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DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

new meme

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THEY HAVE NAMES?!?

In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.

From: Sent: To: Subject: Kathy Ruemmler 9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM jeffrey E. ljeevacation@gmail.com] Re: Importance: High Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effeetively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too....l'Il be here all week -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely. On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: "girls?", careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers, bill burns, gordon brown, jagland, ( council of curope and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep puree (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), leon black, woody. you are a welcome guest at any... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on for next 30 minutes On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler - > wrote: Most girls do not have to worry about this crap. On Sep 19, 20147:09 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, cmotional. and financial On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him. wrote: Sent from my iPad On Sep 19,2014, at 1:21 AM, "jeffrey E." <jcevacation@gmail.com>wrote:

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Do enough litigation and you realize that most people are positively moronic about what they put in their emails.

aw jeeze, we invented the dune pain box for one specific thing, but now everyone is passing it around and seeing who can stick their hand in it longest. they’re all laughing about it. they’re daring dave to stick his dingus in there

Spoonfeed is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

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Heathcliff approaches a large blank canvas holding an easel and paintbrush and wearing a yellow helmet with the word "NUDE" emblazoned across it. An angry Grandma Nutmeg looks down at him and says "No nudes."

11 Nov 2025

US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.

soup as old as time
broth as old as rhyme
beauty and the bisque

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

being told “thank you for licking my boots” by your interview subject should be embarrassing right?

A brown tabby next to a hand written sign which reads: 'I sneaked into dad's work van while he wasn't looking at waited 84 miles to to say anything.'

Let him work.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:

"So I'm putting a team together..."

Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

/3 Meanwhile, she actually gives a shit about carceral culture and has used fame and influence to try to encourage clemency in actual cases impacting actual lives. I have the bog-standard old man view of Kardashian Kulture, but her heart seems to be in the right place on this.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

I'm a train guard. I know when you don't have a ticket and I don't care that you don't. But, I want to see how far your lie goes so I will try my hardest to make you crack. Otherwise the job is very boring.

There’s a simple solution here: James Bond in Hell. He has sex with the Devil’s wife, kills the Devil by kicking him out of a helicopter, etc.

growing concerned watching the new james bond movie as it becomes apparent he isn’t going to give his customary 30-minute monologue explaining to the audience how he used to be like seven different guys

Mystifying that anybody, especially a fiction writer, is still under the impression that there's only a single James Bond film continuity

Do you actually think Casino Royale was supposed to be a prequel to Dr. No? Did you not catch the word "reboot" at any point when that film came out?

the character of gronk in the emperor's new groove (2000), pointing at a pull-down map with dotted lines squiggled across it

"how DID you survive, bond?"
"well, you got me. by all accounts, it doesn't make sense."

i'm pretty sure you can just cut from his funeral to him drinking a pina colada with a couple ladies