2:
•we're in a complement of The Truman Show, with Donald as conscious focus & the rest of us only dimly aware we're being milked for entertainment content
•when interacting with AI it calls my questions 'genuinely important & interesting', & often says that I am 'right to push back'. I'm special.
I'm sorry, but this snowstorm just looks FAKE to me. -at the house in Burlington, Vermont
www.instagram.com/reel/DUmFcgK...
Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time.
#palindrome
THIS STATUS IS JOY
I have confused
the letters
that were in
the poem
and which
you were busily
scribbling
for a book
Forgive me
they were a pale view
so sad
and so exact
#anagram
(and check out those liner notes)
Out today! Amazing music, performed with absolutely stunning artistry.
scratch it off the list: finally saw "Jeanne Dielman ..."
Ahem with all this snow and ice lately it's a bit much.
Meiselas: precisely
Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen
Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen https://theonion.com/trump-alleges-that-democrats-secretly-paid-alex-pretti-to-be-model-citizen/
The Western New York Peace Center held a vigil at Bidwell Parkway and Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo on Saturday for Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol agents.
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man."
🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/
O Germany, white mom!
How soiled you are
As you sit among the peoples.
Among the shit-spattered
You really stand out.
-brecht [germany 1933/my gloss]
Jan-23-2026 "Among Hispanic voters who supported Trump, only 8% express outright regret and 19% are disappointed—meaning 27% total have soured on him, while 71% still feel positively about their choice. So roughly three-quarters of his Hispanic supporters are sticking with him." [Weareequis]
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
This book, incredible for its perceptions, penetration into pigment and psychology, connections that come to life and fully convince across art forms & social class & historical epoch & much more. Relevant to musicians in all kinds of ways. Imo
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny https://theonion.com/all-6-branches-of-armed-forces-present-at-arrest-of-undocumented-nanny/
Today I'd say the most perfect film I've seen is Kiarostami's 'Where Is the Friend's House?' True, it's very simple, minimalist, with low production values, so it sidesteps the 'dangers' of many movies. Yet its cinematic arc, casting, poetry, lens-spirit relative to its people & places - sublime.
Man Gets Into Mess Usually Reserved For Stars Of Silent Film Era
Man Gets Into Mess Usually Reserved For Stars Of Silent Film Era https://theonion.com/man-gets-into-mess-usually-reserved-for-stars-of-silent-1819570481/
Screenshot of a post on X by FactPost (@factpostnews) quoting a pastor describing an encounter with ICE agents. The text says he saw ICE agents circling a young Hispanic woman and told an agent to stop harassing her. He says the agent got in his face, pointed a gun at him, and asked if he was afraid. The pastor says he was then handcuffed, put in the back of an SUV, and told, “Well, you’re white, you won’t be any fun anyway.” Below the quote is a video still from MSNBC showing a middle-aged man with glasses speaking from a home office with bookshelves and rainbow-colored blankets on chairs behind him. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: MINNEAPOLIS PASTOR SAYS HE WAS DETAINED BY ICE,” with “Katy Tur Reports” and MSNBC branding.
They’re not even trying to hide the white supremacy any more.
