Modern Day Bartleby
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Former Clevelander, STL, SF now Tokyoite
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It Is Always Kopitiam
Objects can signify experiences, can stimulate memories, jumpstart nostalgia. This is what I imagine the silver kettle in the photo above does for those from a particular region of the world, Singa…
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Got a chance to see the Singaporean Omnibus film KOPITIAM DAYS at the Tokyo International Film Festival. As a lover of coffee and the third spaces #coffee spawns, I greatly enjoyed it. #CoffeeSky
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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I have noticed when I search for a question I get all these websites with random names on them spewing out information in very long winded annoying ways and assumed that was what was going on
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I have noticed when I search for a question I get all these websites with random names on them spewing out information in very long winded annoying ways and assumed that was what was going on
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Meanwhile inviting the Saudi government to the oval office so he can fawn at them.
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Meanwhile inviting the Saudi government to the oval office so he can fawn at them.
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On this day in 2010, Leslie Nielsen died.
Born in Regina in 1926, he appeared in over 100 films and 150 TV shows portraying over 200 characters. Originally a dramatic actor, he shifted to comedy after his role in Airplane!. Roger Ebert once called him the Olivier of Spoofs.
Born in Regina in 1926, he appeared in over 100 films and 150 TV shows portraying over 200 characters. Originally a dramatic actor, he shifted to comedy after his role in Airplane!. Roger Ebert once called him the Olivier of Spoofs.
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On this day in 2010, Leslie Nielsen died.
Born in Regina in 1926, he appeared in over 100 films and 150 TV shows portraying over 200 characters. Originally a dramatic actor, he shifted to comedy after his role in Airplane!. Roger Ebert once called him the Olivier of Spoofs.
Born in Regina in 1926, he appeared in over 100 films and 150 TV shows portraying over 200 characters. Originally a dramatic actor, he shifted to comedy after his role in Airplane!. Roger Ebert once called him the Olivier of Spoofs.
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In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
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🚨 NEW: Congress is quietly advancing a major AI regulation package that could reshape how the technology is used in elections, policing, and federal agencies.
The bill is moving through committee at unusual speed, with limited public hearings and growing concerns about transparency.
The bill is moving through committee at unusual speed, with limited public hearings and growing concerns about transparency.
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🚨 NEW: Congress is quietly advancing a major AI regulation package that could reshape how the technology is used in elections, policing, and federal agencies.
The bill is moving through committee at unusual speed, with limited public hearings and growing concerns about transparency.
The bill is moving through committee at unusual speed, with limited public hearings and growing concerns about transparency.
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President Donald Trump responded to a question about whether he will attend the funeral of a National Guard member killed in Washington, D.C., by bragging about his electoral success in her home state.
Trump Gives Jaw-Dropping Answer on Attending Slain Guard Member’s Funeral
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was shot and killed in the attack in Washington, D.C.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
President Donald Trump responded to a question about whether he will attend the funeral of a National Guard member killed in Washington, D.C., by bragging about his electoral success in her home state.
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We are in peak French heist season.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
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November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We are in peak French heist season.
This is fascism
ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is fascism
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ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
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Jesus Christ. 😞
ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Jesus Christ. 😞
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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"Nova Scotia to sell off remaining $14M worth of American booze.
Net profit of $4M will go to Feed Nova Scotia, other community food groups. Premier Tim Houston said the province will not be ordering any more from the U.S. once the inventory is sold off." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Net profit of $4M will go to Feed Nova Scotia, other community food groups. Premier Tim Houston said the province will not be ordering any more from the U.S. once the inventory is sold off." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Nova Scotia to sell off remaining $14M worth of American booze | CBC News
Nova Scotians who have been missing their favourite California Cabernet or Tennessee whisky will soon have a chance to stock up. The provincial government has announced it will sell off its remaining...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"Nova Scotia to sell off remaining $14M worth of American booze.
Net profit of $4M will go to Feed Nova Scotia, other community food groups. Premier Tim Houston said the province will not be ordering any more from the U.S. once the inventory is sold off." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Net profit of $4M will go to Feed Nova Scotia, other community food groups. Premier Tim Houston said the province will not be ordering any more from the U.S. once the inventory is sold off." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt
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I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
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Or you could just stop using Twitter because it’s a racist website owned by a racist
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Or you could just stop using Twitter because it’s a racist website owned by a racist
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'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
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Robert F Kennedy Jr is currently receiving gender-affirming care. Yes, really
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Robert F Kennedy Jr is currently receiving gender-affirming care. Yes, really
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-trans US health secretary, is currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
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November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Robert F Kennedy Jr is currently receiving gender-affirming care. Yes, really
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Clues Trump may have been plotting to help Bolsonaro escape and give him asylum in the US
Clues Trump may have been plotting to help Bolsonaro escape and give him asylum in the US
I just want to put up top that this story is about what it sounds like, which is fantastical and like something out of a spy thriller, and yet there’s nothing we can put past this administration. But it’s also about how The New York Times missed — or chose to ignore — a story staring it right in the...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Clues Trump may have been plotting to help Bolsonaro escape and give him asylum in the US
The fascists detained Elaine Miles!!! Fucking ICEholes!!!
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The fascists detained Elaine Miles!!! Fucking ICEholes!!!
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.