Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942

I don't really believe the conspiracy theories about Kubrick being murdered but I do absolutely believe in the theory that the Victor Zeigler character was based on/inspired specifically by Jeffrey Epstein.

Today we learned that child molester Jeffrey Epstein really did kill himself, and in a suicide note told another child molester that Donald Trump is also a child molester.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Looks like the whole US aviation industry will be going somewhat bankrupt soon. And Airbus will need a bailout. Wild. www.wsj.com/business/air...

Already posted this but here’s an interesting map in light of recent discourse.

Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

JB Smooth voice “ JD working on that motherfucking widow pussy”.

Love the little veins of quartz that are folded into these layers of schist(?)

Adding a glass viewport on my big truck that pumps out portable toilets.

Middle school teacher telling me about a girl in the cafeteria who never has money for lunch. They give her the form for free lunch in Spanish and even offer to get a translator to talk to her parents. Girl admits that her parents won’t put any information on a government form, because of ICE.

WaPo reports they're raiding housing funds for the $1,776 bonus. cc @mikeblack114.bsky.social

If you’re shocked the president’s family would acquire a conglomerate spanning regime-adjacent media and a speculative energy project that needs a lot of state intervention to become viable (if it ever does), you don’t follow EM enough

Illustration of the crazy geology of the Alps. Footprints on beach at sea level become a vertical wall in a mountain range.

“A phrase I have heard a lot from people in business since 2022 is “this stupid war”, as though it is all a sort of accident or misunderstanding, and not the choice of an implacable state.”

People say AI isn’t useful.

so a thing just occurred to me. a downside of declaring a blockade against venezuela is it makes it easier for other large powers in different parts of the world, say asia, to blockade, say for instance democratic islands, and cloak it as lawful

Can’t believe I’m just learning of Andy Grove’s insane biography.

I was right. It was a meth lab. Its on the dea's clandestine lab registry. Incident august 4th, 2004. Has probably been abandoned for the last 20 years. www.dea.gov/clan-lab

ICE cut off her wedding ring. Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe. She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.

I would like to poll a question like: “your local government has two options for closing a budget deficit, 1. Eliminating pre-k, 2. Installing speed cameras. Which do you prefer?”

not any sort of guarantee of course but the whole fight is over who gets to monetize Charlie Kirk's corpse, his wife or sundry lunatic podcasters

U.S.-born and immigrant Latinos are just as likely to say they’ve seen or heard of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests or raids in their local area in the last six months. 58% of U.S.-born Latinos and 60% of Latino immigrants a have experienced this.

@peark.es random sin stock observation for you. Looks like the market is valuing BTI higher than DEO for the first time in many years.

Gmorn 🙂

Incredible to learn about this real picture of J.P Morgan (the younger) from Sorkin’s 1929.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

forever haunted by this exchange

I love turning the page and finding an old friend

Compared with older adults, young adults are especially likely to get news from Instagram and TikTok. The difference is stark even between those ages 18 to 29 and the next oldest age group, ages 30 to 49.

Ireland what the fuck are you doing here.

Oh damn you weren’t kidding about that Soviet stimulant drug for Cosmonauts that Karp is on

Becoming less of an AI skeptic after using Gemini for research. Please start shorting the Nasdaq 100.

They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:

Erika Kirk turned her husband’s murder into the business opportunity of a lifetime. She has a lot to teach us about deals.

This has gotta be the first ex JW billionaire? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

One could agree with Peter Thiel that Greta Thurnbergism is an evil, because it’s lowered economic growth in Europe to the level where Thiel’s acolytes can take power.

Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."

Eric Carle should’ve punched his mother in the face.

Trump frees convicted private equity securities fraudster - NYT

It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories: • Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption). • Sex criminals. • War criminals.

It’s so fucking stupid even if you’re maximally cynical. Oh the guy who bought all the Burger Kings in Russia for $1 in 2022 will just give them back.

Don’t show this to RFK

JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.

I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.

We need a Sheridan movie.