Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
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I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
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It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
with every new Avatar movie there's a chorus of critics saying surely the series has lost its juice NOW and then days later the new Avatar has crossed the $1 billion threshold.
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
with every new Avatar movie there's a chorus of critics saying surely the series has lost its juice NOW and then days later the new Avatar has crossed the $1 billion threshold.
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
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The power of suggestions ... "OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation" futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The power of suggestions ... "OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation" futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Hey everybody! We're doing our annual Behind the Bastards Q&A for the top of the new year. Post your questions here and we'll try to get to them all!
December 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hey everybody! We're doing our annual Behind the Bastards Q&A for the top of the new year. Post your questions here and we'll try to get to them all!
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Wait till you read how he was fucking hired
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Wait till you read how he was fucking hired
Hey everybody! We're doing our annual Behind the Bastards Q&A for the top of the new year. Post your questions here and we'll try to get to them all!
December 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hey everybody! We're doing our annual Behind the Bastards Q&A for the top of the new year. Post your questions here and we'll try to get to them all!
finally saw The Green Book, and while there are valid critiques of that movie I did not realize how much seeing Viggo Mortensen play a huge greaseball Italian was missing from my life. Seeing him house an entire pizza after rolling it in half, like a monster, really did something for me.
December 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
finally saw The Green Book, and while there are valid critiques of that movie I did not realize how much seeing Viggo Mortensen play a huge greaseball Italian was missing from my life. Seeing him house an entire pizza after rolling it in half, like a monster, really did something for me.
Finally watched the new Nuremberg movie. It's quite bad, but Russell Crowe is excellent as Herman Goering. I've said for years he is the only actor who can properly do Goering. Damn shame they wasted him on this thing.
December 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Finally watched the new Nuremberg movie. It's quite bad, but Russell Crowe is excellent as Herman Goering. I've said for years he is the only actor who can properly do Goering. Damn shame they wasted him on this thing.
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Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
movies prepared me to be wrongfully accused of my wife's murder much more often than it's so far happened
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
movies prepared me to be wrongfully accused of my wife's murder much more often than it's so far happened
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"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
i am always taken by melancholy the day after Christmas, thinking about the great tragedies of history, like the fact that in his long musical career William Shatner never did a cover of Scatman John's 'I'm The Scat Man' where the refrain was, 'I'm the Shat Man'.
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
i am always taken by melancholy the day after Christmas, thinking about the great tragedies of history, like the fact that in his long musical career William Shatner never did a cover of Scatman John's 'I'm The Scat Man' where the refrain was, 'I'm the Shat Man'.
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here we go (police incident report follows)
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
here we go (police incident report follows)
my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
now for my favorite Portland Christmas tradition: giving fentanyl to small children in exchange for their Christmas candy
December 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
now for my favorite Portland Christmas tradition: giving fentanyl to small children in exchange for their Christmas candy
trump stealing my one family Christmas tradition, launching a series of air strikes against Nigeria, is a step too far even for him
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
trump stealing my one family Christmas tradition, launching a series of air strikes against Nigeria, is a step too far even for him
obsessed with this giant pack of duty free cigarettes i got for Christmas this year. it contains ten packs of Swiss cigs. i don't even smoke but the whole product is just so beautiful. this Christmas, remember: smoking kills!
December 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
obsessed with this giant pack of duty free cigarettes i got for Christmas this year. it contains ten packs of Swiss cigs. i don't even smoke but the whole product is just so beautiful. this Christmas, remember: smoking kills!
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In fact, one of a trio of government censorship conspiracy allegations that Roth was listing and demolishing one by one. Misrepresentation so brazen as to beggar belief, getting accolades from leading publishers. This is what an actual "clown world" looks like. 🤦
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
December 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In fact, one of a trio of government censorship conspiracy allegations that Roth was listing and demolishing one by one. Misrepresentation so brazen as to beggar belief, getting accolades from leading publishers. This is what an actual "clown world" looks like. 🤦
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
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BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
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Latest from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I trace how Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have shifted their strategy to stay relevant and rebuild after years of delay forming and antifascist resistance. They are building a new cadre, and have less opposition today.
Last piece of the year y'all! This one is a must read.
@shaneburley.bsky.social takes a deep deep dive into Richard Spencer's rebrand in order to illuminate the fringe right's movement dynamics, influence on the mainstream, and political impasses.
spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...
@shaneburley.bsky.social takes a deep deep dive into Richard Spencer's rebrand in order to illuminate the fringe right's movement dynamics, influence on the mainstream, and political impasses.
spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...
Varieties of White Nationalism – Spectre Journal
Shane Burley looks at Richard Spencer's rebranding effort to illuminate the movement dynamics and political impasses of the "dissident" right.
spectrejournal.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Latest from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I trace how Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have shifted their strategy to stay relevant and rebuild after years of delay forming and antifascist resistance. They are building a new cadre, and have less opposition today.