Feels good not to have a corrupt mayor again

Apparently everyone on this United flight qualifies to pre-board

This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.

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Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel https://theonion.com/orlando-bloom-spotted-at-dinner-with-angela-merkel/

Proud of what my team at @restofworld.org shipped this year - less flashy, more foundational. Improved features for our newsroom, cleaner design, more accessible storytelling. Here's our 2025 product recap: restofworld.org/inside/rest-...

Scammers on LinkedIn are tailoring fake jobs to target different countries restofworld.org/2025/linkedi...

This helps me in coming to terms with recent “changes” I’ve been experiencing - I just bought stationary. For writing letters.

Jmail - Google Suite for Epstein files www.jmail.world

Maybe the President yelling at them will help

Anyone have deep thoughts or strong opinions on eurosky (launching 2026)? www.eurosky.social

I would donate if I could do it directly and be assured my data isn’t re-sold. I just don’t trust the platforms they use.

Just got a call from "Google" attempting to hijack my Gmail account. I listened, then hung-up. He called back - asking for feedback on what gave him away. It was an interesting 11 minute conversation. Surreal.

Loving the blob of JavasScript in this illustration restofworld.org/2025/vibe-co...

"With that announcement, Mr. Trump made clear that decisions once made purely on the basis of national security were now up for sale — a move of dubious legality, since export licenses cannot be sold under existing federal law."

"The two countries, which criminalize homosexuality and impose severe punishments for it, were picked to play on a day celebrating L.G.B.T.Q. communities."

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

Not all heroes wear capes futurism.com/future-socie...

Flourless chocolate cake

Happy 30th birthday JavaScript web.archive.org/web/20070916...

When placeholder copy makes it all the way through... part 257

“What we do know is that the current climate might change so drastically that it could become impossible for us to adapt… this is not just a scientific concern — it’s a matter of national survival and security.” www.dagens.com/news/iceland...

For everyone visiting family this week, you know what to do github.com/gorhill/uBlo...

In my own research on registration/pay-walls I’ve read research that claims this approach leads to higher conversions. I’m conflicted now…

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

When people talk abstractly about internet outages (like Cloudflare) I like to think about it as “imagine all the water-supply/roads in France and Germany stopped working for a few hours”. It’s not comparable (too understated) but it helps me understand the impact

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

I’m on a plane to London and I am harshly judging all those I see with the default apps in their iPad OS or macOS dock. This is my life now.

“This was a very very bad vote”

I don’t think the UAE is on people’s radar when they think of AI capacity restofworld.org/charts/2025/...

I love it when my real-time ('ish) NYTimes feed catches a placeholder in the CMS. 90% of the time its an upcoming video.

When it rains it pours

You are playing the game. It’s mandatory. As soon as you hear Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” you lose.

Bookmarking for later www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This morning @restofworld.org published the incredibly heart-breaking story of Gaza Sky Geeks, the vibrant Gaza-based tech hub that was the darling of international press through the 2010s 🧵 restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sk...

Canvassers knocked on my door and asked if I was voting for Mamdani in the NYC mayoral election. I replied “who’s that?” and managed to keep a straight face for a moment. So worth it.

I don’t think it’s right that Instagram is suggesting I follow my teen’s female friends. Just creepy on a different level.

Overhead in a meeting just now: "iOS might just be the new IE"

Maybe there’s some 4D chess to starving 40 million Americans, doubling healthcare costs on another 20 million, and sending masked goons out on the streets to snatch and disappear an untold number more, but honestly I’m not seeing it.

I did a non-trivial amount of work on the use of facial recognition in Login.gov while in leadership at GSA, and at Treasury. The short version: it's racist. (And that was for 1-to-1 matching, which is much simpler than 1-to-many.) The error rate on this must be horrifying.

If I were in NYC this evening I’d go to this…

In 2023 we had a family trip to Paris and my eldest teen wrote up her experience. I revisit it every few months. It’s like I have a genz mini hunter-s-thompson running wild in my family.

With respect to whoever chose the headline 'He Left the City for a Cat in Gowanus,' I would note that Brooklyn has been part of the City for more than 127 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/r...

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Negronis with Mezcal. Where have you been all my life?