The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments

Whoa no way, can't believe it.

yeeting a ps5 from target and saying this to the security guy

just about the most revolting shit i ever heard in my life

As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance Nineteenth-century textile workers longed to stay human in a machine age. So do we.

The Luddites were the good guys!

Technically skilled masters of their textile crafts, they opposed wealthy industrial speculators who forced workers (including children) to give up control over their future and toil in Blake’s “dark satanic mills.”

In this AI moment, we can learn a lot from them.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company...

"The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence, to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets."

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

come on man

"the extreme anarchist marxist socialist base that chuck schumer has to deal with"

When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /

Trump Calls For $1.5 Trillion Boost In Defense Spending, Cuts In Domestic Spending Trump Calls For $1.5 Trillion Boost In Defense Spending, Cuts In Domestic Spending

It’s the largest such request in decades.

The New York Times (explaining universal childcare to an American): Imagine $34 burger

thewalrus.ca/with-the-art...

lmao www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

feels like you're going to get in trouble for posting videos bragging about things like this

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org

They're not really being subtle about it any more

attack on the bedminster golf course by some weird boomer incoming

This is a truly hilarious spike.

that could have been an email correctly caught in the spam filter

Well. At least it was short.

'Bob's Burgers' actor Eugene Mirman rescued from fiery crash by New Hampshire governor's detail Actor and comedian Eugene Mirman suffered serious injuries after crashing his car into a toll plaza and being pulled from the fiery wreckage by a state trooper assigned to protect the governor of New Hampshire.

“Bob’s Burgers” voice actor and comedian Eugene Mirman suffered serious injuries after crashing his car into a toll plaza and being pulled from the fiery wreckage by a state trooper assigned to protect the governor of New Hampshire.

another banger

Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed

huh. weird www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

EXCLUSIVE: “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Casualties Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or injured during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...

Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents Banks "bragged" to colleagues while in his previous management role at the patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling over a decade.

lol www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...