Big Money Is Betting on Bagels

Private equity ruins everything. Glad I recently started making my own bagels. It’s really much less trouble than you’d think.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/d...

I’m not advocating for more data centers to keep VCs pushing for AI bullshit, but I will note that golf courses use about 30 times the amount of water in the US than data centers. Just sayin’.

21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed

“Mr. Trump, for his part, was thousands of miles away at the Kaseya Center in Miami, watching a U.F.C. fight alongside Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser.”

21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

"You know what's a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon. Allowing a sick country with demented leadership have a nuclear weapon. That's a war crime." -- DJT

Hard to disagree with that statement. Lock him up!

I don’t quite understand how someone under a multi-year contract “quits”.

Trump Says He Will Order T.S.A. Agents Paid as Funding Deal Stalls

If this is somehow legal, why the fuck has all this been happening?

Trump Says He Will Order T.S.A. Agents Paid as Funding Deal Stalls www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

Uhm…what?

It may be that the setup of the venue doesn’t allow for the proper shots. Someone who was there was talking about how the suites block certain camera placement and the venue sound system being terrible. Could also explain the “what” chants at Swerve.

I wonder if the crowd noise was being mixed differently. It seemed better later in the show but seemed oddly quiet for a lot of the beginning.

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

I can’t possibly imagine that this would ever be abused.

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

I’m glad to hear you say that.

Because politics are ugly and Melanie Shekita is an asset to this community. Just sayin’. People have been run out before.

Seems like they’re talking about cover bands. In that scenario, I wouldn’t see it as much different than an auto generated playlist based on tempo and instrumentation, which can be pretty good sometimes. Probably way less fun for the band though, which I think is the point of being in a cover band.

Then don’t fire one of your best because they got into the race before you.

This will undoubtedly make Anthropic the A.i. company of choice around the world aka “The Colbert/Kimmel Effect”.

Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff

Anthropic’s demands are 1) not using their software to surveil Americans and 2) not kill some one where there is no human involved in the decision. THESE ARE THINGS THAT THE D.O.D. SAYS THEY WON’T DO ANYWAY. Yet they apparently don’t like not having the option?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

WTF?!

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

How many is that now?

That’s pretty weird to stand right in front of the band facing the audience.

Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump

Fuck this douchebag.

Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

Nope, no problems here at all.
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Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize

Every goddamn day I wake up, something more ridiculous and insane happens.

Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

No shit. If WWE can’t trademark and own your name, they done want you.

Riho needs to sue for gimmick infringement. I’m sure Taz has a lawyer he can recommend.

Trump Says U.S. Is ‘In Charge’ of Venezuela, While Rubio Stresses Coercing It

Sounds like pretty clear messaging to me.

“When asked what he needed from Ms. Rodríguez, Mr. Trump said: “We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country.”

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

So…we just invaded and conquered Venezuela?

How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? (Gift Article) A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

This is a long read but captivating and insane.

How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving

Why do billionaires even care about taxes? Once you’ve got a billion dollars, how many more millions or billions you have is irrelevant to your quality of life.

A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

Amazing that a company can pay its employees well, give them benefits, not be obsessed with unsustainable quarter-over-quarter growth, and still somehow be successful in the shitty end of late-stage American capitalism.

What does that even mean?