tom brandt

yeah. I’m completely embedded in the Apple ecosystem and it would be painful to leave, but it’s getting harder to stay.

Not sure if this is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end, but when more and more republicans are pushing back, I think DJT’s days are numbered.

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

@professorbigfoot.bsky.social our exchange last week forced me to do some painful self reflection. You were right. I will try to be better.

A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.

Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.

[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

The War on Christmas is Finally Here, America. Conservative Christians are Waging it. Well, it turns out, the Evangelicals were right.

Well, it turns out, the Evangelicals were right.

There is a war on Christmas in America.

The only thing they neglected to tell me in their bombastic, sanctimonious, sky-is-falling sermonizing was the source of the offense.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

So, does anyone remember that one of the goals of the research project(s) that eventually created the internet was to create a robust network that could keep running under severe external attacks and maintain access to critical systems? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

at least bsky is up and hosting the cloudfare jokes

Not even AI has produced anything this bad.

A bunch of great albums came out in 1971, but I managed to pick just one.

No fair :)

GOP candidate admits he was wrong about Muslims, calls off ‘American Crusade’ march in Dearborn - Detroit Metro Times After two weeks of warning that Dearborn was edging closer to “Muslim infiltration” and Sharia law, Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson walked into three mosques, met with residents, and...

A Republican said he changed his views about Arab Americans after spending 72 hours meeting with residents and visiting three mosques. “You have all been lied to with the propaganda that’s going on about Dearborn, Michigan,“ he said.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

shows how much I pay attention to this stuff

Detroit and Philadelphia are both in the Eastern time zone, yet the Lions-Eagles game is scheduled for 8:20pm.

This makes no sense.

"I spent two years at a top university, was taught by some of the finest modern archaeologists and THIS is what I learned." Ancient civilizations Preppies: Persia, Mycenae Goths: Egypt and Assyria Nerds: Babylon, Greece Jocks: Sparta, Macedonia

Good morning

Executives imagine they're bringing some secret sauce "idea guy" magic to the software industry. Nope, they bring:

1. Raise money
2. Coordinate people

If AI makes software suddenly require less money / people I really hate to break the news to you about whose jobs are at risk here.

AI World Clocks The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

AI World Clocks: A new clock is generated every minute by nine different AI models. They are … interesting.

He Patrolled the Neighborhoods Where His Sons Were Drawn into Violence Despite Adlone Morris's best attempts, he couldn't keep his sons from joining a gang as teenagers. Now they all work to make Detroit safer.

For many years, Detroit Police Officer Adlone Morris’s life was dominated by a paradox. He spent his days enforcing the law in neighborhoods plagued by shootings, and where his own sons were part of the street crews driving that violence.

This game started over 3 hours ago and there’s still 12+ minutes left in the 4th quarter.

Can we not enjoy something for more than 15 seconds?

another game I’ll check in with only occasionally so my blood pressure doesn’t spike.

nice of them to mix a bit of football in with all the commercials

I feel like I've seen this before:

🧵👇👇

An open book with orange pages, signed by the author.

I missed that you were coming to Detroit, otherwise I would have been there. I have a signed copy of your book!

sing this song every time JD and the Supremes walk through the door

it was a question, so naturally people are going to reply to it.