Jason / Method One

VOTERS: Can you make voting more simple? STATE OF CALIFORNIA: Here’s a 8 page ballot with nearly 20 propositions and initiatives to vote on, hope you have multiple hours to do research

youtu.be1970 Nurburgring Nordschleife Best Crashes : Adenauer Forst in the seventiesYouTube video by johannes914

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In the spirit of Halloween Horror movies, I present to you: Nurburgring Nordschleife Crashes of the 1970s. We all know the Nurburgring from numerous video games, magazine articles, and Top Gear episodes — but none of them will prepare you for this combinaton of skinny tires and optional seatbelts

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karanormal activity 💜

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My partner and I recently started watching “Dexter” after years of hearing how good it is. Four episodes in, and…please tell me it gets better. It feels like a third-rate CBS police procedural with some blood haphazardly sprayed on. Cardboard characters with no depth, dialogue that aims for nothing

Anyway, someone tell me this gets more compelling. Otherwise I may keep obsessing over the fact that Dexter’s police blood lab is apparently just a normal desk in the homicide briefing room. I guess there was room, considering Miami PD apparently only hired 8 people for that whole department.

23h

I mean, there was a scene where Dexter was doing blood testing on an amputated foot, on his generic cop desk in the middle of this open-plan office, and I literally laughed at the absurdity. Gotta keep the characters close, so I learn that Cuban Detective Guy bought jewelry for his wife!

Why am I posing about a 20 year old tv show? I dunno, other than putting this in the same “peak tv” bucket as The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad or even Six Feet Under feels like a big joke. And it was apparently popular enough for them to keep bringing Dexter back in newer series.

I couldn’t get many photos at Radwood 2026, because of the crowds, but this VHS-themed Lotus Esprit was fantastic

MiDSHIP DOHC TURBO EXCITING MICRO COUPE

Renault Sport Spider — this looks like an insane amount of fun

I couldn’t get many photos at Radwood 2026, because of the crowds, but this VHS-themed Lotus Esprit was fantastic

RIIICCKKKYYYY

I love seeing these remnants of contractor history when walking around my Oakland neighborhood. I may not know who is #1 on the Billboard charts these days, but I’m damn sure that Concrete Master Ed Doty poured my sidewalk in the 1930s.

Anyone with a half-decent modern laptop has the capability to write, arrange, record, and master music to a level that would have been impossible in a 90s professional recording studio. Back in 1996 I spent over $300 for 8mb of RAM for my sampler. Today I can get a 128gb thumb drive for $27.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Modern music producers have the advantage of nearly infinite storage — no one these days is scrambling around their studios searching for a floppy disc that isn’t already full… …and god help you if you don’t find one, otherwise you’ll lose everything when the gear gets turned off.

My first sampler had a memory of 256k — a number so small by modern standards that it’s probably eclipsed by novelty keychains

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Modern music producers don’t know the gamble of buying a $100 sample CD without knowing if any of the sounds were actually good. No Splice in those days, no online previews or YouTube videos to guide your decision. You sent your money (by mail!) to the sound library company and hoped for the best.

I need to find the person responsible for Liberty Bibberty so I can [redacted] [redacted] [law enforcement watch list] [true crime documentary]

World Series Game 1 live reaction: The Tampa Bay logo looks like it was commissioned from a local community college in 2002. Just dire. Meanwhile, Milwaukee comes correct with great colors and a clever, timeless logo. Conclusion: Go Brewers!

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

The Tampa Bay logo looks like it was designed by the city’s sixth-best beach t-shirt shop. “But Tampa Bay doesn’t have a beach!” Yes, exactly.

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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washingtonpost.comWhy a recent college grad wants Republicans to ‘step it up’ on affordabilityMichael Fusella, 21, said he feels the American Dream slipping away and wants the party he supports to do more to address rising costs.

