actively trying to harm california?

😡💔

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

by the way - it sucks treating humans like lack of paperwork is a sin

Bitcoin makes a new low on this dip. See ya tomorrow

Periodic reminder we should have called it "epostcard" and not "email" ... Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait. It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.

I'm getting the extremely online impression that everyone is having a field day with thinking this is a form of sabotage, but it's mostly a way of making the LLMs do produce stuff from overt racism to malicious code, so I'm not sure we should really compare this to hacking or whatever

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

unity - operation ivy open.spotify.com/track/2TncdA...

The normalization of pure, unadulterated Nazism continues.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

first freeze arriving later and later across the US - especially in Reno... this causes pests to persist longer than normal, and causes water problems. www.kunr.org/local-storie...

the complete headache chart - headaches.org/resources/th... never needed this so much as in 2025 and suspect it will remain useful in 2026...

accidentally...

“What necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black journalists are among the first to be seen as disposable on a masthead?”

Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council. ⬇️

Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview. If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.

An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers. Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”

ffs

DNC takes out $15 million loan as cash reserves run low - www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

We originally set up an alert to track our mentions @towcenter.bsky.social - but soon found that my name cropped up a great deal, (false ‘Dr’ added), talking about the things I talk about (tech + media) but none of the quotes were real. AI slop me has been pretty busy….

Survey: "Caregiving responsibilities cause more women to step away from their careers" connect.guardiangroupbenefits.com/l/503851/202... Also, return to office and anti-DEI (anti-equality) policies helped make it harder for women to get and keep steady jobs... So. Sad.

none shall pass - aesop rock open.spotify.com/track/207jvv...

if you give up your fight because an oped said “give up” - you didn’t really hold those values or have the fight in you to uphold them.

NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w

Unemployment ticked up to 4.4% in Sept. -- which is higher (meaning worse) than expected. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/j...

Bitcoin now down over 30% from its all-time highs… Six weeks ago. If Saylor is forced to liquidate his bitcoin, things could get bad real fast. As always, no one could have seen this coming 🤡🤡🤡

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

One thing I've noticed so far about all of the men to be dragnetted by the Epstein emails (ok, two things, the whiteness should definitely be noted) is that they are all high on their own supply. Across the political spectrum they are uncritical of their own profile and status (and therefore power).

Manufacturing consent

DALIO, on Bitcoin: “.. it's not going to be a reserve currency for major countries because it can be tracked and it could be conceivably with quantum computing controlled, hacked, and so on and so forth." $IBIT @cnbc.com

This has escalated

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

UAW is being forced to pay $316,000 to 3 zionist union members, who claimed that their rights were violated under federal labor law. The settlement could scare many unions away from calling out Israel paydayreport.com/uaw-forced-t...

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

How’s it going on the other site?

Local groups say the plan is an “unprecedented federal intrusion” into how municipalities issue permits for the construction of broadband networks.

when a brand name describes one product or service & the product or service actually provided was something else… would you call that a lie or merely bullshit?

chilling & chilled effects

Meanwhile, on the right, they're still talking about Jussie Smollett.

You’re not a good person til you do good things and just being angry isn’t good

sorry to be smug but I told y'all not to trust the CDC website two months ago www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

The company “continued to provide Adderall to patients even after family members contacted the company because their loved ones were experiencing bipolar episodes, Adderall-induced psychosis, or other mental health conditions while taking the drugs.” gizmodo.com/telehealth-f...

“populist billionaire” www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/b...

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff