Other countries are debating banning Grok as a sexual harassment horror show, but we take a different approach here in America.

Trump has just declared himself the "acting president of Venezuela" over on Truth Social in case you're wondering about his mental health.

'Leave it to the market to fill the demand' NZ initiative. While their gov runs Kiwirail ferries into the ground. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.” what the fuck have we tried turning the country off and back on again

So when exactly is he going to start implementing the leadership traits he's been allegedly researching? #nzpol

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Then hacker comes in, with a stolen ticket. And then they ask for every coat on the rack. The instruction was "only give coats to people with tickets". Hacker has ticket. So, they give them all the coats. The stolen ticket is not the issue here. It's that the instruction missed a crucial qualifier.

I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.

I wrote a thing for Herald! The main point is that, between the injunction and statements by the company itself, we have a pretty good idea what happened now - and it's a pretty basic failure of access control. It's low hanging fruit for hackers. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/why-manag...

For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s the full 3-minute version of this year’s Australia Day Lamb promo, featuring meatfluencer Sam Kekovich. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2uv...

"MMH has offloaded responsibility of deleting their old accounts onto the patients but many people get signed up to such portals by their GPs switching to the platform. It should not be patients’ responsibility to delete accounts if they did not individually get into a contract with the platform"

The US, working every day, in every way, to lay waste to international security and become a rogue state. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"we deserve good things and we don't have to settle" is my nomination for as the 2026/2028 counter programming to MAGA.

A friend just had her checking account wiped out by her family's new health insurance premium (which went from $890 a month to $2800). The thing is, she'd cancelled the policy in early December, assuming it would also cancel the autopay. Nope.

If one password got you the records for 120000 users, the password is not your problem.

Social media is fracking for society.

Has a court ruled on whether, under Section 230, a web site’s AI generating content based on a user prompt is treated as the web site’s speech? Seems to me it should be, just as if the site operator published speech answering someone’s question. BWEPRA

Some good clouds

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

holy fucking paragraph batman prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Trump is the dumbest world leader by far. And every single person who voted, or shilled for him is a fucking moron.

“Poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush” “Image metadata (EXIF) so revealing, it practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies” “A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia” 🙃🙃🙃

Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil. Epstein. Venezuela. Oil.

so cool, love the internet our tech overlords have built

I suspect two of the hot words for 2026 will be “impeach” and “remove”

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Polymarket shouldn’t exist and everyone involved with it should be publicly shamed for the rest of their lives.

The deep irony of Christopher "Mr Business" Luxon not being available to do his job, presumably because he's on holiday and thinks Winston should do it because he's Foreign Minister

Don't support the US illegally stealing Venezuela's oil? Get yourself an EV and destroy that demand!

"[ManageMyHealth's] ignorance of our emails and messages, along with their failure to acknowledge users or explain exactly what happened, is the main issue." 👀 I was wondering why this is the lowest ransom demand I've ever seen... Also, that opening graf is napalm.

Maduro was a brutal ruler, it’s true. So is Putin—who Trump supports. So was Bolsonaro, who Trump supports. So was the drug-trafficking former head of Honduras, who Trump just pardoned. So is Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. MBS. Bibi. Stop pretending Trump cares about illegitimacy or brutality.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

This is videogame thinking where you win a battle and suddenly the map changes colors and all the factories and barracks are yours

"How can a democratic society function if we assume political opponents are operating in bad faith?" is a tough question, but the answer is definitely not "ignore all evidence and assume they're acting in good faith".

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc

Didn’t know he had a heart

Kelly's right. Journalism shouldn't pretend to be stupider than us or even to have only as much data as we do—because its job is to know far, far more. That means reliance on experts, avoidance of anyone who lies, little to no anonymous sourcing, no replacing data with anecdotes.

Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity

I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime. share.inquirer.com/gjgwFN

I've had my criticisms of both Whitehouse and Durbin, who are AWFUL on internet policy, but glad to see them at least calling out that there's absolutely no reason Wiles should have "seen the Epstein files" and her claiming she had should be seen as a scandal.

This is how you do it folks

"Ethanol couldn’t be patented, and tetraethyl lead could–meaning DuPont and General Motors could profit on every single gallon sold." The whole world. Every one of us. Poisoned. For decades. Because an American megacorp could patent the poison. AaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHH

Agreed.

Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

Because Trump is an idiot and crap business person who bankrupts and Elon is a toxic narcissist who thinks because he is good at one thing he is good at everything: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions. "He was worried they'd invade Russia." No he wasn't. He just wasn't. That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.

AI in a nutshell