Billiard Lentil

sure it's frighteningly easy to manipulate trump. but somehow vance is even worse. he will be and do anything his handlers dictate. marry a south asian and write a book about being a hick yes mistress chua. convert to catholicism and be a nazi yes master thiel. terrifying cipher of a man

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

"Grokipedia pages... have no internal linking, have no photos... There is zero insight into how any of the articles were generated, how information was obtained and ordered, any edits that were made, no version history, etc."

As a researcher, I'd say that all of the important parts are missing.

Damn it Mark Z Danielewski I haven't even finished House of Leaves yet 😠

#BookSky

Carville is a hack who got lucky once with a young, hip, charismatic Dem against 12 years of GOP rule *and* a strong right wing 3rd party challenger, he played the game "election!" on easy mode and we treat him like the goddamn Oracle of Delphi!

Okay I’m reading it now and, no surprise, it suuuucks in exactly the ways you would expect.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Always thought it was sad that Ayn Rand—one of the most successful authors of children's fantasy books of all time—had little enough saved in the bank in her old age that she had to rely on public assistance until her death, but I'm glad it was there for her.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

They're going to change the clocks this weekend and the president is powerless to stop it. Because he's weak and a loser. That's what they're saying sir

financially entangling myself with isaac chotiner until it becomes unethical for him to interview me

deciding-to-win is run by WelcomePAC, which is the Blue Dogs. lmao that was easy.

oh for sure, accountability is so uncouth 🙄

Beginning to suspect that the "6 7" trend has nothing whatsoever to do with the old joke that 6 is mad at 7 because 7 8 9

Share a group of four that makes you happy.

#Airwolf

METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

guy in a club saying the club is bumping the ladies look good the alcohol is flowing. there is much pain in the world but not in this room

me after folling my doctors advice and seeing the great clown pagliacci

if you don’t spend several hours a day on your phone you’ll miss all the Crap and Bullshit

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

June Lockhart posing with Lassie, above the headline "June Lockhart, Lassie and Lost in Space star, dies at 100."

I saw lots of June Lockhart in Lassie as a Nickelodeon kid, but on the occasion of her passing I remember her compelling guest appearance on an early episode of Babylon 5.

Condolences to her daughter Anne and the rest of her family.

“I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
— Charles Babbage (1864)

Jeff Bezos Says He Doesn't Understand Why Anybody Alive Now Would Be 'Discouraged'—Because Soon, 'Millions Of People Will Be Living In Space' Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he "doesn't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now." Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025 earlier this month with Ferrari and Stellantis chair...

Lunacy. tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...

betamax is back - as a laser disc

Hey quick tip: you’ll have more success communicating with strangers on here if you’re not a weirdly aggressive and offputting little freak that no one likes

OpenAI’s Sora gets knocked out of the #1 spot in the App Store — by Dave’s Hot Chicken, which is promoting ‘free sliders’ to celebrate Drake’s birthday.”

- MS desk

how long do betazoids live

Twitter user RobSchneider: FYI… There were NO Children’s Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids weren’t sick.

A tan bag with a tan, brown, and orange check pattern on the sides, with an image of an Orange M&M character emerging from a pumpkin. Next to him are white, orange, and brown M&Ms and a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream

White Pumpkin Pie M&Ms (2017, 2018, 2019): Pumpkin pie spiced, white chocolate candies, coated in Autumn-colored candy shells, meant to evoke the taste of pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Saw three consecutive seasonal releases.

This Feels Like the End of Something For many years, I dreamed of moving to Los Angeles. It was always a logical endpoint for me. I'm very into movies, after all – how they're made, how they're marketed, how they're talked about afterwa...

I’m moving my newsletter Decoding Everything off of Substack and onto Ghost!

My first edition is about my recent trip to LA and why it was a huge bummer. Enjoy! www.decodingeverything.com/this-feels-l...

Why is it never a secret IRA tattoo?

Grand Theft Auto 3 (2001) is now as old as Space Wars arcade (1977) was when Grand Theft Auto 3 was released.