Jon Stewart on the latest Epstein dump, the lack of accountability, and how the real sanctuary cities in America are "where money and power protect you from the consequences of sex trafficking"

Alerted authorities in 1996, but the complaint was ignored.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was released 10 years ago today.

My take is that JJ Abrams doing a remake of Episode 4 (1977), in the form of Episode 7 was always a terrible choice.

Anyone who was doing a sequel to it, would had been handcuffed by common sense into cleaning the slate to distance from the boring remake elements. Rian did great within constraints

He would have done a far better Episode 9 than the one we sadly have.

That said, he was right not getting involved, because:
*Knives Out is what he wanted to make at that moment, succeeded as Detective Whodunnit.
*They were never gonna give him enough time to finish a proper script for Episode 9.

Newsletter #168 - Everyday 25 A quarter-century of self-portraits.

Noah Kalina celebrates 25 years of taking a photo of himself every single day. [noahkalina.substack.com]

Newsletter #185 - Faith No More’s “Midlife Crisis” and the Observers Paradox You’re perfect, yes, it’s true. But without me, you’re only you.

Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization that I can’t experience anything anymore without thinking about how I’ll document it.” 🎯🎯🎯 [noahkalina.substack.com]

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. “The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emission. You can make a pretty immediate impact.” [nytimes.com]

Would be cool if someone could just create Internet 2, and we could start and reboot from scratch every couple of years. Sure you can manually ask for a reset of the algorithm but until everyone mass Exodus on mass we are never going to see the tides change. And going ludite is impossible

2 Screenshots from the movie "Back to the Future Part II" (1989): First, a newspaper front page with the headline "GANG JAILED" and a subheading "Hoverboard Rampage Destroys Courthouse," featuring a photo of a gang leader being apprehended by police, with the gang leader claiming, "I was framed." Second, another newspaper front page with the headline "YOUTH JAILED" and a subheading "Martin McFly Junior Arrested for Theft," showing a young man being taken into custody by police, while the youth gang denies complicity.

Oct 22nd - Original Timeline: USA Today reports that Marty Jr was arrested for theft.

Revised Timeline: USA Today reports that Griff's gang were arrested for destroying the courthouse.

📽️📅 Back to the Future Part II (1989)

US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa DEI is being used as a smokescreen to roll back progress and consolidate power. The goal is to rewrite our nation’s story

US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa

Opinion | The Right-Wing Myth of American Heritage The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common culture; it’s exceptional because Americans have been able to cohere despite cultures that set us apart.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The heritage mythology conservatives are spinning is historically delusional, Leighton Woodhouse writes in a guest essay. “Americans have never been ‘a group of people with a shared history.’”

Lovely. So the newest global pandemic is fascism. Sadly, there's no vaccine for ignorant and racist. 😕

PlayStation Network Outage Persists, Sony Says Users on social media complained that they could not access their games after the unexplained outage began on Friday night.

The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content and access apps, fluttered in and out of service on Saturday but remained down for at least some users more than 20 hours after widespread problems with the network were first reported.

Live updates: Pentagon to order initial wave of additional U.S. troops to Mexico border Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

President Donald Trump issued a broad executive order ending antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring, reversing a nearly 60-year precedent and launching a significant step forward in his agenda to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in federal government.

“The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed. But I assure you - my resolve has never been stronger.

In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society.”

"The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights."
— Timothy Snyder

Martin Luther King Jr Day

Martin Luther King day.
#MLK

Tonight marks Vice President Harris's final evening in office.

REPOST to thank @KamalaHarris for her service! ❤️

This is basically the explanation of why Blue Sky is needed as a social media app. It may not replace Twitter X or Facebook any time soon. But it is very important for it to remain as a viable alternative, while relatively small the gamble might pay off if it grows.

YouTube video by Nintendo of America Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer

Introducing #NintendoSwitch2, the successor to Nintendo Switch, releasing in 2025.

Learn more: ninten.do/6013U8Rsf

youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ?...

For many of my author friends. The typo makes it even funnier.

People here need to repost more the scientific breakthrough of the first picture of a photon.

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann

What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

Hopefully society as a whole will start reading more books in this weird age of mostly post truth