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For mental health reasons, I have made the difficult decision to spend even more time on social media watching the worst people on the planet melt down in real time

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Bluesky should do the most Bluesky thing possible and begin fighting over which Roman emperor’s breakdown this most closely resembles. My money is on Elagabalus.

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this is the most entertaining government collapse since the Roman Empire decided to have 5 emperors in one year

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I Don’t Post Selfies. Not because I’m humble. Not because I’m mysterious. Not because I’m above it. I don’t post selfies because the minute I do, I start performing. For likes. For approval. For proof I exist in the right way.

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youth leader voice yeah im into the switch 2. the switch 2 christ's love. pulls out acoustic guitar

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Your voice is a tool. My brother’s new masterclass shows you how to use it. He’s written 1,000+ speeches. TEDx, campaigns, boardrooms. Now he’s teaching what actually works:

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Media execs are blaming AI for killing news. Which is rich coming from the same folks who couldn’t make ads, subscriptions, native content, listicles or anything else work and fired every good journalist they ever hired. AI didn’t break your business model. You did.

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it is absolutely true that lincoln tried not to get too far afield of public opinion on slavery, calibrating his positions and actions according to what he thought was the mainstream. but it is important to note that at no point did lincoln ever disavow or deny his sincerely held antislavery views

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The propaganda I am absolutely not falling for is that Elon Musk has turned against the Republican Party while he scrambles to become the good guy to sell his shitty out of date cars

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You know what’s underrated? Sleeping without being scored. Walking without earning a badge. Feeling something without logging it.

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I miss when people's opinions were "I don't like pineapple on pizza" not "CANCER IS A GOVERNMENT PLOT"

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It’s not a “culture war.” It’s a tantrum. A decades-long, pants-shitting scream from people mad they can’t bully the world into staying 1953.

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I don’t like to give “general” life advice because one size fits all bullshit is very rarely helpful. But. Whatever you do, don’t eat a handful of wasabi peas and then vigorously rub your eye.

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We mistake power and luck for genius

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I miss 2013. Or at least the simulation of it.

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Most of what Silicon Valley calls “disruption” is just rent-seeking theft wrapped in TED Talk adjectives. And we let them get away with it because we mistake power for genius. I sat down with the folks at All Thinks Considered for a chat about it:

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The modern internet experience: Click a link. Get a cookie popup. Reject all. Get a newsletter popup. Close it. Scroll half a paragraph. Supplement ad. Bitcoin ad. Paywall. Close tab. Open TikTok. Regret.

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"If a fungus can eat plastic, maybe nature will save us from ourselves." That’s the hope. And that’s the problem. The narrative replaces the responsibility. www.theindex.media/the-climate-...

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www.engadget.com/social-media... "Violent and graphic content increased from 0.06%-0.07% at the end of 2024 to .09% in the first quarter of 2025" This is almost a 50% increase. They use decimals to highlight the small base rate, but clearly the dynamic has changed. There will be a feedback loop.

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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No one I respect sets goals anymore. They set constraints. www.linkedin.com/posts/joanwe...

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Every 24 hours, a mid-tier LinkedInfluencer watches a mid-tier AI short and proclaims the death of Hollywood like he’s Martin Luther, nailing a Midjourney jpeg to the gates of Burbank Christendom.

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This year, I founded an indie news blog doing long-form Op-eds. It's 100% free and 100% reader funded. No venture capital, no bullshit. And it is unapologetically opposed to Nazi fuckery. Read/subscribe and support:

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A) A book is not a tool B) AI is not a book C) AI is also not just a tool

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Productivity is the anxiety of the obedient

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In December 2024, I locked myself in a room and wrote the first full draft of Permissionless in 30 days...

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Hot take: The rise of therapy-speak isn’t emotional fluency. It’s emotional bureaucracy.

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every man still posting on X is exactly 1 podcast away from joining a doomsday cult

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We really went from “every company will be a media company” to “every guy with a Ring light is a prophet”

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Sometimes I think when people say “lol” on the internet, they aren’t actually laughing out loud. It’s a ruse. A ploy. A fiction, if you will.

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I’m sorry, Andrew Tate’s “side hustle” ideas are…mow your neighbours lawn? This is the “side hustle” I did when I was 12 years old.

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