A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

False memories: Why our mind reconstructs the past

For anyone who might be curious about how much actors can rake in via residual checks… May this pink page paint you green with envy:).

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 12,1944

Reminder: I'll be at Forbidden Planet NYC this Saturday May 9th from 5 - 7 pm. Signing copies of Nerd Inferno and anything else I've worked on, bought there or brought there.

when researching scenarios for a fictional World War Three in his 2006 movie Southland Tales, Richard Kelly landed on a big one:

"It was always thrilling to be with him..." Anne Baxter talks with Studs Terkel about her grandfather (!) Frank Lloyd Wright studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/ann...

New from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Jack In The Box

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An interesting thread which has almost as many duplicate/restated facts as your average IMDB Trivia page. bsky.app/profile/fran...

looked at a couple and this is one is just to close to our reality

this is nutso

The struggle was real...

That’s one hell of a cover…..

There’s a lot in there, but this is the chart that really made me pay attention:

Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. www.404media.co/paul-mccartn...

Delta Forces its way through the gates. My latest: theonion.com/norris-god/

The Jetsons lied to us

Pulitzer-worthy

Leopold Maurer, Austria 🇦🇹 cartoonmovement.com

Jason Daniel.

Cartoon by Tom Toro tomtoro.com

Sorry buddy, but this is only the end of the first chapter.

At No Point While Rewatching Every ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Does It Occur To Man He Might Be Depressed https://theonion.com/at-no-point-while-rewatching-every-planet-of-the-apes-does-it-occur-to-man-he-might-be-depressed/

Woohoo it is happening. WebSerial coming to @webdevs.firefox.com ?!? 🎉🎉 bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

CCTV video captured the moment a huge sinkhole swallowed part of a busy road in Shanghai, China on Wednesday. Authorities said the cause was a leak at a subway construction site.

We’re sorry to report the passing of American artist Robert Tinney, famous for his playful covers for BYTE Magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-1970s through the 1990s. https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-byte-magazine-illustrator-robert-tinney/

I'm makin' a withdrawal. Gimme all my Bitcoins, ässhole.

Noted bleeding heart pinko leftist organization… Cato.

Way back in the olden days of 2006 we could still light & color a movie scene. Now thanks to Netfux it's all a wash.

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. 1951