I am strangely fascinated by the Singaporean predilection to design their perfectly fine HDB apartments into something like a shanty town www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU9a...

#survivor49 is a microcosm of living in a white supremacist society as it shows that diversity and representation is meaningless when everyone, incl nonwhites are so ingrained with “white first” ideals they don’t even realize it.

remarkable that for the 4th week, it just so happened that the person voted out of #Survivor49 was a black person, despite the entire episode showing that the players in control thought the white woman was the bigger threat. incredible coincidence

with Nuzzi-gate I can't believe we've circled back around to "ethics in journalism" as the discourse, but from the other side

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

remarkable ad that gets literally every thing wrong, “walk the heart of the city” - this ad is for a hotel “walk” - model is cycling “heart of the city” - she’s in a forest

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die"

it goes back to the AI companies’ criteria for success — a confident AI giving wrong answers is better than a confident AI admitting they don’t have an answer. a false positive is still a positive, and in reporting performance that’s all they care about. the last thing they want is a true negative.

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

“The entire country would benefit from me sharing this information before the 2024 election. I’m sharing it on my Substack months later. I might get a book deal! I wrote for the New Yorker for years. I’m doing journalism right! Tell your friends to also subscribe. If you don’t, shame on you.”

“I’ve got some pretty devastating information about this public figure, and I will wait until well past the time that person amasses power to reveal it, mostly to make sure you’re all paying attention to me. I’m doing journalism right. Please subscribe. It’s your civic duty.”

I liked the part where the president suddenly sang, "Because I knew you...I have been changed for good."

#survivor49 seems like MC’s exit was pivotal for the rest of the game as Hina’s untested alliance turns to shambles that explains how the eventual already spoiled winner and finalists get to the end. dumbest season since #survivor s46

Juwan always voting out a black person thus far post merge is getting sus #survivor49

#PhysicalAsia aka, Oops! All Hero Edits!

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.

the headline should be “How the Swiss bribes Trump”

I used to call it comically evil but it really feels closer to straight up biblical evil at this point. The rot is so epic and so layered, and so deeply injected into every aspect of our culture and our economy and our politics. By a very few ultra-powerful people.

it is absolutely wild that people from the global south still have to provide bank statements, employment records, family documents just to go on a holiday in Europe and the Americas while white people have the caucasity to just go to Asia and sleep outside like a hobo

today is the 1 year anniversary of my leaving the site formerly known as twitter. can't say i don't miss it (the sg and ph discourse still largely stayed there), but i can say i don't regret it.

i always understood that the western capitalist model was about allowing corporations the freedom to sell to whomever they wanted

i did NOT have “Clinton Blowjob Scandal” in my 2025 bingo card

between 2017-2023 employers laid off or stagnated all the millennials who have been working for them for at least 10 years, to keep boomers and gen x who refused to retire. the effects now are bec of the missing middle of millennials who have since fucked off. www.fastcompany.com/91431738/nob...

what this suggests is that Elon is just the new Epstein

tv conspiracies: “and i would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!” real conspiracies: “the news tonight — a secret cabal of politicians have been trafficking girls for the last 2 decades. and next, the weather”

why does he look like he’s presenting the next phase of the MCU

One! More! Last! #PhysicalAsia #Philippines

stop subscribing to services that stream AI and you don’t need to detect them

it’s to do with a) honesty of the materials used (ie are they real or are they pretending to be something else) b) craftsmanship vs mass production and c) interface detailing (did they consider how the diff materials interact w each other)

This. All of this. It’s not just the individual incidents. It’s the weight of all of it. Chicago is being intentionally traumatized. Repeatedly. It’s hard to describe. Kyle did it. In last 2 months, trying to count how many days I *didn’t* hear helicopters overhead & I’m coming up w single digits.

Digg is back and I can’t wait for it to overtake Reddit

I Cannot Unsee the Photos of the Tortured Palestinian Hostages Returned by Israel @dianabuttu.bsky.social asks: Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal? zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...

Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

not just the nytimes… most so-called journalists these days are willing to publish anything as long as it’s caveated w/ “some claim…”

the why is bec BNPL is a mechanism to a) fool people to think things are not as unaffordable as they are & b) keep them in debt bondage. it is not a coincidence that these kinds of payment plans are introduced during times of high income inequality. it’s part of the enshittification of everything.

They’re not going to make noise about it, because they’ve been part of stoking the trans panic to distract from their predation on children.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Rosalind Franklin was only 37 when she died of ovarian cancer and she had ALREADY discovered the shape of DNA. She did not live to see her erasure by the Nobel committee in 1962. Anyway, fuck this guy and restore funding to the cancer moonshot, so the next Rosalind Franklin can live.

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

Bugonia (2025) — screenplay written so efficiently that their shorthand to show the protagonist was unhinged is to have him riding a bike. just goes to show how car centric the world is

The Onion can’t top this.

if you’re only a casual Tesla watcher you might not realize that Elon has mostly pivoted away from cars and is now constantly talking about populating the earth with humanoid robots

Sam Altman is a welfare queen

interesting fact about the election — Cuomo basically won every single voter who voted for Adams in the last election, and also won half of Sliwa’s 2021 voters, but Mamdani brought in more than a million new voters to vote for him

the lesson of mamdani’s election that everyone should learn is that you don’t have to compromise your values hoping that people that were never going to vote for you will do so. you just need to galvanize your people