TarikNaj
@tarikn.bsky.social
Creator & writer at https://factualdispatch.beehiiv.com/, Tech SEO Consultant, and malevolent asshole (he/him). Previously @terrygotham on the bad site.
I cannot describe how incoherently angry I get when a company screws up terribly and there is only a chatbot to work with. If I can't speak to a human, you should have your corporate charter revoked.
Replacing phone support with chatbots has been the worst customer service shift in the last 30 years. AI promises to spread this trend into even more spaces.
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I cannot describe how incoherently angry I get when a company screws up terribly and there is only a chatbot to work with. If I can't speak to a human, you should have your corporate charter revoked.
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Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.
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When your friend decides to propose at your birthday party and steals all the attention.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When your friend decides to propose at your birthday party and steals all the attention.
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The way people tried to hang the very normal number of train derailments in the Buttigieg is how we need to stick plane crashes to Duffy. The U.S. had gotten very good at making sure large, scheduled flights did not crash and now they are crashing
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The way people tried to hang the very normal number of train derailments in the Buttigieg is how we need to stick plane crashes to Duffy. The U.S. had gotten very good at making sure large, scheduled flights did not crash and now they are crashing
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When you’re not mad
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
When you’re not mad
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I was still at it in 2014.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I was still at it in 2014.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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Happy Halloween
bart simpson in a cartoon holding a sign that says super fun happy slide
ALT: bart simpson in a cartoon holding a sign that says super fun happy slide
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happy Halloween
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I think we should defeat the Venezuelan terrorists of the next decades by not creating them now.
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I think we should defeat the Venezuelan terrorists of the next decades by not creating them now.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and shiver
for they were so sweet
and so cold
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and shiver
for they were so sweet
and so cold
There once was a king, Ozymand
Who bragged about all he’d command.
Trying to fill his foes with fright he
Said “Look on my works, ye mighty!”
But now it’s all trunkless legs and sand.
Who bragged about all he’d command.
Trying to fill his foes with fright he
Said “Look on my works, ye mighty!”
But now it’s all trunkless legs and sand.
I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and shiver
for they were so sweet
and so cold
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and shiver
for they were so sweet
and so cold
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Highly recommend: throwing any and all creatives a DM/comment/email to let them know how their work touched you, whether now or in the past.
I never expect a reply. But doing this regularly not only helps others see their art is valued, but improves your own confidence & connection.
I never expect a reply. But doing this regularly not only helps others see their art is valued, but improves your own confidence & connection.
October 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Highly recommend: throwing any and all creatives a DM/comment/email to let them know how their work touched you, whether now or in the past.
I never expect a reply. But doing this regularly not only helps others see their art is valued, but improves your own confidence & connection.
I never expect a reply. But doing this regularly not only helps others see their art is valued, but improves your own confidence & connection.
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Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game
31, huh.
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
31, huh.
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The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
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Easy to get lost in how goofy it is but “Soros funded protests” is literally an antisemitic conspiracy theory and it’s wild that it’s even kind of socially acceptable to promote
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Easy to get lost in how goofy it is but “Soros funded protests” is literally an antisemitic conspiracy theory and it’s wild that it’s even kind of socially acceptable to promote
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I am reel Amrecan from Tennessee oblast, you should not go No King rally, very dangerous, they will get you photo and put black bag on babushka.
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I am reel Amrecan from Tennessee oblast, you should not go No King rally, very dangerous, they will get you photo and put black bag on babushka.
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Across the U.S., parole boards are releasing fewer people than in 2019.
Does this look like a system that values bettering people and giving them a second chance?
Does this look like a system that values bettering people and giving them a second chance?
October 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Across the U.S., parole boards are releasing fewer people than in 2019.
Does this look like a system that values bettering people and giving them a second chance?
Does this look like a system that values bettering people and giving them a second chance?
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Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
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I'll forever remember the worst listed ingredient I've ever seen, which was on a can of Vienna sausages: partially defatted beef fatty tissue. Anyway, this description of The Free Press seems apt.
Fact-orthogonal journalism-like product
October 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I'll forever remember the worst listed ingredient I've ever seen, which was on a can of Vienna sausages: partially defatted beef fatty tissue. Anyway, this description of The Free Press seems apt.
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its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content
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isn't the whole point of copyright that you are opting out of people stealing your work
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
isn't the whole point of copyright that you are opting out of people stealing your work
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In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence
YouTube video by New York Daily News
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
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Trump at peak cognitive function couldn't embed a video. This is his own staff and minders propagating one of the cruelest fantasies ever concocted by the right. They know it's fake, they know it makes sick people skip chemo and surgery with belief immortality is around the corner. They don't care.
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trump at peak cognitive function couldn't embed a video. This is his own staff and minders propagating one of the cruelest fantasies ever concocted by the right. They know it's fake, they know it makes sick people skip chemo and surgery with belief immortality is around the corner. They don't care.
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Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild
TRUMP: Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the US, you're going to jail or you're going back to where you came from or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means.
UN: *uncomfortable murmuring*
UN: *uncomfortable murmuring*
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild