There is a reason Watergate was broken by Woodward & Bernstein on the metro desk AND NOT by the White House press corps. Izzy Stone was mocking White House reporters as useless back in the 1950s

I think all the time about Jack Kerouac heckling Frank O’Hara that he was ruining American poetry & O’Hara responding without a beat, “That’s more than you ever did for it”

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

They think you're stupid.

yiiiikes

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

at least back in the USSR the government had the decency to stealthily plant listening devices in your walls. now i gotta purchase my own device?

Damn what a stupid post (sees that they follow me) lets hear them out

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Portal number 997.

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

Pack the court

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

I think I have found the conference room with the most threatening aura

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Apr 18th 1959 - When Marion Crane checks into the Bates Motel on December 12th, we see the last guest that signed the guest book was way back on 18th April. 📽️📅 Psycho (1960)

I’m not proud of it but if Forrest Gump started talking to me on a bench I’d have left

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Ragtime and Libra.

damn, dark as shit

The Sharp Tranket transistor radio (1960)

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

A nice night in Berlin - thanks for coming!

Found poem

It’s official, @colsonwhitehead.com has won this day in my humble estimation. (This is the dedication in Cool Machine, which will be published July 21.)

Pencil logo sketches by Jerry Dammers for 2Tone, 1979. On show from Saturday at the new V&A East museum.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

Safe and legal LSD trips were once a thing, thanks to Sid Krofft, a truly creative television artist. And these psychedelic experiences were good for kids, as the clip below clearly shows. Rest In Peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rA...

Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"

This is like a preview of what it's gonna be like When It Happens

*I was a child in the 1960s the last time there was this much focussed hostility toward computation per se

The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote. Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pouring one out for the homies (dropping an excedrin under the fridge)

Think about how many brains are being absolutely COOKED by sycophancy right now

Blacula (1972) directed by William Crain stars William Marshall with co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala. #FilmSky

If only there were some kind of democratic process we could use

This is so sick. Israel struck apartment buildings, medical facilities, even a crowd of mourners by a cemetery, per FT reporting

Darkness came on

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."