Jim Burlingame

Cy Canterel uses that as a jumping off point for her essay this week on the integral role that corruption plays in upholding capitalism (2/2):

cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/inherent-g...

What’s crazy is that veined pattern on the marble (faux-marble?) immediately looked like the artist Mark Lombardi’s massive drawing of the network of connected people and institutions (“legal” and criminal) behind the 1991 collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. (1/2)

Maybe she misunderstood the agency’s mission and thinks it’s to make employees homeless 🤔

Lyrics from the Nick Cave song Oh My Lord

Bonkers. It’s like their playbook is a William S. Burroughs cut-up project.

Also, it reminds me of these lyrics by Nick Cave:

Should have happened the moment we invaded Afghanistan (October 7, 2001), then after we invaded Iraq, then after…

More likely an overseas bot farm subcontracted by Stephen Miller

I think it’s an interjection in the ballpark of “hmm!”

That’s what I said when I finished my driving test.

Hierarchical thinking is the problem

A) shelters from extreme weather events; B ) food storage warehouses

The Faux-Automation Hokey-Pokey (the Faux-key Pokey!)

21st century fascism is a big tent. Racism and other bigotry is a 20th century red herring. This century is the century of the Internet Troll: rudeness and meanness with no stable ideology, where being contradictory is the POINT. A big F U to all the libs looking to respond with logic.

Da fuq 😵‍💫

Cujo Nation FTW

Much of the country has needed a cult deprogrammer for the last decade - no joke

Many of us did - but only a particular subset turns out like this

On their inside, everyone’s stuck at the age of their first trauma. Then add five and that’s the number you wrote on a piece of paper and put in the magician’s hat!

If the U.S. military can just convince everyone in Venezuela to first strap on “Avatar” type VR goggles, then it’s GAME OVER for them!

Oh we’re Vanilla Sky-ing it till the cows come home!

Rules for thee, Not for me

Still works as a banger alt-headline pun for most of us

So dumb. My (white) girlfriend is called “aunt” by her BFF’s little kids.

Won’t matter when Trump has the Supreme Court declare that illegal 🤷‍♂️

BINGO. It’s an age old adage: “Don’t feed the troll!”

Also, even if someone is well meaning (but factually wrong), then can cause things to go sideways quickly by saying things like: “Well, that’s how it FEELS to me…” And then, soon enough: “You are being dismissive and not VALIDATING my feelings.”

Chensembling a team

nom nom palm palm

It’s a lot! But also just 10% of the company. I’ve been reading that the data center gold rush is slowing down, so I don’t think this is due to AI.

This explanation in the first paragraph makes sense: “as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

The linguist George Lakoff addressed this decades ago. (Did Democrats heed his advice? Nope!)