Should Erika Kirk be reported to her employer for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk?

Triple dog dare you, Ireland.

>>I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay.<<

Imagine if France (and the EU) had a simple portal where anyone could demand that data brokers delete all their personal data, like in California. #CNIL #EDPS @ec.europa.eu @europol.europa.eu #GDPR

So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE

Think about this a lot. Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.

Art Herstory has begun the 2026 edition of our annual post about exhibitions of art by women of the 16th to c. mid-20th centuries! Museum Exhibitions about Historic Women Artists: 2026 artherstory.net/museum-exhib... We'll continue to add entries to this list as art museums announce new shows.

Under the discursive alibi of "technology" or even "knowledge," the worst edtech scam of our lifetime is being granted global reach, to the pleasure of ideological grifters and authoritarian governments everywhere.

Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

😒 this article is trying to frame the dislike for AI as irrational rather than telling the truth that people hate AI because its obvious that companies would rather burn trillions of dollars on a solution looking for a problem than pay people better wages all while selling bullshit.

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Who is his speech writer? Sam Seaborn?

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

A Roman terracotta lamp with Victory holding a shield inscribed with a wish for a happy and prosperous new year. Around her are representations of things that were usually given as gifts to celebrate the New Year: money (here three coins), and dried fruit (dates and figs). 🥳 🏺 1/ #MetMuseum 📸 me

This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.

National park passes to feature Trump's face. Nature group sues. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

AI CEOs: why aren't people more pro-AI?! also AI CEOs: we have invented the automated revenge porn machine

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Bill Ackman set $2 million on fire trying to stop Mamdani. Today, we laugh at him

Omens.

Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You. #copyright

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.

Not to be a bougie bitch, but these are not expensive / luxury boots by any scale of the American market. impressive she paid that little for artisan / handmade anything, really.

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will

ARCA's PG Cert programmes in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection has trained folks from 46 countries including active/post conflict countries, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ukraine, Egypt, BiH, as well as from Europe, UK, US, and Oceana. That's international! Why not join us?

ICYMI — Here’s what Jeff Bezos is doing while his newspaper @washingtonpost tries to keep us all from having health care. #MedicareForAllNOW

2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.

From alert to inert in 12 months.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I just sniped a kid in Overwatch and he wrote "ohhh Kirked me" and I just found out they're using that as shorthand for a good snipe HOLY SHIT LOL

Remembering how 2025 started, which was just way too on the nose for what it was.

2025 sucked. In hopes of a better 2026, I am pleased to present the 5th annual batshittery bingo card.

PROTIP: if you don’t want to stay up till midnight, choose a different country to celebrate New Year’s. It was just New Year’s in Greece, in an hour and a half it will be New Year’s in London. Watch the fireworks on YouTube, do a toast from bed an go to sleep early!

just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too

What the chicken fried fuck is going on here

🧪A few more hours to go…

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

Since I dumped some really bad news on y'all I wanna tell you about the other side of social media. It's children of anti-vaxxers turning 18 and filming themselves getting vaxxed.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This

Who are his handlers allowing him to embarrass himself and the country like this? Schade!

I need to see the Big Beautiful Obituary happen with a quickness.

The nuance here is that the IRT Company went bankrupt, and its subway lines survived because the city took them over under the leadership of the socialist Fiorello LaGuardia.

“Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here every day / You learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play” youtu.be/o1tj2zJ2Wvg?...

The cargo ship, FITBURG, traveling from Russia to Israel, was boarded and seized by Finnish authorities after its anchor chain was found deployed in the water, dragging it from Estonia to Finland. The vessel is suspected of sabotaging the Elisa submarine telecommunications cable