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J.D. Connor
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So, was I right? Did deforestation pick up when growth resumed? More or less. It's not a perfect match, but this hideous double chart shows defo tracks growth *until Lula*. The chart below shows defo by admin (wiki) and growth, semi-transparent & flipped upside down, so bigger bars are more growth.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Since it's late and no one will read this, here's a piece I wrote for The New Republic about the 1992 Earth Summit—a kind of forerunner of COP30—was in Brazil. The follow-up from my time in Belém is just too embarrassing.
Text of page 1 of "Ungreen Machine" by me. It's kinda janky and not very stylish. But the alternative was worse. p2 of Ungreen Machine. Yes, the Martha Nussbaum.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The famous Stahl House photo only instead of the two women in the living room its weeping Super Mario and a Jurassic raptor
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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If, for some reason, you need a Craig Finn meme but for rightwing wordsalad, igotchew
Bari Weiss gesticulating like a guitarless Craig Finn with a word bubble spanning the bottom of the image
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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The Clay Mathematics Institute is proud to announce a solution to yet another of its Millennium Problems, in this case, the Underpants Gnomes Conjecture
Cohan in Puck.news Meanwhile, when he announced the split in June, the WBD board granted Zaz roughly 24 million options with a strike price of $10.16 per share. With the stock at $23.17, the intrinsic value of these options at the moment is $311 million; the Black-Scholes value is $326 million, assuming the sale of the company closes in a year. Obviously Zaz doesn’t need the money, but he’s not going to walk away from a fresh $311 million or more, especially since those options vest and are exercisable upon a change of control.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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From a couple years ago, making the kids and the dog bend to my stupid will
Family faking the gatefold pic from The Joshua Tree
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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The cholla gets all the tourists but the ocatillo has its charms
Cholla cactus patch Cholla cactus bulb with cup like new growth Ocatillo branch with tiny deciduous leaves hiding its thorns. Hard greenish resin fills the gaps in the bark A cluster of red ovoid ocatillo blossoms
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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But those trees! Those trees! Those Truffula Trees! All my life I'd been searching for trees such as these.
A stand of crazy fluffy palms above a stone entrance arch
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“It drove. It drove being driven. It drove driving itself”—American Carpool
The instrument panel of a Honda Odyssey showing it is stopped and has 150,000 miles on it. The tire light is on but that’s just because the sensor is broken. The tires are fine. In the background, Joshua Trees.
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Asking Unicode to consider my proposal for an emoji for “hater”
A round orange cat blobs beneath a chair. He hates you.
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Nothing wrong with being a grinder
A date shake from Windmill Market, “The Best Date Shakes in the Desert”
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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And which are you?
A box of dates with two possible varieties: Prime and Grinders. The font is great. This box is Grinders
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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you rn
Black Sunday poster: people in a stadium running like hell as a blimp crests the stadium wall
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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jasper johns got nothing on ya
the jasper johns ballentine ale sculpture (1960) showing two bronze cylinders with the ballentine logo painted on them
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Coming Soon: Disney's Live-Action Moana, Or, How to Train Your Dragon Only the Dragon is the Water Tendril from The Abyss But Maybe Less Ominous
Teaser poster for Moana showing a wave breaking and a teen girl in a bandeau gently touching the wave's nose? idk
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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not me flaming out AND fading away
(also not me with time to read this rn)
Splash page for a magazine website. Left a photo of a pale white woman wearing a close fitting black top. She stand in front of rocky vegetation with the ocean a blur off in the distance. Right: "EXCLUSIVE Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto: Read the Exclusive Excerpt She flamed out and she faded away. Vanity Fair’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth. BY OLIVIA NUZZI NOVEMBER 17, 2025"
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The King's Things logo from Larry King Live, with a torso in tie and suspenders, a giant old timey microphone behind it, but Larry's head has been replaced badly by Thing, a scarred hand, and it says THING LIVE and THING'S THINGS
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The Times got the interview but I got the American Canto ARC
The opening of Pound's Pisan Cantos, but torqued for American Canto The enormous tragedy of the phone in the scrivener’s bent shoulders Bobby! Bobby was red and nude, Thus Bob and Livvy en flagrante Behind the wheel and en flagrante That maggots shd/ eat the dead bullock in the back of the van, the twice crucified where in the chat will you find it? yet say this to the Timesman: no bang, just a hangout, not a bang just a google hangout, To buy in the city of Malibu whose terraces are the lounges of stars.
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Jim Downey on Conan O'Brien's podcast saying "Jeff Epstein? The New York financier?!" only Downey's head has been replaced by Lawrence Summers, which is wearing headphones which is an image I had to track down for you people
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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The same picture of the Exit to Grimes, but now it reads Groimes
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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He longs for a more elegant time
A Greyhound waiting room where each chair has a personal tv and between the seats are standing ashtrays
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Reader, they did not.
They both “moved through the world with amused detachment and deep sensitivity, contradictions that worked somehow in concert.”
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A GIF that should come in handy—like when a measles epidemic wipes out an entire Dallas suburb, or you run over a generation of sea turtle hatchlings in your dune buggy
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The level of background horror in this email alone
March 16, 2019 at 3:19 p.m. From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Larry Summers shes smart. making you pay for past errors. ignore the daddy im going to go out with the motorcycle guy, you reacted well.. annoyed shows caring., no whining showed strentgh. On March 16, 2019 at 3:08 PM Larry Summers wrote: We talked on phone. Then "I can't talk later". Dint think I can talk tomorrow". I said what are you up to. She said "I'm busy". I said awfully coy u are. And then I said. Did u really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming" She said no his schedule changed after we changed our plans. I said ok I got to go call me when u feel like it. Tone was not of good feeling. I dint want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM