Put together some thoughts here. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

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

The one good thing about seeing teslas and cybertrucks on the road is it’s a whole group of cars that you never need to let in to your lane or otherwise be polite to (unless they have TLC plates of course)

States need to end their data-sharing with the federal gov’t. They should have been studying the problem at /minimum/ the moment DOGE started tearing down legal firewalls between data reservoirs. bsky.app/profile/samh...

NEW(ish?): In April Pres. Trump signed EO 14288 "Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement" One part calls for "collection and distribution of crime data across jurisdictions" On 9/24, the DoJ gave Palantir a no-bid contract to build the platform that will pull all state/local data.

'astrology' app that collects users data across the internet (without their knowledge) and uses AI to give them extra accurate 'readings' that are actually based on their real information. who wants to invest?

I was talking to someone who doesn't consume that much news this morning, and he just assumed ICE agents were killed in that shooting. A terrible combination of a weaponized FBI, lying politicians, and our media ecosystem is making is harder and harder for the truth to get out.

The idiots who do this are the same people who'd yell "get a job" at a protest on a weekend. And they're just harassing Starbucks employees for no reason.

I have a cousin with addiction and mental health issues. He got more help in prison than he ever did outside.

I'm not "doing nothing" i'm acting as a 'control' for social science experiments.

cool pic of peter thiel

guy who thinks 'follow the money' is an inspiring hustle culture slogan like 'get this bread.'

why didn’t the girl from wicked just be normal

More great work from Ken. A pattern is emerging.

the “save our services” coalition in LA which is another front for Airbnb trying to deregulate short term rentals. the idea being taxes from short term rentals would be enough to cover LA’s massive financial shortfall lmao

the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is primarily run by a tenant slumlord who uses it to spend big against any sort of affordable housing development or ballot measure in LA

Money in politics people: what's the most comically deceptively named lobbying group? Like AirBnB's "Affordable New York" that lobbies to keep shortterm rentals in the city.

I wonder if these are the $80,000 in picture frames procured by the Executive Office of the President. bsky.app/profile/snmr...

The vast majority of early adopters successful coins ended up caring more about securing the bag than making it liquid enough to be useful as a means of settling everyday transactions. A dozen or so good ideas ended up siloed in a dozen or so different repositories.

Once again I ask: what ever happened to the promises of cryptocurrency as a utility? How does the average person benefit from this technology? What happened to the supposed revolution of the blockchain? We haven't seen any of that. It's just a bullshit investment asset for jabronis to gamble with.

There are now 36 crypto billionaires globally, a new record. decrypt.co/340890/more-...

I didnt know until now the operation to capture Saddam Hussein was called "Operation Red Dawn," named after the movie. It's almost like the US military considered Iraq 'America', and Saddam was the 'invader.'

According to an exclusive by reporter @marisakabas.bsky.social, Disney was set to announce price increases for its streaming services on Tuesday, which may have hastened the ABC parent company's major decision Monday to bring Jimmy Kimmel's late night talk show back on air.

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

On the Jersey Shore subreddit they're saying that if Sammi Sweetheart had ended up with Mike The Situation in Season 1 instead of Ronnie then "everything would be different," and COVID wouldn't have happened and Trump wouldn't have been elected President. We have to go back.

The TikTok law was one of the biggest own goals of Biden's presidency. Helped deliver a(nother) critical media platform into the hands of pro-Trump billionaires seeking their own political influence wapo.st/3IlYmrP

The acting head of the CDC listed "Young Sheldon" as one of the best TV shows of the past 25 years.

The White House has spent $80,000 on picture frames in the past two months lol

The Defense Innovation Board-the group that suggests private tech company investments to the DoD, including surveillance and data tech like Palantir-says they're "listening" on their website, like the Succession 'we're listening' joke in real life.

margin of error and all that but I would not have expected Sliwa to out poll the guy who is actually the mayor. once again proving the power of the beret

i've subscribed to: rolling stone WIRED 404 media defector the handbasket chicago journalism i subscribed to: unraveled block club it's time to support media directly so they don't fall into the hands of fascists, the replies to this post have additional great news media i recommend supporting

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Here is a photo of Jim O'Neill (left), acting director of the CDC and Deputy Director of HHS, in a giant bee at Burning Man, with Grover Norquist (second from right.)

Why is ICE buying MREs for their Baltimore field office? If it's just a field office, wouldn't they have access to more reasonable food options? I doubt this is for detainees either. Odd, right?

shut the fuck up god damn i'm so sick of everybody just quoting this guy as he tells ridiculous lies again and again

As an act of resistance against the Trump administration I will be taking an entire bottle of Tylenol. Stand up. Fight back. This is our country.

let's say acetaminophen actually is dangerous. the way the white house is communicating this is so stupid because tylenol is a fucking brand name.

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

for people that truly think zohran mamdani is anti-semetic, I want you to imagine this: if eric adams, andrew cuomo, and zohran all were asked to 'draw a picture of a jewish person' whose do you think would be most offensive? the answer isn't zohran.

“We are living through fascism and the primary way we connect with and inform and organize w/ each other is under lethal attack. No one is coming to protect the internet for us, and people won’t even have a clue how catastrophic this can become until it’s over” @kattenbarge.bsky.social

My dream cast for a hypercritical 'history of silicon valley oligarchs' miniseries: Reid Hoffman: Will Sasso Larry Page and Sergei Brin: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Alex Karp: Taika Waititi Marc Andreesen: John C Reilly Larry Ellison: Connor O'Malley Peter Thiel: Chris Kattan

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Heads up, that's actually their umbrella org. They still have at least two of their branch websites still open here: innovativeadagency.com/work/ and maybe more importantly, here: innovativepolitics.com/achievements/ where they consider the work they did for Trump to be quite an achievement.

In the two weeks since I posted this, People Who Think has added password protection to their website

conspiracy theory: someone applied for a credit card in my name, so I locked my credit with the credit agencies, which involves making accounts with each now they CONSTANTLY email me ads for loans. so... what if the agencies are faking security breaches so they can get your email for marketing?

hmm

Great point here: she was hired at Palantir right after President Trump's second inauguration

President Trump's censorship czar at the FCC is married to a Palantir employee