge Renee Good's wife. On Tuesday, the DOJ asked Minnesota prosecutors to investigate the widow. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-g...

Good news eveyone. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

"Newly added wind and solar met all new demand for power last year. The global surge in clean energy meant that, in the first half of last year, renewables generated more power than coal for the first time." e360.yale.edu/digest/2025-...

"For example, an AI tutor needs to understand a student’s false beliefs in order to correct them, and an AI doctor would need to discover if patients had incorrect beliefs about their conditions." spectrum.ieee.org/ai-reasoning...

@carabunga.bsky.social would I recommend this in the office? I don't know. store.steampowered.com/app/2135150/... I feel like some would get addicted to it maybe.

After learning both my banks of choice (PNC and Ally) contributed funds to the mango Mussolini it seems I should look elsewhere. Any suggestions in SE MI?

"After all, it posits a world of solar-energy abundance and then argues that we will still have need of punks. No magical tech fixes for us. We’ll have to do it the hard way: with politics." medium.com/solarpunks/o...

Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI. LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.

After watching a clip of Aaron McGruder on C-SPAN I'm vaguely wondering if I want to do watch-alongs on Twitch (etc) of political/cultural bellweather material. I'm not sure if I want to do that under my actual name or a pseudonym. Anyone have insight? ( @wizworldlive.com @fortninety.bsky.social )

"You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

you ought to make a website. you ought to make it a canvas, a great irrigated field, a confessional booth. make it an amphitheatre, a private tea service with friends, a graveyard, a bedroom, the sunset light through shutters. you ought to make a personal website, make it carefully, make it home

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computer Show Me Less Like This. show me Parisian streets and their denizens, show me futurist art and central american architecture. show me black forests and crystal pools, steady wildlife and bad poetry and confused yellow cabs. computer, show me the agonies of Men in love

"Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are spineless cowards who are terrified of Elon Musk" www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

"Respondents who professed strong support for democracy were often willing to abandon those principles when faced with economic disadvantages." news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Is there a useful life-logging-esque way to quick add/update notes with custom yaml from your phone (android) to an #obsidian vault? Or do you have to wire something up yourself?

"Enshittification was a choice: named individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment." media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

The reason for the season. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jan-6-a...

Identity – The Story of Czech Graphic Design www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #linkblog #design

Trump Successfully Murders U.S. Public Media www.techdirt.com/2026/01/06/t...

Madeleine L’Engle’s Inventions www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

"It showed the stunning level to which Trump and his allies were willing to disregard democracy and their almost limitless, utter shameless capacity to lie." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...

Does anyone have a good, up to date, beginner-friendly proxmox + terraform + ansible tutorial for spooling up a #homelab? I'm trying to finally do this comprehensively in 2026 and not just drop Plex on an old office computer.

"But, thanks to Trump's incontinent belligerence, we are on the cusp of a "Post-American Internet," a new digital nervous system for the 21st century. An internet that we can build without worrying about America's demands and priorities." pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

The internet would be so much more egalitarian if RSS were as widespread as HTTPS. werd.io/why-rss-matt...

"And for some reason when we went into that hallway, that’s the first time when I had—my concern must have been building, because when I walked in that hallway I thought, someone could be shot in here." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-it...

"This is not a peaceful protest!" apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

"And to the extent that we’re able to unravel this mess, I think that there definitely has to be consequences, whether they’re political, criminal, legal, for people who have facilitated all of this and committed crimes along the way." michiganadvance.com/2026/01/06/f...

What would Donald Trump have to do for the U.S. media to frame what he is doing in Venezuela as an act of war? theintercept.com/2026/01/04/t...