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I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

Gonna start calling AI "subprime thinking"

I figured slavery was.

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

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The cover of DC’s Blackhawk #135, “The Villain with 1,000 Hoops!”—the Hoopster charges at the alarmed Blackhawks in a flaming hoop

MAKE HOOP WAR NO MORE

YouTube video by Elmer Bernstein - Topic Walk on the Wild Side

Title track from Walk on the Wild Side, one of my favorite Bernstein scores. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QygH...

My favorite version is the Jimmy Smith one. Big band behind him, and Oliver Nelson did the arrangement.

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions. He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly. The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity. He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings. Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

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what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

The rats are fleeing down the ganglines already.

They know they're going to be sucked down into the whirlpool when the ship sinks over the next couple years.

When people not on Bluesky ask me about Bluesky, I describe it as "Queer Commie Twitter," and I don't mean any of that as an insult.

I mean that you have to be comfortable with that sort of deal, or you're not going to be happy here.

Regular people: Oh cool, we're following the Star Trek timeline!

Trekkies: Oh fuck, we're following the Star Trek timeline!

Uh, no, Peg.

I’ve long assumed Trump would try to do stimulus checks before the midterms. What I didn’t predict was Democrats trying to help Trump do stimulus checks before the midterms.

Buried in Altman's post is the real story: "People are generating much more than we expected per user," using massive compute resources on content that's often being generated for very small audiences (it is, after all, a social media app). OpenAl will "have to somehow make money for video generation," Altman wrote. Translation: Sora is burning through compute costs with no offsetting revenue. Altman floated a potential solution: "We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by users." The idea-perhaps similar to You Tube's ad-monetization program for videos that include copyrighted material -would give studios a financial incentive to opt in. "The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out," Altman acknowledged, "but we plan to start very soon."

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

The original logo for the Spontaneanation podcast consisting of a gold “s” in the middle of a green circle surrounded by a purple outer circle. Elegant in its simplicity. Designed by me and created by Liezl Estipona.

Hello Friends. I am ecstatic to announce that I have reacquired the entire Spontaneanation catalogue and effective immediately you can find every episode wherever you get your podcasts.

Don’t get drunk and fight each other.

Article title: Suzy Welch worries that Gen Z is ‘unemployable’—and some leaders are intervening to teach them basic life skills

Welch, an NYU professor and business journalist, published a widely discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal asserting that the major values prized by hiring managers—achievement, learning, and a strong desire to work—are priorities for only about 2% of Gen Z students surveyed. Instead, most young adults place greater emphasis on self-care, authenticity, and helping others. This mismatch, Welch and supporters argue, leaves many Gen Zers perceived as ill-prepared or unwilling to adapt to conventional professional expectations, a sentiment backed by business leaders surveyed in 2024: One in six expressed reluctance to hire recent graduates, with three-quarters labeling hires as “unsatisfactory.” It’s tough criticism coming from Welch, who created New York University’s most popular business school course ever, meeting the values-obsessed Gen Z where they are with a class dedicated to “purpose.”

Capitalism is deeply sick

him: let's shake on it

me: ok *spits on hand*

him: why did you spit on my hand?

The police funding discussion was laughed at… “what do you mean DEFUND the police?”.

Funding levels have skyrocketed to support the activities we see right now.

Now it’s “…but nobody knew it would be this bad…”

Yeah, WE knew!

he died doing what he loved: being first in the clown car

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

There's literally a subprime car loan crisis going on, two automotive finance companies went bankrupt in the last few weeks, been a rash of squeamish headlines about private equity and finance, high-interest buy now pay later schemes for GROCERIES and medical bills have become a massive industry

Laura Loomer tweets that Barbie is a conservative movie

Ben Shapiro tweets that Barbie is a woke movie

Mom, dad, please don't fight

Twitch Twitch is the world

I just started the unmixed pre-show portion of my '80s music stream, Living in the Echoes!

Main show starts at 5 PST/AZ every Saturday.

www.twitch.tv/MisterSheridan

oops! all rough beasts

making up a reichstag in my head to get really mad about

also because they're addicted to rage and being mad at stuff is their whole thing, you can't have a grift-industrial complex around "things are fine actually" or "the newest marvel movie is okay but not great"

There's one where a stupid hippie's stupid wife imports yarn for her stupid macrame and gets an infection from a foreign worm or bug that hitches a ride on the yarn.

That'll learn 'em.