I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭

What Were Bob Dylan and John Lennon Really Saying in the Back of That Limo?

Great writing on creative influence and rivalry between the greats at pivotal moments in each of their careers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/s...

Bootlickers.

“How can she say ‘No’ when she doesn’t know anything?…. With her crystal ball?” #overheardla a 50-something woman said sharply into her earpiece as she walked around the Silver Lake reservoir

To speak plainly: the CEO of the world’s largest social media company should not make commitments about content moderation — on a contested political question, during a period of active public debate — by private text message to a government-adjacent figure with whom he is deeply commercially entangled. To do so is to replace a content policy based on principles including equality and fairness with one based on oligarchs trading favors in secret.

I wrote about Zuckerberg's texts with Musk and how they undermine the principles of a fair and equal platform for everyone www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-m...

lol welcome back to 2020 “go direct because people are suckers and won’t recognize you talking your book”

Trump is just getting clowned by the Iranians mercilessly. Hope that doesn't force him into a shame spiral that leads to WW 3. Oops.

They are 100% real in real life but not sure if they're real in mythology.

Shipping Forecast read by Douglas Smith YouTube video by RandomRadioJottings

I find the old British shipping forecasts to be similarly disconcerting, especially if you come into them in the middle of them.

(Shout out to Still Wakes the Deep and @thechineseroom.co.uk for introducing me to them.)

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Oh man, glad you were the one posting this bc otherwise… 😫

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Evening. Melancholy I (Aften. Melankoli I) 1896
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Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign.

Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us.

What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.

From a thread about great Douglas Adams quotes. I think about this one *a lot* these days.

Hahaha Eddington was fucking brilliant from the jump

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Pretty sure if I was this dude, I'd be in a murderous rage, ready to go to the ends of the earth to try and revenge myself upon whoever just killed my mother and father, and my wife and my son. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

ARGUS: Seeing the Influence of Narrative Features on Persuasion in Argumentative Texts Can narratives make arguments more persuasive? And to this end, which narrative features matter most? Although stories are often seen as powerful tools for persuasion, their specific role in online, u...

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New preprint! 🧵 Can stories make arguments more persuasive? And which narrative features matter most? In ARGUS we build a framework to study this in Reddit's r/ChangeMyView, with @saranabhani.bsky.social , Khalid Al-Khatib, and @malvinanissim.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2602.24109

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If you are looking for some escapism from the absolute dogshit state of the world, Blippo+ is delightfully weird and beautiful and demands very little of you except maybe to take an edible beforehand

Yeah, I had to go back last night to get a better feed of what was going on - I listened to a space for a bit with a bunch of speakers with bible verses in their bios but they were doing a good job of keeping track of developments so 🤷‍♂️

Flavor Flav is unique in the Olympics space because he actually cares about the athletes beyond the money they bring in

The first spring is here in Los Angeles and night blooming jasmine is suddenly everywhere I go

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

🎩🎩🎩 <--- naturally

Supt. Alberto Carvalho is a hero and we support him 110% against this weaponized authoritarian racism. @lausdsup.bsky.social ✊️

Have you checked out the Spatial Fields app? They’re focused on splats across Mac eco-system

Two things that you really dont want your AI hallucinating on.

El Mencho was the last of the old guard—the final mass-trafficking titan standing alongside El Chapo and El Mayo—now fallen, marking the end of an era in Mexican organized crime.

This is a developing story.

The latest: lataco.com/mexico-viole...

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Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...