The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation

Tribbles 🌱

I wonder how the DMCA shenanigans around this are going to go

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

Just in time for your holiday dinners with family, I dig in and debunk some of the most pernicious election fraud claims from the last two Presidential elections. www.buzzsprout.com/2407158/epis...

"let's do the fucking news"

Mixes well in a mason jar fwiw

THE SOLSTICE OCCURRED @ 20251221 10:03 AM UR ASTRONOMICAL WINTER HAS JUST BEGUN THO UR METEOROLOGICAL WINTER BEGAN 12/1 BUT UR DAYS WILL NOW BEGIN 2 GET LONGER CONGRATS U MADE IT

This is a bigger deal than most people realize. There are some… encryption efforts that are dependent upon *precise* corrections to time stamps. NIST is one of those government agencies that a huge portion of the world is unaware of their dependence upon.

chicken FPS (first person squawker)

I hope all the reporters are checking the metadata.

A fun writeup from Ellory about what we've been up to at Fathom over the past year. If we were good at the social, we might do this every few months like reasonable people. Instead we're going long form, and if folks don't read it, we're gonna go even longer in 2026.

It’s my birthday today so you have to share my stupid lil newsletter. That’s the law. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

Creative Commons is joining @archive.org to celebrate new works entering the public domain! Registration is open for events on January 21: Virtual event, The Case of the Disappearing Copyright: buff.ly/U6N6Wrl In-person celebration, 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest & Party: buff.ly/HNldaNi

the level of user-unfriendliness in some software apps is impressive we have this ancient canon printer/scanner and you'd think, once you scan a doc, that it would ask if you want to save it to the same place you saved the last one but no, how about "mp navigator ex/current date" every time

"has anyone actually used your software to do something before you release it the public" is a question that should be answered in the affirmative

Volunteering for Mallory is both good for the world, and you get to meet fun people! Except for Dave Clifford, I'd already met that guy

We can’t always call Carl. We need you! Sign up to volunteer with us:
 www.McMorrowForMichigan.com/volunteer

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

This is what being a continental philosopher feels like and that’s why the analytics hate us

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

Occurs to me, @erictopol.bsky.social, these data offer yet another compelling reason (in case you needed one) to focus on healthy aging (especially if you see yourself as multidisciplinary): you need to be around long enough for the magic to happen! @matthewherper.bsky.social @wilbanks.bsky.social

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Influenza A has hit our house hard this week. Glad we got vaccinated because this virus is nasty even with the antibodies. Wash your hands folks!

"Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean that people will use it" Hoooooo yeah. This is why you talk to users FIRST and then AS YOU BUILD. They'll tell you what they want.

the holiday season is when my mom and I really connect through texts like “can you pick up ham” and “ham tuesdsy ok?” and “ok ham tuesday”

You say confirmation bias but I can’t hear you over the sound of me eating a double Gruyère cream meringue as neuroprotection www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....

As @benjaminjriley.bsky.social points out, “prediction” isn’t “real”, but is designed to reflect what is in the data, rather than create something to fill in the gaps. When laypeople come to Gen AI as if it is functioning as “unproblematically predictive,” it’s a huge source of misunderstanding.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

Oh good Firefox is trending I always like reading about them it always makes me feel good about being so loyal since Firebird ok let's see what good news is out there

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

And it is a truth universally acknowledged that sometimes you should use passive voice.

Blaming people for not using a platform is weird, but we should be super clear that even if critical voices were on X en masse, the platform throttles links and deprioritizes content that doesn’t enrage users. Even if you wanted to be there to make a difference, *you could not*.

Virginia is full of hope and promise.

I only have one good recommendation and it's that you should go to a bakery and order fancy dinner rolls. Do it for your holiday dinner or just do it because you're alive, doesn't really matter just stop denying yourself fancy rolls.

Nice idea, good validation, and a useful tool.

These people want leftist and liberals to come back to Twitter so badly. They give all kinds of reasons, but the fact is without them the Nazi bar marinates in its own juices and they can't stand it.

Lobster trap Christmas tree at Belle Isle Seafood has a new topper: a lobster light! (Previously it was a yellow star.)

Drive-in belief tune-ups

Grandchildren Politely Decline David Cronenberg’s Bedtime Story Offer https://theonion.com/grandchildren-politely-decline-david-cronenbergs-bedtime-story-offer/

When I volunteered at the Austin Nature & Science Center 300 years ago, this was phrased to me as "their heads are full of optic nerves & murder. There's no room for anything else."

This may just be the parasite talking, but I'm going to climb that super tall building over there and release all my spores.

Buy some art for the holidays!

Still shipping brains and bacteria : ) 🧪🐡🧠🦠 artologica.etsy.com

Rule 34 is going to explode in ways we never anticipated