The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild. Period

Is nothing too sacred for enshittification pueblapost.com/2026/03/28/c...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

AI going to radically increase the worth of “old movies” as the craft dies over the next decade.

He was pardoned for serious crimes - facilitating the financing of terrorists and sex predators. Because he agreed to put millions into Trump’s pocket. Naked corruption. Out in the open for all to see.

This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Beautiful piece about cultural power. 🔥🔥🔥 www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis...

“It’s becoming ever more clear that intimacy is not only romantic; it is civic. It’s the willingness to be implicated in another person’s safety and dignity. It’s the communication, silent or screaming, that your life touches my life & my life touches yours.” estherperel.substack.com/p/intimacy-i...

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

Apple, Google, Samsung, and the rest need to get off their asses and release phones that actualy support this immediately. AI video is getting to good too fast for human nervous systems to keep up contentauthenticity.org

Wtf

There are a lot of men that have felt disempowered in the last years. Give them a big ass signing bonus, shit training, a gun & don’t teach them any capacity to self regulate and yesterday’s tragedy happens and it’ll happen again. ICE has got to go. If she was a domestic terrorist, then so am I.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world. They mistake swagger for strength & skill. Narcissists are unfit to lead. They see power as an opportunity to seize, not a responsibility to serve. Great leaders blend confidence with humility and put their missions above their egos.

Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

If Paramount decrees were still intact far less likely we’d have this massive mega mergers of studios and tech companies. Maybe time for fresh decrees.

Trickle down economics was never really a thing. But trickle down culture really matters.

It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

We’re about to experience heretofore unimaginable levels of “I haven’t read the story.”

Think our culture is about to learn a big lesson about shadow and projection.

You Are Not Supposed to Believe in Anything.

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Consolidation and enshittification go hand and hand. Once Warner bros goes Hollywood looking bleak.

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Whoever came up with the idea of mocking this gratuitously cruel regime with cute, nonthreatening plastic frogs really hit a gold mine. The clever imagery has made it all the way across the Atlantic.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Incredible and terrifying story of our completely broken information ecosystem that AI only makes worse. new.epsilontheory.com/a/anatomy-of...

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Disappointing Apple. www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Taco

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

Everyone with a platform right now should be condemning political violence of all stripes, and particularly from their own side. Fanning the flames here - on either side - is an act of encouraging further political violence. We have to stop this cycle, not feed it. RIP, Charlie Kirk.

Whether it's John F. Kennedy saving thousands of children's lives by founding the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ending thousands of children's lives by limiting access to vaccines, both Kennedys impacted children's health.

“I wasn’t sure what number you wanted me to go with.” — Zuck, 100% pathetically bitch-made by a man who said he should be thrown in jail for life, appeasing an administration who says his wife’s family isn’t American, loving how RFK is dismantling every public health advancement that CZI ever made.

truly unreal. he's the guy who buys a lap dance and thinks the stripper and he had a deep connection

Great stuff, anthropomorphism applies to AIs as much a as anything else. There are no interiors to LLMs

Pushing of the Overton. Boiling of the pot. Not good. apple.news/AGx9ElUs4R7u...

Nice to see South Park still spitting some real fire.

Mind blowing thought from Kevin Kelly. “Henceforth, it may be quicker to generate a movie than to watch one; quicker to co-create a historical novel than to read one; faster to co-make a video game than to play it. This shifts the center of gravity away from consuming to generation in a good way.”

Filmed a bunch of stuff for Colburn students back in the day. A gem in LA. awesome to see it expanding. la.urbanize.city/post/colburn...