Ben

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Just did this with my Drive settings, and yeah it had Gemini ticked by default without ever asking me if that was something I wanted

i made a helpful reference

Shhh 🤫
#epsteinballroom

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)

www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

on the plus side, i appreciate the photo editor who chose this spectacularly unflattering shot of zuckerberg

#BoycottHomeDepot
Companies like this do not deserve your hard earned money.

why not
isn’t this something they are proud of

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Being an ICE agent is good work for someone with tattoos of their kids’ names but not custody of them

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

I think President Trump is brave to shut down the government instead of releasing the Epstein files

I don't know what people are complaining about, this is some top-tier consent manufacturing guys

Is AINT WET still a thing?

Uncut Steps

An today's version

jfc waited up to see Kimmel only to realized that ABC affiliate in DC—WJLA—is a Sinclair property and is not airing it.

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900 The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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He tries really, really hard to be so very bad at this

So have we heard from Dave Chapelle yet? Seinfeld? Bill Maher? Where are all the comedians saying “cancel culture is destroying our profession”? They’ve come out to support Jimmy Kimmel right?

Seriously, if you can't vote against this, you need to stop pretending you can do the job and get out of the way so your office can be filled with someone who can. This is a resolution that Charlie Kirk was the greatest American to ever live with the best ideas about the country and its people.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION!

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Newsom is going to drive Trump crazy.

Thanks for removing all meaningful context from the headline you gormless chordles, what an embarrassment you are

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

bsky.app/profile/mike...

"Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality" is a sentence I can immediately recognize as something that will be seared into my brain forever