we don't need AI when content like this exists

The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,

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"Two households, both alike in diggity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene."

About to be in my "pivot to welding" era

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money. Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Post a you from a different era

Imagine having the audacity to be him, lecturing a room full of the military’s top brass who got pulled out of better things to do, and knowing that everyone saw the video of you this week nutting yourself with a skateboard.

If Dave Barry still had a syndicated column his take on this awful festival would be some shit like an email chain with “re: Odd?” as the subject

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Tylenol the Creator

I always thought when it was time for a mid career change of profession there would be professions left.

I can't explain why but having beef with an aunt and/or an uncle feels very catholic coded

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

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It’s not like they don’t know it; it’s reality. Billionaires bought up all the media platforms they could, so they control the algorithm. There’s no ignoring the practicalities of the landscape but they can’t afford to avoid those outlets. Open hostility is an immediate hobble.

“Lowdown” on FX.

Name an unreasonable belief you hold. I’ll go first: 1. If I had met a neurodivergent-friendly editor in my early 20s I would’ve published 4 books by now. 2. I don’t think a .22 to the arm would hurt that much. 3. If forced to, I could fight a badger and emerge unscathed but for 1 scratch.

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There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

We had to say goodbye to the sweetest little old lady in the world yesterday. Jade brought 7 1/2 pounds of unconditional, polydactyly mittened unconditional love into my life and lap every day for the last 8 years. If you have a furry little one that brings you hope, give ‘em scritches for me.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Honestly I forget about Yahoo! every so often and I’m glad that some sites have had the longevity to be not just the “well well, look who’s come crawling back” option but the “yeah no we’ve been superior this whole time ahhh get in here ya scamps” option

Friendly reminder: Using alt text just to make a disparaging comment about the text you're screenshotting defeats the purpose of alt text. e.g. "bullshit corporate statement" as alt text for a screenshot of a company's statement. The alt text should include the full text of the statement.

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

(Guy who rewatches Succession and won’t talk about anything else, but infuriatingly ends up being right sometimes) This is why Logan was obsessed with buying local tv stations.

At a ren faire-themed burlesque show tonight I saw a commit-to-the-bit performance of “a sultry plague rat.”

@joshgondelman.bsky.social is Stephen Miller your Wario? Find me a more opposite person for everything each is trying to bring to the world.

Duckduckgo on Firefox for life.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

oh okay

Doesn’t take much today to be better than Ezra.

Feels like Comeuppance used to be a more plentiful resource.

Oh that’s what it is. I’m “the princess and the pea” but if I were allergic to any whiff of “earnest but clumsy attempts at connecting with my dad or son or role model or apprentice” in a Dude Story.

Do yourself a favor and rewatch The Wire as if it were written for the stage.

Watching live TV for the first time in 4 months (college fb) and feeling my blood pressure spike all over again as I remember that we're all just expected to be used to a constant barrage of ads all the time everywhere in life no peace no rest.

Put me on your movie or tv rewatch podcast when you’re reviewing a hamfisted attempt at glorifying masculinity and I will show you layers upon layers of generational trauma subtext. I am cursed now, unable to watch something without seeing all of it now.

Running over a bunch of fuckin sticks and rocks with the lawnmower and just letting that shit pelt the shit out of my legs. Fuck you and fuck me

Hey how come in Alien they don’t just shoot the things with bullets made of baking soda

The plural of man should be many

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Adam Sandler’s “At a Medium Pace” is, musically, a cover of Willie Nelson’s “Help Me Make It Through the Night”

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Inspired by a late night rewatch of “The Gentleman” series on Netflix after rewatching “Fantastic Mr. Fox” the day before. I think I’m on to something here, but why and who cares

I can’t decide if Guy Ritchie is Wes Anderson’s cousin or if Wes Anderson is Guy Ritchie’s cousin.