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Mike Stromenger
@1in9.bsky.social
· Nov 12
And here’s a picture of my cat, just to brighten up the space.
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"We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your lives as they have been are over. Your culture will adapt to service ours. But don't worry, the Dow is over 50,000.“
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
"We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your lives as they have been are over. Your culture will adapt to service ours. But don't worry, the Dow is over 50,000.“
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I have become convinced that the anti-creative attitude from so many wealthy tech people & AI proponents is driven by the fact they can't live with the idea there is something they can't do. You can be the wealthiest person in the world, but money can't help you become a talented artist. Or writer.
February 15, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I have become convinced that the anti-creative attitude from so many wealthy tech people & AI proponents is driven by the fact they can't live with the idea there is something they can't do. You can be the wealthiest person in the world, but money can't help you become a talented artist. Or writer.
So, watching Amelie on TCM and they seem to be only playing the score/certain sound effects. No dialogue or voice over at all. Whoops.
February 15, 2026 at 5:29 AM
So, watching Amelie on TCM and they seem to be only playing the score/certain sound effects. No dialogue or voice over at all. Whoops.
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I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
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I shall forever remember @lindaholmes.bsky.social's look of horror when I confessed on an unrelated @screendrafts.bsky.social episode that I was #TeamDawson.
Anyway... I wrote a little about James Van Der Beek.
Anyway... I wrote a little about James Van Der Beek.
Critic’s Appreciation: James Van Der Beek Will Be Remembered for ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ but His Best Work Was Far Funnier and Odder
'Varsity Blues' and 'Dawson's Creek' generated the memes, but things like 'Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23' showed Van Der Beek's talent.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I shall forever remember @lindaholmes.bsky.social's look of horror when I confessed on an unrelated @screendrafts.bsky.social episode that I was #TeamDawson.
Anyway... I wrote a little about James Van Der Beek.
Anyway... I wrote a little about James Van Der Beek.
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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Why are people who villainize empathy bad at art? Gee, impossible to say.
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Why are people who villainize empathy bad at art? Gee, impossible to say.
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The cat videos will continue until morale improves
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The cat videos will continue until morale improves
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Fact-checking the Bad Bunny halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Fact-checking the Bad Bunny halftime show
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SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
I will never tire of seeing athletes realizing they just won an Olympic gold medal.
February 9, 2026 at 4:23 AM
I will never tire of seeing athletes realizing they just won an Olympic gold medal.
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Okay cool enough can we do BASEBALL NOW
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Okay cool enough can we do BASEBALL NOW
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One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
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Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.
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I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
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the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
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The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’
I love watching Olympic curling.
Within the sports culture of more, bigger, and faster, the epically slow winter sport of curling is an entrancing watch. www.wired.com/story/i-love...
Olympic Curling Is Long-Form Television at Its Finest
Within the sports culture of more, bigger, and faster, the epically slow winter sport of curling is an entrancing watch.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I love watching Olympic curling.
So would making the rich pay their taxes.
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
So would making the rich pay their taxes.
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every third Super Bowl ad
February 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
every third Super Bowl ad