Dante’s Shrimferno

"It turns the patrons into demons, and the restaurant into hell. I have never seen any one corporate decision supply more chaos, unhappiness, and disdain for humanity than endless shrimp."

And it's BACK: www.businessinsider.com/return-of-en...

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Besides the unspeakable horror of the shooting itself the phrase “deadliest mass shooting since 2024” is very dark

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade

What did he know?

Pilot the LLM, Shinji. Or Rei will have to do it again.

Funding the Evangelion programme through sale of NFTs, securing favourable treatment during 3rd Impact on the Blockchain. That's MMT thinking.

This quote is similar to Palantir’s manifesto, which is giving the message “fuck the voters, fuck the American people, it’s about the country”

Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026. Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!

Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper.

More soon!

Jim’s Palantir

actor Richard Kind

There were a lot of erotic thriller movies in the 80s and 90s but that genre has kinda faded. I think they were just too boring, and the casting didn’t help. Who would you put in a modern erotic thriller to make it more interesting?

I’ve got my answer.

Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy

But can it survive a 13-mile run through Philadelphia?

Yeah cause it’s the kind of thing you propose building to appease the ego of a narcissistic leader whose army just got its asked kicked by a Black military general (Touissant L’Overture) and Black enslaved people who ran your troops off their island.

It’s a monument to ego and defeat. Perfect.

how is this literally happening in real life

Gundams are real

Very lucky for them that their real, serious investigation reached the "pre-arrest buzz" stage at exactly the point where Iran, Trump's job approval and everything else in the Trump regime is falling into world historical levels of shambles

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:

I think I first encountered Tim Curry as a bad guy ("Gaal") in four episodes of the 1994 sci-fi series Earth 2 and his performance was strong enough I still remember that 32 years later

Beloved actor Tim Curry

Tim Curry is 80 today, say something nice about Tim Curry

Wow

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

(Harry Styles voice) Sizzler corn fritter... high
Sizzler corn fritter... high
Sizzler corn fritter... high
Sizzler corn fritter high

Amazing

what more can be said

Speed 3: 'Muz Control

Oh

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Absolutely. Yeah it’s a statement against the Constitution for sure but they don’t have the balls to make that explicit yet