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Shame on those two actors

Bishop Desmond Tutu (07 Oct 1931 – 26 Dec 2021)

Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.

shit's pretty bleak but at least I have lived long enough to see the Buddhists dunking on Ezra Klein:

"Coates is describing lynching, and Klein responds with a meditation about his own mortality. That’s not wisdom. That’s avoidance with a spiritual veneer."

lizbucar.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst.

So this absolutely tracks.

The British-American coup that ended Australian independence | John Pilger John Pilger: In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price

Nbd it's just the CIA & English plot to defeat Australian independence

Ezra Klein is the perfect embodiment of the white moderate MLK warned us about

Why your last?

Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h Remigration is the only way Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_•18h Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere. It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people....

Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_ X.com Epping is everywhere. 12:02•8/29/25 • 275K Views Elonmusk All Britain is Epping @Steve_Laws_ Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Vera Miles posed standing in a black, ankle-length halter dress and mid-length black gloves.

Happy 95th birthday to Vera Miles! Splendidly versatile actress who could play insanity for Alfred Hitchcock just as well as she did homespun stability for John Ford. Retired for many years, she is one of our last living connections to them both.

Everyone knows that tons of humans who use technology are also idiots. We have known this since we first started making tools.

“Dumb people used the tool I built to do terrible and stupid things, so it’s not my fault” has never been an adequate excuse.

The genocide of the Uyghurs has been slow and methodical rather than fast and aggressive. But it is no less real than any other.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

My favorite Hitch

Marnie (1964)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

#filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

If historians know something it is this: nothing is inevitable just because it is popular. AI is not an exception. Nor is fascism.

Grace Kelly in Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock (1954)

Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

“This swift and near-total capitulation to political depravity is for many people outside the United States an extraordinary sight.”

Pankaj Mishra on the moral failings of America’s intelligentsia.

Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra

This is quite something by Pankaj Mishra

harpers.org/archive/2025...

Sam Altman is not your friend, your doctor or your therapist. Why do you trust him? Why do you trust his platform that you don’t even pay for?! Why are you sending his company all your business?

I'm adopting it

It’s amazing that when we witness an ongoing genocide and face an existential threat of climate change, our politicians have swung into action and put all their power and resources into the fight to combat illegal immigration.

What about Steve Allen?

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Reading 1000 Years of Lynching and seeing what was done to enslaved Black people, then watching white people fight against reparations, shows me they’re not sorry. They’re not guilty. They’re just as evil as their ancestors who did it.

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie What does Zohran Mamdani's win mean for Democrats?

extended thoughts on the new york mayoral race! youtu.be/6UYqgVbwZh4?...