Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Really sharp speaker.

Russia levels of corruption. “According to our analysis, ~$920 million worth of crude oil shorts were taken 70 minutes before an Axios report claimed the US and Iran were near a "14-point" deal to end the war.” The Kobeissi Letter, analysts of global capital markets. The shorts gained $125m.

His dementia transfusions. As the ailment progresses the transfusions become more frequent until they stop working. Clock’s ticking.

No Apple. I don’t want your dumb Face ID.

SpaceX, the space launch, xAI, X social media company trying to launch a trillion dollar IPO.

I have nothing to add. The story covers all the bases.

As predicted, a couple of minutes before the US markets opened: Iranian media claiming that the latest US draft proposal is "unacceptable". bsky.app/profile/carl...

The US bases in the Persian Gulf got pasted. On the high point for Trump consumers of conservative news will never see it, so Trump’s base will not learn of the huge disaster.

One of the things the US was apparently trying to hide by asking commercial satellite companies to withhold imagery is that Whiskey Pete retreated from Bahrain. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

If the Iranians keep quiet for the next 24 hours and don't shit all over the 14-point proposal then we might be heading towards a (partial, preliminary) deal. If, instead, we hear the usual noises out of Iran shitting on the proposal, it's probably same-old-same-old.

1/ We got 50,000 articles about how weak and impotent soft power has proven in the 21st century. Meanwhile, the "1st army in the world" can't bend Iran to its will and the (self-proclaimed) "2nd army in the world" is over a thousand days into its 3 day special military operation.

What did the Indiana Republican primaries teach us? Nothing. Trump’s approval rating is about 34%. That is the Republican base. Those are the voters that vote in the primaries. That is why Republicans still fear Trump. They fear their base.

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

This is a really good interview.

Utilitarianism and Its Enemies existentialcomics.com/comic/653

the only food you could get delivered in the 90s was pizza, you wouldnt last a week

“…the Wall Street Journal cited a US official as saying the plan doesn’t currently involve US Navy warships escorting vessels through the strait.”

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Stooges say calling Trump a fascist and comparing him to Hitler "fuel[s] violence." But Trump is a fascist; and far from fueling violence, examining the similarities between the failed Hitler State and the failing Trump Regime is essential to the work of preserving our democracy, as I discuss in PN.

NASDAQ is breaking its own listing rules for new stocks for SpaceX and including It in the index after fifteen days. That means every institution that buys the index will buy SpaceX stock which is being released at 175x earnings. It’s an amazing scam for VCs who got into SpaceX in fundings rounds,

Carded at a restaurant? Only if they have strippers.

Something similar to what the guy here is doing, but different retail.

This is a good deal.

this is so silly and I love it, who did it

Every now and again the You Tube algorithm reminds me that the best baseball movie ever filmed is The Natural.

I always enjoy Patrick Boyle’s videos. This one is really good about inflation.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only WKRP in Cincinatti M*A*S*H (Seasons 1 & 2) Star Trek TOS Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Dr Who (through the end of Peter Davidson) Star Blazers Challenge of the Super Friends F Troop Battlestar Galactica TOS I can’t remember 15.

Trump is still steady with the Republican base and Republican politicians only fear their own base.

Here’s my dog Monty seemingly leaving a trail behind like he’s Roadrunner in the surf

Part of how US institutions have become so brazenly corrupt is that elites have been more focused on maintaining the appearance of legitimacy than on acting with legitimacy. We cannot message our way out of this. On Institutional Legitimacy and Phantom Limbs davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-institu...

Aww NASA: science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

I don't know what you do with this kind of disconnect between Republican voters and the rest of the country. There might be more of us, but these people control one of the two viable political parties.

One things Democrats, should they ever attain workable majorities in the House and Senate and the White House, should do is expand Congress. Not just reform the Supreme Court, but also expand Congress. Make gerrymandering less profitable by increasing the number of seats in the House.

Happy May Day. Today is the International Workers Holiday. The Labor Day created by labor. It is pleasing to note that there will be rallies and demonstrations today.