the millenial version of "the way we were" is rewatching the oc

born to dilly dally forced to lock in

today I'm going to dilly and/or dally

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by Grok.

feels like a great pretext for countries to justify banning twitter/x

if only the political and media classes didn’t continue believing there was some continued value to posting there

Great cover on this new Hayakawa edition. Does Case look almost but not quite Keanu-esque to you?

in the future we can all live on the tutorial island from kingdom hearts

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

just turned on cbs news to see the new editorial direction and everyone just keeps talking about how much they love the movie flyboys

Gotta hand it to brooks, the man knows how to write ragebait

no I havent read dialectic of enlightenment, but i am currently listening to “science” by system of a down

walking around père lachaise cemetery in paris, i saw many graves, both of artists and the rich of centuries past, but only one of them had flowers left by visitors

This reminded me of this classic post except that everything has gotten far far dumber and more made up

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

ft, apple news, and several dozens of substacks written by my fellow mentally ills

The Trump Supremacy [FREE TO READ] Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

when I started programming, people used to argue on forums which algorithm would shave off another two nanoseconds of run time, or which linux distribution ran faster, c vs c++, that sort of thing. now people are talking about terraforming the earth to summarize emails

a jia tolentino airbnb experience, a william t vollmann tour of an ace hardware store, a nicholas sparks guided meditation in a rendering plant

tour group on a boat in the seine waved to me and I waved back. i didn’t have the heart to tell them they traveled all this way to be waved at by an american

A colorful toucan perched on a branch, showing its bright green, orange, and maroon bill with a vivid yellow throat against a blurred green background.

Keel-billed Toucan at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature #toucans

think fast idiot

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all the "ai makes you stupid" articles got me reading papert again

replacing my couch with a cray supercomputer