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Winter Olympics 2026: Jordan Stolz wins speedskating gold; maybe now America will realize he's a super star Stolz collected his first of multiple expected golds at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Important Wisconsin news of the day
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Which Other Olympic Mascots Could Italian Stoats Tina And Milo Slaughter In Cold Blood? | Defector Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Oly...

This is the important #Olympics coverage I've been waiting for
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This is the important local journalism we need.

Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison.

Hell of a flex for your tenure file.

Italians would be SICK if they knew there was an ad running during the Olympics in America implying that some Italians intentionally drink Starbucks coffee

i need an emotional support perogi

a woman in a red dress is standing next to an older woman in a tuxedo . ALT: a woman in a red dress is standing next to an older woman in a tuxedo .

Andrea Bocelli: Sings at Opening Ceremonies

Me:

This is so neat! @meghancarnold.com

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Algorithm fail: Bought a bird feeder on Chewy once as a gift and had it sent to my parents' address.

Autoship and primary address for me and my 10-year-old pet stayed the same.

Today my parents notified me they received the birthday card from Chewy for my cat.

I can only dream of communications strategies that actually tell people why they should care and provide clear explanations for how things work. Incredible stuff.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:

1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account

Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

Motion to require more maps of voters/opinion #polls to adjust for people over land mass
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The Political Lean of Pro Sports Using publicly available voter registration data, this analysis provides the first systematic, league-by-league examination of political partisanship among professional athletes in the United States.

Not the most comprehensive data analysis, but I love a niche topic votehub.com/2026/01/20/t...

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Prime Minister Carney at #Davos:
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I worry a lot about how, unless we fix this, very few of the other issues - political polarization, nativism, urban vs rural, red vs blue and all that stems from these conflicts - will ever get addressed with any satisfaction

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

This is cool: “a brand-new service at the MLK Library: Notary Services” - PoPville Nice. From the DC Public Library: "We’re thrilled to announce a brand-new service at the MLK Library: the Notary Public Commission! Whether you're finalizing a Power of Attorney, verifying copies of y...

Public libraries are the best. Exhibit 276 www.popville.com/2026/01/psa-...

‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho At first glance, there was nothing out of the ordinary about Saturday’s wind forecast for Camas Prairie, Idaho. “Hold onto your hats!” said a social media post from the local weather office in Missoul...

Everything once again going swimmingly in the world of generative AI 🫠 Zero reasons to be concerned please continue with your regularly scheduled scrolling.
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if your headline ends with "Feds say," you are not doing journalism you are doing stenography

If you need an example of success, bars know this rule very well.

See also: smoking bans and the angst from businesses over losing customers only to find they gained a bunch of people who had been staying home the entire time

If I could rip the defensive talking mechanism out of the brains of every writer I have ever worked with I would, and install this operating chip instead ⬇️⬇️⬇️

It's the only thing getting me through - knowing they're cheering winning with field goals scored against our 3rd string and practice squad.

This is incredible. Research funded by NIH. Our tax dollars at work (past tense).

The Enshittifinancial Crisis Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
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i don't see how Section 230 protects Google on this one, am i wrong?

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

This might be the funniest case of AI chaos I've seen yet.

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WSJ gets AI vending machine: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

And those 12 days of gifts from your true love? It's birds all the way down.