Satya
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If you talk with the most down-to-earth, level-headed multi-millionaires, you see it taking form: So much invisible friction has been removed from their lives in ways great & small that they don't even see, so with best intentions they feel like they can still relate to common folks, but they can't.
If you have a billion dollars or more, you are evil. You don't start out as evil, so it's not like only evil people ever get a billion dollars; it's just that being a billionaire forced you to make a choice, be evil or change how you do things and stop being a billionaire. Billionaires choose evil.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 4, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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let me strongly recommend Sandifer's writings on comics, which are as dense and fascinating and crazy as an Alan Moore script.
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
May 16, 2023 at 10:51 PM
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The cause of the male loneliness crisis is that they arrested Jeffrey Epstein, the only man who appears to have had friends.
December 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The Trumps are out of control. Four journalists have been arrested by Donald, and almost as many moviegoers are being tortured by Melania.
January 30, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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For example, why did California pass strict gun control? Progressive blue state policies? Think again! www.history.com/articles/bla...
January 25, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Eastwood corners you in an alley. You reach in your pocket for gift links but there are none. He stands over you, squinting with the slightest smirk. He whispers the words like a death sentence:
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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A friend just had her checking account wiped out by her family's new health insurance premium (which went from $890 a month to $2800). The thing is, she'd cancelled the policy in early December, assuming it would also cancel the autopay.

Nope.
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Wow, this is an amazing bundle and a good cause. Check it out.
www.humblebundle.com/books/lone-w...
Humble Book Bundle: Lone Wolf & Cub and More by Koike ENCORE by Dark Horse
We’ve teamed up with Dark Horse for a manga bundle highlighted by the riveting parent-child series of Lone Wolf and Cub series.
www.humblebundle.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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"The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking bolstered by tech-enabled information bubbles"
@seva.bsky.social On Medieval Peasant Brain
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
How to monetize the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain
a short guide for the downwardly mobile elite
hegemon.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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There have been many exposes of the far-right Hindu American Foundation this year.

Here is another.

Bottom lines:
- Hindutva is an American problem
- Far-right hate harms us all
- Specific groups promote this
- Hindus in the U.S. deserve better

tribune.com.pk/story/258426...
Inside Hindutva’s American headquarters | The Express Tribune
A Washington-based outfit is quietly spreading Modi’s Hindutva by weaponising lawsuits, lobbying, liberal discourse
tribune.com.pk
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.

Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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spotify? no no i use a plant-based free-range streaming service from the farmers market
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The MAGA cult is so far gone that they truly believe Dear Leader should be allowed to kill their own children.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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That time, ~400 years ago, when Jesuits dragged a new world turkey nearly 2,000 kilometers from Goa to northern India.

Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.

#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.

So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The Empty Stage
Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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17 November 1988 'Cinema Paradiso' (in Italy 'Nuovo Cinema Paradiso') goes on general release in Italy. It is a total flop everywhere, except in one cinema in Messina and, maybe, it only goes on to win an Oscar due to the determination of Giovanni Parlagreco, owner of that cinema [Thread] >> 1
November 16, 2024 at 8:21 PM