By the way this is the most perfect example you're going to get of "the problem factory versus the solution factory". Let's say that this makes it possible to double the output of PowerPoint slides - what do you think the overall effect on firm productivity is going to be from that?

The popular critique of Kitchen Cabinet is that it is too soft but I think the much deeper rot is that it is premised on the belief the public is out of touch and needs to learn more about the political class

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

thinking about The Hunt for Red October again

‘Killing people and breaking things’ is what militaries do, it’s what distinguishes them uniquely. Now, you can think of that as good and laudable (as Hegseth does) or bad and necessary (professional soldiers prefer to think of ‘duty’ and ‘honour’) or bad and shameful (as pacifists do ). >

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

I’d like to appreciate Pete Hegseth for celebrating the life and works of Ozzy Osbourne in the way that only he has the authority to organise

Yakety Sax chase music makes anything funny and this is key about it: this is as true for people like me who are old enough to have watched Benny Hill as it is for people fresh to the gag

Liam Hogan Thought places a central and urgent priority on the key issue of our times: bringing the hydrofoil ferries back to Sydney Harbour

I've been haunted by this since at least 2015, but Derrida and Walter Benjamin might have first call on being haunted. Baudrillard on everything else.

[Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_104@04-09-2019_17-56-15.jpg

Citizens of Penrith and the general vicinity of Penrith and Blacktown LGAs. Be warned. This Monday may be ‘mad’

In a just world, writers like Kaleb Horton would have worked to a king’s word rate and the kind of magazine expense account that people who remember the 1970s talk about in hushed tones, and Parnell Palme McGuinness would be unemployable. But here we are.

Boredom is the Cadillac of emotions

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

From an outsider’s perspective: America is a terrifying society, wholly and in every way. But there’s a tradition of its literature that shows it up, past the cultural tough-guy act, to be surprisingly kind, self-reflective, and generous, and that’s Kaleb Horton’s writing to me.

Kaleb Horton wrote one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read about memory and nostalgia. kalebhorton.ghost.io/memory-nosta...

Fo shizzle #aflgf

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

Serious mischievous question: Are citizens of the Republic of Ireland going to be entitled to Brit Cards?

incredible that the Abundance guys took a dead-simple idea (it's better to talk about a future where there's more things and it's good) and made it toxic in part by being the whiniest dweebs.

A lot of folks view their vote as a little gift they give to a politician who catches their fancy, rather than an act of collective action on behalf of the less fortunate. You are not giving out a rose on The Bachelor, you're acting in solidarity with millions of other people.

[extremely Fearless Leader voice] I am sending message to all top generals to return to Centre as test of loyalty. But this is all part of great trick plan! While the generals are travelling, you, Boris and Natasha, will approach moose and squirrel in the disguise of circus

Did Nick Adams ever actually get to Malaysia

JUDITH BUTLER: clearly the so-called ‘Wests Tigers’ has been a questionable agglomeration of two profoundly distinct cultural entities but its successes have been real, and live in the memory of the 2005 grand final. It would be foolish to dismiss that

The Emus will rise again

In terms of euphemisms for acts of war, I think 'Ukrainian sanctions' (bombing refineries) is one of my favourites

The Big Five of the new Security Council: Australia, New Zealand, PNG, Samoa, bits of the north of England

This man needs to win a meat tray. The biggest meat tray anyone’s ever won

I’m deadly shitposting serious. Give him a nice room, set him up with a card to play the pokies, point him to the food court for a schnitty. The place has an indoor waterfall. Introduce him to some NRL players. We need to deploy a charm offensive and ‘charm, offensive’ has a name: Peter V’Landys

If we invite Donald Trump to Australia we need to take him to the local Mar-a-Lago: the Canterbury Leagues Club

Australia: by David Williamson

So much of Australian political coverage is a demand for a shit performance of a poorly written play.

You an idiot: agreeing to an interview with Isaac Chotiner Me, a wise man: I’m going to go to the ICAC and tell them lies

The most effective Just Stop Oil campaign in the world is being run by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

dear train stations, what is preventing you from looking like this?

The internet is too cursed. We need to make it more wholesome. The Blondie posting will continue. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhk...

Every now and then I see a post on here that I can’t see because it’s muted. And I wonder, and click, and then I remember why I muted it. I don’t know what I was expecting

The AUKUS deal is a sinking ship in all ways except for the one we want. American experts are telling us "accept the fact that you're not going to get those submarines" but the Aus Gov is still giving America billions to make their own subs. Ditch AUKUS while we can still salvage some dignity.

Unironically yes youtu.be/6CNFF0Ql0ME?...

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GRW...

The new wave disco punk will continue until morale improves m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmRA... #blondie

Real talk though that ‘Blondie’ hashtag has stuff on it you do *not* want to flash up on your monitor in the office, beware

GET ON THE BLOWER. SORT IT OUT. #blondie m.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCt...

Today’s theme is Blondie. I make the rules.