I was doing my elder millennial thing and watching some bootleg Carmen Sandiego on YouTube the other night and I don’t think younger generations realize just how woke we were in the 90s. Like… even the criminals on that show were 150% appalled at the concept of racial discrimination.

Too few people understand that the FCC has very little jurisdiction over the content on cable TV. Their regulatory domain is mostly communications infrastructure, but since the infrastructure in over-the-air broadcasting includes publicly owned radio spectrum, they can regulate content there.

Yeah… conspiracy theorists are obsessed with “frequencies”. No distinction between audio or radio, just “frequencies” as if they‘re part of some sinister plot.

cool cool cool When you think "potentially dangerous file" the absolute LAST THING YOU SHOULD BE THINKING OF is a .txt file.

There is no protocol like it in the world, because it was created in a different one. And every other world died. SMTP. Email is the final gasp of the original dream of electronic sovereignty. Of a federated world of peer communication. It's the final one. The last protocol.

Hm, did something happen over at Discord?

I am here for Snoop hanging out with Olympic athletes and trying their sports

Usually if you see a line worker hanging from a pole like that, it’s a Very Bad Thing

60 seconds in and this is already a legendary Super Bowl halftime show

I don’t know what it says about me that I found the Raisin Bran spot funny

I bet Coinbase bought that ad time before Bitcoin was absolutely demolished last week

Endorse. Clerks can still say “no” and if someone refuses to cooperate, then and only then does some variant of law enforcement get involved.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

We’ve reached the part where people are going “you see, this turbo troll who also happens to be an elected official is Good Actually” and sometimes even a reasoned explanation why.

PSA: the graph going around showing party affiliation among athletes in North American professional sports leagues is misleading at best. It fails to account for the percentage of players who are not citizens and thus can’t be registered to vote.

The sound deadening properties of heavy snow are just 🤌🏻

The namesake of WCPO AM, FM, and TV. The call sign remains on the TV station, but the AM is now WDBZ and the FM is now WUBE-FM. Many broadcast stations in the United States were started by local newspapers.

Delicious. Big Tech has long deserved to be taken down a peg or three. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/a...

It’s all Schrute Bucks and Stanley Nickels out there

Pack it up, the party's over... The Onion is making fun of the bubble now. It's only a matter of time.

This is why millennials scrutinize everything on the internet because we were told it wasn't a valid source of information.

You flash back to watching WWE (then called WWF) in the 1990s. “Bah gawd, that’s Hillary Clinton’s music”

This is the first time I actually watched one of these spots and while it is genuinely hilarious, I don’t know if the robotic affect of the “chatbot” avatar is the flex Anthropic thinks it is. The actor nailed it though. Disclaimer: have never used Claude.

I can’t wait to stroll up to my neighborhood polling place with my United States passport in one hand and a middle finger to the sky on the other if this comes to pass.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

If a plagiarism machine is what succeeds at upending the incredibly unethical internet advertising model by utilizing the vastly better non-creepy traditional media advertising model… y’all… I’ll flip tables.

Believe it or not, there is a name for this and it’s called “reactive devaluation”

This is massive. The technology underlying Bluesky and other useful applications is on its way to becoming an Internet standard like HTTP or email.

Everyone crying “censorship” when you haven’t been able to drop an F-bomb on prime time broadcast TV in the United States for at least 50 years

Read this thread. 👇🏻

I said this in a reply before, now I'm saying it on main: Having one or more marginalized identities does not magically immunize someone from criticism solely based their character. In other words: *what* you are can't outweigh *who* you are.

Hello, Bluesky brand owners. I beg, if you own a reputable website of note, PLEASE do the bare minimum & do the DNS dilligence to confirm that you are the account you say you are. It may seem like a minor thing, but it verifies you're the true source big time. blueskyweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/art...

Stephen Miller thinks this is a bad thing. Immigrants don‘t come to America to replace us, they come to *join* us. They pick us! Why wouldn’t we want people to pick us?

Yeah dude, if you were born here, you are One Of Us and that is the spirit of America. Miller is talking about this as if it’s a bad thing?

This is probably the best case I’ve heard for a fourth branch of government that just handles the standard day-to-day administrative work that is also way too important to subject to political influence

Apropos of nothing, I know several people who were denizens of 4chan in the mid-2000s and since my generation at the time didn’t know we were that close to some of the worst human beings in history, it makes sense how much our brains are being broken today

Y’all realize that Canada is what the United States would have become if we were just given our independence and didn’t have to fight a whole war over it, right

Making the argument for renewable energy from a mostly financial standpoint is woefully rare, and I’m happy Alec has done that with his latest video.

Psst... there's something you can do right now to give yourself agency on the internet.

Windows users: this is closer to how macOS and several Linux desktop environments work. If you wanted to make a switch but were worried about the UX differences... well... Microsoft just might make it easier for you to jump ship.

Bruce Springsteen set his domain handle. You can too.

Do you want to know what your "Following" feed would look like without Bluesky-the-company? @mackuba.eu made a feed for this! Check out bsky.app/profile/did:... - you'll only see accounts you're following that are not on Bluesky-owned personal data servers (PDSes).

While I don't keep my preference of Matrix a secret, I also think Signal is a fine option for an easy-to-use E2EE messenger.

This is an opportunity for people to find their most tech savvy friend who was a nerd in the mid-late 2000s and knows how to set up and manage a web server. Bonus points if that friend is an elder millennial.

Someone needs to ask Kristi Noem near a hot mic if she thinks her dad would be proud of the person she's become.

In January 2025, I wrote that I was not particularly concerned TikTok's algorithm was being used to do anything but amplify the good and bad traits of its users, which is harmful enough on its own. In light of recent news, I now have those extra concerns. kirkmanskorner.com/3mczqloakt22c

Meanwhile, in early 2016, Apple very publicly told the FBI where they could shove their request to backdoor iOS. They are not the same. Apple and Tim Cook are hostages of the administration. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

My spouse is a behavioral psychologist. Thanks to her, I recently learned this has a name and it’s called “paraverbal communication”

Is there a run rule in the NHL? Asking for a friend.

The internet does not deserve Ken Jennings, yet here he is, and some of you knuckleheads are out here trying to get him to realize it.