Mike

Would You Work ‘996’? The Hustle Culture Trend Is Taking Hold in Silicon Valley.

Only tech dudes would reframe the relentless management exploitation of their time and talent as a feature, not a bug. They're self-exploiting, and then they'll be tossed aside when their value is depleted.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/b...

Every clip of the Charlie Kirk funeral looks like a cross between a Klan rally, an evangelical megachurch, and a cult.

Meghan Blanco, an attorney who represented Mojica, said it was significant that jurors did not believe the statements of such a senior official. “These jurors had the opportunity to listen firsthand to the CBP officer overseeing enforcement nationally and could not have found his testimony to be credible,” said Blanco, a former federal prosecutor. “It is a bad sign for the federal government. They are doing everything they can to try to legitimize their prosecutions, and thank God the jury and the public are seeing right through it.”

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

He really committed to the whole half mast thing.

You love to see it

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.

My beef isn't with the concept of machine learning but with the fact it's been entrusted to a cabal of profit-obsessed goblins who have collectively failed every ethics class they ever took and are now piloting our collective future with the moral restraint of a raccoon in a unlocked dumpster.

Sounds like quite the party trick.

To a millennial, functioning democracy in the US is a semi-mythical, nostalgic childhood memory. To a Zoomer, it has never existed at all.

Alien earth e2, we ate the rich and rocked out to tool.

poorly edited image of Sid from Ice Age bursting out of Ripley

watched the first episode of Alien: Earth and couldn't believe when this literally happened

This is a cruel and violent country. you won't grab hold of power unless you wrench that cruelty and desire for kinetic action in the direction of someone who actually deserves it

Ideally, we'd be better people. There's a long road to that destination and it runs through ugly-ass terrain.

the people angry at this seem captured by the delusion that "immortality" would somehow trickle down to the masses. This ignores two key things:

1. Most tech oligarchs see "immortality" as uploading themselves to the cloud

2. They want to make themselves gods and don't desire your company

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

I sit blindfolded. A woman in a lab coat feeds me a twix. Left, I say. She marks her notes. 614 consecutive correct guesses

A book called Hench. Strong recommendation

pets: 5000 good days in exchange for one really bad one

Does acab include Paul blart?

The corporation for public broadcasting is shutting down and someone set fire to my favorite place in LA in an act of arson.

And I blame capitalism for both.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

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I saw maybe the best theatrical experience in my adult memory last night thanks to @bespokeplays.bsky.social

American (and Los Angeles in particular) theater leaves a lot to be desired, but now and then you get an absolute gem.

Lmao

Sounds right, 9 months underemployed over here.

Remember, a major driving force for the depersonalized industrialization of mass genocide in the Holocaust was sparing SS morale.

News 9 radar damaged in apparent attack by anti-government militia group Oklahoma City television station News 9 is reporting an anti-government militia group targeted its weather radar system.

An Oklahoma City TV station says it's weather radar was damaged by an individual and that an anti-government militia took responsibility, claiming that radar is used to control the weather. (via @kosuradio.bsky.social)

DAILY MEMO: Part 1 of 2, Downey Women Stop ICE from Taking a Man, Injunctions, Restraining Orders, and More ~ @eltragon.bsky.social

Ooh, where can I watch

DAILY MEMO: ICE puts on a show at McArthur Park as we pass the 30-day mark. Welcome to day 32 of the ICE Siege of L.A. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social