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Alexandra is a national treasure, and also a thing I learned here that is not satire: Bezos threw a Gatsby-themed wedding party, which proves that Bezos may sell books but he certainly does not read them.

The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.

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Giant spider or just a regular ole giant?

I know you can stick “Jack” next to pretty much any noun and get a plausible folkloric entity, but just came across a giant in this book called “Jack O’Legs” and had to stop for a moment.

If we could fake some kind of disasters to send them scurrying to their hidey-holes and then concrete the vault doors shut behind them the world would only improve

Best case scenario is they all go off to their little underground hideaways and we just carry on without them and don't think about them until we dig them up decades later like a Blue Peter Garden time capsule

yesterday I got a text from the pharmacy that my meds were ready so I went there and there was a line of like 50 ppl being told that the meds were in fact not ready and the AI they were using to text customers lied to everyone and those ppl were taking it out on the pharmacists, its a literal fraud

If you don't have money and you have a closet full of clothes but can't put together an outfit yourself, why? You should have fewer clothes if you don't enjoy putting together outfits

Being rich eats your brain

If you have money and no taste, hire a personal assistant. These bullet points are the job description for a PA for an actor or other individual who has in demand skills that do not include "having their shit togther"

This is why rich men historically had butlers and women had maids

I honestly don't get how Tesla can brand their tech as "Full Self Driving", include a disclaimer that says it isn't actually full self driving, and somehow the estates of dead drivers don't own the company

If you didn't that you'd actually run afoul of truth in advertising laws

But apparently if you names your mix of Clorox and lye "Safe For Babies Shampoo" and include a disclaimer on the bottle that says it's not for use as a shampoo and is toxic for babies you're somehow in the clear?

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1. that “Byzantium” and “Byzantine Empire” are both anachronistic terms to avoid the fact that the Roman empire kept going until 1453.
2. that they weren't the first terms people came up with to do this.
3. that this terminology actually creates *more* confusion, not less.

A thread!

This bill is a real piece of shit it and it would be excellent if that’s all anyone talked about for the next few days. Super interested in your think piece about the NYC mayor’s race but let’s get to that after we try to stop the biggest wealth transfer in American history.” — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), on X, about the GOP megabill.

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now

Veo rendering of three salarymen about to jump off a building. Text: same as post.

Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha

don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/29/g... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=it5u... - video

It was, I think, a somewhat depressing realization for them given that they know the environmental and propaganda impacts of this shit

My kid and I watched this last night and they kept asking "what's the point of this" and the idea that anyone would want to watch AI movies made them incredulous

Then you got to the YouTube part and they realized they know people who love Instagram reels slop and would scroll short slop forever

This was literally part of the motivation behind W's giant tax cut - we were heading towards a budget surplus and the idea that we might have money to do good things had to be quashed

Miss Marple in the retirement community solving the mystery of who's spreading chlamydia around

Not just that - the party actively punished him for it

Funny how so called "cosy crime" novels are always about murder rather than raffle fraud.

Miss Marple in the retirement community solving the mystery of who's spreading chlamydia around

Swift seems to understand that her extraordinary abilities is some areas doesn't translate to her being a genius in other areas, which seems to be a rare trait among the uber wealthy

Warren Buffet also seems to surround himself with experts rather than assume that he himself is a genius polymath

There's another part too imho. Tacky matters because it means no one in your orbit feels comfortable telling you no.

And someone with that much money who expects to always be told yes, is dangerous.

New York Based Game Designers:

You have a week left to apply for a $60,000 artist grant with the NYS artist fellowship. At least one of these grants would be great for a TTRPG

That sheen is due to the botox he mainlines to the point where his skin is so wrinkle free that light bounces off of it like a mirror

Silicon Valley billionaires are so afraid of aging and death they will fuck up their bodies to pretend they can avoid them

Also the entire news media. There's really not that many Democrats on the anti-Mamdani beat but curiously virtually all of them are getting prime slots on cable news shows as if they speak for all Democrats. It makes you think!

Support for trans rights is the overwhelming consensus among Dem electeds but somehow the Dems who get invited on TV to discuss the topic are universally the ones opposed! Weird coincidence! bsky.app/profile/hype...

Check out Jason and the Gauntlet folks if you’re interested in TTRPGs

The thing is - I'm actually not certain which one is which