As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences. And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

What it feels like to be in tech and NOT use AI.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

We should have never legitimized gambling or outsourced our thinking.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

These people are beyond evil and the only reason that it doesn’t always seem that way is that they’re also beyond stupid.

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

NBC on Wednesday quoted an unnamed former White House official saying Oregon was next in line for a large-scale immigration operation.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Graphic video warning. Even more obvious that this is straight up murder.

I guess every day is TACO Tuesday

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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Timeline cleanser

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

This guy here is dead 👇

me every single day

Finally got some custom leather cushions back from the upholster for these quarter sawn white oak morris chairs I made. Just in time to enjoy some reading over the winter break. #woodworking bsky.app/profile/devb...

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

Trump is giving his Pettysburg Address.

"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

but his emails…

lol

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Dems in ARRAY

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?" "Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to floss.

THE SYSTEM IS DOWN www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmpR...

Azure right now

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

betamax is back - as a laser disc

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

This is actually a perfect meme. Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

They really do pick the best people

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am