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for some reason the Depressed season of THE WHITE LOTUS is not quite as captivating as the Horny ones

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given that Cuomo could be even more hated than Adams, it is an impossibility that he will not be elected mayor

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for some reason the Depressed season of THE WHITE LOTUS is not quite as captivating as the Horny ones

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Talking to Gen Z in Public: There was no such thing as a hipster, it just mean someone younger then me not in a suit In Private: OG Hipsters where 97-04 based on amatrix of cheap cocaine/70s revivalism in fashion and music. We don't like looking at this cause so many of these guys became Nazis

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8.5 min infomercial for DraftKings on at the gym today

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think about this book quite often, esp. as how it relates to the microgeneration who come up offline then on

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This, on Bluesky and Substack, is superb

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this is the nightmare scenario

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You don't need to show us how your AI search went wrong, we know, that's what it's for, instead show us how you permanently disabled AI in your search and are working on recollecting the brainstate you previously occupied before they railroaded you into unthinkingly relying on their terrible shit

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The Eugene Thacker reading group

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reminder that "grok", soon to be stand-in for unaccountable algo-downsizing, was coined by Philip K. Dick, a man who loved the FBI so much he regularly informed on his fellow writers to them

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this Wallace-Wells piece is very good on the end of hegemony but falls into the trap of MAGA framing around soft power, that it's somehow new while hard power is trad www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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natural waste

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Vibes

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someone needs to write a novel called “Men In My Mentions”

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this @nysfocus.bsky.social article on the corrections officer strike is far more helpful on the asks than anything else i've read nysfocus.com/2025/02/20/b...

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i'm too old for my character arc to directly contribute to combating the horde of mischievous little creatures that have invaded this town

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Walter Isaacson & Niall Ferguson both blurbed Alex Karp's new book

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can't wait for the next episode of THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON - THE BOOK OF CAROL

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i think it's time to admit that David Marchese is simply bad at his job

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Trump is eventually going to nominate the anthropomorphic bears who love to wipe their ass for Cabinet-level positons.

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write from inside it esp. if there is no inside it

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the house of terror -- art by gene thurston

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"Say what you will about the tenets of postrationalism but at least it's an ethos, Dude"

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Elfland is not a nice place, but it’s important to know how it works — Henry Wessells. The Elfland Prepositions (forthcoming, late February 2025). Four original short stories. endlessbookshelf.net/2025/02/07/c...

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Who said it: Carl Schmitt or Donald Trump?

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Worth noting, I thought.

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Trump I: It seems that Igor Gregalegovich, colleague of Putin associate Dmitri Yulenkorenko, might have made contact with Paul Manafort in 2015 as alluded to on page 347 of the leaked dossier obtained by... Trump II: Hitler42069 has been named Chief Compliance Officer at the Department of Justice

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all this for nyc's worst mayor but i guess that's the point isn't it

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NEW: A Florida data broker sold data that lets spies & terrorists track US military and intelligence Pressed by a senator, they named their source: a small Lithuanian adtech firm That firm denies wrongdoing—but it shows how sensitive data trades hands with no oversight W/ @josephcox.bsky.social

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