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Really feels like this presidential election, more than others, is a contest between bands of oligarchs.

Now we’re having an election.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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"At 25, Metafilter Feels Like a Time Capsule From Another Internet" At 55, I definitely do too. A short article and interview with me and @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy from Wired. www.wired.com/story/metafi...

At 25, Metafilter Feels Like a Time Capsule From Another Internetwww.wired.com After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn’t changed much. And don’t ask it to license its archive to AI.

It’s a Monday for the ages, he said, climbing back aboard his hamster wheel.

It gets me that one of the claims in favor of immunizing the president from criminal law is that he may have to place himself in legal jeopardy to do his job and the remedy for that is to place the rest of us in actual jeopardy of one person’s, immunized, capriciousness.

This is a good move (getting out of the PLD situation) for the Kings, except for all the bad moves that lead up to it, including that the Kings could have resigned Kuemper a few years ago, when they chose Cal Petersen instead.

LA Kings acquire goaltender Darcy Kuemper from Washington in exchange for Pierre-Luc Dubois - LA Kings Insiderlakingsinsider.com The LA Kings have acquired goaltender Darcy Kuemper from the Washington Capitals in exchange for forward Pierre-Luc Dubois. Straight up trade, no salary retained on either side. The Kings went into th...

I have an older Surface tablet in the kitchen and occasionally it goes sailing. All it needs to do is find recipes and stream hockey games and run a little navigation app. It’s too old for W11, and even still with every update it bloats up with ads and cruft I need to cull. Get off my lawn,Satya.

years ago there was a reasonable expectation (if not always realized) that a software/OS update would improve things and now it's more "oh god what did they make worse now"

Serving briefly as fish habitat.

I guess if you’re a big enough sucker to buy one of these you’re a big enough sucker to also think it can serve briefly as a boat.

Of course it’s terrible Lucas is out of a job, but I think I’ve found my epitaph.

Breaking News: Penguin Random House, the largest publishing house in the U.S., removed two of its top publishers in a restructuring that was a surprise to many.

Penguin Random House Dismisses Two of Its Top Publisherswww.nytimes.com The departures of Reagan Arthur, of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, of Pantheon and Schocken, in a restructuring came as a surprise to many in the company.

#superbowl i think the 49ers got the idea for that one from the Lions.

Maybe an alarm that goes *plonk*? Along with some confetti shot out of a little cannon.

Banned my first user at the newly relocated Popehat Report. I am thinking of having a little ceremony.

I asked vanilla ChatGPT to suggest some old short stories with springtime or new blossoms featured in the telling.

TV shows keep referencing events in the backstory that happened in the late 80s or early 90s as if that era is lost in the dim reaches of time but I’m pretty sure those things just happened a couple few years ago?

In which we learn SEO is terrible for search and terrible for national political campaigns.

Ron DeSantis ends his campaign with a fake Churchill quote

Hero of the Republic.

Actual example of deep state! An IRS contractor pursued job to fulfill Trump's campaign promise to release his tax records. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose recordswww.usatoday.com The IRS consultant who released Donald Trump's tax returns, Charles Littlejohn, got the job to intentionally disclose the records, prosecutors said.

Here’s a summary of the Biden administration’s key accomplishments, according to the Biden administration. A “one sheet” more specifically targeted at the “has he made my life better” question would be better, but keep this handy for sharing when it comes up:

Coworker saying, "It doesn't matter who wins, neither will make life any better." And it reminds me that the real end game of GOP dysfunction, gumming up passing of bills, disorder, double-speak etc. is this: to convince voters that democracy doesn't work, and fascism will at least "get things done"

The Biden-Harris Record | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov President Biden and Vice President Harris ran for office on the promise to move quickly to deliver results for working families. That's what they've done.

@ahab I’ll claim that coin now.

Extremely rare white whale sighted off Thailand. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/worl...

Extremely rare white whale sighted off Thailandwww.bbc.co.uk It was the first known sighting of what looks to be an albino Omura's whale off Thailand.

Haha: Gentlepersons our task is clear: Above all else we must close the “Strategic Sunshine Gap.”

China has more rooftop solar capacity alone than other countries have in their entire combined solar fleets.

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Everyone's talking about the mouse, but dozens of other classic films moved into the public domain this year, including: 🎬 The Cameraman (Buster Keaton) 🎞️ Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock) ⚔️The Passion of Joan Of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) ⬇️ Explore our curated list: blog.archive.org/2024/01/04/t...

Every era invents its own Pangloss.

This is painfully true. Every era elevates some numbnuts who insists our current system is simply the natural way of things. Easy money.

Makershed?

I miss the days when I could go on ThinkGeek and get everyone weirdly useful gadgets or funny toys that were consistently high quality for Christmas. There is nothing like that now. Just garbage dropshipping storefronts and sadness.

It’s been really good helping out with spreadsheet formulas.

Sometimes when I’m driving on the freeway I look around and think this is going to go horribly wrong any moment now how could it not? But it doesn’t, at least not frequently. Somehow we’re all able to muster up the competence to keep traffic flowing.

Today I woke up and thought it was Sunday morning. For 20 minutes I dozed and planned the naps that lay ahead. But it’s Wednesday and morning standup’s no nap.

hi bluesky. i don't wanna go to work

It’s like Joe the fisherman always used to say about catching fish: Pessimism is reactionary and hope is revolutionary.

Fatalism and despair are objectively pro-fascist - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Michelle Goldberg’s column reminds me of Orwell’s observation, published on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, that “we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is...

Starting to wonder how those young men and women from Workaholics will turn out.

True. When I learned season three of Slow Horses was underway I was even happier to learn there had been a season two.

small delights of the modern world, not only did the new show you want to watch already drop, you're three fucking episodes behind

Love in the Time of Cholera

For months, Romeo, a sexagenarian manatee, spent his days alone swimming in circles in a small tank at a Miami aquarium. Stuck in another tank was Juliet, also in her 60s, along with a third manatee. For the aquatic mammals, though, there is a happier ending than in Shakespeare’s play.

Romeo and Juliet, two elderly manatees, get a happy endingwww.washingtonpost.com The two elderly manatees were relocated this week from the Miami Seaquarium after public outrage over the conditions there.

My dentist is a nice guy, good story teller, proud of his kids (they’ve really taken to snow-skiing!), but our conversations are so one sided.

The Howard Hughes comparisons write themselves.