It's OK to do shitloads of private art. fucking about. imagery, writing, music, hell folding bits of paper on the desk while you space out after a migraine and the pain's gone but you're still floating and cutting into the paper with an artknife and laughing at the absurd little thing you just made.
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Basically a larger version of post-Soviet collapse Russia
“There is nothing inherently left wing about democracy,” he says. “Nor does the left have a monopoly on fighting corruption, holding power accountable and making sure companies pay for the social and environmental damages they cause.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Reminder:
SDNY "was running an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein[’s] ... coconspirators. In January [2025], SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. ... the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased."
evergreen
don't threaten me with a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good time
Truly evergreen.
BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has once again bought millions in US company bonds.
You can see the full list below.
I'm just thinking out loud here...
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
When democracy dies. Conrad Felixmüller’s “Self-Portrait in City Landscape (Dresden)" (1930). A popular artist during the Weimar Republic, Felixmüller’s work was banned and declared degenerate when the Nazis took power.
Incredible impact from @mattburgess1.bsky.social whose work put a spotlight on Starlink’s use in scam compounds in February.
This is a well-done essay, rather in the spirit of E.B. White’s own brilliant essays in the years around 1940. Shame on those ignorant fools who chose to steal White’s title for their newest attacks.
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, issued a statement saying that I was lying about the circumstances leading up to my firing. Then I was invited by the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to testify in front of Congress. The administration sent armed U.S. Marshals to my home to deliver a letter warning me about testifying. A career employee who was still at the department helped me get it called off before they got to my house, where my teenager was home alone. I felt the purpose was to intimidate me. And I think it was intended to send a message to other department employees, too, who might be thinking about speaking up. I needed a lawyer. I spent the entire weekend calling all of the lawyers that I know at law firms around D.C. Everybody I talked to was saying: “Thank you so much for what you’re doing. We’ll do whatever we can behind the scenes to support you.” But nobody actually wanted to sit behind me at a congressional hearing. Nobody wanted to put their name on a letter to Todd Blanche.
The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
Elon’s power is that he offers a positive vision of the future. This attracts employees, funding, support. There’s a massive techno positive hole and he fills it.
I had to click to see if this was a real excerpt or someone doing a parody
"Nuremberg defendants were surprisingly normal, opportunists who, as he put it in a 1946 lecture, 'exist in every country of the world, who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the … public if they could gain control of the other half.'”
What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
“Under an Umbrella.” Ukrainian editorial cartoonist Oleksiy Kustovsky captures life in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, where protective nets are now stretched across the streets to protect civilians from Russian drones.
"It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't." Emily Maitlis, former BBC Newsnight presenter
Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc
four panel cartoon by Jon Bailey 1) East Berlin 1971, kitchen. A woman preparing food says "Alexei, play Tchaikovsky". 2) close-up of a blue telephone behind her on a table showing there is microphone taped under a table in the same kitchen, next to a speaker 3) a man in a grey uniform wearing headphones sits in front of a record player and selects a record from the shelf above. 4) back to original woman in kitchen preparing food, now listening to music coming from the speaker under the table and smiling @jbaileyofficial @jbaileycartoons https://x.com/jbaileyofficial/status/1233356763598139394
Alexei ❤️
That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
