23 January 2025
✖︎The combined net worth of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet was roughly $120 million. That figure, however, is dwarfed by the roughly $20 billion combined net worth of Trump’s presumptive Cabinet, assuming they all get confirmed. It stands to be the wealthiest Cabinet in American history, yet it doesn’t include figures like Musk, who won’t require Senate confirmation.
Just a wild figure. But still, the middle class in middle America thinks DJT has their best interests at heart and not that of the super wealthy.
✖︎Personally, I haven’t figured out how my own news consumption patterns might be different in Trump II than in Trump I. (Other than spending 95% less time on Twitter.) But I’m sure there’s a market out there to be served by products like The Logoff.
I’m giving it a go to see how it is.
✖︎A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power.
Love this completely.
✖︎I love fake annual awards and this one was terrific.
✖︎This was great; one of my favorite P&B interviews yet.
✖︎But he didn’t ask her or even mention that it was something he wanted to shoot — he just went for it. She pulled away, and then he did it again.
I already had feelings about this, but it’s great to get a POV from someone who lives this sort of stuff.
✖︎A group of investors being advised by Maverick Carter, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James’ business partner, is seeking to raise $5 billion from private capital sources to form an international basketball league to rival the National Basketball Association, according to people familiar with the matter.
I’ve been working on a piece about how major league sports don’t innovate because they have a monopoly, but I don’t see this one working. At all.
20 January 2025
✖︎Fingers crossed he can figure out how to get Caleb and the offense humming…
18 January 2025
✖︎Another amazing music video from OK Go. All I could do while watching this was think about how much planning went into it. I feel like it’s been awhile, but I was just thinking about them a couple weeks ago.
17 January 2025
✖︎Kindness is the reason why I’m doing this. There’s no other reason. I don’t care about getting a reward. I care about showing people that in this stupid transactional world, we can still be kind to one another. We can still help someone, even if we’ll get nothing in return.
Another great note from Manu, but I think he misses that it should be fun. Sure, we can be, and should be, kind without expecting anything in return, but we should have fun while doing it.
✖︎Just some cool news from the end of last year you may have missed.
✖︎I’m a big fan of Alex Wagner and her measured approach—although I don’t watch MSNBC—so it’s a bit of a bummer they need to keep dragging Maddow in, but hopefully Wagner can find a stride hitting the streets like she did on The Circus.
✖︎Until recently, most WNBA players spent the offseason playing in overseas leagues, where money flowed freely. But for a mess of geopolitical and financial reasons, good opportunities in Europe and Asia are harder to find these days.
Ideally, more money would come out of the NBA side of things, since they share a TV deal, so the women could be paid more, especially as their ratings go up and the men’s go down.
✖︎My hope is that this decision along with their other decision to start populating timelines with AI-generated content—as if that’s the point of a social media platform—will help more people realise that it’s time to abandon these digital cancers and get back to a more sane way to interact with the web and to connect with others.
I share Manu’s hope. My struggle is knowing where to point to, or even go myself, for “better” social media. I prefer Mastodon, but Bluesky has the momentum, and wish I could stand up a forum people would actually use.
When it comes to the actual changes Meta is going through—it’s a disaster that shouldn’t surprise anyone.
16 January 2025
✖︎I don’t understand how this is possible, but am completely fascinated by it.
✖︎How dare them for being unhoused!
14 January 2025
✖︎This is an old link, back from December, but Vitale is such an infectiously positive person that this is great to see.
✖︎I put off listening to this for a lot of obvious reasons (at least if you follow the NBA), assuming it would be a hot dumpster fire of a song. But it’s actually not bad and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t like most modern rap.
11 January 2025
✖︎This would be a huge win for Horse. Go drop an emoji on the PR so we can get some extensions like 1Password and maybe Obsidian Web Clipper in my daily driver.
✖︎Really fun space from friend to the humdrum life, @sphygmus, taking notes throughout the Game Awards.
9 January 2025
✖︎This is an old one, but somehow the situation seems even worse at WaPo then it did just a month ago.
✖︎When he says he needs Trump’s help, I think it means he wants Trump to find a way to reduce the sale price somehow. I don’t see this happening at all.
✖︎I’m a big fan of Joan’s work and writing and enjoyed the previous iteration of The Index so it’s safe to say I’m excited about this new version that seems to be going a little bit more in-depth than before.
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