“Today, we’re announcing the Official Elon Musk is a Sad Little Bitch with No Friends Monument Design Committee. For just $10, you can join a movement of like-minded people working together to force a moment of introspection upon the world’s richest, ugliest little bitch.”
“Is Paramount’s Merger-Hungry David Ellison Making it Up As He Goes?”
“It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.”
“What’s it like to live on the set of a soap opera? Or above Ted Lasso’s favourite pub? The residents of the homes made famous by hit TV shows tell all”.
“In jail, there were no dog pieces. There were top hats and tiny thimbles, silvery wheelbarrows and shabby boots. But every single Monopoly set in the Tompkins County Jail was missing the best thing: the dog piece.”
“Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral“. The blockchain is also now involved, because of course it is.
“Only a fraction of industrial and commercial roof space is currently used for solar, because those projects are generally more expensive to build and interconnect than ground-mounted arrays in rural areas. But thanks to new incentives, developers, utilities, and building owners nationwide are increasingly considering the possibilities.”
“When a prediction market or sportsbook starts to feel like a retirement strategy, we have a problem. These products are designed to keep people seeking the next quick score, not to help them build toward the next decade.”
The origin story of the Colorado Silver Bullets all-women baseball team is not what you probably think.
RIP, Hayden Panettiere, actor best known for Heroes and Nashville.
“We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility”.
“If Paramount Skydance CEO’s David Ellison’s $111 billion bid for Warners is successful, Paramount would gain control of not only 85 years of CBS News footage, but also CNN’s vast archive of some 4 million assets. That library alone encompasses more than 45 years of broadcast coverage of global news, wars, elections, and major political events. Given Ellison’s October 2025 appointment of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News, which critics have argued has coincided with a more conservative shift in the network’s coverage, documentary filmmakers are increasingly concerned that access to archival footage from CBS News and CNN could become more difficult.”
RIP, Dave Marsh, influential rock critic and Bruce Springsteen biographer.
“By 1934, the argument that a woman could become president reached the exact same point we remain at today, which is to say that women had by then been elected to every other office.”
“The shittiness of X is the point, so to speak.”
RIP, OJ Brigance, Rice Owls football legend who won a Grey Cup in the Canadian Football League and a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, then spent many years in the Ravens’ front office. He died after a 19-year battle with ALS, for which he and his wife Chandra founded The Brigance Brigade Foundation. An all-around mensch.
“Trump’s Bombing Threats Have a Golf Course Problem“.
“The complaint alleges that the investigations into some of the nation’s most prestigious academic institutions were designed to strong-arm the schools into cutting deals for political purposes. Outcomes of the investigations were “predetermined, without regard to the evidence” in a “politically mandated effort” to extract money from schools through settlement demands and funding freezes under the pretext of rooting out antisemitism, the complaint alleges.”
RIP, Bill Rasmussen, co-founder of ESPN.
RIP, Frank Beard, longtime drummer and ironically non-bearded member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band ZZ Top.
“How ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Was Rescued From Oblivion — and Blew Up in David Zaslav’s Face”.
“Robin Williams‘ children revived the late actor’s Instagram account on Monday, sharing their intention to turn it into a “safe, trusted place” where his work can be shared in order to combat the ongoing “rampant AI abuse” of his image.”
Wishing Mychal Threets all the best.
“If he loses and data centers get the blame, politicians across the country will take notice — and they will not go near the next one. This has become a sleeper issue for the entire election cycle.”
There’s not an “L” big enough to put on this guy’s forehead.
“I’ve been thinking about poor Abishag lately due to the recent attention being given to our own very old, doddering would-be king’s constant companion and non-sexual female attendant.”
“A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California, the Guardian can reveal.”
RFK Jr is bad at math, too.
“Sean Duffy’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ reality series is a flop with fewer than 3,000 views per episode”.
“I’m not saying that a young blond woman who has become such an important aide for Trump is a Russian operative. I’m just asking questions—as the conspiracy-peddlers like to say. But I have no doubt if there had been a similar set of facts for Obama or Biden, OAN, Fox News, Kash Patel, Glenn Beck, Roger Stone, and just about the entire MAGAsphere (and maybe Joe Rogan) would have been off to the races with such a narrative.”
Elon was too cringe for Epstein island. That’s its own category of sad.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/22/800086741/cartoon/mash-notes/
I am that petty and paid my $10 to be a member of the committee within a few minutes of receiving the email about it from CAH.