How do we get the senders of those parking or speeding ticket texts to get that number…

People … donate? TIL two things

What kills me is that presumably someone thinks this is how a human would write such a note? Or how one would behave?

Can you report to BBB? Is that still a thing?

Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines Link to: https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjI0Q05IV0dlS3EiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODk2NDkwL2dvb2...

Jesus H Christ is right

This is so bad you’d think it was Facebook

daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

Turns out, imperialism isn’t free.

(Imperialism is also not imperative.)

I keep wondering how the people who insist these models are conscious somehow think it’s OK to use a consciousness as a tool and that it’s not slavery.

I hadn’t heard about this but that’s a crazy loophole.

Being afraid of things is these people's entire personality, they think everything is a safety emergency.

Welcome to the dual state.

But lots of these are rape whistles, why would Republicans want to ban ooohhhhh right

Wait wait wait, I got it!

“Lil’ Duce”

Eh? Eh?

*reads news*

Shit, a week too late.

That’s a good way of putting it. And it makes me consider all their current pronouncements — which are almost always delivered in the same “of course I’m right” tone — in that light.

Yup

Hate it

Wait was the book the god one? That’s the one that made me realize who he was.

Expand your vocabulary: the Dual State [I haven’t done an Expand Your Vocabulary post in several years, but “the Dual State” merits one. We should all become fluent in its use.] It’s commonplace these days to com…

Here's a phrase we all need to start using: weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/e...

This very late but it’s good to see Glenn is BACK, baby

That’s great … I had meant to email you like you asked, but then got really busy and forgot! Can’t wait to try it!

@getskyscraper.com are you planning to support using lists as feeds? Or is that here and I just can’t see how to do it?

But you have to admit, she looks like the kind of person who would call the cops on you for cycling in the snow!

Do we want to scare off “tech leaders”[1] and billionaires?

This is a one question intelligence test.

[1] there’s no emoji for how much smarm I’m trying to imply with those scare quotes

Forks Out: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery For years now, the people have wanted only one thing: for Daniel Craig’s chicken-fried detective Benoit Blanc to feature in a Muppet movie (with Craig as the only human). Earlier this year, Netflix picked up the streamin

The people want a Knives Out Muppet movie (w/ Daniel Craig as the only human). To tide us over, Netflix & Sesame Street have teamed up for “Forks Out”, in which Beignet Blanc solves the mystery of who ate Cookie Monster’s triple berry pie. [kottke.org]

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads: The History of the January 1 Birthday The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

I’m also fine with the wealthy just leaving, for the record

Jamie Zawinski remains an absolute treasure

Some people just want a chance to be the boot

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Oh no! I’d wondered what happened … alas.

I look forward to the iPhone Desiato and macOS Disaster Area