uh holy SHIT?

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

@joelanderson.bsky.social @thepressbox.bsky.social @bryancurtis.bsky.social suggest pointing your listeners to bookshop.org - still convenient online purchasing but the orders are fulfilled by independent bookstores!

@bryancurtis.bsky.social “Full stop” is how *the rest of the English-speaking world* says “period”.

@reckless.bsky.social who is on the “What is a photo?” beat while you’re out? www.theverge.com/news/703885/...

This is an excruciating read, which only underscores how much worse it is for the people on the ground. nymag.com/intelligence...

I’d sacrifice all of these voice features for AirPods where the person I’m speaking to could hear me while I walk down the street. I am having to go back to talking into the handset much of the time #wwdc

@reckless.bsky.social I can’t wait for this week’s edition of “What is a photo?”

@thepressbox.bsky.social only in journalism - “argot”. Spotted in NY Mag’s profile on Kathleen Kingsbury. “She is perhaps best known for being “ambitious,” which in the argot of the Times tends to be an insult.”

thibs lost, saved, and lost his job

Re-sharing in light of Zuck deciding we should all have AI friends: open.substack.com/pub/davidngi...

@reckless.bsky.social I think we need a Go90 scale of jobs that are now increasingly likely to send you to jail (and we’ll open the bidding on Editor-in-chief at….40?)

So…kinda like OpenAI sucking up all artistic creation and not paying for it?! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

As per usual, Cory Doctorow saw a violent uprising against insurance companies long before it happened in real life: bookshop.org/p/books/radi...

I need a utility that accesses my curated groups on Twitter and then either finds those people here or suggests similar follows.