leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0... fantastic article

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

I also did this

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

They got the secret lair line on the Epstein files I hope the foil bundle doesn’t sell out

Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...

nice list to make it easy:

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

i get what you all are saying, but if two people just passed the same $20 bill back and forth while doing tasks for each other that really would be "the economy," more or less nvidia + openai is more like… www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxx...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

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“A lot of the investment in AI is about tech companies convincing themselves and each other that they can get rid of these spoiled employees that they’ve hated for years and replace them with a robot.”

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

goddamn man i don’t even live in NY and i’m levitating right now, place the gerontocrats before me so that i may karate-chop their heads off

As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.

The President is slashing government services, sending troops into US cities to abduct people, illegally bombing Iran, and the Democratic Party is mobilizing its full might to … stop New York City from electing a mildly left-leaning mayor.

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It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On ‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Tutorial theonion.com/musk-we...

Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

The Medicaid bullshit is driving me up a wall. We’re going to kick a million people off of healthcare who are not overwhelming the system, they aren’t at fault for any reason the economy is fucked, Medicaid isn’t “going broke” or in need of fixing, no problem is being solved, just deathcult bullshit

Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

relevant

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

From @chasecarter.bsky.social, a piece that maintains relevance. An essay on why “No Politics” is always a red flag, even when defending your tabletop business.

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Good call.

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

I thought this was really good: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

i keep reading statements from democrats saying they find mahmoud khaleil's views to be abhorrent and despicable before going on to say that he should nonetheless be given due process. but no one has been able to demonstrate what khaleil's views are beyond the admin's assertions. except for cnn:

I do know one thing… 🙏🔥🍾

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