The AI is a feckless European

working on a new prediction market where users bet on what this week’s lottery numbers will be

I wrote about a less infamous member of the Odd Lots Discord milespergallon.substack.com/p/poster-in-...

NEW: A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files. 404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.

well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

finally doing a little of my own perusing of the Epstein Files, and I'll be darned if Elon Musk's personal elite influence monger Juleana Glover wasn't keeping ol' Jeff E apprised of all the latest developments in Tesla's stock pump narrative

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Was this take by Ross Barkan the worst of 2025? Sad I missed the one year anniversary. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...

NYT visual investigations team continues to be top notch. I hadn’t clocked it the first time I saw Ross’ video, but I am more convinced now that he knew he was going to shoot her when he switched his phone in to his left hand, fairly early on

Decided to come see the fleet of new ICE vehicles for myself, and found a robust protest at the ICE field office in Burlington.

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

Lo and behold, the productivity boom ushered in by AI. No one can make up bullshit faster

“Like Prime, but with human beings.”

Part 8: Bamboo You'll want to read this one all the way to the end. telos.news/p/part-8-bamboo

oh my god

The Democratic candidate in 2028 will be some dipshit you haven't thought of yet, and they'll win the primary because of some stupid bullshit. They'll be fine. Make your peace with that now.

the January 6th pipe bomb guy was a brony who faved over 300 pictures of a nazi my little pony character on Derpibooru, the fandom's largest image site. @derpibooru.bsky.social

a month ago we found this eastern red bat in central park. he was cold-stunned but after warming up for a little bit in our car, we released him back into the park.

This is the future the Mattys want for us

More robots. China hosted world games.. for robots. Enjoy.

text of the CR deal www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

My parents have gotten a new dog (cute!). However, they can't agree on a name, and now my mom is calling it Winston and my dad has gone with Mueller.

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

You cannot crowdsource 8 billion dollars to make up for the loss of SNAP in November. Or you could, through your taxes, if the law were being followed. It is unlawful for the Trump Administration to leave the SNAP contingency fund untapped.

Substack is an industrial scale thief of time. Instead of two awful paragraphs any editor would've cut, we're treated to a guaranteed 30 seconds of drivel by basically anyone writing on the platform. And those 2 paragraphs are basically every The Argument preview before the paywall

My daughter found a dead butterfly on our walk and insisted on making it a shrine

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

This was in LaPorte, Indiana

I don't know why I read this (because I'm a sicko), but if you look up question begging in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy you'll see a picture of freddie that I pasted in there. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

1. lets start with the PM doesn't clearly name either domestic or global fascism, doesn't link the two, or draw a values contrast, anti-trans rights, - holding him to the standard of an average US dem its hard to award many points

I have a spreadsheet of all the takes and correspondence I said I'd send people but never did. In 30 years @daviec.bsky.social will get a 5 page essay on why The Florida Project is such an amazing film.

Okay I don't have time to dig into this but what on earth *APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GOD-CHILDERSBURG RAISES $500M ; OFFERING $500M : FORM D www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

We're 5 years away from recreating debt slavery

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

A conversation with a friend reminded me of this old article by Paul Krugman. It aged poorly for a while, but now is trending back towards prescient. www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/m...

Because it's delicious?

honestly 2020-era Sohrab and John Milbank should be treated as postliberal dril tweets

Ezra Klein has become Fox News. You will have a better understanding of the state of reality by actively avoiding him rather than listening to his show

My daughter is really into Pokemon GO. I was helping her pick Pokemon to fight Team Rocket. She wanted to use a 600 CP Rialu and I told her not to use that Ria-Loser. She burst into tears and shut herself in her room and won't come out

Wife and kid are asleep. Time to spend Thursday night reading about the technical definition of what exactly makes a regime. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....