I don't think enough has been said about how Noam Chomsky put in shifts at the consent manufacturing factory for Epstein. Real "Segway founder dies in Segway accident" vibes with that guy.

I grew up in San Diego, and even back in the 1980s the Border Patrol were so much worse than any other cops. Think of the people you knew in high school that under no circumstances should have had any authority over anyone, or ever had a gun. Those guys.

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

Yes, this is a big step towards undoing some of the absolutely evil fascist atrocities perpetrated by a rogue senile despot's advisers, but unraveling it too far upsets the imaginary family Chuck Schumer consults on every single policy, so we should probably back off.

Putting this on repeat.

Thomas Pynchon: "the System, which sooner or later must crash to its death, when its addiction to energy has become more than the rest of the World can supply, dragging with it innocent souls... Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide…"

I can feel my cognitive abilities grow 100x by using these technologies.

Watching Ronin, a great movie whose plot hinges on more than one scene where a character pulls a gun on someone in the driver’s seat of a running car but does not force them to turn off the car and remove the car keys.

Exactly what kind of training and budget tweaks get rid of this?

The Dilbert Project. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

Dilberitos (1999-2003): A line of licensed vegan microwave burritos tied-in with the comic strip "Dilbert". Available in Mexican, Indian, Barbecue, and Garlic & Herb. Noted for it's poor taste and food engineering that packed all 23 essential vitamins and minerals into each one

Still not over David Lynch.

"What are we going to do with all the Gestapo staff if we dissolve the Gestapo?" I dunno, we can figure that out when we get there. Maybe pick up trash by the side of a highway? We can workshop this later, but the important thing is to dissolve the Gestapo.

[the machine is running 24/7 and outputting the stupidest and/or most morally repugnant stuff you've ever seen in your life] Tech CEO: this is a cognitive multiplier, we're supreme beings now.

LeCarre heads rise up and toast in the new year.

You cannot make me look back on 2025. I will never look back on my year on an app.

I will always repost Flimsy Steve content. Love that guy.

Stonington Lobster Trap Tree!

It's the Unlicensed Allergy Treatment Gala!

New Valley Heat! Yes!

The entire AI industry is behaving as if it were proven that making a sufficiently complex set of low-level processes is the same as developing consciousness and intelligence. But it's not! I'm not a philosophy of mind guy, but this view of consciousness (functionalism) is not the only theory.

What are their demands?

You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.

I renew my request that you all stop showing me the worst people in the world morning, noon, and night.

The psychic cost of knowing not only who these people are but what disgusting stuff bubbles up out of their lizard brains is almost unbearable. I do not want to hear about any of this! I don't want to know their names or what they did. It's gross and awful.

[looks up from email database laying bare the absolute moral rot at the center of the media and political establishment to deflect and protect an actual convicted pedophile] "We should welcome MTG to the big tent."

This is, in complete sincerity, one of the best developments in American culture since my adolescence. The kinds of things grown-ass men would routinely say to me as a teenager about my female classmates could not fly in practically any context today.

I opened this up, and a sticky black goo poured out and pooled 6 inches above the floor before a bare birch tree, fire reversed out of my mouth, and the sound of 50,000 penny nails being dropped into a steel drum started and suddenly stopped.

The milkshake ducking will continue until something, anything improves.

This interview is great, and Tighe is perfect in OBAA. In only a couple of lines, he sucks the air out of the room.

when somebody can’t tell the difference between Stereolab and Broadcast

Ok, One Battle After Another ruled. There's like 7 minutes of downtime and the rest is a variable speed heart attack.

Folks,,,

Agreed. And for my San Diego friends, the 78 in Borrego plays an integral part in the film.

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

Wait, Kaleb Horton died? What the fuck.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Way ahead of you here.

Roster Recollections from @defector.com.

It could happen tonight! Manifesting.

NO ONE CARES

Barfing and crying and pissing myself when this guy crashes through the trees in the Catskills.

The world we built absolutely sucks ass.

RIP to a decent guy who was also incredibly funny. We’ll all go together when we go.

FJF. Just nothing but loser energy that guy sprays like a cornered skunk.

Fictional depictions of near-future dystopia pin the cause on a megadrought, an asteroid, nuclear war. Something real happened, then society collapsed. But there's nothing real here, just a collective fugue-state from FB posts and mainlining cable news. Society collapsed because of urban legends.

Evergreen.

These dogs are spectacular idiots, and I love them.