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i fucking hate it here.
Fortune's disclosure that they used gen AI to draft this story
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
time-ghost.bsky.social
when everything is going great and you have the most innovative, transformative, most incredible company ever of all time, what you wanna do is secure a fuck ton of bailout money just in case it all goes tits up, right?
Reporting from Fortune.com describing Sam Altman's consistent pattern of lying and OpenAi's CFO seeking a federal bailout which reads: Galloway and Elson also commented on OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar going viral for the wrong reasons: telling the Wall Street Journal the company is seeking federal government support—a “backstop”—to help finance future data centers. Galloway sees this potential taxpayer bailout as yet another tell the company lacks a viable financing plan and will likely have to seek financing in the form of debt, which he believes could be the beginning of the end for the AI bubble. Further undermining confidence are leadership concerns, including the recently released deposition of former OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, who referenced a memo alleging Altman was fired due to a “loss of confidence” and a “consistent pattern of lying.”
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
time-ghost.bsky.social
yo elon, this you?
excerpt from a 60 minutes interview with elon musk in which he reveals that a $1.6 billion contract with NASA saved spacex from bankruptcy. It reads: "We were running on fumes at that point," Musk says. "We had virtually no money... a fourth failure would have been absolutely game over. Done." On Dec. 23, 2008, NASA awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to haul at least 20 metric tons of cargo to the international space station over 12 planned flights. "NASA called and told us we won a $1.5 billion contract," Musk says in the interview. "I couldn't even hold the phone. I just blurted out, 'I love you guys!'" "They saved you," Pelley suggests. "Yeah, they did."
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
time-ghost.bsky.social
besides the point, but something about the way this dude sits in chairs gives me skin-wrending ICK. i hate it
sam altman looking like a middle-aged little weasel on his first day of second grade
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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dr. gator
screenshot of the byline of the linked post, written by the esteemed Dr. Gator
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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gotdamn that boy shiny as hell
a screenshot of a profile photo belonging to a very shiny man on X, the everything app, who would like Elizabeth Holmes to be freed from prison.
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
time-ghost.bsky.social
i like this cover, but condé nast… dis you?
screenshot of the October 27 cover of The New Yorker which depicts a selfish billionaire sharing a bed with an average person and stealing away all the blanket as a metaphor their rapacious greed. the billionaire in the cartoon probably bears no resemblance to the multi-billionaire owner of The New Yorker’s parent company, condé nast.
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
time-ghost.bsky.social
even fox news’ own employees are embarrassed and horrified by the gutter racism and hate the network spews 24 hours a day

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
reporting from the guardian quoting court documents from the smartmatic defamation suit quoting fox employees trashing their own network which reads , The comments come from an anonymous internal survey – the “Fox News 2020 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey” – of 1,040 employees conducted between 24 August 2020 and 8 September 2020. Several employees expressed concerns that the network was intentionally aiding Donald Trump and the Republican party. One anonymous employee said that Fox should “change the misogynist, racist, rightwing content,” adding, “Fox News is a propaganda machine for the Republican party NOT a news organization and should be acknowledged as such. It is embarrassing to tell people that I work here as even conservatives know [Fox News Channel] and [Fox Business Network] are biased information sources – not news.” While the employee called the work environment “great,” they said “the content is hateful and has made the world a more divided and angry place”. “I sometimes go home fighting back tears,” an employee said. “This network made me question my morals. Have I sold my soul to the devil?”
October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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there is a finite amount of fresh, water on earth. either human beings will use it, or zuckerberg’s AI slop machine will slurp it all down first.

it can’t be both, so which is it going to be? AI is directly competing for scarce natural resources we require to live

www.engadget.com/ai/meta-anno...
reporting from engadget about the insatiable, out-of-control demand for resources for AI data centers, which reads, “There's a data center east of Atlanta that has damaged local wells and caused municipal water prices to soar, which could lead to a shortage and rationing by 2030. The price of water in the region is set to increase by 33 percent in the next two years. Typical data centers guzzle around 500,000 gallons of water each day, but these forthcoming AI-centric complexes will likely be even thirstier. The new centers could require millions of gallons per day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times. Mike Hopkins, the executive director of the Newton County Water and Sewerage Authority, says that applications are coming in with requests for up to six millions of water per day, which is more than the county's entire daily usage. “What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth,” he said. “We just don’t have the water.””
July 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
time-ghost.bsky.social
wow, 69 of the 110 DOJ lawyers whose job it is to defend trump’s illegal actions in court have resigned or announced plans to resign since trump was reelected.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
reporting from the guardian about the exodus of DOJ lawyers tasked with defending the trump administration’s policies, which reads, “The seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures. Three of them said some career lawyers feared they would be pressured to misrepresent facts or legal issues in court, a violation of ethics rules that could lead to professional sanctions.”
July 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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republicans cut the legs out from FEMA as survivors in distress were trying to call for help. emergency call response rates went from 99.7% all the way down to 15.9% after contracts weren’t renewed IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FLOOD and hundreds of responders were laid off.

