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Going to start using this as my default excuse for most things.

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.

We have near final results from Brazil, 99.8% reporting: Lula 51.76% Bolsonaro 48.24% In 2022, Lula beat Bolsonaro's father by 1.8%; so he has nearly doubled his lead. Also, if you followed this thread & enjoyed it... be sure to follow me: I'll be tracking 700 US elections at once in 9 days!

need a spam filter that sends a 🖕emoji and this URL in reply to every Dem fundraising email and text message

and to all of creation.

I was looking for a clean version of this line for years

When I imagine it happening, it's usually this spontaneous breaking news and fireworks sort of thing -- but maybe we'll get a multi-day deathwatch and be blessed with time to plan all the parties, stock up on champagne, and pick out our outfits and stuff.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

personally I think it's neat that the tech industry persuaded us all to put everything online, and then destroyed the internet

This is a popular theory but incorrect—the OceanGate crews’ bodies were actually destroyed so fast that their souls just became part of the ocean. They’re ocean now.

Going to a second screening of You Can See Everything just to collect the Nanotainer popcorn bucket.

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

Time for my weekly video sales pitch that is somehow both too short and too long. ☕️

"I'm BLACKPILLED on POLITICS" makes it sound like a position of cynical disenchantment, a philosophical stance that rejects any possibility of a functional state. No, wrong. You're fucking dumb. You're a dumb guy who made a dumb choice and now you're too embarrassed to admit it.

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

Unnerving to think about that no matter what else happens in the next several decades, we are all going to be spending the rest of our lives, to some degree dealing with the background radiation of people constantly screaming in rage because they were told they couldn't go to the mall in 2020

I got to live in LA as a marginally-employed skateboard photographer for 10 years because I slept on a couch for the first 2 years, split a 5br house with 7 roommates for the next 5, then moved in with my now-husband. Thanks to the housing shortage, that isn’t possible anymore. We have to build.

Charlie Brown has said he will redistribute his hoes

PSA: Trader Joe's frozen mini pumpkin ginger scones.

Time to brush off an old classic

Making these little Boards of Canada videos is how I procrastinate now I guess. Here I poke at the kids who don’t know that BOC invented “vaporwave” like 30+ years ago.

these really demolished rokos basilisk for me personally, and a lot of other things

Werner Herzog's ecstatic truths < Nathan Fielder's autistic truths?

every democratic member of congress should be giving meta hell right now, and every democratic state government needs to be announcing investigations for election interference — these were early voting events

21 years ago today, Boards of Canada released The Campfire Headphase! 🔥 How has your view of this album evolved over time? #boardsofcanada #thecampfireheadphase #warprecords October 17, 2026 at 04:36PM via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/DemVMBItA6H/

entering the weekend discombobulated by a dozen small tasks, but the coffee I brewed is so near perfect that while I'm sipping it all is right with the world.

Just to be very explicit, my claim is that the one simplest and best explanation for this, which resolves any apparent strangeness entirely, is that whoever is “speaking” in LLM output is a fictional character, and the real life thing called an LLM is a machine for writing lil stories about that guy

Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.

The threat is real and Musk is toxic. Light him up.

I legit believe that this human-brain/network-scale mismatch is the problem at the root of the organic (rather than professional, propaganda-shaped) derangement of our online spaces, and therefore of our offline ones. We just cannot handle knowing what people think in their brains to this degree.