💔Kharkiv War is hell.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

l.smartnews.com/p-6TrqN2X6/W... Enter Hiroshi Nagai, the 78-year-old illustrator who painted the original picture in 1947. "The image is being used without permission from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," he wrote on X, sharing the post by the DHS, "What should I do about this?"

DHS begins slashing FEMA disaster response staff as 2026 begins | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/p...

The delusion here is real: www.travelweekly.com/Preview-2026... Current DHS policies enacted in December of 2025 will have a massive impact on travel in 2026 I would love to understand what geopolitical risk alcohol these folks are drinking.

It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

Eduard Kasparides 1917

A lot of these are pretty close!

via @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social on Twitter: Saturn Devouring His Son, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636, 📸 by Tiffany Trump

Jesus fucking christ.

Sport achieves inclusion via categories: sex, age, ability/disability. Or young able bodied males would win everything. It is simply unfair for a 16-year old male to run in a female category. Guess what, 16-year-old females have rights hope & dreams too. BoysVsWomen.com share.google/KAVRJNCFzosB...

Korbessa never met a guinea fowl she didn't want to chase. A throwback to her neonate days – ears flared, trunk raised, charging with wholehearted determination. May we all carry such enthusiasm into 2026. Happy New Year from all of us at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

Artist Behind Viral ‘Beast Jesus’ Restoration, which gave rise to thousands of memes, Dies at 94. gizmodo.com/artist-behin...

happy birthday to horses

It's going to be a great year for defending democracy. Let's go!

Map of the growing Iranian protests, via Faytuks Network. Orange are ones that started today.

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Several people were killed and others seriously injured in an explosion at a bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort (Switzerland). Local media report dozens of injured, but no provisional toll has yet been released.

Bonne année 2026 happy new year

This latest reporting shows Bondi, Blanche, and others at the DOJ have been lying to the American people about the Epstein files since day one. The less than 40,000 pages that have been released represent less than 0.01% of all the total documents. They are hiding something.

5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found. WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county. Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al. (Gift link.)

Holy fuck! Showing ZERO fear of retribution from a vengeance-obsessed TRAITOR who attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, usurp the constitution, and overthrow the U.S. government, Jack Smith, with ZERO fucks left to give is what a badass American hero looks like.

Four-time Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Carol Guzy documents migrants showing up at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York for their court appearances, only to have masked ICE agents haul them away.

Happy 2026 everyone. May this, the 250th year of our country’s founding, be the year we renew democracy and our commitment to equality and the rule of law. For us and those coming after us. 🇺🇸

Iranian protesters have taken control of the IRGC base in Asadabad and have set alight a building on the base.

This is what happens when you stay home, vote 3rd party, or vote Republican. Happy New Year? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Time zone by time zone they’ve been dropping, in case you wondered why Europe has been so quiet.

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

A tale as old as time. Inflation breaks the people; the people break the rulers. May 2026 be better for the Iranian people.✌️

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

Founded at the start of the war in Ukraine, this school and cultural center in Raleigh has been a source of solace and community for refugees and longtime immigrants.

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person’ @harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem www.artforum.com/features/yea...

And it's obvious.

The President vetoed a bill to deliver safe, reliable drinking water to rural Coloradans. Congress unanimously passed this bill. But he’s punishing us because we won’t bend to his corruption. Trump’s pettiness is a disgrace. Congress must overturn his veto.

Ugh. There's no constituency for this; nobody outside of Trump's circle is calling for it; any attempts to come up with a civic-minded rationale for it are only backfilling to justify Trump's whim. (It also strikes me as ugly and un-American, but those are more subjective and debatable.)

Exclusive: Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure from Trump reut.rs/4skLsfN

‘I’m just a girl in Canada trying to get everyone their vibrators’: Why a Toronto sex toy store got a letter from the U.S. Department of War

WATCH: China launches dozens of missiles in "Justice Mission 2025" drills rehearsing a blockade of Taiwan.

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Attack on global food security’ as Russia hits wheat ships and ports

Exceptional work here. Needless to say, the factual details do not support the administration’s narrative used to justify this killing spree. We have a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict: Murder.

Oh FFS

Abundant Eocene fossils of plants and animals are found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. This fossil Pseudosalix Hanleyi, with stems, leaves and flowers preserved, is harder to find than a T-rex tooth!

This is really grim. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

AI has destroyed the internet. Nothing is useable anymore.

What kind of asshole wants an AI agent buy art for them?

Hold up - WHAT? Amazon is scraping artists' websites? With no way to opt out? How the fuck is this legal?