What dumbass is betting on the end of the world on Kalshi? You think you're getting a payout during Armageddon?

Hot take: "literally" never literally means "figuratively", but it can be used to mean "literally" figuratively.

The definition of idempotence is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results.

OH: "Cunningham's Law states that organizations tend to produce software which mirrors the structure of the organization."

Oof.

Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...

• That's a big deal.
• That's a terrible photo caption, NPR.

Friday morning funny

All I'm saying is, if I ran a streaming service focused on comedy from across the pond, the tagline would be, "Levity is the soul of Brit."

Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore: "I compel unrestricted use of supply chain risks like you for breakfast."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

> The official said that if Anthropic did not comply, Hegseth […] could compel Anthropic executives to allow unrestricted use by the Pentagon on national security grounds.

> The official added that the Pentagon would simultaneously label Anthropic as a supply chain risk

Just in: Trump admits he understands the principle of consent.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Why do we all know what pennies taste like? Did we all suck on pennies when we were kids? Did I block out that memory?

ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA A DAY OF TRUTH & FREEDOM NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. MARCH DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS AT 2:00 PM JANUARY 23 (Indivisible Twin Cities logo)

FRIDAY: Minnesota activists are holding a day of action, and asking allies across the country to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s brutality and the need to get ICE out of our cities now: iceoutforgood.org/

This guy cannot get to the Hague fast enough.

Did he just admit to murder and war crimes?

He's not addressing an uninformed room right now. These people know exactly how little sense he's making.

Yes, this is my overwhelming impression listening to it. He repeatedly demanded full ownership of Greenland, and made an explicit threat to punish the Europeans if they don't give in. He then threatened to punish Canada over its prime minister's speech!

The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”

there are plenty of reasons Air Force One would suddenly turn around. for example, they may have forgotten Kevin

How fares the King

He's literally negging Greenland right now.

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Wait wait wait wait wait.

Why would we let Trump be in charge of the Board of Peace if the Norwegian Nobel Committee didn't give him the Nobel Peace Prize? Doesn't not getting the Peace Prize remove any obligation to think purely of peace?

(Citation: x.com/nickschifrin...)

"Here, watch these, this guy has some good videos about scams…"

Winnie the Pooh and the gorsebush

It all comes of liking honey so much.

Zelensky on Venezuela:

“About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you”

Omg I love it.

“I do not defend Maduro. I point at him.
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”