The problem with trying to write right now is you’ve got to slog through hours of existential dread first. I mean I guess that’s the problem with everything right now.

I know white house reporters are currently cowering for access, but it would be nice for someone to ask about Elon’s continued and ever-more-public drug abuse in the context of its threat to national security.

The little doge rats continue to be stymied by basic web tech.

The Verge

Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it

Such security, much open.

Well, my fascism coal mine canary just died.

I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don’t mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!

Bookshop, the anti-amazon that gives $$ to local bookstores with every sale, now has ebooks. That’s a big deal: https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks