I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Written over 80 years ago, "Keeper of the Flame" presciently describes the times we live in.

Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit

[P] Two vast and trunkless legs of stone And a crutch without an owner Stand in the desert And on the pedestal, these words appear: "My name is Tiny Tim; God bless us, everyone, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains.

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Big dollar ag fraud

Weissand Effect

Evergreen

I used AI to make a thing. It amuses me. github.com/sconklin/red...

Remembering the time our MAGA (former) lawn guy told me that the answer to school shootings was going to be AI robot gun turrets in classrooms.

Great news! "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access."

This touches on so many reasons why the "tech industry" and capitalism in the U.S. have lost their way.

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

Shame on Fortinet They tied their engineers bonuses to their sales team, resulting in NO bonuses to their technical workers Then had the NERVE to pour salt in the wound by sending a phishing test email about 2025 holiday bonuses. GROSS.

Fun news! Elsie is debuting this month as an official spokesmodel for @fluentpet.bsky.social, a button-based system for augmentative interspecies communication. We're starting the celebration with an Instagram Live on Friday, December 12 at 8 AM PST. Press release: drive.google.com/file/d/1sJgL...

I was searching for information about a mineral. A rock. And the "AI Summery" was 100% about "healing qualities" and how it could "remove bad energy from my home".

Is the font in the room with us?

New research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time. The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four. Corporate greed is out of control.

In my worklife, the two things that have taken the most work from the team were written by (different) "10X engineers" who were no longer with the company. Those things worked - until they didn't. The complete absence of tests, documentation, and comments made them almost impossible to deal with.

Honored to be on this list of independent media outlets doing the work this year without billionaire backers. Thanks @marisakabas.bsky.social and cheers to our indie colleagues who deserve your support!

This is pretty close to how my 3rd grade teacher in Alabama waxed poetically about the KKK.

What an interesting coincidence.

Epstein and "How we got here".

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

This is fine.

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Alabama initiates "Aktion T4"

"Gosh and golly, it's the Call and Molly Holly Jolly Almost Solstice Singalong!" I AM PLAYING A BANDCAMP HOLIDAY SHOW WITH @mollylewis.wtf!!!! YOU CAN WATCH IT ANYWHERE ANYTIME* Tickets: mariancall.bandcamp.com/merch/call-m...

Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city." Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.

"President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families" - Whitehouse . gov Just in time for your mandatory computer replacement to support Windows 11. pcpartpicker.com/trends/price...

You get what you incentivise.

Me talking about writing and my career and how book censoring and white supremacy both suck a lot and also how I got my side gig as the DJ to the nerds

Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Once more with feeling.

Found the real illegals!!🤣🤣 Trump appointed prosecutors were illegally appointed. Not confirmed by Senate. All of their cases gone! #ProudBlue#OneV1 #Voices4Victory apnews.com/article/alin...

i'm grateful there's a fervor to launch new projects and publications right now, because the times are as dire as they appear to be, and a generation of young writers is looking out at a landscape that appears to be all ash and dust

John, gone too soon.

Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.

He we roll Tgiving in our house

Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?