Anyways just like you shouldn’t blame writers and editors at GMG for spanfeller be informed before you blame conde writers and editors. they’re doing largely excellent work and shouldnt be the target of anyone’s outrage.

this condé nast thing, from what’s been reported, reminds me of when Spanfeller fired Barry because the whole union was waiting in the hallways before a big meeting. reflexive terminations are never a wise move when dealing with union activity. it just makes the upset workers furious.

Me: I’m gonna watch that new show where Garfield gets assassinated! Mom: (horrified) who would kill a cartoon cat?

I moved to Texas from New York last month and I’m surprised at what I find myself longing for. I miss my friends and good Asian grocery stores that don’t require 40 mile drives. the parks and theater. the loss of top bars too. yet not the loss of fine dining or NYC museums but god man i miss weed.

Trump carries a print out of a tweet in his coat pocket and pulled it out to show Norah O‘Donnell. that really happened

I’m absolutely rooting for 60 Minutes as it reckons with major changes in leadership beyond its control. and it’s easy to have hope when you watch the absolutely incredible Trump interview. surreal. incisive. beautifully produced and edited. youtu.be/wQPTUa8vxRU?...

She's a god tier troll

the state party loves to go on and on about states rights and demanding the feds stay out of Texas business and reminding everyone Texas can leave the union/create additional states. but jumps at the chance to be under ICE’s boot.

Another property on point for this moment is Warrior (HBOMax), great action drama that is ALSO about the pitting of working classes of all races against each other by 19th cent gilded age plutocrats, plus riots & racism that led to Chinese Exclusion Act. Historically whipsmart & hugely relevant IMO

help your local food banks y'all. donate money. donate time. if you’re feeling powerless seek to help others worse off then yourself.

If, as Trump’s comments suggest, he’s being asked to take the MOCA cognitive assessment and get an MRI, Americans should definitely know! Cognitive declines and nukes do not mix!

texting with my godson who has an apple watch for emergencies and it’s like texting with a baby boomer but more misspelled simpsons references

been spending the weekend gathering stuff for a resell shop that funds a local food pantry. find the food pantries in your area and support them with donations. they and the people who rely on them desperately need it right now.

with an elderly family member now on both a heart monitor and cgm I am getting a first hand look at the state of user interface design in patient focused med tech and YIKES. CGMs are definitely much better than heart monitors but there’s so much work to do.

Free headline: President Trump Can’t Explain Pardoning Binance Fraudster Founder legit absurd he and Johnson just keep getting away with feigning ignorance for any awful thing they and their party do.

the situation is that we came online as a truly global species in the past 20 years, which challenges our concepts of ourselves as important, so we are greedily seeking out performances of authenticity. sometimes it's claiming asia has always had peppers and chiles. other times it is being a nazi.

a lot of people dunking on ranchers for voting for this dude but 1) lots of ranchers didn’t vote for him and 2) if they import live cattle that is definitely how you get foot and mouth disease in the US. With the screwworm march forward additional health issues for cattle would be very bad.

my mom worked for the state of Texas for decades and we were not allowed to email her work account for any reason because it would be public record due to her role. if a bunch of kids could understand that how can the governor of the state not?

To be frank, this kind of research—straightforward with profound global privacy and surveillance implications—is rare. There is usually some caveat that makes it niche or insubstantial. This one is not that.

Spanfeller bought the site

@kagi.com URL rewriting rules are wildly undersold. This is perhaps the most useful feature from this search engine for privacy-conscious folks. I can cut out centralized social media simply by rewriting search result URLs.

people who act like antifa is a single group and not just a shortened form of “anti fascist” sound exactly as goofy as people equating “feminist” with ”man hater”.

Taylor Swift’s new album is proof she was NEVER a real Tumblr girlie. smut so vanilla I thought it was wattpad

Bad headline but growing up in the Fort Worth Diocese under Bob Iker this is GREAT news.

my review of death on the nile: if poirot be bald, you may be enthralled; if poirot has hair, player beware

wrote about the landscape of broadcast TV at the beginning of the year for wired—but it’s kind of wild we allowed two deeply political (and notably conservative) companies to buy up the vast majority of all broadcast stations in the US.

can’t stop thinking about this horoscope I got today. like?????? excuse you?????!!!!

I spent five years pointing out how the TikTok stuff was never about privacy and national security, it was always about wealthy U.S. authoritarians wanting to control information flow, and integrate the country's most popular short form video app into their growing propaganda operations

Please, please listen to me: MAGA world has a lot of money to pay "researchers" to trawl niche social media sites like this one, and take posts that will provoke enormous outrage and plaster them across multiple platforms. Please think about what you're posting before you hit "Post"

every week my mom insists she had a cellphone in the 70s and every week I have to go full ron swanson on her as i explain how absolutely not possible that is

I’ve had my complaints about the NYT but today was the first time I’ve called it “this bitch” and that’s because “now this bitch is trying to say I’m not a Leo???” was the only way I could express my outrage

sweet I’m going to finally make some money from my book

a lot of people really hate on Emerald Fennell when she really seems to be doing a Ken Russell in how purposefully provocative her films are. it rules

The Cowboys doc on Netflix is terrific because a lot of it is Troy Aikman and Dale Hansen talking about how Jerry Jones is a terrible manager and ruined the Cowboys and then randomly Rupert Murdoch? and George Bush!! appear to say Jerry is good at business.

i don’t think my friends and family should be as upset as they are that I spent 20+ years thinking Nelly and Nelly Furtado were the same person.

Had an extremely fun time with three of my favorite dudes and I think I managed to avoid a single rant about the rise of fascism in the US. Instead we talked about E Ink and I very expensive watch I do not need but want desperately.

BigTech’s focus on profit and the race to AGI at all costs is going to continue to leave bodies in their wake. we need to stop allowing large tech companies to use the general public as uninformed beta testers.

we should bring pogs back

whenever i’m like “damn no one gonna acknowledge the full fascism?” I know I can go to Bluesky

i just think it’s convenient that when I told my mom there was a bones reunion her phone mysteriously disconnected

let us be done with Harry Potter AUs. bring back Highlander AUs. I don’t want to know what house your faves are sorted into. i want to know what sword they use to play the Game. 😤

On the one hand the displays of opulence in shows like Guilded Age and Succession are abhorrent and proof capitalism needs limits. on the other hand I do absolutely watch and think “god I wish that was me”.

I love Co-Star for how frequently it absolutely bodies me

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This is real obvious if you're on Bluesky or reading the news obsessively but most people are not in either of those groups and really do need a roundup explaining what was extremely obvious to everyone with a strong and well informed grasp of geopolitical affairs.

I can't blame users here because general users are consistently bad about both privacy and UI. I do blame Meta for building a feature into its AI product that sends conversations to users' timelines. That is an incredibly stupid feature and this outcome was inevitable. Meta fucked up monumentally.

This is an incredible crew of folks fighting to enshrine crucial protections in their union contract. That contract will be looked to by many other unions and companies as they navigate this world that is so deeply hostile to the journalism and the truth. Give them your support!

this year for my birthday I got the best gift: explaining the dark romantasy trend to a friend who is NOT online.

Media literacy so bad now days Jerry Lewis’s The Day the Clown Cried”, which was once likened to a painting of Auschwitz on black velvet, would be hailed as a masterpiece.