Over the years I've cultivated some weirdly specific Christmas season traditions.
I've been getting my tree on Black Friday since like ~2015. But now the night that I string up the lights must be capped off with watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
I've been getting my tree on Black Friday since like ~2015. But now the night that I string up the lights must be capped off with watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Over the years I've cultivated some weirdly specific Christmas season traditions.
I've been getting my tree on Black Friday since like ~2015. But now the night that I string up the lights must be capped off with watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
I've been getting my tree on Black Friday since like ~2015. But now the night that I string up the lights must be capped off with watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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It’s so hilarious how Mamdani has broken the brains of the Chamber of Commerce crowd. My grandfather was a small business owning Eisenhower Republican and he would have been 100% in favor of all of this.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s so hilarious how Mamdani has broken the brains of the Chamber of Commerce crowd. My grandfather was a small business owning Eisenhower Republican and he would have been 100% in favor of all of this.
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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The number of use cases for AI is inversely proportional to the amount of actual work you do
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The number of use cases for AI is inversely proportional to the amount of actual work you do
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
I can't recall who coined the term (I think it might have been @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social ??), but the phenomenon of "stumble upon" culture is something that is sorely missed. Many of my favorite novels have been found by my just aimlessly browsing the stacks at local bookstores.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I can't recall who coined the term (I think it might have been @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social ??), but the phenomenon of "stumble upon" culture is something that is sorely missed. Many of my favorite novels have been found by my just aimlessly browsing the stacks at local bookstores.
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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...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Idk if it's Nike's doing or if her team is just giving bad feedback, but all of this Clark merch thus far has been hot garbage. 3 star Etsy merchants create better graphic designs than this.
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Idk if it's Nike's doing or if her team is just giving bad feedback, but all of this Clark merch thus far has been hot garbage. 3 star Etsy merchants create better graphic designs than this.
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Mamdani appoints trans woman, rabbi Abby Stein, to transition team and right-wingers are predictably outraged
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Mamdani appoints trans woman to transition team and the usual suspects are raging
NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a Jewish trans woman, Abby Stein, to his transition team and transphobes are, predictably, enraged.
www.thepinknews.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Mamdani appoints trans woman, rabbi Abby Stein, to transition team and right-wingers are predictably outraged
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Nothing says “freedom” like putting international students through an authoritarian tribunal for the crime of wanting to learn.
What an embarrassment and betrayal of higher education’s central ideals.
What an embarrassment and betrayal of higher education’s central ideals.
“Northwestern will assume that international students come from illiberal hellholes and question them about their reasons for being here. Wait”
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nothing says “freedom” like putting international students through an authoritarian tribunal for the crime of wanting to learn.
What an embarrassment and betrayal of higher education’s central ideals.
What an embarrassment and betrayal of higher education’s central ideals.
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“Northwestern will assume that international students come from illiberal hellholes and question them about their reasons for being here. Wait”
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“Northwestern will assume that international students come from illiberal hellholes and question them about their reasons for being here. Wait”
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On international students:
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On international students:
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someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles
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In Hillsboro, Oregon, ICE GOONS were observed kidnapping individuals from their vehicles, disguising themselves as Uber drivers.
November 28, 2025.
November 28, 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In Hillsboro, Oregon, ICE GOONS were observed kidnapping individuals from their vehicles, disguising themselves as Uber drivers.
November 28, 2025.
November 28, 2025.
Within my friend group, I appointed myself the historian of the saga known as the Glorious Downfall of the Beige Menace.
I speak about the summer of the Kendrick/Drake beef with the same solemn respect that an old person would use to refer to the summer they executed the Rosenbergs.
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Within my friend group, I appointed myself the historian of the saga known as the Glorious Downfall of the Beige Menace.
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
Riding so hard for the Israeli apartheid state that you eventually start regurgitating literal white supremacist propaganda: "Actually the white Europeans tamed the land in South Africa before the Black masses came".
This guy is speed running his way into becoming a real life Uncle Ruckus.
This guy is speed running his way into becoming a real life Uncle Ruckus.
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Riding so hard for the Israeli apartheid state that you eventually start regurgitating literal white supremacist propaganda: "Actually the white Europeans tamed the land in South Africa before the Black masses came".
This guy is speed running his way into becoming a real life Uncle Ruckus.
This guy is speed running his way into becoming a real life Uncle Ruckus.
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Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
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There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
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Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
www.rawstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
Apparently I'm in the minority for liking that new Stove God single. The beat is admittedly a little dated, but it's definitely something I could play in the car.
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Apparently I'm in the minority for liking that new Stove God single. The beat is admittedly a little dated, but it's definitely something I could play in the car.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...