Careful With That Axe, Eugene Debs

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

I want to taste some Hershey’s chocolate from like the 1950s to see if Hershey Bars always tasted *this* bad, or if it’s gradually gotten as shitty as it can get away with over decades. It’s never been, like, legit European chocolate. But always this awful?

And Too Good to be True sounds like Breathe by Anna Nalick lol.

the beginning of Moving Out by Kacey Musgraves sounds a lot like the beginning of Pink Floyd’s Breathe.

Do you know what's NOT going to make an awful job market better? A fuckton of freelancers suddenly looking for employment with affordable health insurance benefits.

I feel like I’ve been screaming into the void what an asshole Angus King is and nobody has been listening.

Fuck Angus King.

Husbands with Grindr profiles?

"unicode for style" in the style of a Mamdani campaign poster. "unicode" is written in Art Decoish lettering with doubled verticals, and each letterof "style" is in its own square with rounded-off edges

I ain't no fortunate son using the Mamdani sign thingy

just having fun with this thing now

ok. you win.

This will not go over well in Maine. New Englanders do not like this.

why hasn’t the pilots union called a nationwide strike in solidarity with their (admittedly nonunion) air traffic controllers and TSA officers? Show the world what a fucking union is capable of.

why the fuck hasn’t Apple bought Anthropic?

Boingo hotspots are still a thing?

We just decided to connect all our minds to each other in realtime on this internet thing and didn’t give much forethought to what that’d ultimately mean. Our brains weren’t wired for this level of interconnectivity over this wide of an audience.

Our digital footprints are signals into the future to our descendants; our artifacts. Future generations will have stronger signals than our own because more will be tracked and recorded. AI will digest it all.

Oh. Oh dear.

I probably shouldn’t be this high in an airport. I won’t be ready when the paranoia portion of whatever tf this is kicks in.

What a weird position Taiwan is in. Sort of soothsayer tie breaker harbinger of who owns the next century.

I know the whole thing is way way way more complex than that. But our media really really does propagandize this whole “Taiwan yearns to be western and free” narrative. Do they? Should they?

Like… at some point you have to look at the trajectory of both nations and extrapolate the better partner. Americans are conditioned to think “duh, USA” but … fuck no … we’re not gonna dominate the next century, the Chinese are. Why would Taiwan ally with the U.S.?

If I were Taiwan (And I’m not, I’m some shithead, not 23 million lived Taiwanese) if I were Taiwan, and I saw my path as ”go with these (Chinese) guys or go these (American) guys as your BFF for the next 100 years…” :hmm: :shrug:

PDF showing up so often in a NYT crossword puzzle answer I’m starting to wonder about paid product placement in games.

A color portrait of beloved American actor and comedian Bob Saget (1956-2022). Saget was a ubiquitous presence in the 1990s, first as widower Danny Tanner on the sitcom Full House, and then as host of the long-running reality show America’s Funniest Home Videos. Saget would do cheeky voices of grumpy dogs falling into water and out-of-shape dads getting beamed in the groin with baseballs, introducing every video with the warning, Don’t try this at home. In 2028 Saget’s estate unsuccessfully sued the Walt Disney Company to prevent ABC from relaunching the show with an AI-powered deepfake of Saget hosting. The production was a joint collaboration between Disney, Amazon, and the Department of Defense, with the video repertoire expanded to include Ring camera footage and drone attacks. The new America’s Funniest Videos has continued to be a hit and is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, and DoD Tonight (paid version only).

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Bouncing around bars on Valencia Street come say hi. 🤷‍♂️ First up, Blondies.

There are as many Teslas in San Francisco as there are Subarus in Maine.

Something about being a techie in San Francisco makes you feel a tiny bit like a rockstar. All the billboards, all the ads, all the buildings, are all shit you work on and with all day.

Is a thumb a finger?

Ren and Stimpy were our Smiling Friends.