I hope Facebook’s executive team are investing in some quality knee pads… 🔗 bloomberg.com
Craig Ferguson: I’m So Happy, 2024 - ★★★½ (contains spoilers)
This review may contain spoilers.
The big laughs come and go, but I’m just a sucker for Craig Ferguson so I was smiling the whole time I watched I’m So Happy, available in full on his YouTube channel. I thought his mini-rant about context and not filming on phones was well done, especially because, in context, his “attack” on young millennials lands well in that context (though, at 41, I'm an elder millennial, so who really knows), and he extends a few olive branches qualifying the more critical stuff. He always knows when he is a bit too close to any given line for audience’s comfort and, like Bill Burr, seems to revel in it.
If anything, the special just makes me miss his show.
ProPublica is keeping track of the Musk lackeys systematically dismantling much of the undeniably flawed but unmistakably necessary federal bureaucracy. (via Heidi Li Feldman)
🔗 Ben Nacar is an incredible pianist who, I recently learned, does an annual video surveying the classical music that left copyright protection that year. The video he did this year features music from 1929, all of which is now in the public domain.
Kagi Search’s new Fair Pricing feature
The purveyor of Kagi, the indie search engine, on a new pricing feature:
In months where you don’t utilize any searches on your plan, we will automatically apply a full credit to your account for that month. This credit will be applied to your next billing cycle, effectively covering your subsequent month’s subscription at no additional cost.
I used the base plan in the past, and after I exhausted my 300-search monthly allowance in about three weeks, I swapped all my default search engines, with some frustration, back to Startpage.
I then proceeded to basically forget about it for the next month. I suspect I’m not the only one, and that’s probably what catalyzed this feature.
I have vacillated for a while between Kagi, Startpage, DuckDuckGo, and Brave Search – search engine comparison is the new to-do app comparison for my dopamine-starved brain. Kagi feels superior to the others, but even at $5, I’m just not sure the value sufficiently exceeds what I can do with the others, given the right ad blockers and keyboard incantations.
Akshay Kulkarni, Shaurya Kshatri and William Burr reporting at Canada’s CBC News:
B.C. Premier David Eby has announced immediate countermeasures in response to incoming U.S. tariffs, saying the province will take action to protect B.C. workers and businesses. […] As an initial response, Eby said he has directed the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch to immediately stop purchasing American liquor from Republican-led “red states” and remove the top-selling brands from public liquor store shelves.
You love to see it.
Rusty Foster at Today in Tabs (https://www.todayintabs.com/p/illegal-and-separately-unconstitutional) has some good advice on how to approach what I refer to as the malevolent-jackass express.
https://joeross.me/2025/01/29/rusty-foster-at-today-in.html
Rusty Foster at Today in Tabs has some good advice on how to approach what I refer to as the malevolent-jackass express:
First, deny this regime your compliance whenever and wherever you can, in ways as large or as small as you are able. Defend your communities, especially the most vulnerable—trans people, queer people, the chronically ill, immigrants, ethnic and religious minorities. And above all, seek to depose any officeholder, political appointee, bureaucrat, or business leader who cooperates with this criminal administration, as well as any who fail to effectively oppose it, by any means available to you.
🔗 Mike Masnick is always a must-read, but his recent piece calling bullshit on Zuckerberg’s “move” of Meta’s moderation teams just proves how important his voice is as we all buckle up for a four-year ride on the malevolent-jackass express…
🔗 Mike Masnick is always a must-read, but his recent piece calling bullshit on Zuckerberg's "move" of Meta's moderation teams (https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/the-emptiness-of-zucks-promise-to-move-biased-trust-safety-from-california-) just proves how important his voice is as we all buckle up for a four-year ride on the malevolent-jackass express…
Revealing yourself to be a bigoted billionaire incel MAGA puppet is not the display of masculinity Zuckerberg thinks it is…
James Factora, quoting Zuckerberg at Them:
“Both of these things are good. You want feminine energy. You want masculine energy. You’re gonna have parts of society that have more of one or the other. I think that that’s all good. But I do think the corporate culture had swung toward being this somewhat more neutered thing.” And it’s not just the corporate world. The CEO also said that society “has become very, like, neutered, or emasculated.”
Ann Telnaes explains why she quit the Washington Post after more than fifteen years as an editorial cartoonist at the now-Bezos-owned newspaper:
The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.
Democracy ain’t dead yet, but it sure is starting to look under the weather…
▶️ I reviewed our digital subscriptions in preparation for the new year and one of the services I let go (at least for now) is YouTube Premium. It’s wild to me how shitty the ads are on YouTube. Google is probably the largest advertising provider in the world and YouTube ads are just pure garbage.
⁂▶️ I reviewed our digital subscriptions in preparation for the new year and one of the services I let go (at least for now) is YouTube Premium. It’s wild to me how shitty the ads are on YouTube. Google is probably the largest advertising provider in the world and YouTube ads are just pure garbage.
🎄 I think my kids had a good Christmas, but the disappointment in my three-year-old son’s voice this morning when he walked out to the Christmas tree and said “but there’s no more presents under the tree…” was palpable. And it was even worse when I explained Christmas is only one morning a year.
🎄 I think my kids had a good Christmas, but the disappointment in my three-year-old son’s voice this morning when he walked out to the Christmas tree and said “but there’s no more presents under the tree…” was palpable. And it was even worse when I explained Christmas is only one morning a year.
This ominous photo I took tonight of the Disney castle lit by red fireworks is my new header for, possibly, forever because shit is just ominous these days okay?
Frozen Ever After. Of course our first attempt to rope drop at Disney World ends with Frozen Ever After having a delayed opening of at least an hour…
Frozen Ever After. Of course our first attempt to rope drop at Disney World ends with Frozen Ever After having a delayed opening of at least an hour…
Orlando International Airport (MCO).