I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Remote work 2. Exact same people exact same problem

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

Holy crap, I had no idea this existed, and it is amazing. Like…half of Hollywood performing a $5-budget version of The Princess Bride.

I don’t have any sake, but Yoichi pairs very nicely with Ghost of Yotei.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

@antodemico.bsky.social I just want you to know that I will be ordering all my lists by wrench type from now on. That is all.

This video from @hankgreen.bsky.social nails it.

I love “A Measure of a Man,” but the premise is…insane. The enlightened Federation apparently let Data join Starfleet, promoted and decorated him several times, all without *first* working out if they considered him a person or a toaster. :p

I’ve come back to Ghost of Yotei after a break and cripes, that game is just *absurdly* pretty at all times.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

In my case it took 5 1/2 years to get a visa to move to Canada, and I was lucky to have the time and resources.

The problem with watermarking images as AI is not all images will be watermarked given old phones, homebrew AI models, etc. This fosters a risky expectation that unlabeled content is authentic. It’s safer to assume unmarked images are AI than to trust that the absence of a watermark proves reality.

BREAKING: U.S. President Donald Trump says Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has been captured after US conducted a "large scale strike" on the country.

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

Just finished Stranger Things. Season 5 was definitely the weakest on multiple fronts, but the ending was strong. Thankfully not a GoT situation. Good stuff. :) My final season rankings: 1 4 3 2 5

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

Thought I'd make a little thread (in no particular order) of some games that stuck with me in 2025! Cheers to all the teams who helped create these stories. Here we go...

The endgame for crypto doesn’t threaten people’s livelihoods whereas the entire point of AGI is to replace us all with computers. It’s no surprise that people now rail more against AI which provides genuine value to hundreds of millions of people than crypto which is a grifter’s paradise.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Some of you clearly never kicked anyone into spikes in Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, and it shows.

I ran ShadowDark for my family tonight, the first time my mother has ever played a TTRPG. The dice were not kind and the whole party wiped, sadly, but not before Mom killed the titular Scarlet Minotaur with a crossbow bolt into the butt. Fatal colonoscopy.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

My father sure knows how to make a man feel welcome at Christmas.

Vince Zampella was the absolute best to ever do it. Literally. His impact across publishers, studios, franchises and genres was unmatched. Commercially and creatively he was an absolute juggernaut. A tremendous loss for this industry, and to those who were close to him. Rest in peace.

How horrible, perhaps even more so this time of year. I had the utmost respect for Vince. Condolences to his loved ones. :(

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I know he’s only using it as a general example, but when talking about this with artist and writer friends I often say a variation of: genai doesn’t impact me as much as it does you so I can be more nuanced, but the moment someone hands me a generated design doc I will go absolutely nuclear

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

David Harbour not only announced Total War: Warhammer 40,000 at the Game Awards – he'll also be playing a character in the game. gameinformer.com/the-game-awa...

where did they find it, in the D&D Monster Manual??

The phrase “holy frijoles” suggests the possibility of UNholy frijoles, and now I wonder if they have those in the secret chambers beneath each Taco Bell.

I remember as a kid in school, learning about the checks & balances of the US government that limit each branch, and about how monopolies used to be a huge problem but now we have laws to prevent them. Good times.

Can confirm that it’s worth playing all the way through Dispatch a second time with different choices. But also that there are some choices I can’t bring myself to make.

TIL that not all tall ginger men in Canada are @ryannorth.ca but they might still wave back at you just to be polite. In other news, I’ll be wearing my glasses at the airport from now on.