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This USA / Canada men’s Olympic gold medal game is *chef’s kiss* hockey. Canada heavily favored and they are outplaying us, but it’s even stakes now for the overtime 3v3. Let’s go!

#winterolympics2026

That said, my favorite phrase in this piece is "the boy aquarium" as reference to a hockey rink. Perfect. lol

This is a great article on continued struggles within sports for queer people to find space, especially when fans toxically push too far into "shipping" real humans who have real lives.

Such a breakdown in human agency, the way toxic fans view real people as objects to be manipulated in fantasy.

LOL - season 2 of Shoresy fits perfectly with this.

“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi” proved too much for MAGA to overcome in yet another American city.

This is unquestionably a massive defeat for the regime.

Never forget: Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on the country is not.

I'm just over here glad Phillip K Dick passed on before he had to watch all his nightmares in the stories actually come to life. I expect we'll be living in Minority Report before too long here.

oh no

let me go vibe-code that app right now! 🤣😆😂

SaaS -- wait.... lol

depressing, but I appreciate the info

that's going to be my mantra for reading anything online in 2026 lol

What's impressive bout Neely's analysis is that
1. he articulates good arguments against offloading musical creation to AI, but he also thoughtfully represents the other side's arguments
2. he is not afraid to show the direct-line connections between tech billionaires / AI and fascism.

Go watch

YouTube video by Adam Neely Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future

that said, if you don't have Nebula, Adam Neely is on Youtube and the shorter version of this essay can be found here, though I don't know what content got cut:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

Adam Neely — Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future The future of music is AI, and that's bad.

absolutely incredible analysis from Adam Neely on the negative impact of AI on music as an industry.

If you don't subscribe to Nebula, it's like a creator-owned version of YouTube where for $35 a year, you get great videos without ads and they actually get paid.

nebula.tv/videos/adam-...

YouTube video by Like Stories of Old When a Woman Makes a Movie About Men

absolutely incredible video essay on masculinity -- the levels of nuance here are exquisite

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Wa...

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over.

In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." Meet 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐳, an ICE Deportation Officer from Miami, FL (originally from Puerto Rico). Gonzalez has lived in Miami and Hollywood, FL. He decided it would be fun to travel to Miami to kidnap and threaten people. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

I’d like to suggest we rename measles to properly credit its biggest fan, Robert F Kennedy, Jr.

Oligarchs really are out here with 21st century version of smallpox blankets to cull the population or what?

Making an appointment for an MMR since my last booster was the year I went to college.

EgoDefenseMechanism's comment on "Why are they so weak?" Explore this conversation and more from the Teachers community

Post link: www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/s...

Teachers now constantly complain that kids have no interests, no hobbies.

Literal zero willingness to try, to engage, to experiment. They list their favorite activity as “sleep.”

An utter lack of imagination. An inability to conceive of ideas to draw.

What the hell have we done?

R/teachers Reddit post title: Why are they so weak? 1.4k upvotes • 421 comments Comment from EgoDefenseMechanism 1/27/2026: This sounds absurd, but l've come to fully believe that a significant part of their helplessness is because they quite literally don't know how to make decisions. About anything. Every second they aren't directly asked by an adult to do something, they are plugged into a half dozen different algorithms on their phones. Insta, TikTok, YouTube, whatever. All of these do the same thing. They feed the kids the next video, the next ad, the next content based on their prior online behavior. There is zero evaluation on the part of the kid at any point. Then they "engage" with whatever brainrot or rage bait gets the longer views. They do this for hours and hours every single day, which atrophies their critical thinking skill down to nothing. It also annihilates reading and thinking longevity and stamina. Then they come to school and are asked to contrast two authors themes or categorize species or evaluate and select the best multiple choice answer. These tasks are complex and require multiple choices at different stages. They simply cannot do it. Their brains are mush and that is why they just look at you helplessly, shrug their shoulders and then ask when they can be plugged back into the Matrix. ... S Reply 198

Chilling and 100% accurate. We have turned an entire generation of brains to mush.

From r/teachers:

Hey! I know that dude and he's awesome.

This entry also stuck with me. Anyone writing about player agency gets +1000 in my book.
beardmancerbungalow.blot.im/the-circle-o...

#tabletopgaming #TTRPG

Five F-words for 2026 My plan for resistance in the coming year

Focus. Fight. The verbs we need to make 2026 better than 2025, or at least have a shot at surviving it.

(No paywall here)

Five F-words for 2026 by Amy J. Ko medium.com/bits-and-beh...

42 Weird but Strangely Illuminating Ways to Think About Life Sometimes we need a simple change in perspective about lifey things

I adore this piece. I laughed out loud a bunch. (You'll need a Medium subscription - hey! Consider it! Medium actually pays writers when $5/month subscribers read a story!!)

42 Weird but Strangely Illuminating Ways to Think About Life by Robin Wilding 💎 medium.com/p/42-weird-b...

Fred Flintstone is the only straight cereal mascot. Barney Rubble is bi.

A person in a Frog costume faces down several military dressed men with riot helmets in a painting

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

The Venus of Brassempouy (or Lady of Brassempouy) is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892.

A Sane Adult’s Quest for the Hidden Meaning Behind the 6–7 Craze “6–7” Isn’t a Trend. It’s a Tell. Are we listening?

Fantastic read

carlynbeccia.medium.com/a-sane-adult...

Tweet from Jamie Bonkiewicz: “Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026. I’d like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is” | January 7, 2026