www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

hey, chat, just now learning about global supply chains. is this good?

These payments are the result of a long legal battle with Musk, who promised to pursue Twitter execs to the ends of the earth rather than settle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/t...

Six months after Trump demolished the East Wing, a judge ruled that his dumb ballroom is illegal. Two months after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was dissolved, a judge ruled that illegal as well. See the problem here?

Reflexive hatred of journalists and journalism as a whole is one of those right wing behaviors that doesn't get treated as such because the institution of journalism is in really bad shape, for reasons not actually journalist's fault. I am not a journalist so you cant get mad at me for saying this

This burn from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is so caustic that I fear for the stock-photo model's safety. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

On the one hand, great — on the other, I guess this is what the victory concept of "Pyrrhic" was made to describe. apnews.com/article/trum...

::sighs heavily and pulls a suitcase out from under the bed::

lol as i was saying

How it started. (...+ penury, lawsuits, anti-pizza bigotries, inventions, more lawsuits...) How it's going.

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

As was foretold! The Paramount/Skydance acquisition of Warner Brothers got downgraded to junk bond status almost exactly 4 weeks ago. Cutting jobs boosts share prices. Oracle share prices are the collateral for the $111 billion in debt used to fund that merger. bsky.app/profile/kenb...

Oops all 2020

It is unclear why Mr. Musk was on the call or whether he spoke. His companies have taken on significant investment from sovereign wealth funds in countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Mr. Musk has also long coveted a greater commercial presence in India.

Life is too short not to read a book that was written well and by an actual human being.

doesn't matter if you saw it coming miles away, it's still fucking enraging

Happy one-year anniversary to this post! Samuel Morse had a creative, twisted mind, loved himself and his bigotries — and it's very telling that he is the great-great-grandpa of all media tech! continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/god-hath-w...

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

“He told officials that anti-ICE could not be viewed as successful, and repeatedly said that demonstrators “need to be vanquished by any force necessary,” another DHS source told the Mail.“

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

Do people really want to look at other people talking into their phone cameras all day long? I am waiting for this mystery trend to pass like

"President Buchanan was the very personification of the political species then known as the 'Northern man with Southern principles,' that is, a Northern politician always ready to do the bidding of the slave-holding interest." (Carl Schurz, p 210) antietaminstitute.org/hrc/files/or...

"I had to review many customer accounts, and certain patterns emerged. I examined the type of gambling customers did, the amount and frequency of their depositing, and the kind of neighborhood they lived in to get an idea of how underwater they were."

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Europeans are not different from us, aside from the good fortune of different political institutions & multiparty systems:

Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going. Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.

Article here. Yes, it’s the Washington Examiner, I know, but the reporter has great sources and it’s worth a read for the suggestions of a serious effort by DHS career law enforcement to reassert themselves, pull back power, and reset from the Noem era. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

No Kings (Philadelphia)

10 When I began as a reporter, there were guardrails between what we might call domestic security (metro police, domestic airlines, sheriffs) and immigration. No more. There are no international flights from this terminal. Yet border security is running it, checking IDs…

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

Entire Spring Break Spent In Airport Security Line

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

Thailand is running out of plastic pellets to make food and medicine packaging, causing spoilage...

"unanimously without a roll call"

Women and people of color can risk their lives in Trump's reckless wars of choice but can't get well deserved promotions. No, those only go to white men in Hegeth's DoD. This story about Hegeth's on-going purge is revolting. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Just told my program I'd teach my 2008 class again in January. Time to take a big sip of coffee and look at the internet...

Außerdem versuchen sie mit mir zu ergründen, warum „Spacebridge“ heute aktueller wirkt als bei seinem Erscheinen im Jahr 2019. Vielleicht habt ihr Lust, mal reinzulesen. 6/6 https://open.substack.com/pub/jethie/p/newsletter-special-julia-barton-and?r=1urkne&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

i don't do this often, but: subscribing to @courtwatch.bsky.social newsletter by @seamushughes.bsky.social is really worth your time. Seamus is the best in the business when it comes to the federal dockets, and his weekly roundup is indispensable www.courtwatch.news/subscribe

and always pivoting, pivoting, pivoting toward freedom

Guess what, you don't need permission to throw yourself a party! continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/celebratio...

“Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.” www.texasobserver.org/trump-border...

Guess what, you don't need permission to throw yourself a party! continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/celebratio...

This is what Idi Amin’s government did to Ugandan Asians applying for passports in the period preceding the expulsion. Amin then argued that they deserved to be expelled because so few had taken up Ugandan citizenship.

This is shocking "An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t. " www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

We have known this for a while, but the evidence is becoming more and more damning. Putin is helping Iran try to kill US forces. And Trump is protecting and helping Putin at the same time. MAGA is perverse. kyivindependent.com/russia-sendi...

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

#ResignationInProtest, war on science edition Trump has “effectively shuttered” NASA’s Goddard Institute, which “maintains a record of surface temperatures going back to 1880, tracking satellite data on planet-warming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.”

“The resolution - proposed by Ghana - was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina. Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.” www.bbc.com/news/article...