Jed Hartman

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

“Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month”

“Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’”

www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

[restaurant]

waiter: how would you like your steak

me: i don't know, medium?

medium: *gazes into crystal ball* you will like it a lot

I like this framing around temporal attrition. And it fits with the add-friction/sand-in-the-gears idea. And members of Congress should be doing it too—withhold unanimous consent, slow everything down.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

“The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building”

“The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang”

propub.li/4akseP8

This article weirdly doesn’t mention the 2023 _Atlantic_ article. But I’m linking to this anyway because I haven’t seen recent info about the current extent of the problem, and figured this’ll be useful to point to next time the topic comes up.

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“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found.”

CW: blurry Hitler photo, non-blurry large swastika image.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE The former DOGE head will have to answer for what happened at USAID.

A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID

Our case now moves into discovery

As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN

4 people have died from eating death cap mushrooms as they spread in California after rains Four people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

Four people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

800 Google employees demand an end to any cloud contracts with ICE and CBP The petition also called for executives to protect vulnerable Google employees, "from cafeteria workers to data center employees."

According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”

The ProPublica workers do great work; they need a fair contract. They’re prepared to strike.

(For a link to support their strike fund, see thread.)

Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...

2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Me too, on both counts!

In what way is this list different from saying “Obey existing laws and the Constitution”?

And if ICE is already not doing that, then why would this set of requirements cause them to do that?

The awards presentation is over, but the finalists are still listed, and there are a bunch of neat puzzle games there that I hadn’t heard of.

The other day, I made hummus for the first time.

It went well, and the result is tasty!

I used this recipe: www.inspiredtaste.net/15938/easy-a...

Is that a sincere question, or rhetorical?

The news report sounds plausible to me, but I know very little about the situation, and based on your Bsky bio, I assume you know a lot more about it than I do. So, are you saying we shouldn’t believe it? (This is a sincere question, not rhetorical.)

Startpage - Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History. Search and browse the internet without being tracked or targeted. Startpage is the world's most private search engine. Use Startpage to protect your personal data.

It might be getting its ads and search results from Google, but acting as an anonymizer between you and Google? I’m not sure.

The company also provides an anonymizing proxy for web browsing, and a mobile app.

www.startpage.com

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Startpage: “The world’s most private search engine.”

…I don’t know anything about this company beyond what’s on their website; I’m not endorsing them.

It looks like most searches result in three non-personalized ads, followed by search results.

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In Iran, “doctors on the ground [say] at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.”

(Article from Jan. 17.)

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

FDA Adds 2 Cookware Brands to Its Lead-Contamination Warning, Now Totaling 21 The FDA has updated its warning about imported cookware that may leach dangerous levels of lead into food. The issue was first flagged in August 2025 after routine testing, and since then, the list ha...

“FDA Adds More Cookware Brands to Its Lead Contamination Warning, Bringing Total to 21”

“the newly identified products were flagged after state partners detected significant lead transfer from certain aluminum and brass pans.”

(Article from Jan. 15.)

www.foodandwine.com/fda-adds-2-c...

The New Cold War in the Arctic

“In 2004, the U.S.-Denmark defense agreement was updated to provide assurances that Greenland would be included in discussions of U.S. military policy in the country. But Denmark — which provides more than half of Greenland’s budget — retains control of security and foreign policy.”

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“While Greenland remains part of Denmark, it has far more autonomy today than it did during the height of the Cold War. In 1979, Greenland’s majority Inuit population voted in favor of home rule, establishing a parliamentary system and gaining control over internal affairs…

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“The New Cold War in the Arctic”

Long but interesting article (from 2023) about international relations in Greenland over the past 70 years, and especially how things have been changing recently.

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48 Million Gmail Usernames And Passwords Leaked Online Again Are your Gmail login credentials amongst the 48 million estimated as exposed in this leak of existing infostealer logs — here's what you need to know.

“149 Million Login Credentials Exposed In Leak — Including An Estimated 48 Million Gmail Accounts”

“this is not a new breach of the services involved, and most likely is a database made up of data from past breaches and infostealer logs.”

www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

“…following the university’s accusations of extensive property damage. (The defense disputes these claims.) ‘It would ruin my family financially for the rest of our lives,’ Gonzalez told me.”

“Gonzalez and four fellow defendants … could receive up to three years in prison and a permanent felony record. The DA is also seeking $329,000 in restitution to Stanford, whose endowment tops $40 billion, …

“…he would file felony vandalism and conspiracy charges against Gonzalez and 11 others, making him the only prosecutor in the country to try a felony case against pro-Palestine student protesters since the campus movement began.”