The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
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We're hosting a movie night! We’re taking over Low Cinema in Ridgewood, Queens on October 22nd for a special showing of the Slenderman-themed web series Marble Hornets. Ryan and Grant will also be doing a live recording of Panic World post-screening. Come join us! lowcinema.com/tickets/p/co...

some thoughts on Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros www.garbageday.email/p/can-people...

Here's @tchotchke.bsky.social on the never-ending discourse over delivery apps.
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You can say that laws don’t matter in Trump’s America anymore, but if you honestly do think that, well, you’ve already lost the game.
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A fake picture of a Lamborghini stunting in front of the LA wildfires was one of the biggest pictures on Reddit last month. Which makes sense because every major platform has decided that entertaining slop is better for engagement than lifesaving information.
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Multiple former employees of a venture capital firm called Human Capital are now helping Elon Musk dismantle the goverment.
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According to contractors and staffers at federally-funded healthcare agencies, the CDC has a deadline of 5 PM today to remove "all references to gender ideology" from cdc.gov or the site will be taken down. They've told not to communicate about this in writing.
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The gooneral, explained
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Like many Americans, I spent yesterday trying to process the new reality we’ve suddenly found ourselves in. One where I am aware that *something* is happening, but I am largely unable to actually figure out the specifics. And corporate media is not helping.
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I don’t really have any qualms about calling Musk a fascist, but he’s also, like most fascists, an egomaniac who uses identitarian politics as a cover for much more personal and petty impulses.
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CONFIRMED: Federal Employees Are Receiving Suspicious “TEST” Emails, Likely Connected To Musk’s DOGE.
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(If you have a tip for Garbage Day, you can reach us on Signal at ryanbroderick.69420, happy to keep things anonymous or off the record.)

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This week's Panic World features @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We talk all about the long, dumb road that brought us to this month's not-quite TikTok ban. You can listen to it anywhere you get your podcasts. You can also click here:
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There is too much going on! And we'll be using our Friday issues to round up as much of it as we can. Welcome to the first week of the rest of our miserable lives.
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