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https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerating-authoritarian-dynamics

Intelligence community wonks lay it all out.

"Absent organized resistance by institutions, civil society, and the public, the United States is likely to continue along a path of accelerating democratic erosion, risking […]
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October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

If you know someone like this, just cut them out of your life. Save yourself. There is no saving them.
October 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My good friend John McDermott has a new novel out today! The Last Spirits of Manhattan

Based on a true story, this sparkling and witty novel whisks you to 1956 Manhattan, where famed director Alfred Hitchcock is hosting a star-studded party in an allegedly haunted house…only for the soiree to […]
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social.lol
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Happy 131st birthday to e.e. cummings, who wrote this, which pretty much sums up how I spent the early 90s:

let's start a magazine
to hell with literature
we want something redblooded

lousy with pure
reeking with stark
and fearlessly obscene

but really clean
get what I mean
let’s not spoil it […]
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October 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Sometimes the timeline has a moment of grace.
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Totally digging the emojis left by the community in the #golang Slack to the announcement of a Go conference in R*ssia.
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
https://www.androidauthority.com/nest-thermostat-new-farsight-faces-3606750/

Eventually, that "work of art" is going to be a paperweight, per usual.
Google is turning your Nest Thermostat into a work of art
Google is livening up your boring Nest Thermostat with brand new faces.
www.androidauthority.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I have signed up for DSTLRY's Neon Ichiban digital comics store, and I expect to be disappointed by their DRM-free selection and so will not spend much money there. I try to limit my purchases to DRM-free stores (Standard Ebooks, DriveThruStuff, Humble Bundle, Storybundle, Book Bale, Weightless […]
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social.lol
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The streaming services removing their "max" and "plus" suffixes ought to be telling us something.
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
https://nerdist.com/article/star-trek-starfleet-academy-first-trailer/

Don't let the president know that Colbert is still working for Paramount. Also: Why is Colbert still working for Paramount?
nerdist.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Blueprint
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”
October 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Sorry. No. Not accepting any kind of moment of grace or forgiveness for Ed Gein. Fuck that noise, Ryan Murphy.
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Nice recap
October 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
https://apnews.com/article/marc-maron-podcast-essential-episodes-williams-obama-7cf47716ed03728b7f1ce7ca73583c9f

Sorry, but one of these three people pictured here is so far out of his league it isn't funny. You know, just like him. Good luck in Riyadh, wanker.
Marc Maron's 'WTF' podcast ends soon. Here's a look at 7 essential episodes
The final episode of comic and actor Marc Maron's influential podcast drops Monday. It'll be the last of more than 1,600 shows.
apnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Salesforce: bad product, terrible CEO
October 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
https://slate.com/technology/2025/10/ghost-of-yotei-video-game-sony-woke-gamergate-right.html

Why do the RWNJs always feel they are "forced" into things that they willingly participated in economically? Who coerced any of these whiny little boys to purchase these games?
The Right Is Attacking a Franchise It Once Loved. The Reason Why Is Laughable.
Ghost of Yotei sparked fury and accusations of wokeness in entertainment. But we’ve played this game before—and it’s boring.
slate.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today in the misadventures of the wealth-hoarding class and their Death Cult Kakistocracy: Another country's military base on US soil. A country where the president's family is developing a golf course and "luxury villa." A country that gave the president a $400mm airplane. A country that […]
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October 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115350263855104976

Who are you going to believe? The Death Cult Kakistocracy or your lying eyes?
George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (@georgetakei@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image This is a war for the truth as much as anything.
universeodon.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
https://mastodon.social/@verge/115350267648846341

I didn't realize the capitalists were holding guns to people's heads to force them to wear multiple expensive surveillance devices.

Technology is a series of choices. Why are you letting the wealth-hoarding class make those choices for you?
The Verge (@verge@mastodon.social)
We’re all about to be in wearable hell https://www.theverge.com/column/797938/optimizer-newsletter-wearable-hell-smart-glasses-smart-rings-ai-hardware
mastodon.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I still enjoy programming, but I really, really can't stand software development.
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In the dark, dismal future, should anyone try to pay me with one of *those* dollar coins, it is doing directly in the sewer.
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM