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I'm guessing there's a No Politics guideline at the Oscars this year. 🥱

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Not Kaufman, but a Kaufman-esque sentiment for sure. Francis Ford Coppola breaks embargo to accept his Razzie a day early.

BEST NEWS. ❤️ If you listen to podcasts and Heavyweight is not one of them, there's something wrong with you.

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

The anti wind farm groups in Australia are the clearest manifestation imaginable of Astro-turfing. #auspol

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I worked in a Senate office during HS 20+ years ago and can say this is 100% true. When answering the phone, we kept a clipboard to tally which issues people were calling about. Ten or more calls on an issue were considered a big deal!

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

This gets both worse and better as it goes along.

Massively used AI models whose "facts" are shaped by the regime or company that trained them, ubiquitous online maps whose borders and land names are different depending on who's seeing them—the world isn't getting smaller anymore; we're all getting farther apart.

before the internet you had to carry your posts around and hand them out to people

An oral history of Twin Peaks by its unforgettable stars

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So trump launches a scam crypto coin so he can receive untraceable donations from foreign powers. He then receives a TON of donations and suddenly "tik Tok is thankful for trump letting us come back" Something stinks, and it's not just his depends.

BREAKING: Watch and share this newly unearthed compilation of Trump calling for a TikTok ban before he was paid off to reverse his stance. Show this to anyone who gives Trump credit for “saving” TikTok.

One of *the* most iconic tweets

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

If you’re looking for a new (or old!) thriller or crime novel to read, the Book Review’s new interactive feature can definitely help you out.

An 11yo who digs ASMR has taught me that I f'ing hate ASMR, and I don't know if you've noticed but tennis and cricket are filled with ASMR-worthy noises, so this month on TV is making me want to jam a fork into each of my ears. /1

‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access

The use of the word "indie" and also "trad" for that matter both came from the sleazy scam operators at PublishAmerica, which wanted to muddy the waters between self-publication, working with small presses, and their own hidden vanity scheme.

Luigi Mangione’s manifesto does something truly groundbreaking in the genre: it is edited for brevity

IQuick Thread: I really love people who work to take care of the spaces we share online. Because Bluesky is less centralized, more of that work falls to us. As in all things…look for the helpers.

Congrats to Florida! #1 in book censorship #47 in SAT scores. Way to go! #floriduh

Children have learned about the watchful Elf On the Shelf, but have you told them about the Undead Under the Bed?

Walton Goggins goggle glasses.

elf on the shelf idea- kill him off and spend the rest of the month telling your kids they have to solve his murder

I live by the sea in a town with a saltwater lake, and hoooooly shit am I sick of corrosion killing my PCs. I have a dehumidifier, and you're supposed to close the windows and doors when it's in use, but closing up the room with the computer in it only INCREASES the humidity.