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Sitting at a diner and hearing the two guys in the booth behind me comparing stories about swaddling their kids and for just those few moments the world is not a hellscape.

December 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM

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Everything is getting shittier.

December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM

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My family conferred on my holiday gift and chose death. #HotOnesChallenge @firstwefeast.bsky.social

November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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Bill Grueskin

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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Same, Bill, same.

Actor Bill Nighy saying, “I’m not great at happiness, but I’m quite good at relief.”

November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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This sounds SO MUCH like the pure bullshit business plans from the dotcom bubble. Sucker's gonna pop.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Oct 28

This is so bleak:

www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

Last week, I wrote about Doublespeed, essentially a click farm that sells “synthetic influencers” to astroturf whatever product or service you want across social media, despite it being a clear violation of every social media platform's policy on inauthentic behavior. But that was just the tip of the iceberg.

a16z’s Speedrun is also backing:

Creed: An AI company “rooted in Christian Values” which produces Lenny, a “Bible-based AI buddy who's always got your back with wise words, scripture-inspired guidance, and a listening ear whenever you need it.”
Zingroll: The “world’s largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform,” which is another way of saying it’s a Netflix populated exclusively with AI Slop.
Vega: which is building “AI-powered social orbits.” What does that mean? Not entirely clear, but the company has produced one of the most beautiful Mad Libs paragraphs I’ve ever seen: “We’re building the largest textual data moat on human relationships by gamifying the way people leave notes for each other. For the first time, LLMs can analyze millions of raw, human-written notes at scale and turn them into structured meaning, powering the most annotated social graph ever created.”
Moona Health: an AI-powered Sleep care app the company says is covered by insurance. “Our AI-powered platform automates insurance claims and scheduling and analyzes sleep data – providing personalized session guidelines to therapists,” Moona says.
Jooba: “The world’s first autonomous recruiting firm.”
Margin: “The World’s first AI powered credit card.” Margin says “Customers earn points, with dynamic rewards that adapt to their preferences in real time.”
First Voyage: A wellness app that gives you AI “mythological pets that turn wellness into play.”
Axon Capital: billed as “DeepMind for Finance,” Axon says it has “pioneered brain-inspired, low-latency AI for financial markets.”

October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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metaphor (noun):

October 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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English: Wild bird — Descriptive, unremarkable
“I would like some wild bird seed.” “Why, of course, sir.”

French: Oiseaux sauvage — Dangerous, unpredictable
“I would like to feed the oiseaux sauvages.” “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?”

September 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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F*** this game

August 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Wrong answers only.

August 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Oh heck. variety.com/2025/music/o...

Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.

variety.com

July 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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WHAT IS THIS ABOMINATION

A misguidedly enthusiastic marketing photo of a pizza onto which someone has apparently vomited after a long night of heavy drinking and then added pieces of mango.

July 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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Collecting decorating ideas for my Pinterest board.

June 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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With a name like that, it’s really meth, right?

June 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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Arachnophobia warning: 10 million year old creepy crawlies in amber.

June 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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So what do you do when you’re in Gdansk, Poland on the day you turn Medicare years old? Obviously, you contemplate mortality, humanity, and the too-frequent lack of it by touring the Stutthof concentration camp.

June 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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It’s an enigma machine, wrapped in a glass case, inside a military museum, on a Danish island, amid the Baltic Sea… sorry, this might go on for a while.