John Brownlow

Whenever I see a craze like this I think about killer whales putting dead salmon on their heads as a fashion statement.

It's the same thing.

War is peace. Peace is war.

Same as it ever was.

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."

Me: Honestly guys don’t plan or do anything special for Father’s Day, it’s been so busy.

Family: We weren’t planing anything.

200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner

www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

The panopticon.

I will be selling panopticon hammers.

ChatGPT - Message Decoding Attempt Shared via ChatGPT

That was Claude. And ChatGPT...

chatgpt.com/share/681a61...

An AI tragedy in three acts (the string I gave it is random)

Once upon a time the most famous person in the world -- Christ, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, the Pope -- was famous for being good at something. Now the two top ones are known for being an idiot and an asshole respectively.

Yes, and you know who I mean too.

"It'll never just say, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?'"

Once again, the curse of our age is the Counterreformation of the Most Special Boys

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

There are three things at minimum that would need to change IMO

- citizens united
- gerrymandering of congressional districts
- the way the senate is elected

And the second-order problem is that even if the next admin is relatively sane (deus volens) the US system has shown that it's vulnerable to capture. This is a huge systemic constitutional problem which it's bafflingly hard to see how the three branches / states could go about solving.

Applications to Canadian universities are through the roof (but there's also a big foreign student scandal at the moment so that's friction). But you're exactly right -- why would anyone make new investments in the US at the moment when there's no way to plan ahead?

So, for example, capital has somewhere else to flow in search of returns, which it didn't the last time.

Plus unlike the last time where it was a global phenomenon, this time it's, if not exactly local, then epicentred on the US. The extrinsic supply lines outside the US are working fine.

- someone still wearing a straw hat, shorts and flip-flops when it's snowing outside

oh shit that one's real

He actually looks and acts more like a PM than JT ever did. Also, he isn't an annoying little dipshit, which is probably his main electoral asset. He's not a natural retail politician, interestingly.

Spherical

Something something Tolkein something something Bilbo Goggins

*will not actually work for scale

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

This is the GOPs Brexit, which will simultaneously crater both them and the economy.

I don't even like Booker but he, AOC and Bernie (the entire trio I'm no particular fan of, bit warmer to AOC than the others) seem like the only ones who get this moment.

New DOGE dishwasher is lit

As the spouse of a librarian, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much use libraries get. It's insane.