something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Share a great male villain

tell me if you've heard this one before: a billionaire gets upset for being criticized for saying stupid things on social media, then confidentially concludes the problem is most certainly everybody else

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

I asked my cab drivers in Newark, Aspen, Tel Aviv, Baghdad, and Dar es Salaam what they thought of the Susie Wiles revelations in Vanity Fair. None of them had heard of Susie Wiles or Vanity Fair. The world is flat! by Thomas L. Friedman

Speaking of Rod Serling.... he was dropping bars here... about Black soldiers who were fighting for this country only to come back home and get treated as if they weren't even citizens.... this is an example of a true ally. He used his voice & his art to speak up & speak out.

the greatest lie the devil ever told is package shipped (label created)

welcome to Birdsky, where "maybe it will happen today" might also mean "Patullo finally gets canned"

razor made me watch this video. she swore up and down despite it seeming like slop that it's actually peak AND GOD DAMN IT SHE'S NOT EXAGGERATING. IF THIS WERE ON LETTERBOXD I'D GIVE IT A 5. ZERO HYPERBOLE i cannot fucking BELIEVE how good this is. what the fuck. emergent storytelling is beautiful

This car buying interaction will never not be hilarious to me: Salesperson: This car is fantastic, it's the best thing we've ever built. Finance person pushing the extra warranty: You're buying this POS? You rube. You fuckin' dolt. Is your other car the Hindenburg? I can literally see it breaking

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Do I have a podcast for you!

90% of bluesky posts, to me

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

Reality is too on the nose

New typeface just dropped (via u/howrunowgoodnyou on Reddit)

The bluesky propaganda was right. Deep space nine is the best star trek I've seen.

this song goes out to anyone who ever got a handjob in a threadless t-shirt,

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Green building McClusky, ND

That time of year again!

Bullshit. They're not going anywhere. They're like cops, threatening to storm off whenever things don't go their way. Where you going, bitch? Iowa? I don't think so, you live in CA for a reason.

Colleen Wallace Nungari - Dreamtime Sisters

SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?? FUCKING PUMAMAN??

The cybertruck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

It’s astounding to me how quickly these nitwits pivoted on a tile from “AGI will outperform all human intellect within a few years” …to… “…but if you think about it, software doesn’t actually have to work, does it?”

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

I enjoy whenever an entire household is beholden to the whims of one cat This animal just standing in the living room, screaming, while the human adults explain "Sorry, Gibby likes it when we smack his ass with a cardboard tube for 10mins at 6pm every day, hold on". That is good to me.

No one could have predicted this except everyone

Philly remains undefeated.

Me at every dnd game

The immediate threat has always been not that it would take jobs, but that some dipshit exec would spend a billion dollars integrating it into the business, drive everything off the cliff, and 5-8 years later the rest of us are left picking up the pieces.

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

Metroid Prime 4 is a thought provoking but cautionary tale about building any society around "science and a thirst for knowledge", instead of "women with arm cannons".

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

I was done with these posts until I saw this one

Larry David teaches us how to slam a door when someone mentions Bari Weiss.

If you have from coal country, Pennsylvania, you know this is boilo season.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...