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I know, I know, polycrisis, existential risks, elite impunity & brain rot, but I’m over here still thinking about why street urchin, aspiring detective, and radio mad scientist Skeet Wheeler—father of Vineland’s Zoyd (who never shrugs)—has the last word in “Shadow Ticket” if not in Pynchon’s oeuvre.
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Keep forgetting to say the most important thing:
These guys' fundamental glitch--whether we're talking abt Trump or the broligarchs or any of the intl rogue's gallery of celebs, CEOs & heads of state who appeared in the Panama Papers & other leaks--is that they can ONLY get off on transgression.
These guys' fundamental glitch--whether we're talking abt Trump or the broligarchs or any of the intl rogue's gallery of celebs, CEOs & heads of state who appeared in the Panama Papers & other leaks--is that they can ONLY get off on transgression.
On the overlap btw offshore use & sexual exploitation of women here's a snippet:
Donald Trump--who appears 1000s of times in offshore leaks & bragged abt his tax evasion--is not the only rich guy whose hobbies include cheating with their friends' wives. Per an offshore wealth mgr I interviewed:
Donald Trump--who appears 1000s of times in offshore leaks & bragged abt his tax evasion--is not the only rich guy whose hobbies include cheating with their friends' wives. Per an offshore wealth mgr I interviewed:
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Keep forgetting to say the most important thing:
These guys' fundamental glitch--whether we're talking abt Trump or the broligarchs or any of the intl rogue's gallery of celebs, CEOs & heads of state who appeared in the Panama Papers & other leaks--is that they can ONLY get off on transgression.
These guys' fundamental glitch--whether we're talking abt Trump or the broligarchs or any of the intl rogue's gallery of celebs, CEOs & heads of state who appeared in the Panama Papers & other leaks--is that they can ONLY get off on transgression.
From January
Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US
Several Afghans tell the BBC the US has "turned its back" on them, despite years of working alongside Americans in Afghanistan.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
From January
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this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
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“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Interesting! I recently revived my Flickr Pro account (after 10 years) in order to retrieve bits of my own archive. I used Flickr for years before joining FB and it was easily the best social media experience I’ve had. Almost no one I follow still posts.
George Oates, founding executive director of @flickrfdn.bsky.social, is leading the effort to preserve Flickr's history for the next century.
@rabble.nz, creator of diVine, reflects on how much culture disappeared when Vine shut down with no archive to protect it.
Full episode out now.
@rabble.nz, creator of diVine, reflects on how much culture disappeared when Vine shut down with no archive to protect it.
Full episode out now.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Interesting! I recently revived my Flickr Pro account (after 10 years) in order to retrieve bits of my own archive. I used Flickr for years before joining FB and it was easily the best social media experience I’ve had. Almost no one I follow still posts.
Dating myself, but I am a dinosaur after all
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Dating myself, but I am a dinosaur after all
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I can't get over this. In response to a kid committing suicide after talking to ChatGPT, OpenAI's response is literally "he prompted it wrong."
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
Sure sure you might say that my client's knife "caused" the victim to stop being able to pump blood to their brain, but Hume's 𝘌𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 really makes it clear that we should all have some reasonable doubt about the concept of "causation"
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I can't get over this. In response to a kid committing suicide after talking to ChatGPT, OpenAI's response is literally "he prompted it wrong."
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
Ah yes, a sure path to “energy dominance”
Viewing an expansion of the national energy grid as somehow hostile to the interests of the fossil fuels industry, congressional Republicans want to hamper or limit it just as power prices are soaring. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Republicans want to cut funding designed to help expand the nation’s energy grid
The cuts come as Republicans are facing pressure to lower household costs like energy bills
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Ah yes, a sure path to “energy dominance”
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Mafia state 💰
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Mafia state 💰
Yeah, man, the thing about watching geopolitics from the outside is you know that the flows of capital, felched information, and leaked semen are all somehow coupled but there’s no game or systems theory that captures both the absurd complexity and brutal simplicity. Maybe the Genesis Mission will.
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Yeah, man, the thing about watching geopolitics from the outside is you know that the flows of capital, felched information, and leaked semen are all somehow coupled but there’s no game or systems theory that captures both the absurd complexity and brutal simplicity. Maybe the Genesis Mission will.
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
“Hammers up.”
As someone who has actually hammered sedimentary rock, I approve of this metaphor.
As someone who has actually hammered sedimentary rock, I approve of this metaphor.
If 2023 was the year AI slop was embraced by spammers and social media influencers, and 2024 was the year the slop era began in earnest, 2025 was when slop became embedded in our cultural institutions and social spheres.
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:
Lost in the slop layer
How AI has encrusted our culture and social sphere in a sedimentary layer of slop.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Hammers up.”
As someone who has actually hammered sedimentary rock, I approve of this metaphor.
As someone who has actually hammered sedimentary rock, I approve of this metaphor.
Yes, exactly, this is the assessment that best fits the facts: “supremacist survivalism.”
And on that note, everyone should read Cory Doctorow’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”
And on that note, everyone should read Cory Doctorow’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”
Don't take it from me, take it from the visionaries @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social: they have correctly assessed the broligarchs as fundamentally nihilistic, akin to religious nuts obsessed with eschatology and hastening the End Times.
This is not a vision of monarchy:
This is not a vision of monarchy:
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Yes, exactly, this is the assessment that best fits the facts: “supremacist survivalism.”
And on that note, everyone should read Cory Doctorow’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”
And on that note, everyone should read Cory Doctorow’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”
Reposting bc we need more PKD allusions in discussions of AI!
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposting bc we need more PKD allusions in discussions of AI!
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Mark your calendars, folks, per Executive Order within nine months the ASS Platform will demonstrate initial operating capability for the Genesis Mission to secure dominion over, like, everything. While multiplying the return on taxpayer investment, natch.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Mark your calendars, folks, per Executive Order within nine months the ASS Platform will demonstrate initial operating capability for the Genesis Mission to secure dominion over, like, everything. While multiplying the return on taxpayer investment, natch.
Mark your calendars, folks, per Executive Order within nine months the ASS Platform will demonstrate initial operating capability for the Genesis Mission to secure dominion over, like, everything. While multiplying the return on taxpayer investment, natch.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Mark your calendars, folks, per Executive Order within nine months the ASS Platform will demonstrate initial operating capability for the Genesis Mission to secure dominion over, like, everything. While multiplying the return on taxpayer investment, natch.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.
Urban gardening should be a no-brainer. It’s one of those inevitable and necessary but not sufficient solutions. Growing food grows community.
actually a bigger estimate for the amount of potential food production than I'd have guessed. add the fact that you can use some of these to make solar panels even more effective and you've got a winner imo
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Urban gardening should be a no-brainer. It’s one of those inevitable and necessary but not sufficient solutions. Growing food grows community.
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"One thing I should make clear, though, is that I’m not a jerk. I don’t have to have my way. I’ll do this in a Kia Forte too."
I Like to Almost Kill People by Driving Past Them at 125 mph in My Modified Honda Accord
Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve be...
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"One thing I should make clear, though, is that I’m not a jerk. I don’t have to have my way. I’ll do this in a Kia Forte too."
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Not sure old strategies are exhausted (did I miss the General Strike?). Táíwò in Time back in May:
for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.
for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.
"The more persuasive explanation... is that they are demobilized & demoralized. But it would be a mistake to blame them for this attitude. Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Not sure old strategies are exhausted (did I miss the General Strike?). Táíwò in Time back in May:
for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.
for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.