We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

I want bitcoin to go to zero and I want all the grifters who pumped this to rubes on the back of moronic fearmongering of monetary policy and promises of generational wealth to be fully invested as it happens. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

*BITCOIN SLIDES BELOW $75,000, HITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE TRUMP ELECTION WIN The fair value is $0, LFG!

"The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Hey look! The "golden age of America" is upon us!

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

"What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent's head and keeping his airway open. "I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me," she said." www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Enough when? www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/wCx...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

One of my all-time fave Detroit tracks. youtu.be/f5WB_vNFDoc

New Kim Gordon album out in March kimgordon.bandcamp.com/album/play-me

Bandcamp bans AI generated music and audio: www.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/c...

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

This album, jfc. benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/by-the...

*TRUMP: MAY SUBSIDIZE OIL COMPANIES REBUILDING IN VENEZUELA: NBC Infrastructure week, at last!

LFG!

"I want to live in a world where this is the top streaming album." croatianamor.bandcamp.com/album/all-wo...

"Everyone who works with official PDFs in any capacity should know that if you start with a PDF containing text you want to redact, and you just place black bars atop that text and resave the file, the original text is all still there in the new PDF file." daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

RIP Ziggy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/a...

MAY I REMIND ALL:

"Al is kind of like Temu for thinking."

"The tech companies who have built this technology have spun this tale that this is all going to change quickly. But we humans don't change that fast." www.reuters.com/business/bus...

New VFTL out today. voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com/album/ii

⬇️ www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...

Remembering dear Sleazy on this day of his passing in 2010. ❤️

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

10/10 moods youtu.be/geLF8j2rmxw

"Would you like to leave a tip?" at a self-checkout screen. Seriously, what are we doing here?

“a company representative may need to peer into your house via neo’s camera eyes to get things done” lol. lmao.

This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

“.. AI’s closest historical analogue here may be not electric lighting but radio. “.. radio turned into one of the biggest bubbles in history—peaking in 1929, before losing 97 percent of its value in the crash ..” @wired.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Solid use of dial-up samples on this Tony Price proper... liesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ibm-co...

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

*THE TOP 1% OF U.S. EARNERS NOW CONTROL MORE WEALTH THAN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS No worries... it's going to trickle-down any day now!

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

New Kelman Duran album out today... kelmanduran.bandcamp.com/album/scorpi...

New deep ambient/experimental set from Patrick Russell on.soundcloud.com/iE6E2v9XgTuD...