Dantanic Panic

Did Apple delete Indigenous Peoples’ Day from their calendar app?

Kinda looks like a lot of the UCI Gravel Worlds was on sidewalks and bike trails?

All liberals agree contrails aren't a Deep State plot to control our minds and that 2+2=4. This uniformity of opinion is quite concerning.

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

I'm torn between Jurassic Park voice of "Porn finds a way" and Fallout voice "Porn. Porn never changes."

It’s a verrrrry short street

I had a vision that every Jared Leto role was redone with Rebecca Hall and the movies were all 200% better

If you read Erica's Harley Quinn annual last year, then you know her upcoming Harley & Ivy: Life and Crimes miniseries is really going to be terrific. FOC for the mini is Monday for so get your orders in at your LCS today!

Pretty much

Cheers, Spike! It was a lovely day for it.

I actually think the theory implies that ezra klein is a dummy but more on that later I guess

Think I’ve tipped over to a “no confidence” vote on Tim Cook

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Are ye fooking mad, Merrrlin?

It'd be really interesting if the creators of the Wonder Man series kept watching Jodorowsky's Dune over and over

Very much got the "five things you did this week memo" vibe from that, too.

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

I've worked long and hard to listen better and be more tactful, but I cannot imagine what it does to one's psyche/soul/mental health to never say the truth to someone's face, as in the bubbles Thiel and others inhabit.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

Stanford professor Adrian Daub critiques Peter Thiel's lectures on the antichrist:

"The picture of Thiel that emerges is someone desperate to disidentify from their own power."

"More often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown."

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

I didn't know Big Belly Burger had a liquor license. Is that just state by state? Still, this changes the game.

I don't even know the context here, darth, but yes, very much yes

A still from a close-up phone video of a white male in a pilot's outfit (white collared shirt, dark tie) with a name tag that reads P. LANE

omg an airline pilot's name is "P. LANE".

I'll need a treatment by EOW

Hey! Reminder that I'll be at NYCC on Friday. I'll be walking around but also:

12:30-1:30 in room 409 for DC COMICS: GOTHAM CITY

And

3:00-4:00 signing at the DC booth (#4365)

My nicest uncle has decided to go into hospice and it’s complicated feelings.

For being so nice, he was also almost libertarian. His choice to go out on his own terms may both conflict with and support that tendency?

We’ve got the EA section of Empire of AI and I’m not going to recap that. Go listen to episodes of Tech Won’t Save Us and Behind the Bastards.

TIL that if you request something like a haiku or email from ChatGPT, what you get might have been written by a Kenyan who was paid maybe two pennies for it. (The energy cost of your request is orders of magnitudes larger.)