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Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

You cannot be fucking serious

Facade of an old disused industrial building, with small panes in the larger dirty windows broken to resemble Tetris pieces

Videogame vandals

Lede from article: Law360, Miami (October 7, 2025, 12:29 PM EDT) -- A Miami jury returned a defense verdict late Monday in favor of NASCAR in a $76 million suit by the LetsGoBrandon.com Foundation accusing the league of destroying the value of its cryptocurrency LGBCoin after it revoked approval of sponsorship of a racing team.

At least once a week I feel like I have some sort of head injury

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Ok, need to try the After 8 Saltine sandwich. I can mentally taste it and I can envision the potential.

I want to release a rap single called, “(Errybody in the Club Say) Drat!”

A boy in a little league uniform with bags under his eyes looking exhausted

Another day seeing Trump say and do illegal things, knowing no one will stop him and he won't face any consequences.

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Kim Jong Un in giant pants.

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

Oscar Isaac in giant pants.

I thought I’d dreamed that Eric Adams’ son competed in the Albanian version of American Idol, so I had to look it up, & it really happened.

I guess Adams isn’t satisfied w having sketchy ties to Turkey, has been working on Albania as a back-up.

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All I want is for the new Tron movie to be a fun long NIN music video. Sadly the reviews make it sound like it doesn’t quite deliver: something I suspected based on the previews and Jared Leto’s involvement (and even the NIN soundtrack being just OK at first listen).

Can totally see the progression. Once it crosses over from cause to grift; the road to maga is well paved. Should be a DSM category.

Disappointed that a quick search for “Pharrell Williams PM” shows no one else is proposing this?

It seems too obvious.

Why is no one considering Pharrell Williams as French PM?!?

Successful Creative Director for LVMH (largest company in France)

Successful Collaboration with Daft Punk
(Among the most successful French bands)

Not entirely kidding.

They have that underdog mentality: so it doesn’t matter that they lose. If anything, losing drives them deeper into the wormhole.

It’s so weird. Especially when they were normal before they ran. I think the first loss breaks their brain and they never recover.

I think it’s fundraising addiction brain. They start seeing their lives only through that of their supporters and fundraising deadlines; and lose context of their constituents and why they ran in the first place.

I say this because the ones I have met all talk like D fundraising emails.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

the Great Filter is that only species with a long refractory period survive the invention of the video generation model

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying' On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

wtf is wrong with these people

I have several.

None work well.

I end up using two that work poorly in different ways to end up with a mediocre experience.

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R 'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

Probably the best in the past few years for many reasons.

This remains the key issue: The shutdown will not end unless and until a majority of the House will agree to whatever passes the Senate.

Those old beer commercials of “real American heroes” needs to do this guy.

Today I encountered my first other electric motorcycle in traffic. The best part was talking at a normal volume while riding together for a couple blocks because we could actually hear each other.

Nothing I've covered feels as distant from the future we got than Rand Paul's bipartisan 2014 push to bar police departments from buying surplus military vehicles. Now you see a (minority but loud) public demand for the troops to bring their cool stuff to Save Your Town

if there's a silver lining to the bari weiss stuff it's that being put in charge of cbs news in 2025 is kind of like being named the commander of a french horseback cavalry division in 1917