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Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca
July 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Love when job ads say on-site in "Los Angeles". Helpful! That's either walking distance or a three hour commute
August 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Love when job ads say on-site in "Los Angeles". Helpful! That's either walking distance or a three hour commute
Disappointed you can't say "grok" anymore without sounding like a Musk-worshipping incel. You used to just sound like a Heinlein-worshipping incel
August 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Disappointed you can't say "grok" anymore without sounding like a Musk-worshipping incel. You used to just sound like a Heinlein-worshipping incel
Can someone explain to me how Kevin Hassett has a job? The guy who co-wrote the most catastrophically wrong book about the stock market in history, and everyone who believed him lost everything? He should be driving an Uber not smiling creepily at TV cameras
August 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Can someone explain to me how Kevin Hassett has a job? The guy who co-wrote the most catastrophically wrong book about the stock market in history, and everyone who believed him lost everything? He should be driving an Uber not smiling creepily at TV cameras
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This morning, like every morning, US President woke up: painted his face orange, clipped on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and went out in the world to steal as much money has he could while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.
July 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This morning, like every morning, US President woke up: painted his face orange, clipped on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and went out in the world to steal as much money has he could while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.
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Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
June 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.
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my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies
I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
May 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies
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In Feb. @quartzcity.bsky.social, @tropicostation.bsky.social, @airplaneian.com and I went to the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Desert Research Station to see their Remote Sensing exhibit. This is a steerable VLF antenna made with 9+ miles of copper wire. 1/
May 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In Feb. @quartzcity.bsky.social, @tropicostation.bsky.social, @airplaneian.com and I went to the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Desert Research Station to see their Remote Sensing exhibit. This is a steerable VLF antenna made with 9+ miles of copper wire. 1/
Con-men are really good at convincing marks that they're in on the con
Bankers and CEOs’ surprise and dismay over Trump’s massive tariffs appears genuine.
They really did believe in an Imaginary Reliable Trump, one who was tossing meat to the rubes but would do what a Wall St. CEO would do, and told each other this to the point it was socially-reinforced groupthink.
They really did believe in an Imaginary Reliable Trump, one who was tossing meat to the rubes but would do what a Wall St. CEO would do, and told each other this to the point it was socially-reinforced groupthink.
Tariffs Expose Wall Street's Misplaced Faith in Trump
Bankers and business leaders imagine a more reliable, less protectionist version of the president than the one that actually exists. Now they're finding out the hard way.
www.arcdigital.media
April 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Con-men are really good at convincing marks that they're in on the con
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Im tied to a chair in some damp basement somewhere in the american midwest. The cop slides another Meta Neuroreader headset on me. I immediately fry it by visualizing Karl Franz's warhammer wiki page in a weaponized shotgun blast of autism, wasting $12,000. This is the third time I've done this.
Hahahaha. Facebook researchers successfully decoded brain signals outside of a brain with a device non surgically i.e. : they are literally developing tech to read people’s brains. BIG FAT FUCKING NO. N00000. It’s literally tinfoil hat time. 🥳🤯🤬
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Meta’s brain-to-text tech is here. We are not remotely ready.
Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.
www.vox.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Im tied to a chair in some damp basement somewhere in the american midwest. The cop slides another Meta Neuroreader headset on me. I immediately fry it by visualizing Karl Franz's warhammer wiki page in a weaponized shotgun blast of autism, wasting $12,000. This is the third time I've done this.
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An Industry Reacts
December 17, 2024 at 11:50 PM
An Industry Reacts
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On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
December 7, 2024 at 10:57 PM
On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
The CBO is going DOGE'd if they don't figure out some way to make this work 😂
Ending the individual tax cuts Donald Trump signed into law as president in 2017 would have a negligible effect on the U.S. economy over the next decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said, deflating promises to supercharge the economy with tax cuts.
Trump Tax Cuts Won’t Help the Economy Grow, Budget Office Finds
A larger debt and higher interest rates would cancel out the boost from keeping individual taxes lower, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:02 PM
The CBO is going DOGE'd if they don't figure out some way to make this work 😂
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Fun Fact: Teslas have killed over twice as many people as the exploding Ford Pinto did at a roughly similar level of sales.
the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.
the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.
95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.
Tesla deaths from fires and Autopilot make up 24% of the fatalities in crashes. Learn about the death rates per million miles and vs other cars.
www.businessinsider.com
April 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Fun Fact: Teslas have killed over twice as many people as the exploding Ford Pinto did at a roughly similar level of sales.
the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.
the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.
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nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
I tried to cancel my Amazon prime membership a couple weeks ago, and those fuckers charged me again. It turns out there's another page with a confirmation button scrolled way out of view down the screen. How do those people live with themselves?
November 26, 2024 at 4:42 AM
I tried to cancel my Amazon prime membership a couple weeks ago, and those fuckers charged me again. It turns out there's another page with a confirmation button scrolled way out of view down the screen. How do those people live with themselves?
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A real smoking gun in natalist writings is that they always say "Women are having fewer babies" as if men are somehow continuing to have babies in abundance. Never any discussion of how to push men to have more children. Zero attempt to convince men that child care is more fulfilling than work.
November 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
A real smoking gun in natalist writings is that they always say "Women are having fewer babies" as if men are somehow continuing to have babies in abundance. Never any discussion of how to push men to have more children. Zero attempt to convince men that child care is more fulfilling than work.
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If you’re considering getting an air fryer, keep in mind you’re statistically more likely to air fry a loved one than you are an intruder
November 16, 2024 at 3:59 AM
If you’re considering getting an air fryer, keep in mind you’re statistically more likely to air fry a loved one than you are an intruder
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“Once upon a time” from five other languages…
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
November 10, 2024 at 5:40 PM
“Once upon a time” from five other languages…
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
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In the annual sea of "how to celebrate The Holidays™️ when your family is full of ethical toilets who voted for you to die" media, here is the 2024 Captain Awkward Dot Com entry.
captainawkward.com/2024/11/08/1...
captainawkward.com/2024/11/08/1...
#1447: “My stepmom just voted my rights away and I’m mad at my dad about it.”
My brain feels like a test pattern right now, so I do not promise you either eloquence or coherence. Fortunately this is a well-covered topic and the archives are robust.
captainawkward.com
November 8, 2024 at 8:39 PM
In the annual sea of "how to celebrate The Holidays™️ when your family is full of ethical toilets who voted for you to die" media, here is the 2024 Captain Awkward Dot Com entry.
captainawkward.com/2024/11/08/1...
captainawkward.com/2024/11/08/1...
