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| Dec 19, 2025 | California Brings Former CDC Staff On To Do The Work RFK Jr. Refuses To Do Nationally | With national public health being run by RFK Jr., or run into the ground if you prefer, it’s been left to individual states to figure out where and how to fill in the gaps. Some states, such as Florida, have fully embraced Kennedy’s anti-sc... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | As NCMEC Removes Any Mention of Trans Youth, the Anti-Porn Movement Shows Its True Colors With Trump’s Executive Order Against ‘Gender Ideology’ | I’ve long maintained the certitude that anti-pornography campaigners aligned with the far-right and conservative Christian movements are directly or indirectly transphobic and anti-LGBTQ.
A body of evidence in my own reporting and experienc... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | San Francisco Mayor Wants PD To Be Able To Commandeer Cameras Owned By Residents Because Reasons | Ring has been bedding down as many law enforcement partners as possible, turning cops into brand evangelists with the implicit (and sometimes, explicit) promise they’ll have access to private citizens’ recordings. Ring likes this because it... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Trump’s Truth Social Big Payday May Be Falling Apart | Donald Trump promised to take the social media world by storm with his Truth Social Twitter-clone for the MAGA world. “Free speech!” he claimed as he banned anyone who criticized him. Of course, from the beginning, many suspected that this ... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Trump Donor Who Propped Up His $2 Billion Hotel Business With $96 Million In COVID Loans Threatens Website For Publishing Facts And Opinions | Being defensive when criticized is a very human trait. It’s often the default response. And it’s completely understandable. Very few people can suppress the urge to defend themselves — or engage in retaliation — when (as Tom Wolfe put it) t... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Trump Donor Who Propped Up His $2 Billion Hotel Business With $96 Million In COVID Loans Threatens Website For Publishing Facts And Opinions | Being defensive when criticized is a very human trait. It's often the default response. And it's completely understandable. Very few people can suppress the urge to defend themselves -- or engage in retaliation -- when (as Tom Wol... |
| May 24, 2021 | Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors | The libs have been owned. They've been owned so thoroughly that Maricopa County, Arizona is going to need to buy millions of dollars of new electronic voting machines. |
| May 24, 2021 | Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors | The libs have been owned. They’ve been owned so thoroughly that Maricopa County, Arizona is going to need to buy millions of dollars of new electronic voting machines. |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Former Devin Nunes' Aide Uses Nunes' Lawyer To File SLAPP Suit Against Politico | Steven Biss is the lawyer who filed Devin Nunes’ SLAPP suit against a satirical cow on Twitter (and against Twitter and political consultant Liz Mair), as well as Nunes’ various other lawsuits against a variety of journalists and critics.... |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Former Devin Nunes' Aide Uses Nunes' Lawyer To File SLAPP Suit Against Politico | Steven Biss is the lawyer who filed Devin Nunes' SLAPP suit against a satirical cow on Twitter (and against Twitter and political consultant Liz Mair), as well as Nunes' various other lawsuits against a variety of journalists and ... |
| Sep 4, 2019 | Pro Tip: Don't Send A Completely Bogus Defamation Threat To A Website That Employs A Former ACLU Badass | If you happen to recognize the name Jamie Lynn Crofts, it may be from the truly amazing amicus brief she filed two years ago in the nutty SLAPP lawsuit that coal boss Bob Murray filed against comedian John Oliver after Oliver did a (very fu... |
| Jan 15, 2019 | Roku explains why it allowed Infowars on its platform | Roku has just made a bad decision with regard to its growing advertising business by associating its brand with the toxic conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones. As Digiday first reported this morning, Roku has chosen to add to the Roku platform a... |
| Dec 26, 2016 | For publishers, Facebook is the devil | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
One might argue that Facebook behaved with imperi... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | Who Are those Syrian Refugees Really? | By land, by sea and, occasionally, by air, they come carrying with them all what they have left in this bedlam world, which is often nothing more than the clothes on their back. They come seeking shelter and the promise of a better future f... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | Amid Anger Over Anti-Abortion Post, Buzzfeed Says It’s Still Figuring Out Whether To ‘Draw Lines’ | BuzzFeed came under fire today after the viral site ran a post slamming Planned Parenthood.
“8 Outrageous Things Planned Parenthood Was Caught Doing,” submitted by a community contributor, the anti-abortion group PersonhoodUSA, has unsurpri... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Comcast celebrates eight victories in regulatory conditions for NBC deal: Roundup | Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.
