“There’s a long, bad journalistic tradition,” noted Harris. “All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-nyt-criticism #NoKings

Here is a shameless handout of taxpayer cash to Mike Flynn, Trump's crony and co-conspirator. Flynn was GUILTY. He pled guilty. Trump pardoned him.

Imagine if Biden had shifted $1.25 million to some crony of his.

The NY Times knows this, but they can't help themselves. They accept the transparently bogus framing: that this is a "settlement"; that it "puts to rest a lawsuit"; that it provides "legal relief."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/michael-flynn-doj-settlement-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.5F5b.c4yW21bL2pNI&smid=url-share

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $827.2 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $222.7 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $204.2 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Some of my friends have started taking their social security earlier than 67.

When I told them the decision is probably smart because there's no guarantee it's still going to be there in two years, they all said the same thing - Trump and the Republicans won't touch social security, it would be too unpopular with his base.

He just started a war without bothering to get permission from congress. I don't think he cares how unpopular SS cuts would be. It's not like anyone's going to stop him.

Weiss and Cibrowski announce they’re shutting down CBS News Radio, which has ~700 affiliated stations, on May 22. "Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

Thus, the CBS Radio Network (b. 1927) will be terminated at the age of 99.

CBS Radio was the foundation of American broadcast journalism. Over five decades I filed hundreds of news reports for it and felt immense pride to have been on the same network as Murrow, Sevareid, Smith, Collingwood, Cronkite, Edwards, Trout, Townsend, Kuralt, Rather, Stahl, Knoller & Portnoy.