The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Basically a larger version of post-Soviet collapse Russia

in 5 years bfswa.substack.com/p/when-will-...

“There is nothing inherently left wing about democracy,” he says. “Nor does the left have a monopoly on fighting corruption, holding power accountable and making sure companies pay for the social and environmental damages they cause.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble. If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Reminder: SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."

evergreen

don't threaten me with a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good time

Truly evergreen.

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has once again bought millions in US company bonds. You can see the full list below.

I'm just thinking out loud here...

MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

very innovative

When democracy dies. Conrad Felixmüller’s “Self-Portrait in City Landscape (Dresden)" (1930). A popular artist during the Weimar Republic, Felixmüller’s work was banned and declared degenerate when the Nazis took power.

Incredible impact from @mattburgess1.bsky.social whose work put a spotlight on Starlink’s use in scam compounds in February.

This is a well-done essay, rather in the spirit of E.B. White’s own brilliant essays in the years around 1940. Shame on those ignorant fools who chose to steal White’s title for their newest attacks.

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her. This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

Elon’s power is that he offers a positive vision of the future. This attracts employees, funding, support. There’s a massive techno positive hole and he fills it.

I had to click to see if this was a real excerpt or someone doing a parody

"Nuremberg defendants were surprisingly normal, opportunists who, as he put it in a 1946 lecture, 'exist in every country of the world, who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the … public if they could gain control of the other half.'” What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:

New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

“Under an Umbrella.” Ukrainian editorial cartoonist Oleksiy Kustovsky captures life in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, where protective nets are now stretched across the streets to protect civilians from Russian drones.

Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc

Alexei ❤️

That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."

Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.

They followed the rules — but it didn’t matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

Shot thebaffler.com/latest/flat-... Chaser nymag.com/intelligence...

UBS trying to blackmail Swiss regulators per this FT scoop

How are we going to explain to future generations that rich people got so mad at being made fun of on social media that they decided to bring in fascism for everyone.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1... same as it ever was

today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Ancient Teotihuacan Murals May Reveal a 2,000-Year-Old Written Language www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-teot...

Thought this might make you laugh.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described fascism as a form of "participatory anti-democracy." That FB post is a perfect example of that dynamic. It's not just that ordinary "conservative" Oregonians are tolerating a military crackdown on their state, they are positively thrilled by it.

U.S. military strike on Venezuelan boat is properly alleged to be murder. How important is this as a matter of international law? On left: Rubio State Department's top accusation against Venezuela On right: US Congress in codifying law on extrajudicial killings

What Epstein records have not been made public?

Couldn’t get a more clear example of Wilhoit’s theory of conservatism: “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

"As Wittgenstein says: `The world is everything which is the case'." - The Perfect Crime

Step A: give corporations everything they want Step B: lobotomize all government oversight that might ensure they'll do what they say they'll do Step C: profit, dance parties, miracles

Remember the "race to 5G" when it was essential to give telecoms anything they wanted (deregulation, tax cuts, subsides, whatever) to "defeat the dastardly Chinese," then when the U.S. ended up with shittier more expensive 5G suddenly lawmakers just stopped talking about it? good times

Left: yesterday Right: today

This is totally the selling point. It's actually one of two: the other selling point is helping to solve the cold start problem. They're not Bluesky's users, they're members of the atmosphere.

lmao, “was that a good number, sir? i’ll say whatever you want, sir, as long as you keep using the power of the US government to protect us against foreign taxes and regulations”