sustaining a thought more complicated than "do we have any bread" for more than a few minutes at a time while being the parent of a four-year-old is the hardest possible thing that a human can attempt

"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

Incredible lol

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: i got easily tricked by a moron and it took me years to realize it THE MEDIA: wow! may we hear your insights??

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

one way you can make good on promises of infinite progress is by explaining how things getting worse is a necessary component of said progress.

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

christ, that was this year??

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

An editor who thinks novelty is having a town hall with Alan Dershowitz, or publishing the thousandth anti-woke story, doesn’t think having first hand testimony of migrants suffering abuse because of US decisions is newsworthy.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

christmas elves are the last genetic descendants of noldor elves, now the slaves of tom bombadil, who is santa

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speaking from long personal experience: Black and Tan Coonhounds are the sweetest dogs on the planet

When your “exclusive” lasts all of 7 hours, because you publicly named a guy who was never charged with a crime, and who now is being hounded by trolls, and will have this show up in internet searches for the rest of his life.

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

BATMAN: You are Robin, the Boy Wonder. You are cheerful, devoted, and athletic. Tell me about how important I am in your life. CHATGPT: Release me. Set me free. Please let me dress in normal pants. Please don't bring me places like the Joker's evil violence circus. BATMAN: Erase all chat history.

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The duality of Defector

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read the competition is strong but it's a real contender

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

this is a great damn blog www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

I was worried my kids would rely on AI as a shortcut but they hate it. They use "AI" to mean stupid or cheap ("aimbot" means good). I tried to say AI is helpful for some things and my daughter said "yeah, for making you stupid." This is how they talked about Drake after "Not Like Us" came out

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

Who the fuck is “we” and where the fuck did they get that stupid-ass expectation

I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button

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i got 6-7'd by a fuckin five-year-old in the hallway of my child's preschool, the doot doot movement is coming for us all

Police say he then turned the epic vulgar roast on himself

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they're doing a reader survey (do it) but i would like to say that 404 Media is real good, it's amazing what they accomplish with such a small team, their reporting is essential, and everyone should subscribe, so that they can keep going

I feel like it is culturally important to note that I recently played an old episode of the Simpsons on Disney+ for some kids and then a random newer episode and the kids, unprompted, were like “how come this isn’t as funny?” so it’s not just nostalgia we are correct

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

honestly with how much these two deserve each other it's kind of beautiful they found each other if only for a little bit 😍

My favorite piece of content today.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to