NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

USMNT. US Mutant Ninja Turtles

Rest in meatloaf, Special Phil and Catfish Donny

voyager ferengi episode? sure why not

🚨TOMORROW City Council may block some Charter reforms that WERE possibly headed for your Nov. ballot: - Council expansion - Ranked choice voting - More LAPD oversight 📣Make your voice heard Fri 1pm at City Hall! ✍️Submit written comment: lacouncilcomment.com CF 26-0489

desi rite of passage to pack and eat yellow tamarind rice out of a ziploc bag on long car rides

Everyone talking about Hollywood but nobody asking if Hollyshould

the whole 'tio xavier' thing makes me so irate. becerra's gonna be worse than newsom

Persepolis is available to read for free on internet archive. archive.org/details/pers... archive.org/details/pers...

i haven’t worked for the campaign since April and firsthand experienced this vibe shift

We should pool our money and pay Chalamet to show up to every remaining Finals game dressed as a different character he’s played - Paul Atreides, Bob Dylan, the Lady Bird kid, and so on

empty malls don’t give me that liminal space feeling somehow but 711s that blast classical music in the parking lot to deter loiterers do

Revisiting Mike Davis this morning. Who killed LA? Bush 1 and 2, Clinton, white suburbanites. What killed LA? Austerity, the War on Drugs, more $ for cops, anti-urban/anti-Black sentiment, Prop 13, pandering to “moderate” suburbanites, privatization of social programs.

rest of the world: california is a progressive oasis leftists from silicon valley, north of the bay area, orange county, anywhere inland:

LA voters: if you are dropping off your ballot today take it to a designated ballot box. Don’t drop in the mail. Your vote won’t be postmarked until tomorrow and won’t count, unless you walk it into a post office and ask a worker to stamp it today.

the only radical center i respect is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Highlighting this from @reporterliz.bsky.social's very essential daily newsletter, Squawk Box, so that hopefully you bums see it before you see the fake poll

after i leave my car with the mechanic i feel like i’m just walking around naked

THE INVISIBLE MAN, after explaining himself: have i made myself clear

In the Goofy universe not only was there a Korean and Vietnam war but there was a Woody Goofthrie

paying for normal shipping that takes longer instead of overnight delivery or Amazon prime should count as doing a good deed

just shopped at a specialty cheese store for the first time and i feel like cannes film fest beret john travolta

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

tell me that Lakeith Stanfield with this hair and this book isn’t desi

for how much i bite the inside of my cheek i sure like salt and vinegar chips

Veggie Grill has gotten so good since they got bought out. a rare instance of reverse-enshittification

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

today is Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day. Remember the Tamil victims in the massacres of Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009 www.tamilguardian.com/content/tami...

Wake me up, before you Grogu

getting jump scared more and more as I approach forty by looking up a song I enjoyed from the radio and finding out it’s by steely dan

this is the embodiment of LA culture

what kind of freak goes to Taco Bell for chicken nuggets

despite the crumbling entertainment industry, everything that dropout tv and the onion are currently doing is proof that comedy not only will prevail, but it has improved so much since the last generation

season 1 of voyager down. it’s… serviceable, i have leaned to stay patient about the first two seasons of any trek series at this point. i like the holo doc

you haven’t lived unless you get woken up from a nap by a cat loudly sniffing your face and giving a wet sneeze

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Palestine barely makes the news anymore while Israel still continues to not just violate the ceasefire but lay waste in Lebanon as well. It’s horrible how the discourse has seemed to move on

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

This is absolutely one of the dumbest sentences I’ve ever read about politics

some rare good LA news: our city has finally banned pre-textual police stops, an objectively good police reform that will save so many Black and brown lives, and also the new D line extension opens tomorrow, bringing the subway to the westside

star fox zoom call

IMO Star Fox was always supposed to have a photorealistic puppet and stop-motion quality, it was clear since the SNES box art. It’s fine!

everyone who was able to watch naruto when it originally aired are narutypicals

they’re gonna start calling us left-NIMBYs anytime we’re against a new data center project

Sharing a cool thing from my day job: We made a model law for how to pass a local journalist employment credit in your state. If you want more local news, you need more local reporters. This makes it cheaper to actually do that. Pester your representatives! www.rebuildlocalnews.org/local-journa...

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This is why I maintain that "the global economy" has been in a recession since the abolition of chattel slavery and the rich have been clawing at anything that can replace it, ever since