Tablesaw Tablesawsen
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It's the saw of the table!
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So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.
Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them?
TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.
TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.
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Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
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It feels like certain types of guys are unable to take in information in solitude. It has to be a conversation, explanations tailored to their thought patterns, with someone they perceive as servile to them. They can’t read an email: someone has to tell them what it says, even if it’s incorrect.
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 AM
It feels like certain types of guys are unable to take in information in solitude. It has to be a conversation, explanations tailored to their thought patterns, with someone they perceive as servile to them. They can’t read an email: someone has to tell them what it says, even if it’s incorrect.
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you'll never believe what happened
hey I’m about to head to the hotel to catch the guy who’s been doing all that bad stuff and recording it with a SQUID device if you don’t hear from me in about an hour maybe check a hotel room or maybe middle of the New Years Eve parade
January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
you'll never believe what happened
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Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
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Happy new year, Bluesky. Start the year off right with Hawaiian crooner Don Ho’s unhinged cover of Peter Gabriel’s classic Shock The Monkey.
#Musicsky
youtu.be/xBNXckc1_Fg?...
#Musicsky
youtu.be/xBNXckc1_Fg?...
Don Ho - Shock The Monkey
YouTube video by eugenecheese
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Happy new year, Bluesky. Start the year off right with Hawaiian crooner Don Ho’s unhinged cover of Peter Gabriel’s classic Shock The Monkey.
#Musicsky
youtu.be/xBNXckc1_Fg?...
#Musicsky
youtu.be/xBNXckc1_Fg?...
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if it feels like art is especially meaningless right now in its social power or impact it's because we live in a society that ultimately chose profit, the pursuit of fame, the pursuit of material wealth... over meaning. embracing an alternative means reckoning with how much has been chipped away at
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
if it feels like art is especially meaningless right now in its social power or impact it's because we live in a society that ultimately chose profit, the pursuit of fame, the pursuit of material wealth... over meaning. embracing an alternative means reckoning with how much has been chipped away at
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RIP Brigette Bardot. Thank you for being proof positive that even the most beautiful people on the planet can have the most violently rotten hearts and minds imaginable.
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
RIP Brigette Bardot. Thank you for being proof positive that even the most beautiful people on the planet can have the most violently rotten hearts and minds imaginable.
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Watching the pendulum swing around on the Jim Carrey Grinch this year is about right for the nostalgia cycle, of course, but also sobering to remember it was critiqued at the time as gaudy, overlong, and unnecessary—now ubiquitous features of our cinema we find quaint in the amberized larval stage.
December 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Watching the pendulum swing around on the Jim Carrey Grinch this year is about right for the nostalgia cycle, of course, but also sobering to remember it was critiqued at the time as gaudy, overlong, and unnecessary—now ubiquitous features of our cinema we find quaint in the amberized larval stage.
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There's a running joke among ex-LJ employees: "given enough venture capital, all sites will reimplement LiveJournal circa 2004", and part of the reason Bluesky feels so much like home is it reminds me incredibly much of the vibe from those days!
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
There's a running joke among ex-LJ employees: "given enough venture capital, all sites will reimplement LiveJournal circa 2004", and part of the reason Bluesky feels so much like home is it reminds me incredibly much of the vibe from those days!
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Maybe LLMs speak prep-school (post-) Imperial British English. Because that's what most English knowers globally use.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Maybe LLMs speak prep-school (post-) Imperial British English. Because that's what most English knowers globally use.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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I'm just as sad as the rest of you that the internet stopped being a living book and became a living TV but let's not pretend that's not what happened.
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I'm just as sad as the rest of you that the internet stopped being a living book and became a living TV but let's not pretend that's not what happened.
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
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While digging through my Game Boy carts last night I found what might be my favorite bootleg find. The title and label really capture what I love about unofficial releases.
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
While digging through my Game Boy carts last night I found what might be my favorite bootleg find. The title and label really capture what I love about unofficial releases.
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I love Zebulon, and this place is tiny. If you’re gonna go, get there early.
Attention Los Angeles, California:
#TwinPeaks
#TwinPeaks
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I love Zebulon, and this place is tiny. If you’re gonna go, get there early.
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has anyone written about how Stephen King’s IT is just COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN but with a murder clown
probably not
probably not
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
has anyone written about how Stephen King’s IT is just COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN but with a murder clown
probably not
probably not
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You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."
jesus christ
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."
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COOL AS ICE screens in 35mm on 12/22 at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social. Part of our A Cold Void series. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/4a7pmpmd
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
COOL AS ICE screens in 35mm on 12/22 at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social. Part of our A Cold Void series. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/4a7pmpmd
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I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human
I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...
transgamerthoughts.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
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We will be giving a Special Citation to Judy Kim of Gardena Cinema, a historic 800-seat, single-screen movie palace that has operated as an independent cinema and beacon of community since the Kim family took ownership in 1976. #LAFCA
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We will be giving a Special Citation to Judy Kim of Gardena Cinema, a historic 800-seat, single-screen movie palace that has operated as an independent cinema and beacon of community since the Kim family took ownership in 1976. #LAFCA
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As the last 4 years have shown, there are few things more dangerous than a technology which does not exist but is being sold on the premise that it does. Imagine how dangerous it would be to have a machine that people believe reads thoughts but does not. Imagine what law enforcement would do with it
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
As the last 4 years have shown, there are few things more dangerous than a technology which does not exist but is being sold on the premise that it does. Imagine how dangerous it would be to have a machine that people believe reads thoughts but does not. Imagine what law enforcement would do with it
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After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
James Gunn says theatrical releases are “incredibly important” for DC after the Warner Bros & Netflix merger news
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes