mike tigas

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

I enjoy Bluesky & a lot of my favorite internet people are here but there is no denying it is the Park Slope Food Coop of social networks

Trump post from 2013: Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III

there’s always a tweet…

“It is a reminder that even right now, even as the fight rages on, there is time for joy, there is time for art, there is time to celebrate difference and self, and to insist that you too can be free.

Because they want you to forget that.”

this wasn’t me. maybe.

A screenshot of People Over Papers’ ICE reporting map. The map resets at 4 am ET every day. In Minnesota, over 100 reports have been filed today, with the overwhelming majority in and around the Twin Cities. Stay safe. Fuck ICE.

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far.

In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

among the other godforsaken things i can’t believe about this timeline: Scabby has appeared outside ProPublica — management won’t commit to fair and standard disciplinary practices or implementing guardrails on newsroom AI use, after two years of negotiations.

ICYMI: Flock Safety is letting cops search our data to deport school kids. Two weeks ago, @lucyparsonslabs.com revealed that in response to this reporting, Flock made the unilateral decision to suspend audit trails to prevent oversight.

Sadly, this is why Democratic leaders needed to act when the iron was hot — to lead, get out on the streets, and mobilize public opinion.

It may now be that their moment has passed and the public has moved on. If so, what a shame; what a lost opportunity.

Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.

A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade stalkerware apps, because stalkerware makers don't give a shit about the security of their products.

techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/h...

jenna maroney

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

There is no case but the moral case. The public health data have precisely the moral valence that we give them and, crucially, that we are willing and prepared to act upon. The process of political development in public health is the process of developing just such a capacity for action - action that will be, by definition, not strictly related to public health in the majority of cases. The intellectual action consists of the movement from "free them all for public health" to, simply, "free them all." Public health will follow.

if you read one essay today public health friends, make it this one. buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

For those that don't know Chicago, this spans Division Street in Humboldt Park.

Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts

www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

Did that Alexa ad just list all the ways it’s going to murder us but then say it would order a snack first?

Charles Leclerc in a blue shirt on a boat with the caption "his loyalty, his speed" with an Arcanine behind him

Charles Leclerc in a Pokemon commercial 🫡

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

“please don’t be an AI commercial. please don’t be an AI commercial. ……. IT’S COINBASE” ☠️

Screenshot of text: “February 6, 2026 - ai.com, a new Al platform founded by Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, today announced the…”

find me a more cursed way to start a sentence

Homer Simpson's jacked up BBQ pit

Used OpenAI to code an app during that last break

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

The FBI has so far been unable to get into Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s iPhone because it’s using Lockdown Mode — one of my favorite iOS features. You can turn it on for iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS too! www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent” Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.

From the last time the Washington Post did something stupid, and why you should think twice before telling (ex-)WaPo journalists to "just start a newsletter".

www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-...

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

wish *i* were shielded, and grounded

A lite brite with a green and purple mooninite flipping you off with the words 1/31/07 NEVER FORGET

HAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

congratulations to rogue bus guy on the new job

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory