The worst people in the literal world are selling at the peak of the bubble, and the clowns who thought this was the future will have blown near a trillion dollars on it and will make that back by laying off a couple hundred thousand employees. Both the worst people and the clowns will be fine.

How does SamAltman sleep at night? OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

SST describing landlords as an *industry*. Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value. They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.

Maybe there is merit in this whole solar power thing 🤔 63.7kW system on the cowshed roof, $80k installed. No batteries Export rate 12c/kWh

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

Kind of wonderful to now have mainstream voices saying the things we spent so long being ridiculed for claiming: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Aristocratic England replacing foxes with voluntary humans... anyone else a bit uneasy about where this ends? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

Stand down: because this is just filler from the Washington Post, not actual reporting, we do not have to start a list of NZ therapists you should never, ever visit.

Given how much political discourse over the past few days has been dominated by parsing emails in order to better speculate about the depraved sexual inclinations of financial and political elites, I have to admit that Pizzagaters won culturally, even if they were wrong in the specifics.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case. openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...

Elemental coffee in Newlands gave me a brownie sample while I wait for my coffee. It was this good.

ICE vs the clergy

Wellington's failure to build an obviously needed upgrade to its dilapidated main streets is a damning and demonstrative example of a capital city self-immolating through incompetence and political cowardice.

There is not a circle of hell deep enough for these men, their masters.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

What kind of an ANIMAL teases like this?!? ROGUE TROOPER getting closer, kids!

3. So, the Trump regime is designating the “Antifa” counter-protesters who showed up in Budapest but not the Neo-Nazi group - Blood & Honour - that actually orchestrated the event and whose members also engaged in violence. Blood & Honour has been banned by other countries, including Canada.

BREAKING 🚨: COP30 is flooded with 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists. One in every 25 people inside the climate talks is working for the industry that caused this crisis. They outnumber almost every country, including those losing lives to storms, drought and heat.

This isn't politics anymore. This is morality, and the dismantling of the Patriarchy....these nasty, disgusting men, AND the tratiorist women who support and defend them must be exposed and removed from public discourse for the safety of all of the women and children of the world.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.* *Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy

There’s definitely a socialism of fools going on—men are being offered domination over women so that they won’t notice how brutally and sadistically they themselves are being dominated by the rich.

Have thought many times over the past few days that the smart reply to Oates is, 'I keep my private life private'.

Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Dunno man, this sounds like a bunch of comfortables experiencing what it's like to be a pig person for the first time. Being on the left this has been my experience of the poltical media ecosystem my entire life. Centrists & libs have been hosing me in pure unrefined shit for as long as I can recall

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

This is brilliant

What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels? This ad keeps making me chuckle. Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.

BBC leaders resigned for misrepresenting Trump, but not for misrepresenting Corbyn www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/bbc-leader...

[Medieval monastery] Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible? Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy. Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit? Me: lol yeah

"He said the net interest margin - the difference between what banks pay for deposits and charge for lending - was 2.6 percent for ANZ in New Zealand compared to 1.83 percent in Australia." Do you want regulation? Because this is how you get regulation.

I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

This is exactly how he will be remembered

“Australia turned it down. Just think about that for a moment. If a country of that size with such an impressive dining scene feels they will not benefit from the guide, then it is an act of utter arrogance to think it will do anything for us. “

My two cents.

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...