What Is Tayne? Cinco Identity Generator Doesn't Know, Either

I'm going to become the joker www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

A few charts on these benchmark revisions. Starting with the big picture: These revisions dramatically lower the rate of job growth over the past two years. In total, payroll employment is more than 1 million jobs lower than previously reported. #NumbersDay

This is what he looks like, btw

What a moment to be a Bard alum... this letter also came just 10 days after a gala invite to celebrate Botstein's 50 years at Bard, and each ticket costs at minimum $1000...

appreciate that curlers all yell CURL while curling, helps you remember what you’re watching

I love to see this meme going around. I absolutely didn’t notice when I watched it on TV years ago that he’s holding two skateboards. Have to give credit to my producer Kevin, who I’m 80% sure gave this to me as a “I have an idea for one more thing” after we were done.

In 2014 PBS ran a documentary by Whitney Dow called The Whiteness Project that interviewed 1000 people from different ethnic and class backgrounds about about how they felt about being white in the American context. People on the bird app *thoroughly* clowned on it

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

on benito, and america

BIG MAN TOUCHDOWN

It would be perfect karmic retribution if the Patriots suffered a loss from 1000 field goals

me with 2 years of spanish study when I recognize a word during Benito's halftime performance

It would be perfect karmic retribution if the Patriots suffered a loss from 1000 field goals

do you mind if a wh🧔🏻‍♂️te boy talks a little algospeak

Finally, some good news

It continues to be a big problem that so many people think they don’t need outlets like the NY Times or Washington Post because they get their news from IG and TikTok but apparently don’t realize places like the Times and Post are the original source for much of that news.

That's...a lot of words. Pretty sure this is a brand new sentence

This is what paleontology is really about

I’m so happy Herrman has the space at NYMag to showcase his super sharp analysis of all things online during These Troubled Times™

Hey hey, an audiobook I worked on last year won an award!

Actually, Matt Levine had this great line today: "Lots of very smart people have had high-minded ideas about intergalactic travel for centuries, but perhaps it will turn out that a critical step in getting there is building an app to generate short-form pornographic video on demand."

"President Donald Trump called on Republicans to seize control of election processes from individual states, signaling that he may push for drastic measures to change the dynamics of the midterm elections." I feel like there's a much more direct way to say what you mean here, Bloomberg

ten years ago today no one clapped

from: [email protected] Dear Strngbda, how do yuo tpye wiht boxign glovs on

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Shit is nuts. This week I spoke to a crim. defense attorney from mpls who mostly does federal work. He said a client got arrested with 19 pounds of meth & an indictment was coming. Then the feds had to forgo the indictment because they don’t have the resources. Walking away from 19 pounds of meth!

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

with alt-text:

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I recommend Minnesota Public Radio live. I’m learning a lot I’m not getting elsewhere.

Church ladies across the country will never know that I was listening to Trapped Under Ice's modern classic Big Kiss Goodnight as I exported my edits of this very chaste romance audiobook

How I’m feeling about TikTok today

This week on the @engadget.com Podcast, @cherlynn.bsky.social and I discuss why Apple might want to make an AI pin www.engadget.com/ai/engadget-... I see it as one small piece of a multi-device AI Siri strategy, but also, it sure feels weak for Apple to chase this trend

Relatable to me

The whistles are not enough It's time for vuvuzelas

I want to see @aragusea.bsky.social and @hydroxidefs.bsky.social working together so badly A 'collab' is too soft a term because it implies a few one-off videos. I think their styles really match up and it would be great to see them work on a big project together.

Exhibit A

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Is the Chinamaxxing trend orientalist nonsense? No doubt Do I still identify with the sentiment printed on this hat? Yes

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

Here’s your timeline cleanse of the day

Bandcamp has banned AI music. The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." stereogum.com/2485199/band...

This happens SO EARLY in the episode too

I quote posted and deleted something about this earlier today because I couldn't get the idea out in limited characters without being misinterpreted We're all content for ICE now, why fire off a tweet for cheap dopamine when you're giving them another opportunity for a screenshot of a counter-dunk?

This happened weeks before the current protests in MSP

In a time when so many tech execs want to consume the world it’s really refreshing to hear @ericmigi.com ask “what if smart watches were fun?”