Gringo Starr
@gringostarr.bsky.social
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Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
September 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
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Folks, I'm telling you this movie is a tonic. If you're a certain type of person, you will believe it was made just for you, at this specific moment in time, like a gift from above.
‘One Battle After Another’ is one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s ability to capture the contemporary mood exciting critics.
One Battle After Another Conquers the Critics
‘One Battle After Another’ is one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s ability to capture the contemporary mood exciting critics.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Folks, I'm telling you this movie is a tonic. If you're a certain type of person, you will believe it was made just for you, at this specific moment in time, like a gift from above.
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I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.
Who is this advertising for?
Who is this advertising for?
September 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
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this is the future that i specifically want
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
this is the future that i specifically want
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love sitting through an hour worth of unskippable overproduced skit videos to answer a 5 question cybersecurity quiz that's like "true or false: cyber should always be secure"
August 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
love sitting through an hour worth of unskippable overproduced skit videos to answer a 5 question cybersecurity quiz that's like "true or false: cyber should always be secure"
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The year is 2035. The Civil Rights Act has been ruled unconstitutional. My university’s main source of external research funding is Silicon Valley. I am once again reported to the DEI office for hate speech after identifying LLM hallucination in a student paper.
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The year is 2035. The Civil Rights Act has been ruled unconstitutional. My university’s main source of external research funding is Silicon Valley. I am once again reported to the DEI office for hate speech after identifying LLM hallucination in a student paper.
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Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.
July 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.
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this is the basic timeline
July 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
this is the basic timeline
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BONDI: (at a press conference) Ms. Maxwell, is President Trump a pedophile?
MAXWELL: I’ve never met him in my life.
BONDI: In fact, are any Republicans implicated in these crimes?
MAXWELL: No, only Democrats.
BONDI: And what about the other thing?
MAXWELL: If I die it was a suicide.
BONDI: Thank you
MAXWELL: I’ve never met him in my life.
BONDI: In fact, are any Republicans implicated in these crimes?
MAXWELL: No, only Democrats.
BONDI: And what about the other thing?
MAXWELL: If I die it was a suicide.
BONDI: Thank you
July 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
BONDI: (at a press conference) Ms. Maxwell, is President Trump a pedophile?
MAXWELL: I’ve never met him in my life.
BONDI: In fact, are any Republicans implicated in these crimes?
MAXWELL: No, only Democrats.
BONDI: And what about the other thing?
MAXWELL: If I die it was a suicide.
BONDI: Thank you
MAXWELL: I’ve never met him in my life.
BONDI: In fact, are any Republicans implicated in these crimes?
MAXWELL: No, only Democrats.
BONDI: And what about the other thing?
MAXWELL: If I die it was a suicide.
BONDI: Thank you
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This is my personal philosophy, I just am not spending on relievers. Just bring in good arms that are cast off and coach them up, and then just bring in dudes. Relievers are fickle things and the less you tie the future of your franchise to them, the better.
July 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is my personal philosophy, I just am not spending on relievers. Just bring in good arms that are cast off and coach them up, and then just bring in dudes. Relievers are fickle things and the less you tie the future of your franchise to them, the better.
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This is framed as "lessons for the left," but Lander and Mamdani actually offer lessons for the center: Instead of ruthlessly undermining leftist candidates, emphasize shared values and refuse to amplify right-wing attacks.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left
The New York City mayoral primary showcased a better kind of politics than progressives are used to.
www.theatlantic.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is framed as "lessons for the left," but Lander and Mamdani actually offer lessons for the center: Instead of ruthlessly undermining leftist candidates, emphasize shared values and refuse to amplify right-wing attacks.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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there is not a single fast-casual chain bread that surpasses the cheddar bay biscuit. the cheddar bay biscuit is one of the greatest foodstuffs this country has ever produced. if you went back in time and gave a cheddar bay biscuit to george washington, the intensity of flavor would kill him
Bread is always good…. I don’t know what Cheesecake Factory does to that brown bread but it’s always good
Texas Roadhouse sprinkle something in those rolls cause I never had a bad tasting one
Outback brown bread be hitting too
If it’s one thing Olive Garden does good is them breadsticks
Texas Roadhouse sprinkle something in those rolls cause I never had a bad tasting one
Outback brown bread be hitting too
If it’s one thing Olive Garden does good is them breadsticks
June 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
there is not a single fast-casual chain bread that surpasses the cheddar bay biscuit. the cheddar bay biscuit is one of the greatest foodstuffs this country has ever produced. if you went back in time and gave a cheddar bay biscuit to george washington, the intensity of flavor would kill him
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A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
May 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
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Ryan Howard would be a Hall of Famer if he had played with a National League DH and a ban on the shift.
What take would you choose to argue on jubilee with total confidence that you’d crush 20 opponents?
May 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ryan Howard would be a Hall of Famer if he had played with a National League DH and a ban on the shift.
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
May 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
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*smashing Silly Putty on the comics section of the newspaper* "We have eliminated any further need of Jim Davis"
There's a thread on Twitter that purports to show that AI can save money by producing visual effects better than Hollywood. And it's just identical shots that wouldn't exist without straight plagiarism of the source material.
It might be the dumbest thread I've ever seen.
It might be the dumbest thread I've ever seen.
May 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
*smashing Silly Putty on the comics section of the newspaper* "We have eliminated any further need of Jim Davis"
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Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems
May 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems
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tbh I think this is the closest to a personal confession we will ever get from this man
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
tbh I think this is the closest to a personal confession we will ever get from this man