Brendan
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but ofc physicsts did know, because Edison's asssistant had already died of radiation poisoning 40 years earlier, just like Eliza already fucked with people in the 70s
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
but ofc physicsts did know, because Edison's asssistant had already died of radiation poisoning 40 years earlier, just like Eliza already fucked with people in the 70s
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Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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This is such a cool breakdown I can’t believe CNN did something this rad
What if the United States had high-speed rail?
High-speed rail is a proven alternative to gridlocked highways and overcrowded airports. CNN has reimagined a faster, more connected future for US commuters.
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is such a cool breakdown I can’t believe CNN did something this rad
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
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Just finished & absolutely loved Samuel Freedman's "Into the Bright Sunshine," an exceptional biography of Hubert Humphrey's at-the-time radical work within Minneapolis & the Democratic party to advance civil rights before he became a national political figure
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Joey Politano's review of Into the Bright Sunshine
5/5: "My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late!" Hubert Humphrey's memory is intimately colored by his support of the Vietnam W...
www.goodreads.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just finished & absolutely loved Samuel Freedman's "Into the Bright Sunshine," an exceptional biography of Hubert Humphrey's at-the-time radical work within Minneapolis & the Democratic party to advance civil rights before he became a national political figure
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
::Diseased from marinating in American culture for 38 years::
If Ryan Murphy does the Jeffrey Epstein story, it could really break through
If Ryan Murphy does the Jeffrey Epstein story, it could really break through
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
::Diseased from marinating in American culture for 38 years::
If Ryan Murphy does the Jeffrey Epstein story, it could really break through
If Ryan Murphy does the Jeffrey Epstein story, it could really break through
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Larry Summers is on the board of OpenAI
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Larry Summers is on the board of OpenAI
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Don’t think it’s especially likely. But if Republicans spend the next year in this kind of chaos, then lose midterms by a big margin, they might be less interested in election subversion than in tying a future Dem president’s hands—a playbook perfected by state-level GOP enemies of democracy.
Imagining A Lame-Duck Power Grab
How to prepare for the unexpected.
www.offmessage.net
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Don’t think it’s especially likely. But if Republicans spend the next year in this kind of chaos, then lose midterms by a big margin, they might be less interested in election subversion than in tying a future Dem president’s hands—a playbook perfected by state-level GOP enemies of democracy.
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“There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to. Americans have always used a lot of drugs — even in the white suburbs and rural areas that Mr. Trump’s supporters call the ‘real America.’”
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to. Americans have always used a lot of drugs — even in the white suburbs and rural areas that Mr. Trump’s supporters call the ‘real America.’”
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I recently watched some of the earlier TV films and features from Mike Leigh. The England they captured of the 1970s and 1980s were practically Dickensian in their bleakness
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I recently watched some of the earlier TV films and features from Mike Leigh. The England they captured of the 1970s and 1980s were practically Dickensian in their bleakness
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
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Chicagoans say their iconic Michigan Avenue retail district is called the Magnificent Mile. Donald Trump says it is called the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. As with most controversies, the truth may lie somewhere in between.
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Chicagoans say their iconic Michigan Avenue retail district is called the Magnificent Mile. Donald Trump says it is called the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. As with most controversies, the truth may lie somewhere in between.
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The business economics versus economics numbers lol
Enrollment by major in the UCSD remedial math course teaching “elementary and middle school math concepts”. Bad news for anybody planning on seeing a human doctor in 2060 and onwards:
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The business economics versus economics numbers lol
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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it's this piece, which is in the files and which epstein is referencing the last paragraph of www.sevenstories.com/blogs/29-rem...
Remembering Lenny Bruce While Thinking About Trump
by Paul Krassner August 3rd, 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce’s death from an overdose of morphine, while his New York obscenity conviction at Café Au Go Go was...
www.sevenstories.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
it's this piece, which is in the files and which epstein is referencing the last paragraph of www.sevenstories.com/blogs/29-rem...
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image version. i think "to what wording would you suggest I change that?" was Krassner and the formatting is just dumb
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
image version. i think "to what wording would you suggest I change that?" was Krassner and the formatting is just dumb
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Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
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Walt is back at it again lol
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Walt is back at it again lol