Brad Ackerman

Capital gains should be taxed when the assets are monetize, whether that's via sale or via loan

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Was reminded of this amazing memory; We were all walking back from a group photo in front of the 'Looney Tunes Cartoons' billboard on the WB lot, saw a tour tram and I told the guys "You HAVE to do this, you're all here, when are you ever gonna get a chance like this?" and it made that tour's day!

"The rule of law, but for land use" remains an *profoundly* radical position.

RIP Walter Koenig (1936-2026). The story he tells (below, and in the linked article) of how he learned he had booked the role of Chekov following an audition is hilarious. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

The recent story about all the Needle in a Haystack clones that suddenly popped up is very instructive of the kind of slop I complain about clogging up my inboxes all the time; clones of something else. For all the talk of enabling creativity, all I ever see from AI "devs" is someone else's idea.

Flarry is a good boi but doesn’t understand that the car can’t move if a dog is in the driver’s seat. #luckydoganimalrescue

Hey, so, it actually took a lot of people doing a lot of unpaid work for Jon Del Arroz to be properly marginalized from the SFF community, and now he’s back, and in one of the more widely read genre fan columns around. So I just have one question: @file770.bsky.social, what the actual hell?

Startup CEO: I am pleased to announce my new company, Terrordactyls. We're going to grow combat pterodactyls in test tubes and train them to attack protestors. We will also engineer smaller pterodactyls that deliver pizza. Investors: Here's five billion dollars

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

“Why in the name of pixelated fuck would you do that?”

Ingenious.

Plus if I'm understanding the last several years correctly, if I just start capping dogs I can end up with a Cabinet position

This day is called the feast of Pwn: She that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse her at the name of Pwn.

Turning to BlueSky to find a home for 9-month-old kitty, "Shoes", Baltimore/DC area. His rescuers would love to keep him but they and their toddler are all violently allergic; not even meds and air purifiers are helping. But they love Shoes and want him to find a good home. Deets: (1/5)

But not Ukrainian resistance to Russia — a conflict without the slightest ambiguity on who the aggressor is, and where surrender means filtration camps, sexual abuse, torture or death.

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

It’s a scam all the way: data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...

100!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥹🥳 A Man and His Cat, Volume 11, by Umi Sakurai 💙📚 I was trying to decide what should be my 100th manga of 2026. And it had to be one of my favs. Bam! I LOVE this series. If you like cats and feelings, you need dis!! Lots of bonus kitties in this volume too! 5⭐ like c'mon.

I think it’s time to post The Flag again

This one is special

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.

UNITED CEO Scott Kirby: “.. Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, .. We should have a national wealth tax ..” @nytimes.com $UAL www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/b...

DC should stop subsidizing car ownership and charge a market price for a residential parking permit, and it should also prohibit random groups of citizens from filing lawsuits to stop new housing developments.

100% this. When we lived in Boston, parents would call the police on kids riding their bikes to school alone. When we moved to Helsinki when our daughter was 10yo, she rode her bike to school alone as did most other children. I did the same in the 70s in the US. Cars are a prison, not freedom.

Having to delete 10+ fundraising texts a day is bad enough, but misspelled ones that sound like a petulant 3-year-old is just beyond the pale, sigh. Exactly what I want to see in a US Senator, truly!

“i pay tax before, but still pay tax now?” We spoke with dozens of half-literate morons about the machinations of local governance. Here’s what they’re saying.

Do you disavow the Brotherhood of Steel?

Here’s what’s going on. Baby boomers bought houses for cheap and then spent decades showing up to meetings demanding nothing else could be built in their neighborhoods so that their houses would see exponential increases in value, and now they don’t want that value taxed.

First of all, I was only clowning because you seem stressed out. The whole salad thing was an accident

a personal favorite of mine…

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Two anti-LGBT initiatives are on the ballot, the state is settling lawsuits by allowing foster parents to discriminate against queer kids, and Seattle's NPR affiliate is inviting the board chair of an organization aiming to ban gay marriage onto their Friday chat show. Things are going great.

Porsche has fallen into the trap of falsifiability. By building an actual car, people can have problems with it. The Roadster can do anything your imagination desires!