Coffeemate really must have thought weird methy looking guys who get sexually aroused by shitty coffee was the audience to target with that commercial, for reasons that escape me...to put it mildly.

Can confirm that nearby floof inestimably improves sleep.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d ago

A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep.

#PracticeTip: Don't confess to crimes in the newspaper

Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · 3d ago

Guilfoyle's corruption is so shockingly transparent that it seems to have almost slid into the background how COMPLETELY INSANE it is that a lawyer voluntarily publicized such self-incriminating material (even considering his four bar suspensios).

Guilfoyle's corruption is so shockingly transparent that it seems to have almost slid into the background how COMPLETELY INSANE it is that a lawyer voluntarily publicized such self-incriminating material (even considering his four bar suspensios).

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4d ago

“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account. on.wsj.com/4i9gzYx

Check out Berin's live-tweet of the proceedings in ABC v. FCC. I'm doing it over on X here (will post a non-X link after for those who prefer that): x.com/AriCohn/stat...

Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) on X

ABC and the FCC are squaring off in the US District court for DC in a hearing over ABC's lawsuit over the government's ongoing jawboning against the network, which culminated in the agency forcing the...

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Berin Szóka@berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d ago

Livetweeting the court hearing on ABC v FCC. ABC wants the court to stop the FCC's hearing on early renewal of ABC's licenses plus all other retaliation against ABC's speech in violation of the First Amendment. Threshold question is the court's jurisdiction: Must ABC wait for a final order to sue?

"We each contribute something different ... Justice Thomas has clearly thought out, coherent ideas about the meaning of various provisions of the Constitution" is a pretty funny unintentional self-own.

In doing some reading about the length and arc of recovery from moral/societal panics, it actually surprised me (though perhaps it should not have) how many people are still all-in on the MSG scare. What a remarkably terrible culinary existence that must be.

My news app algorithm has rather gone to shit

Today Senator Blackburn is expected to try ramming KOSA--the Kids Online Safety Act--through the Senate via unanimous consent. KOSA was an Internet censorship bill in its inception, and in 4 years the only thing its authors have done is try to disguise KOSA's nature rather than fix it.

hear me out: maybe the problem is that oaths of office don't include a slap across the face.

The dig at the Senator from Missouri about knowing Midwest sports teams was pretty savage. Gotta respect it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

Congratulations, you've "invented" the mobile home.

The less Andrew Bailey near any lever of government, the safer everyone--and their civil liberties--will be. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Andrew Bailey, co-deputy director of the FBI, is departing his job

The former attorney general of Missouri is leaving his role as co-deputy director of the FBI after a year in the job.

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How far can the government go when a president doesn’t like what a broadcaster says? On a new Tech Policy Podcast, @aricohn.com and @berinszoka.bsky.social are joined by @thefireorg.bsky.social’s Bob Corn-Revere to unpack the escalating fight between ABC and the FCC. tinyurl.com/5xzkj37n

440: The Fellas at the Freaking FCC | Tech Policy Podcast

How far can the government go when a president doesn’t like what a broadcaster says? Host Ari Cohn is joined by Berin Szóka (TechFreedom) and Bob Corn-Revere (FIRE) to unpack the escalating fight betw...

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I never feel as simultaneously old and adolescent as when I empty the dishwasher at 6am and think to myself, "Hell yea it's gonna be a good day. A productive day."

Depriving students of "one of the best ways to learn something" because other students might cheat (newsflash: some students will find a way to cheat on anything you choose) seems like a highly questionable pedagogical choice.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3w ago

Four years into the ChatGPT era, colleges may be further from solving the problem of AI cheating than ever before, @willoremus.com argues:

AI hatred continues to expose how many are so poorly-read that they don't recognize proper punctuation and writing styles. The problem is less AI and more idiots who are more obsessed with rooting out its use than being semi-literate. And that's from someone who refuses to use AI for writing.

Staying up all night to mix a track was a lot more fun when I was younger (and also not trying to extract usable dialogue from people who seem to have been recoding on the Titan submersible during implosion)

Irrespective of literally everything else, Ed Sheeran and Macklemore sounds like the absolute worst kind of Geriatric Millennial Sad Wine Mom Tour lineup. Good God. Why.

Absolutely gross. What a disgrace.

HuffPost@huffpost.com · 4w ago

She told the crowd they were experiencing "Black joy to the highest level."

Not invited for cheesecake on the lanai

People are worried about AI-generated academia and meanwhile Human Slop continues to evade detection.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social @questauthority.bsky.social @pwnallthethings.bsky.social @maxkennerly.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @jamalgreene.bsky.social @aricohn.com @gabrielmalor.bsky.social This is in your wheelhouse - if you can boost it would be very helpful

AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social · last mo.

Folks, @glowlaw.org - a new non-profit dedicated to legal accountability for government lawyers, documenting both ethics violations and dedication to the rule of law by government attorneys - badly needs your help. We need to raise $18,000 to keep the lights on for this coming year

The Substance might have had a shot at being a halfway decent movie if it was an hour shorter. What an overrated chore of a movie.

A deep fingertip slice is by far the worst everyday injury. There's literally no way to live your life and not aggravate it.

13 feet is much farther than a human driver would likely have stopped. This is unserious.

SFist@sfist.bsky.social · last mo.

A father in Noe Valley says a Waymo robotaxi stopped within 13 feet of his two-year-old daughter when she fell in the crosswalk, nearly running her over, but Waymo claims the car wouldn’t have hit her. sfist.com/2026/09/01/f...

Meta: I have a new plan? Ari: Is it a real new plan, or is it the tobacco master settlement agreement. Meta, frowning: Tobacco master settlement agreement.

Meta appears to be attempting regulatory capture via litigation settlement. It could backfire, if competitors have the courage to advertise their offerings as ones that do not impose government-demanded restrictions on user speech.

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement. www.wired.com/story/meta-w...

I refuse to believe her name is really "Jennica Pounds." What is this, Deep Throat State?

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just want to say that these lunatics accused me of being a *secret CIA agent* while DataRepublican is literally working for the govt while pretending to be an ordinary influencers, & receiving leaked docs. The Trump admin is running ops, as they say, but for real. Every accusation is a confession.

Bragging about using process as punishment is certainly a choice.

EPIC@epic.org · 2mo ago

This month, the 9th Circuit ruled against Meta in a case about harmful social media design and Section 230. The Court ruled that it didn’t have jurisdiction to hear Meta’s appeal and would have to wait until the case ends in the lower court. It’s a big win for plaintiffs and anyone suing big tech. 🧵