Zaron3

Increasingly I think a major function of “masculinity” IS its crisis — a vehicle for the dominant & dominating group to justify focusing their social attentions primarily on themselves

I just wish weird psychosexual obsessions functioned the way they used to. 19th century weirdos aiming to end masturbation made us both a breakfast cereal and a tasty cracker. That NEVER happens today. Nobody tries to criminalize IUDs and accidentally invents a new kind of Milano.

why are billionaires so bad at doing the billions game? I mean, not rooting for them, like at all, quite the opposite, but I watch their plays, who they support, and they’re just so bad at directing/hyping an economy. it’s like money no longer matters to them and they just want more power. oh no…

I can’t begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

tv screen from local Hawaiian news for tsunami watch, shows speaker calling in on the phone is local IATSE rep with the name: Irish Barber

her parents had the last name Barber and they were like:

“What if we name our baby girl, Irish?”

“Irish Barber? I love it!”

(And honestly, I love it, too)

47, bc driving across country is one my fav things to do

was amazed at how fast the tsunami waves traveled across the Pacific, saw reports that the waves were traveling at roughly 500 miles an hour, that’s like the cruising speed of a 747

that’s crazy fast, that means the waves were moving at about 1.4 miles a second

love this!

RIP to Ryno, what a beautiful ballplayer and perfect hero for us as kids

image of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles having a pizza party caption of comic reads: "Pizza Time! I've got some pepperoni an' ice cream, jelly bean an' mushroom... an' my favorite anchovies an' peanut butter!"

image of Rubin Alberto de la Torre one of the masterminds of the Argentine Heist of the Century

image for news' coverage of the Heist of the Century

Sewers, pizza, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles –– this one has everything that's cool, comical and subterranean. It was a brilliant plan. It was executed perfectly. That is, until one fatal flaw brought the whole operation crashing down.

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Johnny Cash expressing himself in clear and unmistakable terms, giving the finger

rather than focus on optics, Dem hopefuls for ‘26 and ‘28 need to find their goddamn backbone and ignore the consultants. we hate when you patronize us. you’re in a fight, act like it. Americans like ppl who fight for us and give a damn

and if you need a bipartisan role model: think Johnny Cash

think you will enjoy it, may even love it. and I soooo agree abt criticism of his films vs. other filmmakers

lmao! best running bit

def gonna hear me mutter that to myself going forward

A still from The Phoenician Scheme, standing in the desert with his daughter who’s a nun, and his administrative secretary, Benicio Del Toro as businessman Zsa Zsa Kordo, says, “Help yourself to a hand grenade.”

The Phoenician Scheme is now my fav Wes Anderson film, and am kinda surprised I don’t see more ppl talking abt it

Israeli soldiers and generals are turning their back on Netanyahu over Gaza Netanyahu’s forever war risks mutiny in the ranks and the highest level of the army

think they see tide’s turning for Israeli military, reservists refusing their call ups, military planners openly saying war meant to keep Netanyahu in power/delay his corruption trial and operation lacks military goals, also Orthodox party left his coalition

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

don’t know if I agree, but I would relish the opportunity, lol

It's not though. We've just been capitalism pilled to think that the only way to get people to do stuff is with money. The whole point of the universal basic income pilots is that humans will actually do cool shit if theyre not terrified of being unable to eat, clothe and house themselves

love the use of It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World song for the soundtrack

description of a Native American man caught in the Gulf Stream in a dugout canoe that reached the Iberian peninsula long before Columbus reached the so-called New World

love that a Native American man in a dugout canoe reached Spain long before Columbus sailed the oceans blue in 1492, and Columbus was aware of it, thus inspiring him to sail West for what he believed was Asia

don’t love the painful irony that this inspired Columbus

www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib...

Two years gone today

When you strip away humanity

I love that, somehow that seems v you!

in high school, made it onto ESPN for chasing an all-American RB prospect. he started at our 5-yard line, I forced him inside, he broke through our D, then I chased him the length of the field and caught him at the 1-yard line, unfortunately the ref ruled that he scored. the hosts said I had no quit

If we are going to talk about legendary wrestlers of the 1980s who are no longer with us, I’d much rather talk about Roddy Piper.

An iconic character and larger than life presence, Roddy was a good man, too.

He also courageously went public about Pat Patterson being a sexual predator. (1/3) 🧵🤼

only thing I can think of that I’d ever want AI to do for me is act as an interpreter for any animal I’d meet. I just wanna talk with the animals like Dr Dolittle

sure it’s fine for a megalomaniac who can’t answer the question if humanity should continue to exist has his own private supply of nuclear weapons-grade uranium

not sure if the Auntie Cathy clip has been posted on Bluesky yet but let's fix that now for the occasion

Happy Birthday to the great Woody Strode, born Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode 111 years ago today