truthout.org/articles/fem...
excerpt from reporting by truthout.org about kristi noem’s elimination of hundreds of emergency response call center contractors during flood recovery efforts in texas which reads, “On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies, and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show. Calling is one of the primary ways that flood victims apply for aid from the disaster relief agency. But Noem would wait until July 10 — five days later — to renew the contracts of the people who took those phone calls. “Responding to less than half of the inquiries is pretty horrific,” Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, told The Times.”
July 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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texas is the **single most disaster prone state** in the US, and there is not only no appetite to prepare for the inevitably worse weather events to come, but an abject refusal to admit the reality of climate change.

that refusal is bought and paid for by oil and gas.
reporting from the guardian about the total lack of effort by republican lawmakers to do anything about the climate crisis killing their constituents, which reads, “Such an absence of forethought would be less serious were it not for Texas being, literally and metaphorically, in the eye of the storm. The state’s long Gulf coastline renders it vulnerable to hurricanes and sea level rise, its southern location makes it hot and growing hotter, the west of the state is in the desert south-west region which is liable to droughts, and the Hill Country, as has been seen with such heart-wrenching results, is home to “flash flood alley”, one of the most dangerous flood-prone areas of the US. “We have everything other than maybe avalanches,” Dessler said. “Every other climate disaster you can think of, like wildfires – you name it, we have it.” The state’s vulnerable topography is reflected in the statistics. Texas is the most disaster-prone state in the country, recording 190 extreme weather events between 1980 and 2024, each inflicting more than $1bn in damage.”
July 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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R. Crumb off the top rope in a letter to @harpers.bsky.social responding to a review of a new biography about him
an excerpt from a letter written by R. Crumb to Harper’s Magazine responding to a book review of a biography about Crumb. The reviewer had casually referred to one of Crumb’s partners as one of his “victims.” the excerpt reads, “I have read Dan Piepenbring’s review of Dan Nadel’s biography of me [“New Books,” April], and just to set the record straight, the “victim” who said, “You don’t cop a feel. You cop a ride,” was a big strong woman who INVITED me to hop on her back and then danced around humming a tune just to show how easy it was for her. I was thrilled, of course, “pervert” that I am. She worked for the parks department in San Francisco and boasted of how part of her job involved carrying ninety-pound sacks of manure, which she said was no big deal for her! Wow! Oh, I love big strong ladies.”
July 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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same energy
a screenshot of a reddit post describing the movie Idiocracy, which features a prison called the House of Particular Individuals
June 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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when cells grow out of control and kill their host, it’s called cancer. when billionaires do the same thing, we’re expected to be grateful and exalt them for killing everything good in the world to enrich themselves.

billionaires are terminal for the rest of us

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
reporting from the Guardian by Lauren Almeida which reads, “The wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires has surged by $6.5tn (£4.8tn) in real terms over the past decade, according to Oxfam, equivalent to 14.6% of global output. In total the richest 1% of the global population has gained at least $33.9tn in real terms, which the charity said was “enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over”. The figures come as various governments face growing calls to introduce a wealth tax on the international elite.”
June 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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lindsey, go to fucking therapy. starting ***another*** forever war will never silence the voice inside you that says you’re a soft lil southern tart and not a big bad tough guy man

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
an excerpt from rolling stone which reads: “In recent days, the voices speaking to a presidential audience of one, via the mass broadcast of Fox News, include Sen. Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina Republican has appeared on the network repeatedly to advocate for direct U.S. involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran. “We’ve got a chance to end a threat to the state of Israel forever by replacing this regime with something better. I do believe the biggest winner of them leaving will be the Iranian people,” Graham told host Sean Hannity on Monday.”
June 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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California is the quintessence of democrats’ refusal to actually be a progressive party that works for its constituents. Years of unified democratic control have only enriched players like @governor.ca.gov and @rokhanna.bsky.social and their silicon valley backers while avg Californians suffer
excerpt from a cnbc report which reads, “California is the most expensive U.S. state based on monthly costs California dethroned Hawaii as the most expensive state based on the cost of monthly household bills. Residents spend $2,854 — 39% above the national average.”
May 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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millions will die as a direct result of the careless belligerence of these callous monsters. this is in fact “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale,” the very definition of a holocaust.

hard to even conceive of the toll.

read @dceiver.bsky.social in TNR:

newrepublic.com/post/195324/...
an excerpt from Jason Linkins in The New Republic about the human toll of the Trump administration so far which reads: “The worst-case scenario is, naturally, millions of needless deaths. Back in March, The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof attempted to quantify the harms done by the Trump administration’s decimation of foreign aid agencies in terms of lives lost. Here are his calculations: 1.65 million deaths from AIDS, 500,000 from lack of vaccines, 550,000 from lack of food aid, and approximately 300,000 each from lack of malaria and tuberculosis prevention, respectively. This all raises an interesting question: How many people have to die before the word holocaust is in play? I’m not gunning for shock value here, at least not solely. I want to suggest that there is a certain necessary logic to what has to follow corrupt misrule of this kind: tribunals, trials, punishment, prison, and the running to ground and defunding of the entire Trump syndicate.”
May 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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the ghoulish depravity of the stupidest most racist people in the united states is clearly knows no limits. Trump admin “has spent **MONTHS**” trying to find partners to help with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
excerpt from truthdig reporting on the Trump administration looking for potential collaborators in their plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, which reads: “Skeptical that there’s a serious ‘plan’ here (rather than just spitballing). But the underlying premise is correct: the Trump administration has spent months approaching various countries to see if it could bribe them into helping out with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza,” Carlstrom wrote in a post on X on Saturday.
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Facebook basically just realized that if you have 3 billion users who pay nothing, then the profitable thing to do is sell the attention of those 3 billion users to scammers who always come back and pay for ads. that’s just good business, baby!
excerpt from WSJ reporting on Facebook being mostly spam which reads, “Current and former employees say Meta is reluctant to add impediments for ad-buying clients who drove a 22% increase in its advertising business last year to over $160 billion. Even after users demonstrate a history of scamming, Meta balks at removing them. One late 2024 document reviewed by the Journal shows that the company will allow advertisers to accrue between eight and 32 automated “strikes” for financial fraud before it bans their accounts. In instances where Meta employees personally escalate the problem, the limit can drop to between four and 16 strikes.”
May 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Meta knows that in the short term, it’s better for ad revenue to let scams run wild. this frame that they are battling it as hard as they can only serves Facebook.

Imagine if 70% of the ads in your paper were for scams or illegal shit, or “low quality items.” who tf would advertise there?
excerpt from WSJ story regarding the high levels of scams on Facebook which reads, “The company accounted for nearly half of all reported scams on Zelle for JPMorgan Chase between the summers of 2023 and 2024, according to a person familiar with the service. The peer-to-peer payment platform is owned by several banking giants, including JPMorgan, the country’s biggest bank, and Wells Fargo. Other banks that offer Zelle have experienced similarly high fraud claims originating on Meta, according to people familiar with the matter. British and Australian regulators have found similar levels of fraud originating on Meta’s platforms. An internal analysis from 2022 described in company documents likewise found that 70% of newly active advertisers on the platform are promoting scams, illicit goods or “low quality” products.”
May 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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uncanny
cover of R.L. Stine's book, night of the living dummy III
January 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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House Speaker Mike Johnson's office intervened to prevent a GOP congressman from subpoenaing Cassidy Hutchinson because her testimony would have exposed the slobbering GOP creeps harassing her. Completely disgusting. Completely unsurprising. This party is absolute filth.

archive.today/zFNw9
An excerpt from the washington post which reads: Loudermilk had publicly floated the idea of issuing a subpoena to Hutchinson, who was elevated to national prominence in an explosive 2022 hearing, where she testified that President Trump had wanted an armed mob to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — and that he wanted to join them. Before that meeting, a Johnson aide told Loudermilk’s staff that multiple colleagues had raised concerns with the speaker’s office about the potential for public disclosure of “sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors” with Hutchinson, according to correspondence produced at the time that detailed the conversation. Separately, a member of Johnson’s staff told Loudermilk aides that Hutchinson could “potentially reveal embarrassing information,” according to an email reviewed by The Post.
January 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Between the dozens of sexual harassment settlements, hundreds of billions of $$$ in defamation payouts, criminal activity in the UK, globe-spanning campaigns of hate, conspiracy-mongering, misogyny and outright racism, I’m starting to think Rupert Murdoch is a bad guy
Excerpt from the linked cnn article which reads: "In a monumental victory today, News UK have admitted that The Sun, the flagship title for Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire, has indeed engaged in illegal practices," Prince Harry and fellow claimant Tom Watson said in a statement read aloud by their lawyer outside court. It's something of a capstone to the decades-old phone hacking scandal that cost the Murdoch empire in excess of $1 billion. This settlement will cost the company some more. Although the exact amount is not known, some media reports have pointed to an eight-figure sum, which would likely include legal costs as well as damages. A source involved in the case did not refute the figure when asked by CNN.
January 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM