What happens when digging your own grave with a shovel that isn't yours www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3l...

Alexandra Petri has another funny column, on Mike Johnson's skill at knowing nothing. He takes a stroll and listens to the song of the linnet. Annoying nerd alert: it must be a heckuva stroll. There are no linnets in America. Please don't @ her. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

A Tear in the Fabric of Life - gorgeous and haunting youtu.be/70cXs8hht_Q

I'm digging "The Callback" - KYC done right youtu.be/eMODaqGWjyQ

Yes, please: youtu.be/qJle6Bki4Og

If you’re a fed and wear a mask, you’re a coward

The absolute state of conservative Christianity in America (via mastodon.social/@mattsheffie...)

A short, simple, well explained, and video-based guide for switching to Linux from Windows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkJI... to help guide some of you crest the hill's edge to greener pastures

How Prescient youtube.com/watch?v=k0Cz...

More bad news on top of your bad news on top of worse news that somewhat already happened just now on top of the paradox of convenience at the cost of privacy but beyond our personal control

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

So much for free states, a free and open internet, and small government, huh? Next is your free speech online, policed by corporations. kindbridge.com/online-porno...

Hitler & the Nazis used laws to strip rights & exterminate those they deemed "inferior." After WWII, the Nuremberg Trials held them accountable for crimes against humanity; restoring the world’s faith in justice & rule of law - until recently... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQpd...

The Reasons Piracy Exists youtu.be/OwuXF1AyKak

I don’t typically like or watch ads, but this one earns an exception; it’s as if Tim & Eric hung out with Matt Berry youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o

The FCC's fairness doctrine, established in 1949, required broadcasters to cover controversial issues and present diverse viewpoints. It was abolished in 1987 during the Reagan administration. Its demise led to the increased political polarization we see today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairnes...

Get YOUR data off Big Data Brokers' Lists: github.com/yaelwrites/B...

Number 2 is why we have identity politics and Trump: Why Facts don’t change Minds youtu.be/Omc37TvHN7

How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 1. Go to this page & turn it off: www.linkedin.com/mypreference... 2. Submit this form: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

“Fuck you, make me” youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g

Fighting the Authoritarianism and Big Tech’s ultra processed speech youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4

“After cuts by US President Donald Trump forced the closure of the popular climate.gov website, experts have launched an independent successor. They say climate literacy is important in Trump's war against science.” www.dw.com/en/fired-cli...

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg

DOJ accused of censoring its website's terrorism stats. Archive: web.archive.org/web/20250731... Data shows right-wing terrorism killed 520 in the US since 1990, 7x more than the 78 killed by the extreme left in the same period.

Far-right justices' "emergency" rulings for Trump's lawlessness send a clear message: the president can act above the law zeteo.com/p/the-suprem...

Get ready for some more Supreme Court selling out yet again: 6-3 "Only legal if Republican presidents do it."

really good explanation on the enshittification of the music industry, how there's now less money in music than ever before, and the shady underhanded tactics bad actors utilize to automate “successes” youtu.be/plleJ0Zv0Ww

Atlassian to the rescue techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/a...

Super interesting video exploring the shift from everyday absence (nothing w/ a little n) to radical absolute nothing (Nothing w/ a capital N). Mind-bending physics of nothingness, negative curvature, holography,& the intriguing notion of existing on an "end of the world brain." youtu.be/t8QonEChDGY

Level the playing field

A well written guide to escaping Mark and Elon’s bubbles: blog.circlewithadot.net/switching-to...

Oh man, we’re probably fucked, aren’t we?

At this point, Twitter feels like smoking, and not the fun kind, but the old no-filter kind of smoking that makes you feel dirty. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

New York's Skyline is enshittifying too youtu.be/0eZt9D27TTk

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

Progressives wish to move the country and democracy forward for all. Regressives are what we’re dealing with right now; taking oh so many steps back to minority rule, racism, hate based policies, and oligarchy.

the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now

When you consider that businesses are run by dictators—that a firm is not a democracy—it makes sense why a series of rich guys at the top of the capitalist world think government can be run without following any laws.