These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

my defense secretary is going on tv every day to do sephiroth voice on the verge of tears

they want one SO bad

owen is a champ, i'm super proud that he was once a Defector intern defector.com/how-i-became...

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

Especially amazing given that Trump completely “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities just eight months ago.

amazing blog torontolife.com/deep-dives/m...

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

I’m currently reviewing whether the last brownie was improperly eaten in a father-related scarfing, as has been alleged.

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

receiving a letter from my lady love after eight months at sea reading “I have oft thought fondly of thy todger” and getting so horny I bore a hole through the keel

This doesn’t sound like the Wesley R. Dingus I know

i hated the shit out of this adaptation defector.com/emerald-fenn...

not counting Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, I think mine is the one Star Wars movie, where Palpatine returns

That’s Dan❤️‍🩹🦅

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

"deprofessionalizing" fields that are majority-women...not by accident!

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

good blog

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

The entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

My favourite thing about worker-owned media is that there's rarely any of the obfuscating headlines and both-sidesing that legacy media feels compelled to engage in.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

Yesterday, Todd Blanche said that people weren't going to find in the Epstein files what we always suspected. And while I'm mostly watching what others find in the Epstein files second hand, I keep thinking, are you fucking HIGH? Everything I'm seeing is precisely what we expected.

Some thoughts on one of the best friends I ever had.

pure class

Go Sixers.

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

Celebrate a voice who was entirely lovely and entirely Philly by heeding this infographic of his he sent along when he found out we had the same bee in our bonnets

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Who else remembers that in 1995 the entire apparatus of American conservatism, including almost every prominent elected Republican, came to G Gordon Liddy’s defense when he used his radio show to describe how to, and encourage, his audience to kill federal law enforcement. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

this rules defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

Vikings play-by-play doofus forgets that anti-ICE protesters are "domestic terrorists" now: defector.com/oops-vikings...