boofis

my middle managers are suspiciously nondescript briefcase dudes named Yair and Raj

born too late to be an early 2000s back-office website tech on the outskirts of a mid-sized city

Brian Allen, an economic and geopolitical analyst, said Friday in an X post: "Howard Lutnick’s family firm reportedly bought tariff refund rights for 20–30 cents on the dollar after “Liberation Day” last year. Now the Supreme Court has struck the tariffs down. Translation: For every $100 invested, Lutnick’s sons may have just made 3–5x. Insiders knew. Regular Americans paid. Welcome to Corrupt America — where policy is a profit scheme." Ed Krassenstein, a longtime critic of Trump with over 1 million followers, said Friday on X: "After 'Liberation Day,' when tariffs were choking importers, Howard Lutnick’s family firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, reportedly bought up tariff refund rights at 20–30 cents on the dollar. Now the Supreme Court has invalidated the tariffs.

The nepo-grift was set up last summer. 😑

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software. Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …

“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America? Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

“This militarized occupation still feels like a test run for something that I’m not fully imagining.” A letter from Minnesota.

good thread

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

Grateful to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this one, after all these years ... and with such care. I'm really proud of how the final turned out.

The link again:

lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

By the end of this term he'll be claiming that the US needs Canada for Lebensraum

WAIT A MINUTE IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE-
TIME TO POST ONE OF MY FAVOURITE IMAGES

THE BINCH

so insanely fucking real for this

I understand what she's going through

Bugs Bunny dresses up as a Goth Girl with thick mascara, black tank top, ankh necklace, mesh sleeves. She says "eh... time to evade murder by using gender tricks, Doc." She goes up to Elmer Fudd, who says "wow, you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." Elmer then sheepishly asks "so... how big is it?" Bugs' ears go down and she looks horrified.

Literally just gambling. Everything is gambling now.

Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw

We're the US social media gays and we're getting married. You must engage. You must love us. Now we're selling you our products on the timeline. Our evil twink will reach out to you with really rude sales tactics fueled by his rage at not achieving throuple status with us (we're stringing him along)

Dee Majestic Is Playing At My House

You're only nostalgic for 2016 brunch because it wasn't mandatory.

It's 2025. You WILL get the eggs benedict avocado toast, and you WILL pay 18 bucks for it.

update: just saw someone doing this at Alexanderplatz. There is a market for this skill after all

As a child I labored under the mistaken belief that Steely Dan was singing "are you reeling in the yeast"

yeah

In Super Mario 3D Land, the welcome screen that is displayed when starting the game for the first time appears to be much less enthusiastic about the game in the European version compared to the US version.

Report it

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

how do you become one of these people that performs sketchy rituals in unsettling locations. I mean someone has to have figured it out. any podcasts i could listen to for tips & tricks

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

Ricki Lake Sorority Safari '93

Alien Ant Farm vape dad

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

We are still some weeks out from the official start of fall but you bet your ass I'm already peasantmaxxing in the kitchen