BREAKING: Local child finally realizes that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Michael Fusella supported President Trump for nearly a decade. But as the Iran war drags on and the cost of living continues to climb, the 21-year-old Republican said he feels betrayed by a president who said he’d end overseas conflicts and lower prices.

chorus.fmSpotify Has Pulled Over 50 Million Slop TracksSpotify: AI-generated slop and spam don’t belong in your recommendations, and we’ve made changes to keep them out and protect the listening experience. This year alone, we’ve taken more than 50 million slop and spam tracks out of recommendations. This is in addition to more than 75 million spammy tracks we’ve removed from our platform […]

It’s hard to really imagine 50 million of ANYTHING, and my brain kind of fizzes out trying to apply that number to music tracks that likely didn’t exist before 2024. And then…these are only the slop tracks Spotify FOUND. I’m sure there are more.

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Spotify Has Pulled Over 50 Million Slop Tracks

I know it’s been said by people more eloquent than me, but it’s absolutely bonkers that—in a time when people can’t afford food or fuel or health care—this man is prioritizing a fucking golf course.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You have a golf course right now -- it's old, tired, beaten up, it's useless. It doesn't do much business. We want to do something great for Washington. We're going to basically build a better golf course. It's going to be one of the great courses."

In other news, just found out that the cost of my health insurance, which I pay for because I’m self-employed and don’t qualify for subsidies, is increasing by 19% for 2027. But at least Donald Trump can sleep soundly knowing there’s not a sub-standard golf course within a 5 mile radius.

Celebrating the cartwheeling Tesla Roadster by buying tickets to see “Musk” tomorrow…let’s see how my opinion of him survives 4 hours in a movie theater seat!

Ok…here’s my short review of MUSK: overall, its good. I recommend it. Even though it’s 4 hours long, it doesn’t seem to drag. So, short review out of the way, here are some more specific thoughts:

Even at 4 hours, some parts seemed to go TOO quickly. Fact is, Elon is such a complicated character, and is attached to so many themes of importance, trying to fit it all in one documentary is difficult. DOGE alone could be a multi-hour expose. Same with Twitter, Tesla, politics, etc

Yet I keep getting fundraising texts and emails from him. Weird.

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville

I also sometimes wish that time could have stopped in the 90s, but I’m thinking of my music collection and not my politics

This is a phenomenal way of handling a bigot. Massive respect.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Standing one’s ground and confronting issues and people like this head-on is what gets people fired up to support a candidate, not some “strongly worded letter” bullshit. Call them out and make them look like the fools they are.

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Micah

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

Celebrating the cartwheeling Tesla Roadster by buying tickets to see “Musk” tomorrow…let’s see how my opinion of him survives 4 hours in a movie theater seat!

(Starting with a low opinion so not sure where I’m going with this)

First album I bought with my own money

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First album i bought with my money

youtu.beTHE FLYING CAR (A Short Film by Kevin Smith)YouTube video by Kevin Smith

Congrats to Elon for throwing his hat over the wall for the betterment of society

I can’t wait for the future video* of some dumbass flipping his Tesla Roadster into an apartment building (*assuming it ever actually goes on sale like this)

The tricks and speed are impressive, but this thing will have an attrition rate that will rival the experimental Nazi planes of WW2 Oh. Wait. Maybe that’s the point?

soundcloud.comEpisode 169 - The Nazi Rocket Plane That Melted its PilotsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/nasm_A19530072000 https://nationalinterest.org/blog

Relevant podcast here — thanks, @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social ! on.soundcloud.com/RCvNc5zIu6hX...

futurism.comAI Agent Blamed for Deleting Entire Upcoming Season of TV ShowAn AI agent reportedly deleted the entire final cut of the upcoming season of a Swedish reality competition show.

Sure, give all your financial information to Grok — what could go wrong?

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Everyone's a critic futurism.com/artificial-i...

wsj.comIlhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her CitizenshipAuthorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.

Absolute dictator shit. The Dems need to show real solidarity and fight this with everything they have. If the administration succeeds in getting rid of her, she won’t be the only one.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

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Morgan Johnson

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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A.R. Moxon

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Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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La Girafe

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There’s a straight line from Obama’s birth certificate to the Omar raid.

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There’s a great Stephen King short story called “Survivor Type” where the protagonist needs to resort to self-cannibalism after surviving a shipwreck. I think about this every time I see a job about reviewing and training AI to be a better designer.