The problem with working in computer security is you learn never to trust anyone. The problem with never trusting anyone is that often you’re right!

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Contrast the humanity and compassion of this statement with the soulless depravity of those who killed and are now smearing Renee Good.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

So, the thing is, it is simultaneously true that the US government, tech companies, and legacy and new media have created a disinformation and censorship vortex AND that the hypermediated amplification of videos of violence against civilians is being used as a terror tactic against civilians.

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

The terror and violence being unleashed by this regime is overwhelming. Meanwhile, powerful politicians have yet to show a fraction of the courage displayed by activists and community members, who have put their bodies on the line to protect their neighbors. Elected leaders need to step the fuck up.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

this is one of the most insane [laudatory] things I’ve read today. steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...

Here's a tiny trichogrammatid wasp stuck to a gall midge larva, which is pretty tiny itself... Check out my blog post for more about this midge species (I'm afraid I don't have much to say about how the wasp came to be stuck to it).

A fascinating account of one of favorite “galls” on Carya (Hickory) by @ceiseman.bsky.social bugtracks.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/s... #galls

2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks. My case for hope for 2026.

I think it's really worth noting that literally ZERO mainstream media outlets were talking about Trump claiming a land strike on Venezuela until a few others and I noticed this post here on Sunday and started asking questions. That goes completely unacknowledged in coverage.

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

These little miracles (Antron douglasii aka Spined Turban #Gall #Wasp) emerged from pink stars on Christmas Eve. Happy gallidays!

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

i publish an independent news site that i would sooner shut down that run cover for this garbage administration. you can subscribe here: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

Downy woodpecker feeding on wasp larvae within stem galls on southern live oaks. (📸:Christa Denning) #predation #biodiversity

THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

A review of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's steakhouse. One of the best things I've read this year. Seriously! defector.com/two-nights-p...

The National Gallery of Art worked with UC Berkeley psychologists to help people find more awe and wonder in their lives. Try some of these prompts. Gift link: wapo.st/49kHrQT

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Donald Trump is destroying the world's preeminent climate research center. A jewel of American science. Because 'climate change is a hoax' And because Colorado's governor won't pardon the insurrectionist lady who hacked voting machines for him in 2020 eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Another excellent @jamellebouie.net column: We do not have a president, we have a junta (my word), unelected extremists empowered by the Supreme Court and the so-called unitary executive. Gift link. The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

Also lmao... the vendor Bluesky "partnered" with for age verification has that classic TOS where they can change their privacy policy, at any time, for any reason, without having to notify you, and do whatever they want with your data. Sure, why not, kids? www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/privac...

"Despite this progress, it has remained unclear whether chimpanzees possess the capacity to rationally evaluate the strength of new evidence in relation to their existing beliefs and revise those beliefs only when appropriate, as humans do." Any chance the writer is giving humans too much credit?

It's always the most obsessed anti trans people who get caught with CSAM.

We waited for nearly an hour. Just as we were losing hope, we spotted a dark spot in the bushes. And then it dropped to the ground.

The thing I find most annoying is when you learn a thing, excitedly share the thing that you learned and someone feels the need to make fun of you for not already knowing it and/or use that as an excuse to snark on your education/your state/your country/ you as a person.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

ICE is thug scum

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

My sense now is that a conversation we need to be having across various technological regimes is what intentional opting out looks like in a social form where opting in to various tools is compulsory or coerced.