Comcast-NBC Deal Wins Federal Appro... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Video: Black Friday, greatest country in the world edition: Manic scenes from a Wal-Mart show people fighting over plastic junk | American exceptionalism! Don’t scenes like this make you proud of your country? Then again, maybe these people really wanted that copy of Guitar Hero World Tour? ::shoulder shrug:: |
| Dec 2, 2009 | The Freedom Tray: Made in America, used everywhere | I have written about gadgets and tech and whatnot for four long years now, but this is by far the greatest thing I have ever seen. It’s called the Freedom Tray, and it’s going to rock your world… with freedom. (Freedom haters need not apply... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Buffalo mayor beats the trousers off his opponent by promising new flat screen TVs to seniors | http://www.wivb.com/video/videoplayer.swf
What’s the best way to ensure that you win the Buffalo mayoral primary? Why, by promising an entire voting bloc brand new flat screen TVs! Byron W. Brown just won the Democratic primary (he’s unoppo... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | Preparing for an electromagnetic strike, one Huckabee-hosted conference at a time | Let’s say you’re minding your own business. Maybe you’re playing WoW, or maybe you’re walking the dog. You go about your business, when, suddenly, an electromagnetic pulse strikes, destroying our way of life as we know it. Electronic bank r... |
| Apr 16, 2009 | There were Tea Parties in Second Life too | Jesus, Mary, Joseph! We fleetingly mentioned those Tax Day Tea Parties yesterday, but this is too much. That’s right: Tea Parties in Second Life, the game that, um, is still popular? (Not a lot of buzz about it these days, I mean to say.) A... |
| Mar 14, 2009 | SXSW panel: Don't worry, kids, the news business isn't going to die | Even though we’re losing newspapers left and right in the U.S., people ought not be afraid for the future of news, journalism, etc. So says Steven Johnson, author of, among other things, The Invention of Air. Johnson, speaking at a panel at... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Google blocks unlocked G1s from downloading for-pay applications, upsets developers | Looks like Google is now preventing anyone with an unlocked G1 from downloading for-pay applications from the Android Market. Google says this is to prevent piracy (but only in the most abstract sense, in my [worthless] opinion), but some d... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Yikes: Microsoft bans lesbian from Xbox Live because her sexual orientation is ‘offensive’ to others (Update: Actually, no) | To quote Chris Matthews, “Oh, God.” It seems a woman was recently banned from Xbox Live because her sexual orientation—she’s a lesbian—has been deemed “offensive” by Microsoft. Let’s see how long it takes for Microsoft to “reconsider” this ... |
| Jan 29, 2009 | Russian PM Putin punks Michael Dell at Davos re: Russian IT | Oh, it’s on! It seems Russian Prime Minister Putin got into a huge fight with Michael Dell yesterday at the Davos World Economic Forum, which is where world leaders plan their screwing over of the little guy while eating like princes. (So I... |
| Dec 12, 2008 | McCain campaign sells old BlackBerry for $20 with loads of private information still present | Flickr’d
The three ring circus known as the McCain campaign continues to provide us with hilarity even though it ended, what, six weeks ago. A fire sale of sorts was held the other day at the former campaign headquarters and a local Fox TV ... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | 120GB Zune now in red and black (at no additional cost!) | Flickr’d
Microsoft now has the 120GB Zune available in red and blue. That’s in addition to the standard issue black it’s been available in for a little while now. It’s the same price, $249, so there’s no color tax or anything. (Remember whe... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Video: Joe the Plumber explains the upcoming digital TV transition (for some reason) | Hey, America, remember Joe the Plumber? He was the unlicensed handyman who John McCain foisted upon us as some sort of tax expert (even though he had back taxes). Well that didn’t exactly work out for him, so the man has a new gig that’s re... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Video: CNN's 3D hologram looks sorta weird (but that's OK) | As Señor Arrington alluded to, CNN rolled out its 3D hologram-thing during its election coverage last night.
Thirty-five HD cameras are filming the reporter, Jessica Yellin, which then send the images back to producers in New York. The tech... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | Many Obama supporters never received 3am VP wake-up text | "Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee," read the Obama campaign's early morning SMS message to his supporters. Trouble was, even by that time, many already knew it, and some weren't even getting the m... |
| Aug 21, 2008 | Annoy your friends by sending a fake Obama vice-president text message | Want to annoy your friends today? Go to any of those Web sites (or your provider’s own text messaging page) that allow you to send a text message, then send a message saying Barack Obama has chosen *someone* to be his vice-president.
The fu... |
| Jun 21, 2008 | House renews FISA, approves telecom immunity | Y’all have probably heard of FISA, the part of the U.S. Code that deals with electronic surveillance and the like. We care here because good ol’ AT&T more or less bent over backwards for the federal government, letting the NSA eavesdrop... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Amid Fears of an Internet Downturn, Gawker Sells Properties | Yesterday’s news that Gawker Media will be selling three of its sites caught many by surprise. Particularly shocking was the revelation that Wonkette was among them ? it was an early site in the network, and one famous enough to be featured... |
| Dec 7, 2007 | Can Someone Channel Ron Paul Supporter Energy For Good Instead Of Annoyance? | Are you familiar with the horror movie Candyman? In it, naive victims-to-be summon the titular character by repeating his name five times while staring into a mirror. Unpleasantness ensues. Strangely enough, the exact same phenomenon applie... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | Profile: Weblogs, Inc. | Company: Weblogs, Inc.
Founded: September 24, 2003
Location:
Weblogs, Inc.
2200 Colorado Avenue, Suite 729
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310-828-8284
Fax: 310-861-0600
or
Weblogs, Inc.
The Chrysler Building
132 East 43rd Street, Suite 1000
... |
| May 24, 2005 | Steve Jobs pontificates on the details of the Apple “blogger case” | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Nov 2, 2004 | Mid Afternoon Blog Check | I can’t take it any more. I am taking some time out of the work day to find out what’s going on.
Here is what I’ve found out.
1) Drudge is hard to log into. But he’s got a Kerry leaning headline up.
2) Talkingoints is impossible to log into... |
| Jan 30, 2004 | Soapbox Derby | Last night I was out with a bunch of good friends and after a couple glasses of wine the subject turned to which editorial page each of us read. My conservative friend swears by the Wall Street Journal. My wife swears by the NY Times. Other... |
| Jan 28, 2004 | Looks Do Matter | I wonder what the correlation between John Kerry’s rise in the polls and his mysterious fountain of youth formula (he denies its Botox). Click on that link to see the pictures. It’s incredible.
I don’t mean to suggest that there is anything... |
