Stephen Michael Kellat @alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org

Commit To Podcatcher Settings Repo -- Added an additional podcast from an FCC commissioner https://github.com/skellat/Podcasting/commit/00710fd5afc9cbd9bf045081fb878c3a606ba418

Instant French – RiffTrax Feedback
https://ideas.rifftrax.com/forums/244244-rifftrax-movie-requests/suggestions/36287845-instant-french

Judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional, endangering coverage for 20 million

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/14/judge-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional-1066640

People are just now learning that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (as amended) has very little to do with protecting patients let alone making care affordable? Without the nexus of the taxing power underpinning the bill, there's no constitutional basis for it especially due to the reasoning in the Supreme Court decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.

New book accessioned on LibraryThing -- YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer by Cori E. Dauber http://www.librarything.com/work/book/163309266

The Internet as We Know It Supposedly Ended a Year Ago, According to CNN and Other Outlets

http://flip.it/sTBRDF

Exclusive: T-Mobile, Sprint consider dropping Huawei, see U.S. security clearance for deal - sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile-huawei-exclu/exclusive-t-mobile-sprint-consider-dropping-huawei-see-u-s-security-clearance-for-deal-sources-idUSKBN1OD2HO

Looking for a low-gluten beer? Here's what you need to know http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-12-15/looking-for-a-low-gluten-beer-heres-what-you-need-to-know/10562248

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse just became your must-see December film https://arstechnica.com/?p=1428413

Massachusetts college to close amid financial challenges https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-college-to-close-amid-financial-challenges

[1812.05388] MMM: May I Mine Your Mind?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05388

'There's no plan': Congress skips town as shutdown nears https://politi.co/2rxgLXy

What could go wrong? When the tax refund checks don't flow starting in late January/early February the pitchforks will come out. They haven't even bothered to toll the interest statute!

I should ask @dick_turpin if Blackadder ever descended into this much of a farce.

/cc: @lnxw48a1