Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
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https://adam-rogers.net
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Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Here’s my booze book:
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And here’s my color book:
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And here’s my color book:
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It’s software, you numpties. It can’t ‘say’ anything.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
It’s software, you numpties. It can’t ‘say’ anything.
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“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”
I read all the studies on the economic impact of bike lanes. Here's what I learned.
Research proves that bike lanes are good for business. So why do so many stores and restaurants still oppose them?
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January 2, 2026 at 4:41 AM
“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”
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Okay, might as well get this started.
It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930.
The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d.
1/
It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930.
The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d.
1/
January 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Okay, might as well get this started.
It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930.
The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d.
1/
It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930.
The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d.
1/
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Happy New Years!!!
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Happy New Years!!!
My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Also look I gotta just stop for a second and say: armrests made of marble? Spend a moment inside your mind and think if you would want armrests, for a chair, in which you sit for hours watching a show, to be made of marble, a mineral known for hardness and coldness to touch.
December 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Also look I gotta just stop for a second and say: armrests made of marble? Spend a moment inside your mind and think if you would want armrests, for a chair, in which you sit for hours watching a show, to be made of marble, a mineral known for hardness and coldness to touch.
From Abraham Flexner, founder of the Institute for Advanced Study, in 1939:
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
From Abraham Flexner, founder of the Institute for Advanced Study, in 1939:
I would love to see a California tech-enhanced billionaire try to live somewhere else. I would watch the reality show about that.
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I would love to see a California tech-enhanced billionaire try to live somewhere else. I would watch the reality show about that.
I’m not the first to say that the DMV is also often a place where guys like these must show polite respect to middle-class, nonwhite women employed there, and they hate that a lot.
Guy who has never set foot in an American DMV: they haven’t even been updated since the 1970s
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I’m not the first to say that the DMV is also often a place where guys like these must show polite respect to middle-class, nonwhite women employed there, and they hate that a lot.
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Musk doesn’t have to go to the DMV because he’s wealthy and has assistants who do that for him. Cheong doesn’t go to the DMV because he’s never lived in this country. If either of them had been inside a California DMV in the past decade they’d know that you can make an appointment and it’s painless.
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Musk doesn’t have to go to the DMV because he’s wealthy and has assistants who do that for him. Cheong doesn’t go to the DMV because he’s never lived in this country. If either of them had been inside a California DMV in the past decade they’d know that you can make an appointment and it’s painless.
Moon’s haunted
At 61 years old, I had lost volume and wanted my younger body back quickly. Donor fat seemed like the best option.
I Got My BBL From a Cadaver
At 61 years old, I had lost volume and wanted my younger body back quickly. Donor fat seemed like the best option.
www.thecut.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Moon’s haunted
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The Enchanted Tchotchke Room
December 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The Enchanted Tchotchke Room
Not only do Jews go to Chinese food and the movies on Christmas, but in Southern California we also used to go to Disneyland.
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Not only do Jews go to Chinese food and the movies on Christmas, but in Southern California we also used to go to Disneyland.
Frankincense and myrrh are preservative resins, is why they’re valuable.
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Frankincense and myrrh are preservative resins, is why they’re valuable.
Climate beats robots.
waymo paused its robotaxi service as national weather service issued flash flood warnings in SF on christmas - @cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/25/w...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/25/w...
Waymo pauses robotaxis in SF again due to flash flood warnings on Christmas Day
Waymo again paused it robotaxi service, citing a flash flood warning on Christmas Day.
www.cnbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Climate beats robots.
Three ghosts hovering outside the White House like “yeah no not going near that, he’s clearly got some real demons he’s dealing with.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Three ghosts hovering outside the White House like “yeah no not going near that, he’s clearly got some real demons he’s dealing with.”
oh no
Most of the dialogue in "Marty Supreme" is indecipherable thanks to VERY LOUD MUSIC and the usual mushy rendering of all speech in movies these days, but I did manage to note with displeasure "It's in your DNA," which no one would've said in 1952 because DNA was discovered in 1953.
December 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
oh no
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Guy sitting on a pile of gold: "im all for Universal Healthcare, but how do we make it happen? Be realistic."
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Guy sitting on a pile of gold: "im all for Universal Healthcare, but how do we make it happen? Be realistic."
That main dish sure is tender and mild, sweetie. What is it?
December 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
That main dish sure is tender and mild, sweetie. What is it?
At the last minute I realize we should’ve all been building a “The Game”-scale three-ghosts ARG for the president. Damn.
December 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
At the last minute I realize we should’ve all been building a “The Game”-scale three-ghosts ARG for the president. Damn.
Swanson’s ”Sanitation Syndrome,” citing a bunch of prior work on cholera epidemics: “‘Epidemics do not create abnormal situations’ but rather sharpen existing behaviour patterns which ‘betray deeply rooted and continuing social imbalances.’”
one serious answer? a lot of elites—including many liberals—absolutely lost their minds the one time our government asked them make the same mid-crisis sacrifices for the public good as everyone else. and they are happy to fund and publish damn near anything to prevent that from happening again
There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Swanson’s ”Sanitation Syndrome,” citing a bunch of prior work on cholera epidemics: “‘Epidemics do not create abnormal situations’ but rather sharpen existing behaviour patterns which ‘betray deeply rooted and continuing social imbalances.’”
Reposted by Adam Rogers
one serious answer? a lot of elites—including many liberals—absolutely lost their minds the one time our government asked them make the same mid-crisis sacrifices for the public good as everyone else. and they are happy to fund and publish damn near anything to prevent that from happening again
There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
December 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
one serious answer? a lot of elites—including many liberals—absolutely lost their minds the one time our government asked them make the same mid-crisis sacrifices for the public good as everyone else. and they are happy to fund and publish damn near anything to prevent that from happening again
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NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
People who use “processing centers” to put humans into camps are the bad guys. Most of the world agreed on this. We had a war.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
People who use “processing centers” to put humans into camps are the bad guys. Most of the world agreed on this. We had a war.