The Egg Bowl’s presenting sponsor is… Facebook?

All props to @zamosta.bsky.social, but I think the "why" is even simpler: In the 2010s, tech didn't need government to grow. Now it does, both for federal contracts and the policy conditions that enable cheap debt (or the government's own backing of debt). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard. "Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.

Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it. This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...

Twelve years ago today: Twitter goes public. $TWTR @cnbc.com

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Cory Doctorow's media tour for Enshittification made me think: as much as companies that take the enshittification path deserve scorn, companies defying that path deserve sharing and patronage. Not to glaze them, but to show we see their choice and appreciate their values. A few from my daily life:

Never underestimate Mario Cristobal’s capacity to lose to Stanford teams that have no business winning on paper

One for the “can non-white people be super racist” column

Everybody agrees the current American healthcare system is bad The Republican Party spends years cooking up horrific plans to make it Even Worse People say "omg please don't do that, we like being alive" It gets presented as The American Healthcare Debate

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

Blessed be the pepperoni

Good time to toss your Ring gear

Wonder how all the doctors and researchers at UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital, one of the best in the world, feel about this assertion. Utter sycophant.

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

Rollin’ into Portland with the crew

News organizations have *completely* given up on reminding their audiences that all these White House-imposed tariffs - like the new China one being bandied about by Trump today - are almost certainly unconstitutional. Oh even that the actions are being contested in front of the Supreme Court!

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Everything is content. TikTok deal isn’t real but the content has been made. Hegseth military speech clipped up for socials before it had even finished. Alligator Alcatraz was partly an influencer activation.

This is fascism.

Reopening the government isn’t a Republican priority. Protecting Trump from the release of the Epstein files is.

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

In a world of shrinking local broadcast TV news, this is excellent investigative stuff from KGO here in San Francisco. abc7news.com/post/ca-insu...

Our national brand, under both Republicans and Democrats alike, used to be opportunity. Our national brand now is grievance.

When is a smart country going to open up their visa program to just brain-drain America?

Trump wants his own Iraq war, by the sound of it

AND THE HOOS DOWN IN HOOVILLE THE TALL AND THE SMALL FOUND OUT TODAY THAT FSU ISN’T ACTUALLY THAT GOOD AT FOOTBALL AFTER ALL

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

Yes - @kyla.bsky.social hits the nail so squarely on the head in this piece kyla.substack.com/p/whos-getti...

Right-wing men: women are too hysterical to be in politics. Also right-wing men:

Yesterday in Person Familiar, I posited a new litmus test for corporate values and activism: would your CEO march for it? Values aren’t free anymore, if they ever were. They come with costs, trade-offs, and very public tests of commitment. More here: personfamiliar.substack.com/p/corporate-...

@pablo.show Prob a completely unrelated, pre-planned Reddit ad campaign that coincidentally happens to feature him

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

If the frequency of AI demos showing how agents will book us vacations is any indication, we're all about to be way tanner in the future.

All the things that were just "norms" need to be codified with real teeth, checks, and balances. The right had Project 2025. The Dems need an equivalent. Not just a roll-back of behavior once in office, but an enshrinement of how government must work.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Bad headline: "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments" Good headline: "ABC bows to government pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’" Kimmel did not criticize Kirk. He said his death was being exploited and implied the killer was pro MAGA

*Surely* everyone in tech who was up in arms about federal jawboning is super pissed right now.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.

I'm sorry, what?

Say it with your chest

VT is the worst team in Virginia by a country mile

Will Brent Pry make it long enough to lose to UVa this year? Many people are asking.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Isn't it funny how the people in tech most profusely/allegedly committed to Facts, Reason, and Truth are *always* the first to rush to unfounded judgement? Almost like they're entirely full of shit about their whole act.

Girl out here grinding for that pardon harder than a Magic City dancer

When the president punches his own economy in the nuts repeatedly and on purpose, young people tend to feel worse about the future.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened