Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

Acclaimed Chicago chef Steve Chiappetti, with his infectious energy, became a regular on local news programs where he demonstrated cooking techniques around the holidays. Mr. Chiappetti died Jan. 2 from a heart attack. He was 58.

I downloaded my archive and deleted all of my tweets in late 2024, and it was a fantastic fucking decision. I have grown my newsletter and promoted a book without that site. It can be done. Also, it was the best thing I had done for my mental health in ages. No joke. That place is poison.

Catherine "Cat" Sharp says it's been "hugely stressful" to face conspiracy charges tied to "Operation Midway Blitz" protests. But even though she's pausing her campaign, she says "I'm not going anywhere."

"Come on Carl, you have to be exaggerating." Nope. This is the social media manager and CEO for Keeper, the "AI Matchmaker for Finding Your Soulmate", as profiled therein.

This post is good, and it's all I need of threads. It's enough, and enough is as good as a feast.

Regrettably, I have been writing about explicit deepfakes on and off for the last half decade, and public nature, openness and scale of what is happening on X with Grok is off the charts. At the same time, Grok is claiming a surge in app downloads in multiple countries around the world

We also have to make reading less "precious" ie we need to make it clear that there are many ways to "read" and for example that audiobooks count as books.

People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.

Twitter has become like the ongoing pandemic in the sense that it’s exposing just how much people are willing to tolerate at the expense of those who are often most vulnerable among us.

It's possible to just do things. To just begin. It takes some people [who usually won't get paid], some ideas and a way to raise a small amount of money.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

The top responses on X to a post featuring a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

often see curtis yarvin's name online. only thing i know about him is that he looks like this dog

We all already know ICE never left Chicago, but just to emphasize: several vehicles have been spotted out and about this morning. Unconfirmed (for now) reports of several abductions.

It should be fairly clear by now that our ruling class is banking on an oligarchy hardening into place and all of them will do whatever depraved shit the admin asks for to have a seat when the music stops

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.

One of my goals for 2026 is to either get my ass out of the house every day or have a real, even brief, chat online with somebody who doesn't live in my house and who isn't a work colleague, and even that small amount of human connection makes me vastly less likely to lose my shit over some nonsense

Flu Hospitalizations In Chicago Hit 3-Year High blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/05/f...

My wife bought me this book for Christmas and after the weekend it’s been I decided I needed to crack it open. It’s sort of a “Chicken Soup for the Revolutionary Soul”. Check it out if you feel the need to strengthen your resolve for what lies ahead

Lots of fearful, disregulated people on the internet leads to a lot of what we are seeing.

i remember when creating CSAM would mean your website was shutdown immediately and people not only wouldn't choose to hang out there but literally couldn't because again it was shutdown immediately

Many are just waking up to the Grok-nonconsensual images story as these pictures began flooding X over the holidays, but here’s our piece from Jan 2 featuring a victim, Julie Yukari, who was brave enough to speak on the record and on camera: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I don’t like to throw around the term rape culture often for a variety of reasons, but this? THIS is rape culture. It exists to intimidate women into minimizing their public prominence, which serves to strengthen male dominance in culture, society, and politics.

"Ganada?"

This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.

Horrifying

The first two hours this morning

Literally stripping the copper from the walls of the world

Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off? Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Theatre of the absurd.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

You are a big account on social media so in a way you work for me,

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

The dude from OneTel is bang on the money.

Stop sharing AI videos like they are real!!!!

Meanwhile, on Elon's site...

NBC News: “How soon will elections be held in Venezuela? Within 30 days?” Rubio: “Elections? I think it is premature at this point.” The US is going to be there for the long haul.

Friendly mention for anyone, if you want thoughtfulness and honesty this might be helpful. The wonderful and wise “Read this when things fall apart” edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is meeting the moment

Yo. Look at how cute this prairie dog pup is. Omg. Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it! Video to be added later 🗺️

“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Trump could drop a nuke on a major city and we'd be reading tut-tuts about how this sets a "dangerous precedent"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Michael Gibson (Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund) just posted: “Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.” As if he only just thought of this now. 1/ x.com/william_blak...