I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

happy 17776 day 🛰️🏈🛰️🏈🛰️

As a @propublica.org alum, I urge its leadership to talk seriously with staffers about guardrails around the use of AI in the newsroom. This seems like a solvable issue. Solidarity with my former colleagues @propublicaguild.org

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.

Why is it not called the Bend of Hormuz

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

I enjoy Bluesky & a lot of my favorite internet people are here but there is no denying it is the Park Slope Food Coop of social networks

there’s always a tweet…

“It is a reminder that even right now, even as the fight rages on, there is time for joy, there is time for art, there is time to celebrate difference and self, and to insist that you too can be free. Because they want you to forget that.”

this wasn’t me. maybe.

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

among the other godforsaken things i can’t believe about this timeline: Scabby has appeared outside ProPublica — management won’t commit to fair and standard disciplinary practices or implementing guardrails on newsroom AI use, after two years of negotiations.

ICYMI: Flock Safety is letting cops search our data to deport school kids. Two weeks ago, @lucyparsonslabs.com revealed that in response to this reporting, Flock made the unilateral decision to suspend audit trails to prevent oversight.

Sadly, this is why Democratic leaders needed to act when the iron was hot — to lead, get out on the streets, and mobilize public opinion. It may now be that their moment has passed and the public has moved on. If so, what a shame; what a lost opportunity.

A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade stalkerware apps, because stalkerware makers don't give a shit about the security of their products. techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/h...

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

if you read one essay today public health friends, make it this one. buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

For those that don't know Chicago, this spans Division Street in Humboldt Park.

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

Did that Alexa ad just list all the ways it’s going to murder us but then say it would order a snack first?

Charles Leclerc in a Pokemon commercial 🫡

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

“please don’t be an AI commercial. please don’t be an AI commercial. ……. IT’S COINBASE” ☠️

find me a more cursed way to start a sentence

Used OpenAI to code an app during that last break

The FBI has so far been unable to get into Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s iPhone because it’s using Lockdown Mode — one of my favorite iOS features. You can turn it on for iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS too! www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

From the last time the Washington Post did something stupid, and why you should think twice before telling (ex-)WaPo journalists to "just start a newsletter". www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-...

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

wish *i* were shielded, and grounded

HAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

congratulations to rogue bus guy on the new job

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

I love a city that always does the impossible. Doesn't always win, always tries.

lol

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv

god i love this team and this city

it's important to have family traditions. in our house, we do loaded nachos on NYE. studying previous iterations before beginning prep for tonight's...

excuse me

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

i keep reading "it's giving tuesday" and reading it the wrong way.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

excuse me

reporting for sibling duty to provide a regular reminder about my brother's global magazine store in pdx. the shop's called chess club, and it's an amazing space. print's back, baby