MyPowerGrows

I can't ever remember caring what I wore as a little kid, but my daughter insists on picking out her own outfit about 80% of the time

Do you mainly use google? I've looked at Kagi, but I don't really want to pay money to help me find articles from published a decade ago

Drudge is weirdly the man for the moment. His framing of the front page is a more accurate portrayal of the Trump Administration than the NYT's, etc. view from nowhere

I don't really care about images, but I don't want AI or SEO slop to fill the page whenever I'm looking for information.

This shit makes me feel old. This is the kind of feature I want, but I don't want to spend time messing around with new search engines, technology, etc.

I've been thinking about switching back to Ubuntu and it makes me feel the same way

Capitalists Love This Podcast. So Do Their Critics.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

The Sydney Sweeney stuff has convinced me that prestige media (New Yorker, NYT Magazine) is using social media as it's assignment editor, so we're all forced to wallow in lowest common denominator slop disguised behind complex sentence structures

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Day in Trump's economy: > Wake up, check the news > BLS: "10 billion new jobs created" > Check my phone to see what today's tariff rates are. > Norway up 20%, Cambodia down 5% > Go to my iphone assembly line job where I make $7.25/hour > Spend next 4 hours putting chips inside phones > Take 15 minute break > Check my shitfartpisscoin holdings > Rugged > Watch the FOMC meeting > FOMC is just Trump > Trump goes on stage and announces he's raising rates from -10% to -5% > Also announces date of Jay Powell's public execution > AI manager scolds me for taking 16 minutes on my 15 minute break > It's only been 12 minutes > Call employee help line to complain > It's also AI > Go home frustrated > Complain to my girlfriend about my job > She's also AI

slightly over 3 weeks until we leave London for the US (with a stop in Spain).

all our previous moves were exciting and held the promise of adventure, but this one has us, not bummed out, but apprehensive. there is a lot of uncertainty and no guarantee of better days ahead (although is there ever?)

Tsunami watch for Hawaii and advisory for Aleutian Islands following 8.3 earthquake near Kamchatka Russia #Geology

www.tsunami.gov

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows.

Late in the day but this is really phenomenal work by CBS. I didn't think the story could surprise me anymore, but I exclaimed out loud several times reading this.

www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

Turning off comments so people have to quote tweet you to complain. It's a clever tactic, tbh.

I'm on my 4th Stephen King book of the year (all audiobooks), going chronologically from where I left off in 2009, post-Duma Key

Under the Dome (very good)
11/22/63 (pretty good)

And I just finished Through the Keyhole (very good, but I'm a sucker for the Dark Tower setting).

On to Doctor Sleep.

how do you like his chances

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Donation material

It's judgment Day for the Peppa Pig puzzle. Will it get thrown away or donated?

The fridge looks so barren without magnets or kid drawings

No one ever told me literally every single thing must be accounted for and packed, sold, donated, it thrown away when moving. What a scam!

I especially like the fake typing

This could be an SNL skit

I'm reading this book because my brother sent it to me after some asshole recommended it on the Ezra Klein Show. My brother is a reggo liberal, not sure why he picked this one (he sent me several books). I'll have to ask him.

Patrick Deneen is a professor at Notre Dame by way of Princeton and Georgetown. This might be the stupidest book I've ever read. I should raise my daughter to be conservative so she can get in on this grift.

continuing with Regime Change, there's a whole lotta this going on. Inevitable inequality reproduced by the dominant social order can kiss my ass.

I know we're in a Lib echo chamber here, but Derek Thompson's buddy Richard Hanania has a podcast with Michael Tracey.

Their current interest is that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell were innocent and basically railroaded by woke libs.

And is ostensibly about freedom. Basing conceptions of freedom in slave societies (Greece, Rome, antebellum America) is the political science equivalent of basing cancer research on off-balqance humors

The other mention of slavery is that libs are using the question of reparations to cancel the white working class.

That's it. In this book opens with references to JS Mill and de Tocqueville

"A main consequence of the enslavement of Africans was the generational destruction of the cultural forms... that are today being decimated in an extensive way among people of every race living within advanced liberal society."

Ok I'm skipping forward to the 3 pages on slavery (according to the index). It's in the last 10% of the book