Was listening to something about the antebellum South being white planters who didn't do the work spending the days trying to look rich and powerful when they were just debt-ridden addicts who relied on forced labor to tread water and...
...that's the tech billionaires, isn't it?
FINE, I'll be baited. (And mainly doing this one because I figure every Donna Summer video will be in this thread.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ_Q...
Tim Cook is leaving Apple to spend more time with the best, thinnest, most advanced retirement, ever
I mostly include Reba because Family Story Time, but hey, one redhead to another? And thanks for being my #1 (if maybe my only one) listener
Wait until you’re sending your kids* to college and thinking “what did I pay all this money for”
* - if you have kids, no shade if you decide not to
At last, a win for the good* guys**
* - for certain values of “good”
** - for certain values of “guys”
Paul Onion… good day?
BREAKING: Claude Mythos discovers 60-year old computing bug, PEBCAK, that's been silently plagued the tech industry for years. It suggests resolving it by eliminating the entity in the middle and replacing it with a more efficient model.
That’s just you depresso?
Their whole manifesto is straight up fascism, but it’s also straight up garbage. Mein Kampf holds together better than it. It’s just a bunch of billionaires down a K-hole thinking they’re smarter than everyone else and completely unprepared for what happens if people say no to them
Palantir gazed into the Palantir too long
To the extent that Christianity has a core ethic, something that distinguishes the Christian Gospel from other systems of belief, Leo is closing in on it, in starkly contemporary terms. This is remarkable
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
Aah yes, the first day of the year the dads can blind everyone else with their PNW pasty white thighs
MONOMANIA IS A PREREQUISITE OF SUCCESS
"We made a robot that runs faster than a human" that's nice, but my middle-class hatchback can do 90 mph and also doesn't look like a dorky robot doing it
I like the idea of a version of Hot Ones where the food is not actually that hot, so all the celebrities think they're actually really good at dealing with spice, and get disarmed and don't realize the real heat is the interview (it's Isaac Chotiner).
"We'll protest with First Amendment pocket squares!" OK, now Chuck Schumer's "if you do it again I'll make my letters even more strongly worded!" thinking makes sense -- he's representing these people in government
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Klingon baker: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO RYE
An adorable raccoon.
Another recession indicator you might not notice: A lot more tattoo artists in my IG feed showing off their work and their flash, when normally the busier ones struggle to keep up
If the Strait of Hormuz is not currently being observed, it is simultaneously open and closed
It's in a quantum superpositioned strait
One Strait of Hormuz only tells the truth, the other Strait of Hormuz only tells lies
An Ernst Röhm for our times, she is
A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast.
