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We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

“Today at 12:30, Wilber called his wife to tell her that he had been shot,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said in an earlier interview late Sunday. “And he was yelling in agony, and the call cut off. That was all she knew.”

Apparently the movie 2001 did not break even until 7 years after it came out. I am reminded of the Terry Pratchett quote about opera. Opera does not make money, Opera is what you spend money on. You put in a bunch of money, and you get an opera.

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/03/the-supreme-courts-conservatives-have-one-consistent-rule-black-votes-shouldnt-count/

The answer to both is “white.”

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

All of these assholes feel like the kind of guy who has a bunch of katanas hanging on the wall after taking three karate classes in tenth grade.

"My view is that conservatism is meaningfully distinct from fascism. They have some similarities (both are regressive ideologies), and can sometimes pursue similar policies (both Trump and Bush started new wars in the middle east), but are ultimately different families of political beliefs."

@mattcolville.bsky.social Finally got my Ajax edition - it's beautiful. I'm very excited to learn to run this for my friends.

We seem to have collectively decided, gradually and mostly out of apathy, that presidents can launch flagrantly unconstitutional wars of choice without congressional approval and there just won’t be any consequences. Would be nice if this is where we start reversing the trend.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"If your yacht fails to endorse a candidate for president in an existential election, people will say, 'Good. A boat should not endorse candidates for president.'" Food for thought as zillionaires mull how to spend their pocket change www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... ht @suellentrop.bsky.social

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Measles for nothing and whooping cough for free www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/meas...

fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?

Make that 3000 www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person. /1

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

Long but worthwhile read.

Just pledged my support to TechDirt. They do great journalism at any moment, and are especially critical right now.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

We're doing pogroms in America now

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Have we talked about the remarkable similarities between Kevin Hassett and Colin Robinson(Mark Proksch) from What We Do In The Shadows?

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

consider this part one of what will be an ongoing series making the case for an imperial congress (gift link)

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...