If you take Tylenol to mitigate some of the extreme pain you might experience during pregnancy, you'll upset our God Emperor.

I don't know much about the Bible, but even with a cursory understanding of it that: 1) the Roman governor (not Jewish) ordered the execution of Jesus; and 2) Jesus himself made it clear his death was *preordained*, so nobody in fact should take blame for it.

Okay we're there.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

The good news about the AI bubble is that electricity prices will be cheap for the rest of us when the big AI companies start going bankrupt and shut down their data centers. Unfortunately, we'll also be in a major recession then.

OpenAI: oh shit, we're losing gobs of money. Nvidia, help us! Nvidia: why should we help you? OpenAI: if we go out of business, we won't be able to buy your products anymore! Nvidia: solid sustainable business plan for all involved. Here's a boatload of money.

Today's newsletter is an interview I recently did with the great and insightful @edzitron.com about the AI bubble. Check it out here: www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

maybe Venezuela has a 2nd Amendment?

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

The vast majority of this asshole's wealth IS ON PAPER! He can't even sell a substantial portion of it for cash without making it decrease in value by over 2%. His wealth fluctuates by over 2% in a day multiple times a year!

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

weird, I thought the Starship repeatedly blowing up before reaching orbit meant the US was winning the space race.

Absolutely 100% this. If they give up citizenship (which is what they have to do in the US to stop paying taxes) we also win.

Even the biggest data centers require only a handful of permanent low-paid employees to operate. They probably don't even need a full-time janitor! If there's a major problem which can't be fixed remotely, AI companies can just fly experts to the location within a few hours.

I know everybody wants to shit on this article, but Kirk's hate-filled grifting charlatanism is the perfect embodiment of the new Christian right.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

But how will your supervisor know if you're being productive if they don't send you a message every hour asking what you're working on?

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

BREAKING: Canada, the U.K. and Australia recognize a Palestinian state despite opposition from the U.S. and Israel.

I know that it'll suck not having access to all the awesome shows in ABC/Disney/ESPN's portfolio, but boycotting is the only power we have. We can't let their corrupt consolidation of everything that entertains us to be rewarded.

I would really love to know how lower immigration equals net deflation.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

$100k every three years for top talent is a negligible cost to Amazon, Tesla, Google, etc, but it will absolutely devastate startups. Assuming this gets past the courts, it'll lead to further consolidation in industry, especially in Big Tech, and a decline in innovation.

H1-B fees are usually paid by the American *employer*. At best, this cost will get passed on to the rest of us. At worst, American companies won't bother and American competitiveness will decline further.

Watching Meta's AI demo this week made my physically angry. Not because it failed (that was funny) but because so much energy is being wasted on this technology whose killer app is helping some lazy fuck who doesn't feel like reading a barbecue sauce recipe.

"It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." -- Charlie Kirk

seems very sustainable!

They will undoubtedly try to argue otherwise, but Judge Merryday is a staunch conservative with MAGA sympathies.

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

"my lawyer told me I can commit this crime" is not a defense.

ah yes, businesses love when they spend a gazillion dollars on new tech and are told to ignore traditional metrics of whether the tech is working.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Disney corporate earnings are extremely dependent on park/cruise revenue. If you're visiting LA, there are a LOT of kid-friendly options that won't cost you anywhere near a two-week paycheck to visit.

Weird that the machines designed by racist misogynists are acting in racist and misogynistic ways.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

I can't be the only person who has noticed all AI logos look like literal assholes, right?

What the fuck is wrong with these people

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

They first charged this guy with a felony and downgraded it to a misdemeanor, possibly because they couldn't get a grand jury to indict. They then had the officer in charge of operations for the whole region testify against him. Still couldn't convict.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

I'm not trying to tell you it's not going to suck but this is more or less what the path to most of the good endings looks like: 1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies 2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators 3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Oceans protecting countries from the effects of war hasn't really been a thing since like the 18th century.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Old enough to remember that people voted for Trump because they were upset about the economy.

@caleyfretz.bsky.social You’ve likely received many copies of this article, but just in case… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

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