Interesting question to ask Apple and Google… www.wired.com/story/x-grok-ap...

Reminder as the new year begins that I head up GameSpot’s opinions section and would love to read your pitches! I’m always on the hunt for timely and thoughtful criticism and analysis on games and gaming/internet culture, so feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if interested ☺️✨

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

Copilot, please summarize this article with examples. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/me...

Big hire for the Orange defense! www.nunesmagician.com/syracus...

Big win and upset. Let's go 🍊! www.nunesmagician.com/syracus...

Rap artist Toosii is taking time off from his multi-platinum music career by going forward with his dream to pursue football after saying he has committed to Syracuse University.

First Cuse freshman to earn the honor since 2023. Let's go 🍊! cuse.com/news/2025/12/1/women...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

this is mesmerizing

Heck of an early season test! Let's go 🍊! www.nunesmagician.com/syracus...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

Leading after the first quarter, tied at the half and a heck of an effort from Walton. Let's go Mason! gomason.com/news/2025/11/23/w...

🫠 The US economy's 7 deadly signs Parts of the America's economy are already in deep trouble, and the weakness could drag the whole country into a recession. archive.is/kdxL7

Usually, JVL is the prince of darkness, but I have to agree with him that we may be seeing the high water mark of Trump here. Consider his evidence:

From the people who brought you the financial crisis, Theranos, and Juicero: say hello to data center financial engineering! I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy. prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

And consumers lose. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

"Is this the week that America finally started clapping back at Donald Trump?" @sbg1.bsky.social asks. In a moment of political exits and an "electoral blowout," the whiff of generational change now hangs over American politics. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

BREAKING: The FAA will cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports across the country starting Friday if shutdown continues. https://cnn.it/3Xfbhzs

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Decision Desk HQ has called the Virginia governors race for Spanberger. The millions of dollars in anti trans ads fell completely flat there.

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Control your data in LinkedIn or it'll get scrapped by AI. 9to5mac.com/2025/11/03/securi...

What are some privacy minded video doorbell systems that compete with Ring? Bonus points if they work with HomeKit.

"The current season has taken a turn for the worse, but if you step back and look at the bigger picture, I do believe brighter days are ahead. There's a lot of work to be done, but for the first time in a while it feels like Syracuse is taking football seriously." www.nunesmagician.com/syracus...

Wikipedia is more important than ever. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/h...

This is legit! Saw him live and in person. Not sure how he does it?!? Magic? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/st...

Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 5 catastrophic storm as it bears down on Jamaica. www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3...

The new look Orange have the talent this year. Can't wait to see what they do in the ACC. Let's go 🍊! www.nunesmagician.com/syracus...

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

UVA damaging much more than its own reputation -- weakening the bulwark for all of academia. Now's the time for solidarity across the academy against these moves. UVA's weak capitulation is damaging for everyone

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Profits over user experience will push people to stop using their services. I dropped Google search recently. Kagi provides an actual good web search. So much better. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/...

Preordered the new informational cards. Looking forward to getting educated about the jokes. arstechnica.com/culture/2025/...

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

this is like half of r/ups now

Sad news. I have great memories of his time playing at Syracuse. Fun style of play during a exciting time in the Big East. cuse.com/news/2025/9/30/mens-...

Great news. I finally have access to the Capital Weather Gang without a Post subscription. 9to5mac.com/2025/09/29/apple-...

Google search is cooked. It has gotten so bad. I just want the best links and sources, not AI garbage and way too many ads! I finally installed the Kagi extension in my work browser and changed my default search engine. So much better. Like when Google search was at its prime. help.kagi.com/kagi/c

The stark contrast between Trump's description of Portland and the reality reported by local officials has raised questions about the true motivation behind the surprise deployment announcement.

I can't wait to play this game tomorrow. My daughter is also really excited.

it's official: Microsoft is embracing OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve its Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, starting today. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/784392/...

Big win over Clemson. www.nytimes.com/athletic/6641...

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...