This classic is tops in my 2025 holiday playlist youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI?...

Real American holiday cheer 😂 The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog - defector.com/the-2025-hat...

Another day, another interesting publication probably destined for the AI-powered content marketing trash heap. www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

Gee, perhaps the city of Portland should file a billion dollar lawsuit against Fox News www.propublica.org/article/port...

Mysteries of the algorithm: I subscribe to the @404media.co newsletter. This morning it was sent to spam in my gmail inbox for some unknown reason 🤔 www.404media.co/google-has-c...

this could eat hours of my life 😆 floor796.com?mc_cid=cdbde...

:) www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/30/s...

🤔 www.politico.com/newsletters/...

😂 I think we can all agree that Australians supply the best quotes: “They realized that I’m legitimately just a drunk Aussie guy going to see his family at Area 51 who happens to have custody of the world's oldest burger” www.sfgate.com/food/article...

😆 silly 🤖 -- Google's AI thinks my #Athleta email promotions are written Greek 🇬🇷

❤️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

😢 Sad news: This fella served up a lot of joy and special memories for me and my family. Joe Betz, owner of House of Prime Rib, dies at 86 sfstandard.com/2025/09/24/s...

Cool stuff. 3dprintingindustry.com/news/intervi...

Delightful (AND the Cliff Stoll reference sent me down a memory-lane rabbit hole to a quirky old NOVA episode about hacking and the KGB :>) ratfactor.com/cards/fitted...

❤️ @jenniferwilson.bsky.social "someone had waded through swamps, deciphered Latin, and gained the trust of egomaniacal horticulturalists, all for my passing delight" www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Sharing good eats and spreading joy www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...

The real scandal here is that a Texas A&M student doesn't understand the definition of the word "legal." Also, probably needs to take a course on the First Amendment and maybe China's Cultural Revolution before posting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

💡Disruptive startup investor pitch: A personal AI “complaint agent” that ceaselessly harasses every company that gives me crappy automated customer service and/or anyone who sends me an unsolicited email/text/call.

Free country? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lots of memorable performances to love in here, but shocked not to see Frances McDormand and/or Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) on the list www.theringer.com/2025/08/25/m...

meanwhile, in news that should surprise absolutely no one www.cbsnews.com/news/income-...

The Dude Abides. www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...

:) @drewmagary.bsky.social is a national treasure A life-changing visit to ailing Yosemite National Park www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Insidious piece of advice for "what works" in comms for businesses attacked by Trump includes "Do something that looks like appeasement." Shame on you @axios.com for trying to normalize an atrociously unethical environment www.axios.com/2025/07/27/t...

For all the good intentions and potential to mitigate waste, this will inevitably mean grocery surge pricing in the US www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Better Headline: MAGA decides breathing is bad for American business

"...the idea that the dynamics, business concepts and mores of the tech world were applicable to the news business. They’re mostly not. And here we mean not the 'media' business, to which there is some application, but the news business. Again, not the same thing." tinyurl.com/yznmjm8k

This is how you do life. Bon anniversaire maestro! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/d...

An oldie but goodie: I can't decide on a favorite since they all look so delicious mossandfog.com/nation-flags...

"If you make it trend, you make it true" depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/renee-dire...

It is certainly delicious, but I never knew the fascinating Trumer Pils backstory. Someone should give Carlos Alvarez's career the Netflix treatment (Beer King!) www.sfgate.com/food/article...

For the record @nytimes.com #Connections, Photoshop is an application produced by a company named Adobe.

Personally, I'd rank Band of Brothers and The Wire in the top 3 and The Leftovers should be in the mix somewhere www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best...

Tackling emerging contaminants in drinking water losgatan.com/tackling-eme...

Lovely and true. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Delightful www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

C'est bon! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Hey look what I found! A story worth reading generated by a real live human! defector.com/journalisms-...

❤️ And now for some wonderful news 👏 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

🤔 "to appreciate a cultural work adequately, we must 'succeed in bringing our sensory and cognitive apparatuses into focus upon a single object, a neurophysiological state that distracts us from competing solicitations of attention'” Like that's ever gonna happen www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This makes me sad www.space.com/space-explor...

Words to live by: “Don’t be sad it’s over, be glad it happened.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"No one can be happy all the time, and sometimes circumstance makes it difficult. But getting the basics right – security, freedom and equality – is a good start." Plus saunas, forests, lakes, mushrooms, reindeer, midnight sun, aurora, cloudberries, ... www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

❤️ This is the guy who taught my son to make excellent French Onion Soup Netflix 🍲https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/15/culinary-trailblazer-roy-choi-on-the-choi-of-cooking/

Better Headline: Some government "leaders" are risky and ineffective www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r...

Better headline: White House automates pettiness in futile attempt to mask ineptitude www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

As this piece says, we don't put our FOIA reporting behind a paywall. We've done this since launch. FOIA reporting can be expensive (just today talking about a request that will cost thousands) but you can't charge for FOIA reporting freedom.press/issues/wired...

New: internal memos we obtained under FOIA reveal how agencies complied with Trump's anti-trans order. The documents explain exactly how different agencies are seeking to purge the notion that trans people exist. Also, shows FOIA is still working, somewhat www.404media.co/public-recor...

Hey Google (and OpenAI), did your generative AI tools come up with this argument for you? "Innovation requires us to steal" is some next-level BS. techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/g...

Fun list, but seriously, where is Melissa McBride for The Walking Dead? And don't even get me started on how they could miss Shohreh Aghdashloo for The Expanse! variety.com/lists/greate...