The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

27 February 1930 | Dutch Jewish girl, Marion de Leeuwe, was born in Enschede. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in April 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- 📖 Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/4c6n3Fb

So MAHA is bringing back all the old hits, I see.

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Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.

Why are the only product search results these days for fucking ai-generated Amazon associate bullshit? Arrrrrrrggghhh.

There needs to be an understanding and pathways made for the gray areas (and mistakes) that arise regarding citizenship. We are failing. Adopted daughter of a U.S. veteran faces deportation www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

What the hell? #microsoft #minecraft #enshitiffication at it’s finest.

“Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities.”

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

This is how much worse we do: we spend more and get worse healthcare And it is getting worse

The snow is back. But New York is ready. Here's everything you should know about tomorrow's blizzard. Stay safe, stay warm, and sign up for real-time updates by texting NotifyNYC to 692-692.

1/ An ongoing epidemic of murder and extortion in the Russian army has reached such a level that Russian warbloggers say the army has become a "gangster supermarket". "Extortion under the threat of death has become an entire shadow industry", says one Russian blogger. ⬇️

Soooooo, is YouTube out for anyone else?!

Spotify has suggested both an Angry mix and a Rage mix. Huh.

17 February 1896 | Czech Jewish woman, Eliška Ritterová, was born. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

He has his hands on all TIA.... Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel www.pcgamer.com/software/pla...

Wirecutter | Five toilet seats you’d be proud to snort cocaine off of.

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: bacon and eggs, big styrofoam cup of Folgers, then over to the head to snort some cocaine off the toilet seat. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

14 March 1928 | Norwegian Jewish boy of Lithuanian origin, Ahren (Arne) Gordon, was born in Oslo. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- 🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

The Romans loved their plumbing, and built large, underground cisterns in many settlements to provide water storage and distribution. These examples were excavated at the Hellenistic-Roman town Darazya, on the northern coast of Egypt. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Yay! Space debris fears!

#OtD 13 Feb 1913 82-year-old labour activist Mother Jones was arrested in West Virginia for supporting a coal miners' strike. Convicted in a military court and sentenced to 20 years in prison, she was pardoned after serving 85 days. More on the Mine Wars: workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/w...

I will toss the rogue in a blanket.

13 February 1923 | A Czech Jewish woman, Eva Engelmannová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ 🎧 https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

For no particular reason I'm thinking about the time Bill Clinton admitted he smoked pot once in college and it was a month-long administration paralyzing scandal

Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive. It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water. Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.

A group of New York elected officials gathered on Thursday to replace the Pride flag that was removed from the Stonewall National Monument after a directive from the Trump administration.

"Vaccines and Tylenol bad! Snorting cocaine off toilet seats good!"...🥴

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

my new job at the EPA is to hunt and destroy every last goddamn bee they’ve ever saved

Because lawless ICE goons are harassing, arresting, and murdering people who are citizens, you idiot.

Google is trying to force me to give them a phone number to re-access an older account. Fuck you Google.

This is also "history of technology"

A bar owner wanted to attract attention before his grand opening. He succeeded. 😆

Like so much current technology, the intent is valid, but the delivery is suspect. Now way am I going to let game companies scan any faces in this household. Mind you, *some* game groups have better mods than tech companies and the govt.

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. It does this by stripping food away from children, the disabled, and the working poor. Not one more penny.

During a stretch of frigid weather in late January 2026, ice choked the Hudson River along Manhattan’s western shore. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured this image of the wintry landscape around midday on Jan. 28.

Everyone is loving America's new hit game show Incompetence or Malice! Where we all get to figure out if whatever the government is doing that day is just out of sheer stupidity, or something far darker! You'll never be more on the edge of your seat!

Whatever it is, it’ll be stupid

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad