Ticket to Ride? Pish posh. If you really wanna push the envelope on board game rule explaining, you gotta at least hit Settlers of Catan complexity.

The Verge - with Patel, Jeong, Lopatto and many others - has been a reliable refuge of sanity and decency for a while now. You should subscribe.

Achtung-tied.

@theonion.com

Verge headline: Reality still matters by Sarah Jeong Photo illustration depicts a mass of hands recording an ICE officer, a crashed vehicle and ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good

As Trumpism and technology erode our shared understanding of the world, ordinary people in Minneapolis put their lives on their line to record the truth.

Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/85905...

You can listen to the soundtrack on Spotify etc and I gotta say, the music is pretty good!

It’s a chipsmas miracle!

(Actually a real miracle would’ve been bringing RAM prices back down to earth but I’ll settle for this.)

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding

the samizdat 60 minutes report www.theverge.com/policy/84943...

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Obligatory. Also this was of course played for a laugh in the movie but it is also a profound and true statement.

Wait I grew up in the south and have never heard of a Kudzu League. Is this a thing?

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-s...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

No K-pop Demon Hunters?

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say he father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

How New York Families Can Save for College — and How Some Have $100 Already NYC Kids Rise aims to make college and career training more accessible for all students regardless of income. Here’s how it works.

NYC Kids Rise aims to make college and career training more accessible for all students regardless of income. Here’s how it works.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/01/c...

Thanksgiving Parade broadcast captions are clearly being auto-generated on the fly and are clearly making a lot of mistakes. I wonder if this is just par for the course or this is some sort of AI “enhanced” thing.

Also how to find all of the secrets in Wolfenstein 3D

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SOT*XIC

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. The decision, according to Variety, was made after television giant Nexstar announced that its local ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, just hours after Carr issued that threat. Nexstar is one of the biggest owners of television stations across the country. We’ve reached out to the FCC for comment on what specifically is objectionable from Kimmel’s show and which FCC regulations he may have violated.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX® YouTube video by IMAX

Given my username, I am obligated to share this and point out the obvious possibility that Nigel gets a new, even louder amp in this youtu.be/hxkZ7krBzA8?...

Manhattan traffic moves way faster since congestion pricing launched, MTA says The MTA says faster travel times should ease the pain drivers feel from the $9 toll.

“MTA Chair Janno Lieber said the reduction in traffic has allowed some of the agency’s buses to move faster than their schedules account for. Lieber said he’s considering boosting bus service as a result.”

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Worth keeping this in mind. Trump does not have the mandate he’s claiming.

White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, in reversal The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.

See folks: we’re not powerless. It’s worth paying attention and pushing back when they threaten to hurt people.

I wonder if they addressed the “made by a Nazi CEO” issue but probably not.

is it really so hard to say something like, "trump is ripping up your constitution, arresting your neighbors, helping cancer win its war on people and oh, also, eggs are fucking expensive"

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Getting big “Darth Plagueis the Wise” energy from this

Surely there must be an American Pie parody for TikTok out there. “Bye bye something Chinese spy…the day the TikTok died…” etc. If I were in my 20’s and on TikTok I’d do it myself but sadly neither of those are true.

Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...