"About 300,000 more people are riding the subway each day — far more than the 70,000 cars that have been taken off the road in the congestion zone. People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

NEW: Welcome to a major election year. It all starts... tomorrow?! That's right! January is a fairly slow month for elections, but we've selected the 8 races you should still have an eye on—with the first Bolts election guide of the year, just out: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

local market was 100% mobbed just now, no grocery carts available (it's fine, I can shop for 2 days with a basket) - cashier said January is always nuts because everyone resolves to cook more & eat better I forgot resolutions were a thing tbh

Recs for on-the-ground reporters/observers/people in Venezuela posting at least part of the time in English?

So, we weren’t going to have a calendar this year. But I got to thinking about Pepé and I was like “How can I honor TWELVE YEARS of this majestic dog???” and then I decided she deserves HER VERY OWN 12 month calendar. I hope it’s not too late. #uglydogs www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/A+Doze...

this is super cool!

will obsessively repost this article any time I see American food innovation www.fastcompany.com/3008346/deep...

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

Sorry for limited skeets; frozen fingers! Large Chicago crowd has hit the streets in protest of the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro.

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

"This is why the climate movement has always been a peace movement. A movement for peace with nature, since climate chaos is the result of a war against nature and life on earth, but also for the peace that could come after the fossil fuel era winds down."

More of you should follow one of my faves, Professa Murray. She's an administrative law prof who thinks about how govt works and the mechanisms to tinker with it. She's brilliant, extremely funny, and gets radical politics from the ground up. She's always churning! follow: @kalimurray.bsky.social

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

FACT CHECK American companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, and officials didn’t kick them out. Venezuela, following Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, nationalized its most lucrative sector in 1976 and developed mutually beneficial partnerships with American and other firms wapo.st/4jblLKs

we interrupt Trump’s bs to present you with the real king 👑

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

idk if this is useful to anyone in San Francisco, but in case

Periodic reminder: If you use less gas for transportation, you help drop the value of a barrel of oil, which makes the people looking to profit off of stealing from Venezuelans, lose money. 🇻🇪♥️ Take the bus/train/bike/scooter, buy an EV, don't use gas.

We condemn the illegal invasion of Venezuela, and we condemn the fossil fuel corruption that led us here. Young people — once again — are the ones that oil billionaires will feed into the meatgrinder of an unjust, imperialist war.

fffffffs. apparently the oil people don't even necessarily want this.

Peekaboo! 📸 AubuchonHrdware

we need to know every firm represented on this disgusting trip

There are certainy reasons that calling is better, because you can engage with a staffer (if you can get one) but if your other option is do nothing, may I suggest @resist.bot for managing emails. Compose your own or reuse something someone else has written?

just baseline, calls in to my rep & senators - take a sec & call yours if you haven't. 2 of the 3 had made statements against the illegal invasion & in that case I thanked them & said it's not enough, I need them to oppose more strongly & take action against the admin.

Bush redux: the merger of oil corporation and state.

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

You do not have to be good to be protected by the law, but the reactionary argument is explicitly that the law only protects the good, as defined by them. That argument is worth rejecting over and over again, both domestically and internationally.

No to war in Venezuela! Come out to protest TODAY from noon to 2 PM at Van Ness and O'Farrell. Bring a sign if you can. #USPol #TrumpRegimeTakedown #NoWarOnVenezuela

having the same furious shame moment as all decent people; will try to amplify some useful resources, such as this BBC reporter checking images

FYI, Californians: privacy.ca.gov/drop/

getting in my Jan 1 #monthofdick reading in the last hours of the west coast day & somehow "your insular city of the Manhattoes" goes beautifully with Zohran's inauguration

*waves at civic tech* ❤️

How are you using deep fryers, labelers, and 3D printers to increase your productivity in 2026? (this is a mandatory field on your workplace performance self-evaluation)

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

Pretty good prognostication!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani at his desk

one way I finished the year was having a fun talk about a wild Borges story & its resonances in Silicon Valley cults, with my friend @jed.co - starting it out right by sharing with you all!

A motorcade of taxis. Yellow cab drivers adore Zohran Mamdani like a brother. He spent 45 days camped outside of City Hall with them. He took all of his meetings and calls from the protest site. And, spent 15 days on a water-only hunger strike with them. They won and saved lives.

I think I'm gonna let Elinor Wylie wrap this one up (poets.org/poem/let-no-...)

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. As ever - sharing Tennyson’s exhortation to leave the old year dying in the night. In gratitude, fellow travelers. #everynightapoem

a few years back, I posted on the old site that you'd have to be a fool to think that eg the Disney Corporation & the global white supremacist movement wouldn't figure out how to get their views prioritized in training data - this is speedrunning the SEO doom spiral in a trusted voice

I repost this on every platform when I see it

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

an orange cat

thoughts for the week

good news is out there

Silicon Valley is, in fact, Mirkwood.

what the actual fuck, I stg