Brandon Borrman

One of the Epstein emails where he is informed that Hermes is refusing his donation to their charity event.

A luxury brand with more integrity and morales than the people who buy their products.

Europe has done more, yes. Enough? I don’t believe anyone has yet. Maybe none of it ends up being necessary. Fine, even then we end up with a strong safety net for everyone.

We already have what? And yeah, I agree, that’s a possibility. But I’d prefer we also plan for the potential of a more basic change occurring.

Sure. But what's the regulation look like? Is it directed at implementation? Development? Does it come in the form of enshrined labor protections? We can either start working through this now or wait until the impact is obvious. Like we did with privacy on the web after Meta already had all our data

Yeah, but Tim, regardless of whether or not this ends up being a big financial bubble, there's utility in planning for the possibility of impacts.

You and I might not see this as a revolution, but a handful of CEOs viewing it that way fundamentally changes the landscape of employment in the US.

That's true right now! Yes.

So we should start planning for this to continue or accelerate. You don't have to believe the hype yourself to see that there are already impacts and we should start building plans for the possible ways this goes from here.

We need to plan for all of those scenarios. How do you start empowering labor to respond? What's are the changes needed in education? Etc. Etc. What if it's all just a market bubble?

You can start planning for possible outcomes which usually helps blunt the impact when they arrive.

But the point of the original message is that, whether it's worth it or not, we should have a plan B.

Maybe this is all hype and the bubble pops? What then.

Maybe some of it's true and a few jobs get disrupted? What then.

Maybe a lot of it's true and everything gets blown up. What then?

The more that comes out of the Epstein files the more it seems like Specter. Only worse. Bond never had to protect a bunch of kids from the decrepit old rich guys.

Oh shit, that’s good!

A friend and I were talking about the inescapable presence of gambling in the US right now. He asked what would change it and I said the first thing that came to mind, “Moms. At some point they’ll get sit of their sons losing all this money and they’ll rally together to fight it.”

How much joy can we take in one night?

Bad Bunny bringing so much beauty and fun and love to halftime.

The evil Patriots getting crushed.

USA winning team gold.

Amazon unintentionally making everyone aware of the dangers of AI and Ring surveillance cameras.

Don’t know if I can take more.

Huh. I guess Ezra Klein and Matty Y are not in fact that average American voter.

Name them. Name them. Name them.

I'm starting to think that all those wild sci-fi stories warning us about oligarchs owning the most important parts of society were onto something.

Three Tweets from Senator Chuck Schumer recounting violence committed by ICE and then outlining the completely toothless reforms he is advocating for.

A three skeet run destined for ignominy in the history books. Just a perfect encapsulation of a total failure to rise to the moment and lead. @schumer.senate.gov

The moral contrast between the community actions in Minneapolis and Portland, and everything coming out of DC tonight could not make it clearer that it’s not a cliche, it’s a core truth.

Power corrupts and great power corrupts absolutely.

Hard disagree. Both are great, but Bowie’s original will always be the best.

How many of us need to die before the democratic leadership moves to this instead of “I introduced a bill to require better training and badges for the guys out there murdering citizens”?

There may be no better example of how fundamentally disconnected our institutions have become from everyday life than the lack of coverage of how citizens are responding to ICE.

Well, that and the stock market’s complete disconnect from the economic realities of living.

In his defense, the definitely IS Gavin Newsom.

Always has been, always will be.

“Why aren’t you all out there protesting?!”

The short answer — our govt is at war with us and we’re on our own. Feds made it clear they will shoot us for so much as using our phones and the opposition in our government has given up protecting us.

www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

Hey, media, we’re in a constitutional crisis. This last week was the result of that, not a warning sign that one might be coming.

And now the Fed has released a hostage video.

So stop pretending that you can have balance in a situation like this.

More aggressive toward her interns than an organization who murdered someone in her state.

Twitter at least tried, not always successfully, to have policies that were divorced from the whims of the senior leaders. It would be nice if Apple, Meta, etc. stopped pretending that their calls on things like this were determined by anything other than the CEO's personal opinion.

It is entirely fine to cut people out of your life based on how they’re reacting to everything.

Giving MAHAhahahahahahahahahaha

Why do they all spend so much time making the idea of progress, of the future, seem so deeply boring?

Screenshot from NBC News with headlines covering the failure of the US to help Afghan’s immigrants who assisted us in the war and the recent extrajudicial killing of people in alleged Venezuelan drug boats.

An exciting snapshot of the complete moral failing of US foreign policy over the last 20+ years.

And everything our government is doing in response to the DC shooting is making that failing worse.

Possibly! But we’ve also learned — again, the entire history of Twitter — that keeping it as a black box also makes it possible to work the refs.

I don’t think there’s a silver bullet but the lack of transparency feeds into conspiracy and reduces trust in the overall enterprise.