Starseed & Hutch

More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto “Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, ...

“I became both heroine and heroin to him. And sometimes, a heron, for when we did bird play.”

Web 1.0-style page with a picture of a unicorn sitting by a reflection pool at night and the same unicorn lounging in the snow. Text: Feel free to take this card from my page. I think you would send this to someone you love or you like them a fair amount. You could add text that says: • You are the unicorn of my life. • I am reflecting about how much I like you. • Sweet unicorn dreams. No nightMARES! Here is another unicorn card to take. She looks cold but happy. I think it would be good for a winter birthday. It could say: • Brrr neigh! This unicorn wishes you happy birthday! • Happy Brrrth Neigh. • Brrr brrr! Neigh neigh! I heard you had a birthday today! • Happy cold birthday from a unicorn! (or maybe birthday for someone with A/C)

Excited for Cheryl Hines to publish a memoir called American Taliban or whatever and for you guys to post some screenshots

I’m gonna buttfuck the ballroom

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Another win for chatGPT as therapist

4 panel comic Panel 1: Pink Guy is attending an interview with the chief exec and CEO of a company. CEO: “Our company does not adhere to DEI hiring practices Panel 2: CEO continues: “We believe in hiring based strictly on qualifications” Panel 3: Pink Guy interjects and says “Actually, DEI is about addressing a systemic imbalance in- CHIEF EXEC butts in: HEY Panel 4: CHIEF EXEC: Don’t talk back to my dad

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

if i can stop you from enjoying something you don’t deserve it

Yes, and this is one reason why they’re so shocked when they come online and realize how many people hate them and think they shouldn’t exist.

Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.

Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR

$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need

Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

The Grinch in the studio trying to record a comeback to Thurl Ravenscroft like Drake coming back at Kendrick

War crimes and deSadean cruelty are divisive subjects in this Christian nation

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help

I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value

Like people should also be allowed to exist for free

INSANE LIFE CHEATCODE: choose to be miserable and then play the victim about it

My favorite Blue Oyster Cult song will never sound the same

No screenshots, just photos full of glare

The way the light from the screen fuzzes out across the photo is an 80s memory in itself

comic: a nappy wearing baby with a baby's bottle beside him is playing a game, back turned to the camera. text above: everyone can play hexmaster.. second panel: it's revealed that this is indeed not a baby but einstein wearing a nappy. his head is turned and he is saying: ...not everyone can win.

hexmaster, print ad, excerpt (1983) archive.org/details/1983...

maybe i am going insane

You know, in the run-up to Iraq, people didn't talk this way out loud. Now? MAGA doesn't understand that there's a loud part and a quiet part.

There's going to be an Atlantic article like "The Digital Love Divide: Men are finding it increasingly difficult to keep their pixelated partners, and why the government should step in"

I have got to get around to reading this series

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID

DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.

Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.

Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.

My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot