Arbusto
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Unionize pro wrestling. Nationalize baseball.
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I say this every year: has any man been more vindicated by history than John Brown bsky.app/profile/haym...
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I say this every year: has any man been more vindicated by history than John Brown bsky.app/profile/haym...
Trading Sonny Gray now instead of at the deadline last year. Oh yeah that's moneyball to me. I love that.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Trading Sonny Gray now instead of at the deadline last year. Oh yeah that's moneyball to me. I love that.
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cool how google is just destroying decades of accumulated human knowledge and replacing it with rent-seeking swill. A government that existed for the benefit of its citizens might consider doing something about this.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
cool how google is just destroying decades of accumulated human knowledge and replacing it with rent-seeking swill. A government that existed for the benefit of its citizens might consider doing something about this.
Benico Del Toro is like the coolest guy who ever lived in One Battle After Another
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Benico Del Toro is like the coolest guy who ever lived in One Battle After Another
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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AAAAAAAHHHHH
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
AAAAAAAHHHHH
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Probably because it's too good
Oof
*OCTOBER CPI AND JOBS DATA LIKELY WON'T BE RELEASED: WHITE HOUSE
*OCTOBER CPI AND JOBS DATA LIKELY WON'T BE RELEASED: WHITE HOUSE
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Probably because it's too good
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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(michael myers on ross douthat’s podcast) ha ha, ross. that’s hardly a fair characterization. I would reframe the question. it’s not “why am I ‘killing’ babysitters”, it’s “why are babysitters behaving in a way that sets them up for these issues?” that’s something we need a national conversation on.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
(michael myers on ross douthat’s podcast) ha ha, ross. that’s hardly a fair characterization. I would reframe the question. it’s not “why am I ‘killing’ babysitters”, it’s “why are babysitters behaving in a way that sets them up for these issues?” that’s something we need a national conversation on.
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WTF 🤬
A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.
A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
WTF 🤬
A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.
A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.
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This "Deciding To Win" study is pretty compelling, say what you will about the participants but you can't argue the stats
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This "Deciding To Win" study is pretty compelling, say what you will about the participants but you can't argue the stats
You can tell Platner is full of shit because if he was an actual leftist none of these people would support him
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
You can tell Platner is full of shit because if he was an actual leftist none of these people would support him
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Not at all that you’re looking for an answer but for me I view it as the natural endpoint for American individualism. A fantasy where society is completely unnecessary and other people should just go away entirely
ive decided that i genuinely do not understand the current right wing ideology at all. no idea what you could get out of it that would make you feel good about yourself or the direction of the world you occupy. just really bizarre stuff
October 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Not at all that you’re looking for an answer but for me I view it as the natural endpoint for American individualism. A fantasy where society is completely unnecessary and other people should just go away entirely
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American law, it seems to me, exists to create a condition of constant titillation for people whose material needs are never unmet, but whose appetites have been teased into a state of ungovernable sadism by sloganeering & advertising that promises a return to a world that never existed & never will
Our survival is their failure
I knew eventually right-wing shock troops were coming here
www.welcometohellworld.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
American law, it seems to me, exists to create a condition of constant titillation for people whose material needs are never unmet, but whose appetites have been teased into a state of ungovernable sadism by sloganeering & advertising that promises a return to a world that never existed & never will
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
I guess it has been memory holed but at the time the ACA was being legislated there was a huge amount of effort and promise to "bend the cost curve" of healthcare. In that regard the law has been an utter failure. Healthcare costs have massively increased year after year completely unabated.
October 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I guess it has been memory holed but at the time the ACA was being legislated there was a huge amount of effort and promise to "bend the cost curve" of healthcare. In that regard the law has been an utter failure. Healthcare costs have massively increased year after year completely unabated.
The ACA was a massive improvement from what came before it that saves lives. It also occurred when Democrats had a supermajority, THAT THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO EVER HAVE AGAIN, where they could have passed a law that did not leave Americans still wanting for affordable healthcare.
If you bash the ACA from the left because it failed to achieve truly universal health care, please read this thread. The law isn't perfect. (None are.) It still did a huge amount of good and saved many, many lives.
Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again?
I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.
That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.
That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
October 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The ACA was a massive improvement from what came before it that saves lives. It also occurred when Democrats had a supermajority, THAT THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO EVER HAVE AGAIN, where they could have passed a law that did not leave Americans still wanting for affordable healthcare.
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Sam Altman, excitedly: “AI can now go fuck itself”
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.
l.euronews.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sam Altman, excitedly: “AI can now go fuck itself”
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Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
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Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal
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Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States
October 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States