"Whatever you think of his politics, you gotta admit it's an impressive resume" Fuck no, Tony Dokoupil. One person accumulating that many simultaneous job titles is consistent with a decaying fascist state where none of the job titles have expectation of competence, expertise, or responsibility.

If you don't want people in emergency housing, the solution is to end the housing emergency, not to end the emergency housing.

FWIW, I logged into my Hilton account and sent them negative feedback and mentioned I look forward to loudly joining ICE protests wherever they stay. I haven't even stayed at one recently so I am small fry. But if enough people get in their face about a boycott it will effect the business decisions.

Hilton seems to be... Insane? "We are a welcoming place for all, so anybody not on board with the fascist government's ingroup better fucking watch out." Who the fuck wants to stay at a hotel full of ICEholes?

So unspecified "interim authorities" (who?) are "turning over" an uncertain quantity of oil with 20 Million barrel sized error bars. Handing it over to "the US" to sell (despite sanctions?) even though we hate nationalized oil industry and communism. (All under no legal authority anywhere.)

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

Enlightened centrists in US politics who cater toward being super moderate now need to promise to lawlessly murder at least a few random innocent civilians every year, as a golden mean deftly navigated between the extremes.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Whelp, I went on record saying I 100% didn't think that's what was happening tonight. So, weird... Ukraine, if you are listening, Trump says that kidnapping heads of sovereign states is cool now, so... Just sayin'. I wonder what the hell we are planning on doing with him. Prosecuting him?!

Hot take: Trump doesn't actually particularly want to "win" in Venezuela, and people expecting that he was going to kidnap Madura as a first strike are missing how much he wants to use ongoing war powers domestically as part of dismantling the power of the courts & using military against civilians.

Of course, CBS's "We love America" will only apply during Republican Administrations. As soon as a Democrat wins the next election, it will be wall to wall "America is failing, America is on the wrong track, America can't continue like this...."

1) Swing Voters Are Not ‘Moderate’ Swing voters do not sit ideologically between the parties. They're better understood as largely idiosyncratic, anti-system, economics-focused and alienated by both parties. “You wouldn’t believe the things I’ve heard in focus groups!” – @admcrlsn.bsky.social

Some calendar asshole deprecates 2025, and now I have to update my whole life to the new year. Typical.

Cameron Brereton, 35, who reportedly missed Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and the entire Christmas Perineum in between in the search for a box of multicoloured string lights, is said to be “determined and in good spirits.”

it’s all i’ve got

Go poop a turd out your fartblaster.

It's a hell of a thing when you start with "causing massive social problems and implicated in psychotic breaks and multiple deaths," and once you are real happy with all of that as a starting point, only then do you start proactively enshittifying it relative to that baseline.

Today's weird little discovery on Youtube. There are dozens and dozens of very slightly different versions of this exact same hospital scene because it's from some sample footage used for learning. I was so confused when I ran into two of them, and then fell down a little rabbit hole.

Another highway widening in mid county, meanwhile no progress on rail anytime soon. We are not doing enough to stop road expansion, while high construction costs & car brain hold back any alternative. www.pressenterprise.com/2025/12/27/w...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

The Onion from 17 years ago is so much more insightful about our politics than the actual news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPTB...

Another example of "Republicans don't consider getting the most votes to be a legitimate path to power." Not just that they no longer see it as the best or only path. They really don't treat it as legit any more. They find they idea of being governed by the guy with the most votes to be shocking.

Behold, Anatar. The Italian Avatar movie you didn't know you needed to exist. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_H9...

Is it a good thing to build society around pumping explosive fossil fuels all over the place, and then just kinda give up on doing infrastructure for decades because it probably costs money or time or whatever? Asking for a friend. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Is Christmas finally over yet?

"Real discussion" is when people don't make fun of Mark Cuban, or ask him any awkward questions.

How much money did roads lose? Or the FCC? Or the FBI? Or... Well, it's weird how very specific public services get judged as if they should be considered profit making businesses for literally no particular reason. Rename it the "Federal Public Logistics Agency" and nobody would blink at $9B.

This "golden fleet" bullshit is so fucking stupid. It's like The Onion hired a Seventh grader to develop a military doctrine as a joke. China just keeps winning every time we step on ourselves, as long as they don't even do anything. www.goldenfleet.navy.mil

If fear of your actions being publicly exposed would interfere with you doing it, what you are doing isn't legitimate law enforcement.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras www.404media.co/flock-expose...

I dunno man, the world is scary. But we're like, literally not allowed to blow it up. So, kind of a catch 22.

"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go." Yeah, Jurassic Park feels intuitively like a useful mental model for how 2026 will go.

America has a problem with Both Sides-ing things. The problem with America is clearly that we don't Both Sides hard enough.

Elon Musk's personal wealth could fully fund the war in Ukraine for about a decade.

I looked up the house they used for the establishing shots of Married With Children on Zillow. It's about $700K today, which isn't bad for 4 bedrooms, though in the show it was in a better location closer to the city in Chicago. Al Bundy afforded it working retail at a mall shoe store.

Really looking forward to seeing who the best option for the 2026 Gubernatorial election is. Californians are absolutely exhausted with having to explain to Newsom to knock off this Republican bullshit. Reagan was a racist piece of shit, not a role model, not even if you quote him out of context.

Today, for the first time in six months, Angelenos are living without the National Guard unlawfully deployed in their city. Our team fought tirelessly against President Trump’s unlawful attempts to militarize American cities, and while the fight is not over, this is a step in the right direction.

Fog can be a dangerous driving condition. So be sure to drive through it as quickly as possible to minimize the amount of time you spend in a dangerous driving condition.

AI feels like they invented spam without the email. Fantastic stuff.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

DRAM prices mooning will hurt everyone and might cause a consumer tech recession on its own in the next 12 months even without the AI bubble popping. Hyperscalers are going to jack up prices for cloud resources, electronics manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) will raise prices, this is gonna hurt.

Not in a practical state, but sorta neat. I added OpenTimelineIO import this weekend to my little NLE that I use as a learning dev project and imported a reel from Resolve. Adobe's had OTIO in inaccessible beta for over a year now, can't ship. OTIO libs are fine, must be an Adobe issue. Shrug.

If You Submit A $5000 Movie To 30 #FilmFestivals... What Happens? - Andrés Taboada [FULL INTERVIEW] www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg0i... #film #filmcommunity #baja #producer #filmsky

There are lots of funny suggestions to submit complaints about everyone to temporarily shut the entire place down. However, that idea would rest on the assumption that this policy is meant to be enforced equally on everyone, and we seriously cannot be gullible enough to believe that.