Jonathan
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Jonathan
@jmantelljohnson.bsky.social
David Bryne did a cover of driver's license 5 days ago and I'm just hearing it now??

open.spotify.com/track/2MTz9A...
drivers license
open.spotify.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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He died doing what he loved: being insane and annoying and embarrassing online. A true poster. He also once tried to hypnotize me over the phone.
Hahaha People Mag comes out blasting
January 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
“Trump’s actions are heading toward a constitutional crisis! Who do we get to capture the seriousness of the situation??”

“I know just the guy”
January 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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There's an anti ICE protest every Thursday at the federal building in downtown San Diego. Tomorrow's Thursday. It would be a good day to go!
January 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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The 1927 silent classic got a few technology predictions wrong but was scarily on the mark about workers' rights and out-of-touch industry oligarchs.
The Vision of 2026 in 'Metropolis' Is Spot On
The 1927 silent classic got a few technology predictions wrong but was scarily on the mark about workers' rights and out-of-touch industry oligarchs.
gizmodo.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Every day they prove this 30 year old joke more and more correct.
January 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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I’m in awe of Henry
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
January 1, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Happy New Year, folks!

@strange.website kicked over the ol' personalsit.es build a brief while ago, so it is the place to go if you need some inspiration for your new year website redesign. nudge nudge

I lent a hand reviewing and have manually checked every site listed. There are some proper gems!
PersonalSit.es
Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
personalsit.es
January 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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SCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom:

▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m
▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m
▶️Palantir: $10m
▶️Ripple: $5m
▶️Parsons: $2.5m
▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5

Here's a gift link.

There's more in the story 🧵…
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Bagel is obviously a huge part of my special Night Thoughts. She passed between recording and air, & Hulu was kind enough to let us add a dedication to her at the end, to include her in all the marketing (bottom left of poster) & give her an actual credit on the special.

Bagel forever and ever.
December 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Fun watching the tech companies trying to market AI as a good thing. Big “clean coal” vibes ai.meta.com/ai-for-good/
AI for Good
We empower partners with AI that serves everyone.
ai.meta.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
While it sounds like he's criticizing the Iraq War on principle, he's wording is really chilling:

"Thousands of lives, and we don't even have it..."

He's complaining about the money and lost lives because we haven't taken POSSESSION of anything at the end of it. He still wants the imperialism.
Truly, one of the best moments of the 2016 GOP primaries was when Trump cooked Jeb and the entire Bush family
December 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The Elon Musk Xitter algorithm is literally rigged to boost Matt Yglesias, catturd, Ben Shapiro, and other right wing accounts.

Of course Yglesias is upset that you don't use it.

www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23...
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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looking for website inspiration 👀✨

what are your favorite personal dev portfolios/blogs (or websites of small dev/design agencies)? I'm not talking super whimsical (although they are great 🤩), but beautifully made, nice to look at and read, great typography, nice little extras... 😊
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I call this "The Lying Screen"
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I’m not some fancy business knower but aren’t you supposed to get paid for licensing rather than paying the company using your copyrights?
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora

Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer

openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM