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

my favorite thing about McTiernan is that going to prison made him woke www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ju...

these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Donate to Python, the bad guys are squeezing them

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

They aren’t elected to govern. They are elected to do the bidding of their donors.

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

One nice thing about being terribly busy for weeks is that, once you’re finally out of it, mundane stuff like going to the grocery store or the dog park feels like a vacation

LAPD is openly planning to commit crimes and cost LA millions in future liability payouts this weekend laist.com/news/politic...

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Important:

Jesus, between this and Diamond Comics being dismantled this year, book distribution must be getting complicated and anemic…

I certainly HOPE they were looking at their phone records! The Jan 6th committee confirmed a number of Congresspersons were working with Trump to overturn election results—and when the plan didn’t go through, they lost control of their goon squads. www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-gop...

“oh no, what if there were a couple of state-run grocery stores in New York City”

Endlessly frustrated that folks were afraid to take Republicans head-on when it comes to the economy… They’re terrible at it! No long-term vision, cannot *produce value*—only borrow or steal it. “Your children will be $15k a year worse off because of this president… for the rest of their lives…”

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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This is legit one of my favorite soul songs

Me, to my friends, over two years ago—and the head of the FCC yesterday It’s depressing how many folks have been content to be treated like—and act like—“mushrooms”, as the saying goes. Hope we snap out of it.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

It may not look like much, but there’s long-term value in turning a hanging shoe organizer into a random shit organizer

Like every business, Panic has a curated, themed playlist that plays in our lobby, emanating office-parkily from a weird rock speaker. The vibe goal? 80's-corporate, EPCOT center, inspirational slideshow of Apple II quarterly results, slight unease/discomfort, and personal computer optimism.

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.

The Atlantic and NYT lost their minds if there was so much as a trigger warning in classes. Now, professors and Deans are being fired for a class that discussed the existence of trans people and those same publications are quiet. It was never about free speech. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Embarrassed (again) about where Missouri’s gone since I left

At least he acknowledges the last 200 days have been a terrible tragedy

Absolutely, the proof is in the pudding—conservative “textual originalism” has always been a dull-witted power play, at odds with sober governing

“About all the bugaboo concerning folks burning the flag… Hell—being an American is all about getting things off your chest and saying your piece—a visual aid can come in mighty handy…” “God bless all you flag-burning patriots, exercising your rights—as Americans”

Taking this further—I read Michener’s Kent State book years ago—it’s no leftist screed, but the post-mortem makes clear that police escalation / actions like kettling are recipes for calamity That police ignore the 50-year-old lessons of Kent State to this day is an indictment of the profession

Exactly my concern

Wish everyone was more honest about the fact that there’s no intelligible rationale behind any modern conservative “policy” It’s just monkeys throwing shit at a wall

I swear my desk was clean this morning

Vandals

“Wholesome” crap to share with the kids pile

Whee, I think I got a perfect block on my first try #guitar

What happens when you put wealthy private actors in charge of everything—America has this kind of pickpocketing of the public’s pockets to look forward to—in spades

I keep bouncing off of all the new Star Treks because of the highly emotional Vulcan characters— I don’t know if I missed some “alternate dimension” rewrite of the species where they only half-try to suppress their emotions but otherwise act like emo mall kids or what

Consumers’ ideal voice for AI is Tenacious D Jack Black— Intense, confident delivery of opinions, but given somehow *without* implying or guaranteeing any technical “correctness” or, like, actual “for real, for real” facts

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

The Supreme Court’s ideological capture and its deliberate uneven application of the law is a crisis of democracy. The court is meant to be above politics—and although it never has been, the kind of politicization we are seeing today is unprecedented.

Using @dropbox.com for ~15 years, but last 24 hours has been a mess. Dropbox Backup completely failed to back up external drive on 1st try—2nd even worse as it claims "complete sync" while missing 80% of the files. Plus, support system itself is erroring/can't find help tickets. Feels like rot.