gaganse
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LA/SF Bay. Filmmaking. Writing. Soon signing off the internet— I mean it this time.
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I stand with Mark Kelly 💙❤️🇺🇸
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I stand with Mark Kelly 💙❤️🇺🇸
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Is Wicked a movie about Boston?
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Is Wicked a movie about Boston?
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Google did another shitty thing. You now have to go opt out in Gmail to avoid having their AI train on your stuff.
Directions here: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Directions here: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Google did another shitty thing. You now have to go opt out in Gmail to avoid having their AI train on your stuff.
Directions here: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Directions here: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
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From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906
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In the end, Andrew Cuomo’s long record was a gift to Zohran Mamdani. “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity—and what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” Mamdani told Cuomo in a debate.
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In the end, Andrew Cuomo’s long record was a gift to Zohran Mamdani. “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity—and what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” Mamdani told Cuomo in a debate.
Just like Tesla: upsell a vaporware dream that users seed and beta test hoping it materializes.
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just like Tesla: upsell a vaporware dream that users seed and beta test hoping it materializes.
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A cartoon by Jon Adams, from 2023. #NewYorkerCartoons
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A cartoon by Jon Adams, from 2023. #NewYorkerCartoons
Are museum heists the new statistical recession indicator?
More than 1,000 artifacts plundered from a California museum in brazen heist
More than 1,000 artifacts plundered from a California museum in brazen heist
Items stolen from the Oakland Museum of California included Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks.
www.latimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Are museum heists the new statistical recession indicator?
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
This is giving me nostalgia for 2020s murder hornets.
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Lab Monkeys Escape Overturned Truck Near Heidelberg, Mississippi
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck around mile marker 117 on Interstate 59, north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi, marshalling a response from numerous law…
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is giving me nostalgia for 2020s murder hornets.
Explore the Solar System and track all of NASA's active vehicles in real-time with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System interactive visualization.
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.
eyes.nasa.gov
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Explore the Solar System and track all of NASA's active vehicles in real-time with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System interactive visualization.
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
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A cartoon by Roz Chast, from 2013. #NewYorkerCartoons
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A cartoon by Roz Chast, from 2013. #NewYorkerCartoons
An official website of the United States Government:
October 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
An official website of the United States Government:
Selling out used to be shameful and gross. What happened?
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch and others slam Saudi comedy festival
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Selling out used to be shameful and gross. What happened?
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But why say more?
September 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
But why say more?
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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
The Last Days Of Social Media: Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The Last Days Of Social Media: Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
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Hjalmar Munsterhjelm's Metsälampi Kuutamossa (Forest Pond in Moonlight), oil on canvas, 1888
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Hjalmar Munsterhjelm's Metsälampi Kuutamossa (Forest Pond in Moonlight), oil on canvas, 1888