Hayes Brown

making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert

i wrote about the pup-opticon

i wrote about the pup-opticon

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Opinion | Trump wouldn’t just undo the Voting Rights Act. He’d reverse it. In hinting at “nationalizing” elections, Trump suggests a world in which minorities would have more difficulty voting than any time since 1965.

new from me: Trump's suggestion that the GOP "nationalize" elections in "15 areas" struck me for being a full-on Bizarro version of the Voting Rights Act — a system of federal oversight of election law but targeted -against- minorities

shorter ring commercial: your spy camera’s auto-search function will only be used to track down lost dogs AND NEVER TO HUNT HUMANS (probably)

those commercials inspired one of the most prescient posts I’ve written imo

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Let's read this as a referendum on the city of Boston.

“this is going to be a learning lesson tonight.” brutal.

Lay’s revamps to make clear that chips are made from potatoes | Capital Press Lay's will revamp its brand after 42% of consumers didn't know their potato chips come from potatoes.

According Lay’s research, 42% of consumers don’t know that potato chips are made from potatoes.

Something to think about from an elections perspective.

capitalpress.com/2025/10/29/l...

oh of course, comcast was the one thing missing from the metaphor about the hubris of man’s desire to conquer nature via science

i feel like I’m watching c-span with all of these punts on otherwise achievable goals

shorter ring commercial: your spy camera’s auto-search function will only be used to track down lost dogs AND NEVER TO HUNT HUMANS (probably)

that Pokémon commercial was perfect Lady Gaga singing Jiggilypuff’s Lullaby is something I never knew I needed

zero percent mad at how much money EJAE is hopefully making from licensing “Golden” to the Olympics, great work all around

No Kings includes Draft Kings

*that sweet sweet venture capital money

“those other ai will take MONEY for ADS to give you answers. we hallucinate responses out of the pure love of the game*”

idk but positioning your company as the “I’m not like other girls” of AI is darkly funny to me

the only logical conclusion is that we’re gonna see an ad for an app where you bet on who’s taking glp-1 shots before the game is over

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list

Opinion | Why Trump thinks a statue of Christopher Columbus could help him in the midterms A statue of Christopher Columbus is moving to the White House from Baltimore. Trump thinks it will help the Italian vote in the midterms.

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social:

“Ironically enough, if the origins of the holiday were recreated today, the Trump administration would likely dub it ‘woke.’”

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Nike, Accused of Bias Against White Workers, Is Under Federal Investigation

Well, here it is: the EEOC is suing Nike over anti-white bias www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen.

It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

Opinion | Trump’s penny-pinching has the U.N. on life support The desperate cash crunch the U.N. is facing is one that President Donald Trump could easily rectify by simply paying the money that the U.S. owes.

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social:

“The cash crunch is one that President Donald Trump could easily rectify by simply paying the money that the U.S. owes the U.N.”

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have the tech bros complaining about how we all hate ai.... tried making something... idk.... good? just wondering

I saw someone post they’d been reading it for 13 hours straight and all I could think was that is hollowing out their skull as a public service