Picture of JD Vance giving a speech with caption “single person clapping”

Wait, we were being "Mr Nice Guy" before this?

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

"The pocket square that nobody will be able to read because it will be folded in your pocket?"

"Yes, that's the one.'

"But, Officer, you misunderstand -- I thought being a creepy stalker would encourage the cute girl to like me, you see."

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

As always, "keep politics out of x" means only, "keep politics I disagree with out of x."

Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry—no one showed up. The stadium was empty.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

“The same thing happened again on 7 April, this time when traders spent $950m on oil futures, betting that the price of oil would fall just hours before the ceasefire with Iran was announced.”

I bet I'd get fired if I did this.

This man is begging the world to remove him from his job, which he hates

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

“It’s Walter Becker’s solo album!”

“Sandy Frank! Sandy Frank! Gads about the house all day!” — Psalms

“The Way” by Fastball

Saxamaphooone. Saxamaphooone.

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

Punish my make believe enemies, sir, and promise me things you will never give me.

Never talks about it

Once he is out, he will spend every day of the rest of his life complaining about how being President was the worst job he ever had (and he was treated unfairly — very unfairly).

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

“Everything is great, except…are you ready? It’s terrible. It has never been more terrible. Like the world has never seen before. Can you believe that? Beautiful. So beautiful. So…the most beautiful. The best. It’s something people have been saying more and more. Everything is great.”

Cover of Paul Reiser’s book Couplehood

One week.
One Nation.
One book.

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

There should be a legacy sequel to PUMP UP THE VOLUME where teens learn the story of Hard Harry, track him down living off the grid in the mountains, slowly convince him that his voice is needed and he emerges to conquer the podcast game. But immediately says something horrible and gets cancelled.

New Jack Swing era: an essential component to the evolution of the Grocerycore genre

youtu.be/92gHq1s6G-c

Senate extends controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies The Senate approved a short-term renewal until April 30. The measure cleared the Senate by voice vote, without a formal roll call, as Congress raced to meet a Monday deadline. It now heads to Presiden...

Congress quietly reauthorized a surveillance program that spies on Americans no roll call, no accountability, just a voice vote at midnight. The Senate rubber-stamped the extension until April 30, buying themselves less than two weeks before they have to do this all over again.

"Totally super sane"

This fucker

picking over the corpse of the economy, what a great look.