Thanks a lot, Trump. I have to sit there and listen to a British King ridicule my president, unable to craft a single credible riposte in my head. On our 250th anniversary.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm starting to think that Trump really cares about that ballroom. Maybe that's the pinch point, the pain squeeze, the thing that we can deny that will melt the old witch. Dig in.

This is the sort of evil that keeps the world turning. :)

Hmmm...

Deranged Trump Rants Edited Out of 60 Minutes Interview After Shooting The entire interview s/have been broadcast, so all can see how deranged/dangerous he is. flip.it/KQ11Ts

So we're casting stones northward now? Give me a break. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/w...

The whole ballroom thing is a desecration, for sure - but for those getting exercised about the bunker beneath... Just think about how hilarious it would be if, in a petulant rage, he actually locked himself in there. Grandmas DoorDashing McDonald's forever?

Bob Dylan, in “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” provides a useful caution that, as Bob-isms often do, becomes obvious immediately: “Turns out, the best way to shut people up isn’t to take away their forum--It’s to give them all their own separate pulpits. 1/3

One of the things that stuck with me from one of the many UBI pilots is how people started talking with each other more in person in the community, and the reason was because people felt they would no longer be asked for money. And so UBI increased social cohesion by making sure everyone had money.

"The problem is cars, and that problem can’t be solved with different cars."

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Reading Dylan's "A Philosophy of Modern Song." What a writer. www.amazon.com/dp/B09TRY3Q2B

On Tucker: Keep in mind that anyone "newly" disillusioned with Trump are only angry because he's fucking up Project 2025 & the Fascist project. These people will come after America again.

If you do nothing more than observe the size of the average American commuter vehicle, it becomes really hard to feel sorry for anyone complaining about the price of gas. You don't get to choose to drive oversized, overpowered geometry and have all of society subsidize the fuel it requires to move.

The irony of the moment for the Democratic Party is that the most “reasonable,” “small-c” conservative, moderate path forward* is precisely the most destabilizing one, for the party and the country. --- *Interests of the moneyed.

I don’t think it’s just he’s avoiding the Epstein files. I think he out of this goddamn mind.

Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......

These people are psychotic and have too much money.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

So we may fumigate said hole.

Things have gotten so bad that habits that were once hailed as the end of civilization are now considered a healthy relief. youtu.be/d4QuYuPn2Mc?...

Feels like a good time remind everyone that anticommunism is fascism.

It's 2026. If this is what passes for a cutting edge robotics demo, then I believe we've reached the point of diminishing utility. There's no sizzle in this steak. youtu.be/LP4-c5AK30g?...

OMG... I feel like that could be it... he’s such a f****** dimwit

Nobody's really talking much about the fact that Dems bounce their creeps right away. 'Cause it's like talking talking about the sky being blue.

Provide the social safety so that grandmothers don’t have to take multiple jobs to pay for their husbands cancer treatment

You’d think you’d have to have begun a genius to be able to sustain cognitive decline for so long. The dude is a norm-breaker.

Does it come with a long stick with a little mirror on the end to check the undercarriage before doing the bleep-bloop thing?

Exactly.

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Oh. youtu.be/hcMK3V60cYU?...

Another example of the kind of work we'd see more of with universal basic income.

I'm not sure that Melania's bizarre "press conference" presages an upcoming revelation. I mean - why would *she* be the first to know about a disclosure, and its contents?

Happily, this is not "a nothing burger." The Stable Genius in Chief, by letting this idea bubble up in the minds of the youth, will set some shit off. I remember the last time the draft was in the news, and it didn't exactly strengthen the government position.

Saying "The algorithm served me..." doesn't distance yourself from the content like you think it does. youtu.be/DsAM83uvEBE?...

If your LLM is giving good math - well, first: Congratulations. But, anyway, if it's giving good math, it's because it's hooked to an adjunct calculator. LLMs are still stupid, and can never "learn" math (or anything else, for that matter.)

Some rare good news wafting in from the Zeitgeist...

TACO Tuesday. Fuck that guy for making Iranian children sweat.

There’s a reactor on YouTube that his viewers have clearly identified as a bit dim, and they are recommending the most mind-fuck plot movies for him to react to. People are so mean sometimes. :)

Recognizing that sociopaths trope towards positions of authority & power doesn’t mean *accepting* this. They think they’re the best at it - because they can make the “hard” decisions - but they’re not, and don’t fall for it. They always fuck things up and hurt people.

Just because Marjorie Taylor Green and Candace Owens think it's time to unseat Trump, 25th Amendment-style, doesn't means it's a crazy idea.

Imagine 9/11 happened and the rest of the world sneered at us. This is what Trump is setting us up for now.

Not that the robot gives a shit, but I appreciate the effort. x.com/FilmThePolic...

Sarah Longwell just made a poignant observation: "I feel like [nihilism] is being imposed on me." That's exactly right. www.youtube.com/live/1-3avXA...

Breaking: "America's Top Nazi" is a coward. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

The swirl around Democratic Socialist Hasan Piker is interesting. Does he end up being sin-eater, or boogey-man, for the democrats in the upcoming election cycles...