Phil
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This guy makes his fortune off of convincing people he’s talented at predicting the future.
Update #2: Ackman is still convinced Cuomo is going to win, and has proposed Cuomo adopt the slogan "MNYGA"
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This guy makes his fortune off of convincing people he’s talented at predicting the future.
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This is what Leadership Culture gets you: people in charge with no skills, no knowledge of the thing they’re supposedly in charge of, and no incentive to mitigate risk, betting the future of the institution and everyone in it on whatever shiny objects they recognize from skimming Forbes.
The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick | TechCrunch
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while doing it.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is what Leadership Culture gets you: people in charge with no skills, no knowledge of the thing they’re supposedly in charge of, and no incentive to mitigate risk, betting the future of the institution and everyone in it on whatever shiny objects they recognize from skimming Forbes.
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Manchester by the Sea, but Casey Afflek is the photographer’s assistant who got the whole royal family electrocuted at the beginning of King Ralph.
August 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Manchester by the Sea, but Casey Afflek is the photographer’s assistant who got the whole royal family electrocuted at the beginning of King Ralph.
Hate when you are awoken at 5:30 AM by a mysterious Infernal Beeping.
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hate when you are awoken at 5:30 AM by a mysterious Infernal Beeping.
I miss my television friend Tom Wambsgans.
June 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I miss my television friend Tom Wambsgans.
5 favorite B&W movies
M - 1931
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
Brief Encounter - 1945
Tokyo Story - 1953
Ida - 2013
M - 1931
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
Brief Encounter - 1945
Tokyo Story - 1953
Ida - 2013
Five favorite black & white movies:
(Or: 5 favorite films from the first half century of cinema! )
Psycho - 1960
À bout de souffle - 1960
Last Year at Marienbad - 1961
The Exterminating Angel - 1962
L'Eclisse - 1962
The Silence - 1963
Damn those early 60s cooked! Also I cheated & had to do 6
(Or: 5 favorite films from the first half century of cinema! )
Psycho - 1960
À bout de souffle - 1960
Last Year at Marienbad - 1961
The Exterminating Angel - 1962
L'Eclisse - 1962
The Silence - 1963
Damn those early 60s cooked! Also I cheated & had to do 6
Five favorite black & white movies:
Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Hellzapoppin’
Doctor X
Beyond Tomorrow
Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Hellzapoppin’
Doctor X
Beyond Tomorrow
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
5 favorite B&W movies
M - 1931
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
Brief Encounter - 1945
Tokyo Story - 1953
Ida - 2013
M - 1931
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
Brief Encounter - 1945
Tokyo Story - 1953
Ida - 2013
Ah sick, new eerily prescient reading of The Thing (1982) just dropped.
VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Ah sick, new eerily prescient reading of The Thing (1982) just dropped.
I want to die
April 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I want to die
Loved this guy at the Seattle protest but when he turned in my direction, the instincts formed from so many teenage haunted house visits kicked in and I fled for my life.
April 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Loved this guy at the Seattle protest but when he turned in my direction, the instincts formed from so many teenage haunted house visits kicked in and I fled for my life.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.
April 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.
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Roald Dahl wrote this letter about losing his daughter *39 years ago*. RFK, and the politics he promotes, will inflict this unimaginable pain on many parents, if they get their way.
March 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Roald Dahl wrote this letter about losing his daughter *39 years ago*. RFK, and the politics he promotes, will inflict this unimaginable pain on many parents, if they get their way.
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Like this post to be killed instantly by 70s Meiko Kaji. Repost this to be killed instantly by 70s Meiko Kaji
March 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Like this post to be killed instantly by 70s Meiko Kaji. Repost this to be killed instantly by 70s Meiko Kaji
Social media breaking news is a nightmare. People assign credibility based entirely on how much it fits their priors. Publications at least had some centralized promise of accuracy (imperfect, yes). Also you cannot instantly report on how Senators will vote when they are still deciding themselves.
March 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Social media breaking news is a nightmare. People assign credibility based entirely on how much it fits their priors. Publications at least had some centralized promise of accuracy (imperfect, yes). Also you cannot instantly report on how Senators will vote when they are still deciding themselves.
Watched a Severance and a Slow Horses back to back and got pacing whiplash.
March 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Watched a Severance and a Slow Horses back to back and got pacing whiplash.
They are killing your kids. They are selling off your private data to Russian agents. They are firing veterans. They are spiking grocery prices and crashing stocks. They are letting rapists and sex traffickers legally enter the country. They are destroying America.
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
They are killing your kids. They are selling off your private data to Russian agents. They are firing veterans. They are spiking grocery prices and crashing stocks. They are letting rapists and sex traffickers legally enter the country. They are destroying America.
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Coon is a yes but Lyonne and Olsen are hard nos.
Andrew Cuomo will make his final decision Thursday on whether he’s running for mayor — after speaking to his three daughters
Andrew Cuomo will make his final decision Thursday on whether he’s running for mayor — after speaking to his three daughters
Cuomo shares Cara Kennedy-Cuomo, Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo and Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo with ex-wife Kerry Kennedy.
pagesix.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Coon is a yes but Lyonne and Olsen are hard nos.
This is how fucking stupid they are. You know that one colleague that halfasses everything and finds a way to do even the simplest task wrong? One hundred of those guys are revamping the country’s foundational systems. Also the reason they are doing it is to nazify them.
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February 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is how fucking stupid they are. You know that one colleague that halfasses everything and finds a way to do even the simplest task wrong? One hundred of those guys are revamping the country’s foundational systems. Also the reason they are doing it is to nazify them.
The idiot fuckhead meter has just reached “move fast, break things but for Air Traffic Control”.
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
Staff shortages are about to get even worse.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The idiot fuckhead meter has just reached “move fast, break things but for Air Traffic Control”.
I do believe one day there will be a civilization on this land that looks back on these people with the loathing they deserve. Just don’t know if we will live to see it.
February 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I do believe one day there will be a civilization on this land that looks back on these people with the loathing they deserve. Just don’t know if we will live to see it.
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Republicans love killing kids
Madness, insanity. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Louisiana Department of Health ends mass vaccinations, bans seasonal vaccine promotion
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham sent a directive to state health workers Thursday ending long-standing mass vaccination clinics and banning staff from promoting seasonal vaccines.
www.theadvocate.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Republicans love killing kids
GOP are unrepentant child murderers. Simple as.
February 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
GOP are unrepentant child murderers. Simple as.