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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows POP SONG REVIEW: Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia"

Some thoughts:

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Shinzo Abe Killer’s Trial Is Exposing the Christian Cult Entrenched in Japanese Politics Tetsuya Yamagami is now on trial for the assassination of Shinzo Abe. He says he was motivated by Abe's ties to the Moonies.

Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who shot Japan’s longest-serving prime minister with a homemade gun, is standing trial. But in the eyes of many of his countrymen, the real defendant in the dock is Japan’s political system itself.

Here’s Seb Vettel kneeling in homage to his all-conquering Red Bull RB9 after winning the #IndianGP #OnThisDay in 2013. Look out for my brand-new #MotorSport column tomorrow, in which I remember the 3 Indian GPs (2011-2013) & make the case for more. 🇮🇳

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Great moments in redaction history.

chart with title 10/17/25 dodgers-brewers y-axis is total bases x-axis is at-bats shohei ohtani is plotted high and to the left with 12 total bases in 3 at-bats the brewers (an entire mlb organization) against the opposing starting p;itcher, who happened to be shohei ohtani, are at bottom right with 3 hits in 19 at-bats

Welcome to Dorktown
Mayor, Shohei Ohtani

Cheryl Hines clarifying her mutant husband only had a bit of his brain eaten by an actual worm

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
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He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.

They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

in a bold move, president trump has ordered HSI to execute senate majority leader chuck schumer. critics say the president is not statutorily allowed to execute rival politicians. senator schumer said the move was a distraction from the worsening state of kitchen table issues that unite americans.

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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

The thing about cricket is that it teaches you that in life victory and defeat have nothing to do with the scoreboard, India and England just drew a test series & I asked an Indian friend how it was & got a speech on the glory of sport then I asked an English friend and he was like "fuck off mate"

Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’ NEW YORK—Arguing that producers should consider their audience before catering to the whims of the “woke internet mob,” Fox News host Jesse Watters decried Tuesday the casting of an Indian man in the lead role of the film Sankranthiki Vasthunam. “I don’t know about you, but I like my Tollywood films all-American,” said a visibly […]

Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’
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Fair fucking play to Salah here.

Shout it louder.

bluesky absolutely has a growth problem. at this point it's just me, the several thousand sockpuppet accounts i faithfully maintain, and you. and if you're weirded out by that, how about you just take a beat and imagine what an average day is like for me

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Late entrant for song of the summer imo

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Everyone on the Freedom Flotilla knew *exactly* who they were dealing with and the most likely outcome of their actions. They knew there was a greater than 50% chance they would not survive, and they did it anyway.

It was a sacrifice of perhaps their lives to force international action. Damn.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Israel kidnapping Greta Thunberg, the Academy-Award winning co-director of the documentary No Other Land, and declaring Ms. Rachel an anti-semite for not wanting Palestinian kids to die.

Yup, this is how you win the world.

‘In 1933, with the shadow of World War II looming, the Oxford Union passed a motion titled “this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country”. Winston Churchill chafed and seethed in Parliament, but wisely, that was all he did.’

On free speech, patriotism, and the SC:

I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick Features By Joshua Wolens published 21 hours ago

Most editors will go their whole careers without ever getting to write a headline this good www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...