pretty insane detail to slip in 90% of the way through your big reported piece on why harvard kids aren't going to class www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

i mean, jesus fucking christ. plato's gorgias is the political text of our age. poli sci people fumbling over the question of what an authentic acting performance is. I got a play for you motherfuckers to see and it's called "the mouse trap"

they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines. Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

I'm Mr Beast and today we're watching a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. This is my dream; this is my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving

It's literally the phrase "defund the police" – not the actual concept behind it – that voters oppose.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

You can’t fix past things. You have to use your regret in the present. — @juskewitch.bsky.social, Relentless Picnic

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

worst guy good point dot jpg

can't yell fire in a crowded theater, or tell the crowd they suck at fires

And you know we're just going to be expected to deal with it. They'll get bailed out or bought and cake mixes are just fucked. No one will step in to make a product people want in case it might temporarily affect shareholders.

SISKEL & EBERT, which premiered #OTD in 1986, had a master class of an opening sequence. Thirty-five seconds, 21 shots, and a flawless establishment of the professional rivalry of two Chicago newspapermen who inspired a generation of film buffs. #FilmSky #TVSky

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

the guy who was shot at a well-attended event on a college campus while on a well-publicized tour of college campuses really shows that college campuses are to blame for the rise in political violence. because of their declining rooftop security I assume? surely not because kids yell at you there?

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

In conclusion, if Dems aren't talking about how Trump et al are stripping Secret Service protection from their politicial enemies—and aren't imposing political consequences on those who use violent threats to expand their power—then Dems aren't actually serious about stopping political violence.

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

not surprising, the original "dog mode" wasn't for dogs at all, you could tell because it held a temperature (40C/104F) that was not actually safe for dogs or kids... it was actually to keep the non-automotive grade screen safe www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/t...

dreamed that I looked up alfred hitchcock on wikipedia, and the first paragraph talked about his most famous work: a 1969 film called "I Love To FIsh Because I Love to FIsh FIlm" stylized like that, made in some way "for the AFI." and reading it I was like, "oh yeah, I should finally watch that one"

Good news on this front: Pressured by Sen. Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov (D-Oregon) and Rep. Mike Flood (R-Nebraska), YouTube TV and Hulu have just agreed to carry C-SPAN.

it's really kind of insane. the court's position is that genAI chatbots came along and delivered the first meaningful blow to google's "global search engine" (GSE) business in more than two decades; therefore "Google cannot be permitted to leverage its dominance in general search to" genAI.

Like let’s not pretend that a decentralized information environment is a concept that is any way less abstract than democracy. At least the government you’re covering has a constitution that’s written down.

"no, I, uhh, I think I've heard of it, but hang on one second?" *pulls out cheat sheet* SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOOD: LAGUNA HONDA THE ZOROASTRIAN GOD: AHURA MAZDA "hey, yes, sure I'll meet you there"

new @relentlesspicnic.com, free and unlocked on patreon.

for me, Ed has been less howard beale and more walt winchell from "the plot against america". it's not just that he's the rational voice in the breathless hype wilderness; he's the only one who's been emoting appropriately about the crimes against truth and against the future being done right now.

fellow authors, it’s our duty to financially ruin the AI industry

fourth image.

The 🇺🇸 Pentagon is getting into agentic AI for propaganda purposes, to "suppress dissenting arguments" This will normalize state-based AI influence operations, pollute the public sphere, and encourage an already opaque & corrupt disinfo industry @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...

@edzitron.com has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Well I, an astronomer, can obviously think of no downsides to a company promising to launch a constellation of reflective mirrors into low-Earth orbit to increase daylight for folks on the ground.

Microsoft drops a crappy AI function into Excel and then warns people NOT to use it for anything that involves math or anything they consider pretty important. Excel is for doing math and organizing important information. www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens

I, off the rip, have deadass said that when I move I move with integrity.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

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Media is scared to say what’s happening so they’re pretending flooding DC with troops is just a crime-fighting policy, even though the people doing it are obviously quite clear it’s an authoritarian coup d’etat

🧵 THE OCCUPATION OF DC 🤨 👉 A Local's Perspective 👀 The WaPo has an article detailing the location of Federal forces across the city. While much of this is ridiculous & performative, here's three places I noted with interest, as a DC resident ⤵️ (Gift Link: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...)

walking around the container store using a high-reach garment hook like a ringmaster's baton; i'm the harold hill of shopping with your wife

*the lord god, sitting on his perch overlooking all of space and time, seeing each and every culture in history invent their own version of the donut* "yes — hell yes — blammo — cha-ching"

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

"a cowardly capitulation to the fallacious insistence that generative AI is the future"

the almost implausible brute force jankiness under the hood of everything

perfect. what I hate most is knowing anything about what the fuck is going on, or any endeavor thereto