Seth Rogan Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored. “It’s amazing that others…in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science.” Can’t give a science prize w/o science. 🤷‍♂️ https://kottke.org/25/04/seth-rogan-speaks-truth-to-billionaires-gets-censored-for-it

Mohsen Mahdawi was unlawfully detained by ICE in Vermont today as he arrived to take his US citizenship test. “He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.” https://kottke.org/25/04/palestinian-protester-on-his-way-to-citizenship-test-arrested-by-ice-in-vt

Are you looking for work? Are you looking to fill a job opening? I’m once again running a makeshift job board in the comments of this blog post so if you’re looking for work or employees (full-time, freelance, whatever), come by and drop your links here. https://kottke.org/25/04/are-you-looking-for-work-are-you-looking-to-fill-a-position

JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. https://kottke.org/25/03/jd-vance-chastised-by-vermont-snow-reporter

A Programming Note. “I have pivoted to posting almost exclusively about the coup happening in the United States right now. My focus will be on this crisis for the foreseeable future.” https://kottke.org/25/02/a-programming-note-1

Meta’s Free Speech Grift. “What Zuck and Meta have realized is the value…of saying that you’re ‘protecting free speech’ and using it as cover for almost anything you want to do.” What Meta actually wants is increased engagement & less gov’t oversight. https://kottke.org/25/01/metas-free-speech-grift

I didn’t do a media diet post all year! So for my last post of 2024, here’s (almost) everything I read, watched, listened to, and experienced in 2024, incl. Shōgun, All Fours, GNX, Intermezzo, Godzilla Minus One, Princess Mononoke, etc. https://kottke.org/24/12/saying-goodbye-to-2024

Coldplay, Spike Jonze, and Mary Wigmore turned the band’s latest music video into a lovely & poignant tribute to Dick Van Dyke on the eve of his 99th birthday. So many great little moments in this. https://kottke.org/24/12/dick-van-dyke-coldplay-video