flunky
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'Like Me' giving major 'Please Clap' energy here.
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
'Like Me' giving major 'Please Clap' energy here.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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A web port of Jason Rohrer's 2007 game "Passage"—heralded by some at the time for its expressive power. Criticized by others for its gender and cultural assumptions. Either way, a lot happens in the 5 minutes and 8 bit game.
Passage (2007)
passage.toolness.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A web port of Jason Rohrer's 2007 game "Passage"—heralded by some at the time for its expressive power. Criticized by others for its gender and cultural assumptions. Either way, a lot happens in the 5 minutes and 8 bit game.
*watching the temperature click from 32 to 33* MELT MELT MELT
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
*watching the temperature click from 32 to 33* MELT MELT MELT
"time is weird, man" but make it Steinbeck
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"time is weird, man" but make it Steinbeck
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reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
Really enjoyed the No Kings protest. We should do more of those. But also, I can't decide which was funnier: this illegally parked car or the "Stay strong James Comey" sign.
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Really enjoyed the No Kings protest. We should do more of those. But also, I can't decide which was funnier: this illegally parked car or the "Stay strong James Comey" sign.
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oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
This rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Tz...
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien (cover)
YouTube video by Adam Barrett
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Tz...
this fuckin guy (complimentary)
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
this fuckin guy (complimentary)
One time during high school they had an assembly featuring these roided-out bodybuilder-for-christ motivational shouter guys who demonstrated their strength/the power of jesus by blowing up hot water bottles like balloons until they popped. Still think about that sometimes
August 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
One time during high school they had an assembly featuring these roided-out bodybuilder-for-christ motivational shouter guys who demonstrated their strength/the power of jesus by blowing up hot water bottles like balloons until they popped. Still think about that sometimes
Ok!
Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble
YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ok!
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first man to get disowned by both his physical and digital children
August 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
first man to get disowned by both his physical and digital children
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Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
August 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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One of the hardest flexes of all time. Imagine the feeling. Chilling with the most decadent nobles in Europe and showing up to the gambling table with a fat roast beef on rye, plenty of horseradish and white onions. Oh you guys stop gambling to eat? Sorry boys, these hands are simply too hot rn
“Lord Sandwich popularized his eponymous treat by eating it at the gambling table of the Hellfire Club” is real, historical sentence.
July 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One of the hardest flexes of all time. Imagine the feeling. Chilling with the most decadent nobles in Europe and showing up to the gambling table with a fat roast beef on rye, plenty of horseradish and white onions. Oh you guys stop gambling to eat? Sorry boys, these hands are simply too hot rn
keeping my brain sharp by never copy-pasting temporary auth codes, just a quick glance at the notification on my phone, then gotta type it in before forgetting like guy pearce in memento
July 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
keeping my brain sharp by never copy-pasting temporary auth codes, just a quick glance at the notification on my phone, then gotta type it in before forgetting like guy pearce in memento
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If more people had been as brave as Colbert then and were as brave as he is now, we would not be here today.
STILL A MUST-SEE: Stephen Colbert—Whose 'Late Show' Was Shockingly Canceled—Roasts Bush To His Face
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If more people had been as brave as Colbert then and were as brave as he is now, we would not be here today.
Yes, an "inclusive" $185/month social club 🙄🤮
July 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yes, an "inclusive" $185/month social club 🙄🤮
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thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
July 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
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anyone who had a position of power (in congress, in the party, in the doj) or influence (like op-ed space in a major newspaper or tv spot), and counseled against swift and punitive legal action, got the biggest question of their lives wrong and should never have power or influence again.
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
anyone who had a position of power (in congress, in the party, in the doj) or influence (like op-ed space in a major newspaper or tv spot), and counseled against swift and punitive legal action, got the biggest question of their lives wrong and should never have power or influence again.