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I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

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Wow. Thanks, Google. I was *way* off.

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I can’t get over this. Plopped those dry mashed potatoes down with an ice cream scoop. Pattypans look like they were cut with a lawnmower. This is sub-Applebees level.

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Vital point here. The frames of political discourse — which are shaped by the structure of the info environment and by both strategic & organic communication — shape how people interpret their own experiences. We're not dealing with a problem of bad "facts" ... but one of corrupted sensemaking.

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A nation, and soon a world, by and for philistines.

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mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-house-...

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Damn good point.

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this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

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It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

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personally I'm wondering whether DOGE can get away with more when the spotlight glare of Musk publicity moves on www.theverge.com/politics/673...

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As one gets older, one has a responsibility to not get so mad at the kids today that one becomes stupid and evil.

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16 Dems voted with the GOP to throw the country into a major Stablecoin financial crisis in a few years. This Prospect article by @ryanlcooper.com summarizes the issues. We're going to be using taxpayer money to bail out a lot of private entities when the Stablecoin crisis hits. 1/2

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More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.

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Dick Cheney in 2002:

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"materialism is bad boohoo things won't make you happy" that's a trinketless mindset, those are the words of somebody who doesn't have cool stuff

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you’re finally starting to ask the right questions. follow the money

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These people are total marks.

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UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

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it might be interesting for the Democrats to experiment with becoming a political party.

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Update: Despite widespread reports of Musk “stepping back” from politics, he is still standing near enough by that the President runs US foreign policy in the insane way Musk wants it run and waves at him while doing so.

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“That palantír really tied Orthanc together.” - Jeffrey the White Russian

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Wish I were in Bilbao watching this turd bowl.

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The Left has clearly failed to take advantage of the cadre of Marxist judges in the Federal judiciary.

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In detail, the story appears to be something more like: A. paper replaces newsroom content with cheaper, unreviewed, vendor-generated insert; B. vendor replaces human editors with no editors at all; and C. human freelancer for vendor replaces own work with AI slop.

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Report Confirms Anyone Who Really Likes A Politician Is Insane theonion.com/report-...

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A Colony in a Nation by @chrislhayes.bsky.social does a great job of illustrating how close to the truth this is.

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I didn't know that "wrench attack" had become a term of art.

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Why wouldn’t you order a steak and kidney pie?

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‘If Francis’s power depended merely on his charm and his ambiguity, how was it that a mild form of mayhem didn’t take hold during his pontificate? The answer is that he controlled the Vatican with diehard Jesuit steel. He missed nothing.’ Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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This is how ChatGPT feels to me

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“Earlier this week, The Onion ran a piece headlined “Sean Combs Asks for Quick Trial So He Can Get to Part Where Trump Pardons Him.” It may be on to something.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... By @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me

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'The writing is on the wall. Sooner or later, powerful people are going to use LLMs to shape your ideas.' garymarcus.substack.com/p/has-grok-l... by @garymarcus.bsky.social

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Thoughts arrive like butterflies.

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Book rec #56: Rebecca West, BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON. If I say it's a 1200-page book about old Yugoslavia, that doesn't begin to capture its literary beauty, historical complexity, sharp characterizations, ornate idiosyncratic wonders, or its ongoing relevance in 2025. Captivating and strange.

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Oh my god

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

Absolutely incredible.

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raise your hand if you think the Civil War was the country “surviving”

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What we now call “the internet” was a 40’ long, floor-to-ceiling display at Barnes and Noble.

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We live in such strange times

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Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

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lmao

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this is the best one imo

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Core strength is way more important than you realize.

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