My writing today in the @sfstandard.com: Too many Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the Trump administration. We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades. It’s time for all of us in tech to do and say more.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Read this review of the Melania movie: "With a tough-hooker heroine, it can work as a feminist version of an upscale princess fantasy...it pretends to be about how love transcends money but is really obsessed with status symbols." Oh wait that's Owen Gleiberman's 1990 review of Pretty Woman

“President Trump is a very strong leader...[I hope Trump] will rise to this moment and unite the country.” — Sam Altman in a leaked internal memo Tech leaders have so much money and power and yet less spine than the citizens of Minneapolis

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

one of the least-appreciated own-goals happening right now is the deliberate sabotage of our knowledge/research sector www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

Squirrel Hill. Beeler Street. Caller says that an individual in a pickup truck is towing others on skis in the roadway. Caller does not like this.

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

TIMIDITY IS LAUGHABLE

Can ICE dodge thrown batteries I guess we’ll find out www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Jack Smith for Attorney General 2028

Elon Musk shows up on stage at Davos, a place he has hated on from afar for years. After tepid applause, his interviewer, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, asks the crowd to clap again.

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

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In the 1990s, cable news networks discovered that viewers were less likely to click away from coverage of culture war issues than coverage of economic matters. TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...

Is this so fucking hard? Every goddamn Democratic politician should be watching this guy and taking notes

Schumer is the worst Leader in my lifetime. Perhaps in anyone's lifetime

Every once in a while I Google something that I'm like, oh, that'll come back to bite me one day

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

How in the world did Wonder Man get greenlit? Spend that money on She Hulk S2 or a Luke Cage reboot or Hawkeye S2 or even a Hulk series

Ten months until this is happening to black, brown and, yes, white voters known Democratic precincts. A year and a half until a full-blown Kristallnacht. For those who continue to dissent, we already have the camps operational. America is dying.

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

a medically induced coma is starting to sound like a luxury spa treatment

Is there a reason Congress hasn't drafted a No Greenland bill yet? This would definitely pass the House at least

Pollster: 58% of Americans say Trump's second term has been a failure. A year into term number two, Trump's numbers look worse than any other president. Trump is even worse than George W. Bush after Katrina and a long period in the Iraq War. This is really, really bad.

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

I hope the people of Minnesota know how much their resistance gives us hope

Most Americans don't want Greenland. They want the Epstein files.

let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

One thing I'm somewhat proud of is having a multi-day battle with Scott Adams over his racism on the Bad Site

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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

Gangsta

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

Team Venture will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY