How Cowboys and Equestrians Are Rescuing Horses From L.A.’s Fires by Rory Satran As the Eaton fire blazed, Philippa and Natasha Price raced to an abandoned stable in the foothills of Altadena, Calif. Power lines fell around them, the sisters later recalled, while they sped into a restricted zone last Wednesday with a horse trailer. The...
What podcast apps do yall use? Specifically for windows+iOS. Would like to move away from Spotify, their desktop (windows) app really sucks and is consistently changing designs.
More people have left the church in the last twenty-five years than all the new people who became Christians from the First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening, and Billy Graham crusades combined. The Great Dechurching by Davis, Graham, and Burge
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too by Joey, or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Feed” Separating yourself from the algorithmic whims of social media platform is easier than ever. With RSS, you can stay informed, save time, and never miss the content that truly matters. Roar of New Glenn’s Engines Silences Skeptics of...
Coder make the rss feed on the website challenge Level: IMPOSSIBLE
There’s a nonzero amount of people very clearly freeloading off the small web/indie web ethos, and it’s quite sad. Keep the combativeness, rage bait, and greed elsewhere. There are plenty of platforms built just for that.
About 29 people have been arrested in the fire zones, the [Los Angeles County] sheriff says — 25 in the area of the Eaton fire, and four near the Palisades. One man was dressed like a firefighter and had been burglarizing a home, the sheriff said. by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, link is to the liveblog entry. Their coverage has been quite good....
Is there a particular reason the NY Times coverage of the LA fires is significantly more extensive than the LA Times, besides resources?
141 Roman gold coins found in Luxembourg The gold solidi are in excellent condition and because they include very rare examples, INRA experts have evaluated the value of the coins at 308,600 euros, approximately $322,000. The Ministry of Culture has paid the valuation sum as a finder’s fee to the landowner and acquired the coins for the nation....
How can “social” media platforms with billions of users feel so profoundly isolating? We have massive, global sites accessible from every device imaginable—desktops, laptops, phones, even smart fridges—yet genuine connection remains elusive. Finding your people, your authentic community, in an ocean of hundreds of millions of users isn’t just...
Banshee stealer evades detection using Apple XProtect encryption algo by Bill Toulas via thenewoil.org/en/ Making Space for a Handmade Web by Chia Amisola, just beautiful work. We are humans, not clicks, no matter how much the data magnates scream and fight. What if we didn’t think of a website as one thing that answers to a million people? What...
Is there a more American image than the “rooftop Koreans”? Taking all suggestions, but I think this is it.
George Will decries the abuse of “national security!” as a pretext for expanding the government’s control over Americans’ lives by George Will More than 2,000 U.S. corporations have market capitalizations larger than U.S. Steel, which has fewer employees (21,800) than Krispy Kreme, which manufactures doughnuts. The U.S. military requires a...
I believed that the national Ds were in a bad spot to begin with, but there will be hell to pay for this. Everyone in California deserves 10000x more from their public servants.
A New Year Isn’t A Blank Slate by William Galston via Kathryn Jean Lopez A familiar maxim cited by Pope John XXIII should guide us: “In essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity.” A well-ordered government can secure unity wherever necessary and liberty whenever possible. But only individuals can provide charity,...
President Biden mourned with New Orleans Monday night at a prayer service at the St. Louis Cathedral by Carlie Kollath Wells “New Orleans defines strength and resilience,” Biden said, “whether it’s in the form of this attack or hurricanes or superstorms. This city and its people get back up.” Meta ditches fact checking program in favor of...
“Enshittification” is such a needlessly vulgar term when “degradation” is right there!
Sutton Hoo Warriors fought in the Byzantine Army, historian argues 6 Reasons to Be (Cautiously) Optimistic About Movies in 2025: A Statistical Analysis by Daniel Perris Letterboxd’s popularity spiked during the pandemic, and the site has since continued its rapid growth from 1.5M users in 2019 to over 14M users in 2024. Letterboxd has become the...
While practicing less presentism I want to work on having less opinions.
Between the new Pika Pulse, the Bear Blog Discovery Feed, and the Kagi Small Web it’s never been easier to read independent, thought-provoking digital gardens, blogs, what have you. These all feel really special in their own way, this moment feels sorta special.
Just like that we have a speaker, and on the first ballot. Betting against Mike Johnson, so far, has proven to be a failing strategy, despite what a lot of political journos continuously wish-cast.
What was once a once-in-a-century occurrence — a speaker of the House losing a leadership vote on the floor — has now happened on the opening day of consecutive Congresses. Annie Karni
Does anyone know if there is an easier way to use the long dash than using alt codes + the keypad?
Seems like Meta has launched their AI profiles. I think that this could actually go well for them, and that the profiles will be higher in quality than the median instatwitbook-er. Maybe I’m just less pessimistic than others? I will be watching from afar in my AI agent-less corner of the internet.
A Bloody, Fiery Start to 2025 by Jim Geraghty But it often feels as if in circumstances like this the FBI has a definition of “terrorism” that is as specific and pedantic as Rob Lowe’s character’s definition of champagne in Wayne’s World. Unless it is imported from the specific “Terrorista” region of the Islamic State, it’s merely sparkling mass...
This is what this game is all about. 🏈
SEC has written off $10 billion in fines they were unable to collect over the past decade Tintin is now part of the public domain Likely the most beautiful photo you’ll see today There are more trees on Earth, than stars in the Milky Way, ~3 trillion vs ~100-400 billion. 15 dead, 35+ injured in incredibly heartbreaking situation still unfolding...
Not sure where to put this, really, but I’m really quite rattled by today’s news. I hope that everyone is staying safe.
Can Ohio St. and Texas both lose? Is that possible? 🏈
[New Orleans] will rise again, stronger and more united. Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.) You will find out what happened and who is responsible or I will raise fresh hell Senator Kennedy (R-La.)
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That some people think that this is a bad thing is truly a sign of the times www.404media.co/pornhub-i…
FBI makes historic explosives bust on a Virginia farm Ancient manuscript depicting Jesus’ youth translated Scientists predictions for the year 2025, from 1925 I hope that everyone has/had a safe and happy new year! Let’s make 2025 great.
H5N1 seems to be spreading quite rapidly. There would be reason to expect our leaders would be a bit more proactive about the spread of viruses given the recent global pandemic, but our national response has been essentially null. To make matters worse, the virus seems to have already evolved in one of its human hosts stateside. Hats off to Alex...
[Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” 1979 speech on energy and political turmoil] (https://youtu.be/sXwZSzy9Ies) Customer data from 800,000 electric cars and owners exposed online, still a bit unsure why a car would need to phone home at all to be honest Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab in Culiacán In the years since fentanyl took off in the United...
We ought to be especially careful in the cases where what we delegate to a device, app, agent, or system is an aspect of how we express care, cultivate skill, relate to one another, make moral judgments, or assume responsibility for our actions in the world—the very things, in other words, that make life meaningful. L. M. Sacasas
How to watch a baby - a comic Azerbaijan rebukes Kremlin and blames Russia for shooting down passenger aircraft. “We can clearly say today that the plane was shot down by Russia,” Pigment mixing into digital artwork New DJI Flip images surface 39th President Carter passed away at 100. May he rest in peace. A very beautiful, cozy photo via ...
Kindness in a transactional world A must read from @manuelmoreale.com
Jewish artists being frozen out of British cultural life, widespread antisemitism in England is unfortunately not new, but nonetheless depressing. China ramping up detention center construction following CCP clampdown Scottish betrayal battle
OpenAI is Lehman Brothers 6th century Anglo Saxon sword discovered in grave near Kent Poker cheaters using tiny cameras to spot cards, how long until AI/LLM cheating, I wonder? David Brooks Sidney Awards Valve (in 2018) makes more money per employee than Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix combined The rizzler and Steve Jobs, skibidi toilet and alpha...
In case you needed a reminder that you own nothing on “social media” Several conservative critics of billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk were stripped of their verification badges on X, Thursday after publicly challenging Musk’s stance on immigration. Trump ally Laura Loomer, New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax, InfoWars host...
Was fortunate enough to see Nosferatu (2024) last night. A truly frightening flick that only Robert Eggers could have put together. I was really impressed by Lily-Rose Depp’s performance. 🍿 5 🌟
A very Merry Christmas to all! Pope calls for Peace on Christmas NR Editors wish all a merry Christmas John Donne on the evening of Christmas Day at St. Paul’s in 1624 Mullvad review of 2024
The animation / art in Klaus is truly just jaw dropping. A lovely movie. 🍿