Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

Mornington Crescent: a rant. Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation. Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin. 1/18

This is only tangentially connected to me, but stick with me. In Leander TX, a suburb of Austin, a Dem candidate gets 57% of the vote in a special election for mayor, walloping 2 rightwing challengers. Great news! Leander is arguably where the rightwing book banning took off. I was a target!

really interesting firsthand account of investigating where book banning initiatives actually come from (yes the answer is nazis)

Hoo boy.

Ouch

Sherpa Intelligence paid attention to the #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news from over the weekend so you wouldn’t have to! Read the roundup 🤠 open.substack.com/pub/sherpain...

I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Thank you Bad Bunny for taking the California stage and using your voice at Super Bowl LX. A beautiful moment! Together, we are America.

So here’s the thing…

I… um… Hunh.

i do not think that people whose job is money should be allowed to do things for a while

New England out there scoring like Nick Fuentez in a bar that serves drinks with lids.

In a new fundraising email, Trump asks people to give him money or else ICE will assume they are an “illegal alien” and “track you down”

Listen to Senator Wyden. I wish more of his colleagues would do so.

This is what happens when every tech company fires their ethics team.

THE US DOES NOT EVEN HAVE AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE So…”speak English” can stuff it. It’s not our official language because we don’t have one. Deal with it.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Dammit.”

Before the new week begins, make sure you're caught up on last week! Read Après-climb from Sherpa Intelligence for February 7, 2026: Relax and rejuvenate with these Sherpa Intelligence posts from the past week! sherpaintelligence.substack.com/p/apres-clim...

Gerhard Richter, abstract AND photorealist artist #HappyBirthday! born on this day in February 9 1932. '#Art is the highest form of hope' contactlight.de

Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well....

This remains true, and you should act on it.

Thrilled to stand alongside New York’s Cutest to announce our new request for information for 2-K and 3-K providers. This is the first step toward universal childcare, so I brought in the experts.

Share a short film that needs feature-length treatment: youtu.be/yltlJEdSAHw?...

So here’s the thing…

I'm late to Ren. But I love him. youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc?...

So here’s the thing…

After 4 years, US figure skater reunites with family from war-torn Ukraine at Olympics

The Distance. My entry into the Super Bowl ad mix.

Having Bad Bunny perform at the Super Bowl is UN-AMERICAN. In THIS house, we will be watching the In Living Color halftime show from 1992.

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Seeing a guy weakly and pathetically crying in his car, going home, getting my own car and pulling up next to him to show him how a real man cries in his car. Gotta use your whole body. Gotta throw your shoulders and let those sobs ring out, brother. You'll get it, just need practice

The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flare-up in tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump's designs on Greenland.

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

So here’s the thing…

“OUR city isn’t [insert name of a much more livable & successful city here].” Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city. That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses. The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Someone In WH Called Russian FSB May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump. On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m sure this hasn’t been lost on anyone, but tomorrow, there’s going to be a cultural battle between indigenous iconography and nationalist branding. Just, you know, in case that has been under discussed. Anyways, #GoHawks.

Worth saying: surprisingly few book covers actually reflect specifics from the book. It’s a tribute to Joe’s art and the HoZ briefing team that these covers are so striking and also every little detail relates to the book’s contents.

Well, yeah.

Gosh. www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/1...

When you think everything is falling apart - remember - people like Trump, and Stephen Moore, and J. D. Vance, they always underestimate others. They should be more curious.

lovely homage to Dune at the Olympics

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

The great whites are back in Mossel Bay, and we couldn’t be more excited! 🦈🌊 At Oceans, we’re passionate about these incredible sharks because they play a crucial role in keeping our oceans healthy. 🌍💙

Oo-de-lally!