Jesse Kriss
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It's that time of year when the annual DJ mix is brewing.
In the meantime, check out the archives: sound.jklabs.net
In the meantime, check out the archives: sound.jklabs.net
December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's that time of year when the annual DJ mix is brewing.
In the meantime, check out the archives: sound.jklabs.net
In the meantime, check out the archives: sound.jklabs.net
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Hey there’s just a few days left in the year and I would love if you helped me get over a big milestone on signups to get my writing in your inbox by signing up today. It’s free, fun, and you get something every couple weeks: dansinker.com/follow/
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hey there’s just a few days left in the year and I would love if you helped me get over a big milestone on signups to get my writing in your inbox by signing up today. It’s free, fun, and you get something every couple weeks: dansinker.com/follow/
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when we got married we asked my cousin about their four year old being 'flower dude' and they said "oh sure what fun we'll have to talk him into taking off his astronaut costume for once" and we said "the hell you will" which is how we came to have an adorable flower-naut leading us down the aisle
shout out to parents who are like “of course you can wear your astronaut costume on the airplane” to their four year old
December 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
when we got married we asked my cousin about their four year old being 'flower dude' and they said "oh sure what fun we'll have to talk him into taking off his astronaut costume for once" and we said "the hell you will" which is how we came to have an adorable flower-naut leading us down the aisle
Highly recommend this piece by Erin if you have a few quiet moments sometime in the coming days.
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Highly recommend this piece by Erin if you have a few quiet moments sometime in the coming days.
The sky and lighting alone is a short story prompt.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The sky and lighting alone is a short story prompt.
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
It turns out you can just make donuts. (They're baked, pretty easy.)
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It turns out you can just make donuts. (They're baked, pretty easy.)
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Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
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If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
Things are really weird you guys
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Things are really weird you guys
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Did not expect 60 Minutes segments as samizdat
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Did not expect 60 Minutes segments as samizdat
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
Starting to think the power isn't coming back tonight.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Starting to think the power isn't coming back tonight.
Power's out, but we've got candles
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Power's out, but we've got candles
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Redacted
Fayette, AL
Fayette, AL
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Redacted
Fayette, AL
Fayette, AL
What if they only had time to scrub the search index, and not the materials themselves
The DOJ needs to fire the web developer who made the Epstein Library search interface
December 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What if they only had time to scrub the search index, and not the materials themselves
The Trump and The Kennedy. Sure.
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The Trump and The Kennedy. Sure.
Now I'm picturing the history of our country as a Wikipedia edit war and it kind of works.
www.bewitched.com/historyflow....
www.bewitched.com/historyflow....
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Now I'm picturing the history of our country as a Wikipedia edit war and it kind of works.
www.bewitched.com/historyflow....
www.bewitched.com/historyflow....
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Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks
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You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering
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the title of this frog photograph goes unexpectedly hard
even the frogs are experiencing sectarian warfare right now I guess
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
the title of this frog photograph goes unexpectedly hard
I already ordered mine. Your turn!
Hey you should preorder this little zine/book of essays I've written in 2025. It's good, I think! And small and cheap and I would sure appreciate it. shop.dansinker.com/products/the...
They Can't Take Us All - zine preorder
I think physical objects are pretty great, and so I'm collecting my favorite writing from 2025's blog posts into a little perfect-bound zine called "They Can't Take Us All." It will feature pieces li...
shop.dansinker.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I already ordered mine. Your turn!
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
These are way more out there than I realized. Truly off the deep end.
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
These are way more out there than I realized. Truly off the deep end.
So when do we get the Isaac Chotiner / Christopher Anderson collab?
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
So when do we get the Isaac Chotiner / Christopher Anderson collab?