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“This is so ridiculous, it makes you sick,” said Don Neubacher, a former supervisor at Yosemite. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

Free Newsletter: It's time to talk about what happens if OpenAI dies. With $800bn in obligations and decelerating revenue, it's unclear how this company survives, and today I dig into what it'll take for it to do so, and what happens if it fails. www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens...

Great to have @gilduran.com back on the show as he celebrates the release of his new book THE NERD REICH! He has no qualms about calling out the industry’s political project as a fascist one and criticizing those who enable it. A must-watch interview, and a must-read book.

Doctors Give Area Man Six Months To Pay https://theonion.com/doctors-give-area-man-six-months-to-pay-1819565250/

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As of 12 PM ET, the war in Iran has cost U.S. taxpayers $70.80 billion in 65 days. ⛽ Gas: $4.11/gal — up $1.15 since strikes began 🛢️ Brent crude: $114.07/bbl (-3.4% today) Track the running total: https://iran-cost-ticker.com

The Epstein Cover-Up Goes All The Way To The Almost Top. theonion.info.

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA. read more here:

People ask me when I’m going to get a different car. It’s the aging Civic until we stop being denied all the best options.

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest. In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

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Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

“Explain it to me, in the simplest terms,” said the bewildered 79-year-old president of the United States

“Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to ‘overturn election results in certain states.’” (reporting by @kyledcheney.bsky.social) www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

love to see it

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

fuck outta here

“For three decades the goal of tech development has not been to improve our lives or serve the public good, but to maximize shareholder value & increase the power of the companies that control it..the root of so many of the social harms that the tech oligopoly have saddled us with”@parismarx.com

"How Trump Incited an Insurrection: A Jan. 6 Timeline" Five years later, as the president attempts to rewrite what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, Zeteo has a detailed hour-by-hour guide to what Trump said and did that fateful and violent day.

There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.”

Just so much BS that this planet has to put up with. Tech is out of control.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

“The United States of America had boats in Greenland in 1725,” said President Goodbrain

"[M]onetized the dysfunction" is a good way to describe the American health care system too.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this

what was “administration pedophile protection project” one too many words