when you totally know what drugs are and how much they cost

I am sure all it will take is a new book on the subject to change hearts and minds. just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/you...

i am genuinely curious how “abolish the surveillance state” would poll today

Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.

i bought a pair of these because they were the best solution for a very specific need (an unobtrusive and reasonably nice-looking way to listen to music/podcasts/etc while riding my bike) and everything they add to it makes it a worse product i like less

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

i don't know this industry, are other doorbell camera companies capitalizing on the ring backlash or are they all mass surveillance machines so there's no point

i've mostly spent time looking at epstein's relationship with my guy kenneth starr, and the thing that's been so striking is that they just really seemed to dig each other. maybe there was an implicit awareness that he knew bad stuff, but starr at least just really seemed to enjoy his friend jeffrey

this guy eric who graduated the year behind me replaced osama bin laden on the fbi most wanted list

basically the far-right would win the culture war if its ideas were broadly popular, and this guy finds it very frustrating that he can’t figure out how to make a version of ideas like “the nazis had a few things going for them” that people outside his bubble would proudly espouse

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wrote a little bit about "choosin' texas," which i think is a more interesting song than i expected it was when i first heard it www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

guys i just got back from a multiversal portal to earth-167 where the 22nd amendment was repealed in 2023 to allow martin o'malley to run for a third term and you won't believe how good the air smelled there

how is it possible that three of the best songs anybody ever wrote are all named “wrecking ball”

also these robots aren't named "sandra" or "valerie" and referring to them as that is manipulative! they should AT BEST get star wars names of random letters and numbers

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this is the most patriotic i’ve felt in months

depends how you identify the modern conservative premise but “we need our violent, lawless dickheads to stop all the worse ones on the other side” is both fairly explicitly trumpist, and has never really gone out of style in pop culture. was especially pronounced in stuff like the walking dead

i hate to break it to this guy but i’m also building a self-growing city on the moon and mine is gonna be way better than his

found myself asking “what time is the super bowl” which reminded me that i wrote about that question and the existential crisis it evokes in me several years ago and i still think i did a good job with it www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

i’m not visually disabled but my wife is and if you need help figuring out what to write for alt text, just imagine you’re telling her what’s in the picture so she can understand the post. “handshake meme, one side says ‘salt’ other says ‘evelyn normielib,’ they meet at ‘fuck ice’.” or whatever

chat if it takes two Serious Legal Scholars to refute a statement from a pop star are you winning or losing

the epstein files reveal that at the highest levels of society, men with power over women often use that power to do the same things that men with power over women do at every other level. epstein was incredibly well-resourced and his friends and enablers famous and powerful. but it's the same stuff

huge miss from james talarico's super bowl ad to not have the final cut be to some guy on a private jet flying out to a private island watching it and shaking his fist at the screen www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_1...

old enough to remember when “democracy dies in darkness” was a warning rather than a mission statement

after everything else this week, it’s really hard not to imagine what bezos’s friends in his inbox are telling him about how awesome what he did to the post is

just searching random names of people i admire in epstein’s email and hoping for the best

it is absolutely essential that burn it all down come back In These Times of all times

random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;) JE: we must invent trans phobia,,

there were some pretty bad years for jews in europe around then

ah yes, Regal's new 5DX Gas Leak theater, now available in select markets (for your mom)

seems bad that a small group of people can have so much power and influence that they can basically change the way the whole world works through their emails and group chats even if they're *not* all connected through the world's most famous pedophile

texas had a fairly robust network of non-profits, mostly faith-based, that were set up to help people in these situations. over the past two years, ken paxton, the attorney general now running for senate, has been working to dismantle those orgs and tying them up in court txilc.org/what-nonprof...

booking bad bunny for the super bowl is probably the most genuinely interesting thing jay z has done since the black album

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definitely follow rob if you are trying to understand the texas special election results from tonight

couple more angles on this

man it would have been cool if somebody had shown this guy some movies a few years earlier

man the guy with all of these accusations in the epstein files is the same guy ordering masked agents to minneapolis where they are shooting people execution-style in the street, demanding ten billion dollars from the treasury, blowing up longstanding alliances. wild that our system has no remedy

why on earth would you need a mask to arrest one journalist at her home

what are they trying to distract everybody from if arresting journalists, rounding up anyone the worst person from your high school graduating class thinks might be an immigrant, executing people in the street, abducting foreign leaders, and blowing up globe-stabilizing alliances are distractions

this really is absolutely unimaginable under any other presidency. other stuff has been awful but this combination of brazen and cartoonishly self-enriching would simply not have been possible before now. everyone would have been upset about it

i agree with this but also actually enjoyed that about the movie- dylan is an unusual figure whose head we never get inside in the movie, and i found it really effective to look at him and see “famous young movie star” as a way to contextualize how dylan was perceived by everyone else in the film

dumb question but can people who know how the senate actually works tell me if it would be a better-run body if senators could vote on zoom from home? like to what extent is getting to leave DC a genuine motivating factor in policymaking

crazy that the director of talladega nights is the first person to ever think of this

as a person who owns a home, my experience is that this mostly just raises your monthly payments when your property taxes go up unless you decide to sell your house and go live in a van

i see we still have not figured out the uncanny valley

remember when people used to say something and then shout “NOT!” afterwards? that was a good move, why don’t we do that anymore

they really are not making it easy for the politicians who feel like they must reflexively support them to do that in a way that is at all credible to anyone to the left of mike cernovitch