Thank you, Grateful Dead. You've given me a username and avatar for decades: gd.lnk.to/SYF50?eml=20...

Up there with Milton Friedman in my gallery of villains: prospect.org/2026/06/24/a...

Chris Hughes did a really great consideration of Alan Greenspan for us. The obits all say he was a libertarian who left the market to its own devises. No! He deliberately used government to reward financial innovation—and then used bailouts when it falled. This set the stage for financial crisis.

In the midst of so much bad news, some good news: we are finally rid of Alan Greenspan. www.democracynow.org/2007/9/24/al...

Maybe he and Elon can rig up a new party. www.axios.com/2026/06/22/t...

what happened when clive davis (aka siva devil c) met owsley & robert hunter, 1973. www.dead.net/deadcast/wak...

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

6/21/1964: three Freedom Summer civil/voting rights workers—Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, & Michael Schwerner—were kidnapped & murdered by the KKK in Mississippi. Nine white men eventually convicted; outrage over the murders helped pass 1965 Voting Rights Act. Image: Andrew Goodman Foundation.

Music from Henry K of the Rootsland podcast, which I dearly love: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

As a long-time baseball fan, i approve: ribbie.tv

Who would have thunk it. techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/m...

Reminds me that Hill's big book on Milton has been sitting on my bookshelf since my father passed. www.thecollector.com/christopher-...

RIP James www.youtube.com/watch?v=kox-...

this fuckin company man

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Lolol. Because it worked out so well for Elon and xitter: 9to5mac.com/2026/05/27/f...

Keep Oracle honest? Good luck with that. MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest share.google/SVZVha9P8jEb...

RIP Sonny. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Gotta love the HTML. Geocities baby! virtualosmuseum.org

NEW: The judge has weighed in on the $1.7 slush fund. I promised an update when she did. Please share widely.

New single from Tom Morello out May 29th tommorello.lnk.to/adjournit

Did anyone else wake up still feeling the joy from last night’s Eastern Conference Finals clinch? Still reliving every moment. 🤩🏀 Pictures: AP

Riley's new film centers on a crew of women who steal from luxury fashion stores and sell the goods at lower cost to people who can't afford retail. He says it's a challenge to the system. n.pr/435qF4q

#caturday mymodernmet.com/walter-chand...

when i show up in your mentions

Heads up to Chrome users who prefer not to not allocate 4GB of their drives to Gemini Nano weights.

Woohoo! New season! www.dead.net/deadcast/bob...

New book, released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license: "Don't Get Hacked! Protecting Yourself at Home": https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/homesec/index.html Retoot for reach!

Happy 60th birthday to The Crying of Lot 49, published April 27th, 1966. A strange, hypnotic novel that fascinated me as an undergraduate.

So they made 4/20 Todd Snider Day in Nashville. liveforlivemusic.com/news/nashvil...

It starts today! Round 1. Game 1. Cleveland vs. Toronto. Time to Let ‘Em Know. 🏀 Pictures: John Kuntz, Cleveland.com

Cities are getting creative about taking on the data center drain. This would be Ypsilanti taking on the U (and the Department of Energy) directly.

That’s a full “Wow” on the audio quality www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Long overdue. rockhall.com/inductees/gr...

Another wtf moment courtesy of Microsoft: techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/w...

I just backed Networking for System Administrators: Defenestrated Edition on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwl...

They've been missing Google Reader for years — this new RSS app finally came close. www.msn.com

We haven’t found evidence of Stingrays being used at protests in the US yet, but if you’re going to a protest this weekend, why not bring Rayhunter to be sure? Don’t forget to charge and update it, then let us know what you find! efforg.github.io/rayhunter/s...

Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his end-to-end encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people. www.wired.com/story/signal...

Well I'll be. A documentary on Robert Christgau (Call him Dean, or Xgau) who is by far my favorite rock 'n' roll critic. open.substack.com/pub/robertch...

Love this quote: "Pacifists should rejoice; stupidity in military supply chains puts a binding limit on how many brown-skinned people we can kill." prospect.org/2026/03/12/i...

David Dayen tells it like it is: prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...