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Rob Reiner, the legendary director and actor who rose to prominence in 'All in the Family' and went on to direct classics 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me,' and 'The Princess Bride,' was found dead in his home alongside his wife.

Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“5. To ask the internet for knowledge and receive a series of articles that mostly remind you what your question was, then repeat the same three facts you already knew, padded out with more ad space than information.”
"To attempt to find useful information and instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product."
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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“Millions of Aussie teens are going to wake up each morning without an unintentional briefing on the bombing of Yemen — that's a huge national risk," warned one security expert.

theshovel.com.au/2025/12/11/s...
Fears Social Media Ban Could Stop Aussie Teens Receiving Updates From Pete Hegseth on Classified US Military Operations — The Shovel
“Millions of Aussie teens are going to wake up each morning without an unintentional briefing on the bombing of Yemen"
theshovel.com.au
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Appalling framing from The Age. Here’s a clue, Chip - the actual Nazis also hate Palestinians.
July 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Limp Bizkit: Your Twitter avatar is a picture of you hugging your adorable toddler daughter. You also send unsolicited dick pics to every young woman who “likes” one of your tweets.
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Glad this is finally getting some attention. It has been this way for at least 16 years to my knowledge. apple.news/AGdl9JuuqTbC...
'It was a cult': Mothers seduced by freebirth movement describe trauma and exclusion — ABC News
It was during lockdown that Angela Gallo started noticing her social media feed
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June 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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"We’re not here to make friends. We’re not here to be prom queen. We’re not here to win popularity contests. We’re here for one reason and one reason only: crypto scams."
Don’t Worry, We Were Prepared for Our Policies to Be Extremely Unpopular, Because They Are Very, Very Bad
“Trump’s 41 percent approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower—including T...
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April 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Story.
My @smh cartoon.
April 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The reason Civ 7 sucks is because they didn't have Luigi around to fix it
March 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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everyone who writes a profile of a regretful trump voter thinks they're doing something brave and ground-breaking and every single time the subject is like "yeah i believed whatever he said bc i wanted to and i'm stupid"
March 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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the BEST thing you can say about them is that they may not believe in all the fascism, but they were still so passionate about a specific type of fascism that they were willing to vote for the rest of it too
February 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"Folks, we have to get a handle on the genders. There’s a lot of trans-ing going on, in multiple directions. They’re trans-ing all over the place. California’s on fire. Eggs are too goddamned expensive, and dogs and cats are making out in the streets."
Executive Order: We Must Stop Everyone from Transitioning, So the President Knows Who to Grope
“An executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that coul...
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January 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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On this day, 100 yrs ago, cars were given priority over pedestrians in the streets of the US.

It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles.

Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network.

Victim shaming started right away...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )
January 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM