Adrian Gregory

A multi platinum record that is essentially a circular firing squad resting on a sentient pillar of cocaine. It’s an achievement on par with the pyramids.

Reasons LIz Truss is Herbert Hoover reincarnated:
1. Obsessed with exporting pork products early in career*
2. Tanked the economy
3. After political career ends bitterly blames the ‘left wing establishment’.
*niche ARA joke.

Fake Monet and Renoir on eBay among 40 counterfeits identified using AI Paintings identified as fake using cutting-edge technology are ‘tip of the iceberg’ specialist Dr Carina Popovici says

Maybe finding them on eBay was a clue

Lots of jokes about RFK brain worms on this site - which is good. Not enough jokes about Elmo, the IRA and exploding cars - which is bad.

To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots Russian university leaders are imbuing the country’s education system with patriotism to favor Putin, quashing Western influences and dissent.

Huh i guess it’s an existential threat to democracy to purge humanities and police thought on university campuses— but only in Russia

a copy of the book “The Great Depression & the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction” by Eric Rauchway(part of the same series as the book “Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction”)

I have been detained on suspicion of causing the Great Depression

NYPD: we found a book called Moby Dick at the encampment, which is proof that the protesters are planning to ram the university with a whale.

On Columbia Protests, DA Newsletter May 2024 Columbia protests: An interview with Prof. Marianne Hirsch An interview with Professor Marianne Hirsch Dear Zoe, When it was announced in March that Columbia University President Minouche Shafik would

Hi this is VERY IMPORTANT CONTEXT from a Jewish Studies professor at Columbia about EVERYTHING that has gone down, including cops, encampment, and the utter lack of expertise at the table, despite actual antisemitism scholars employed by university BEGGING to be put to use:

Quick guide:

ANTISEMITIC:
"Jews will not replace us!"

NOT ANTISEMITIC:
"Israel out of Gaza!"

ANTISEMITIC:
Supporting Israel because you think it will bring about the apocalypse, ending with Jews burning in hell

NOT ANTISEMITIC
Opposing Israel because it is killing tens of thousands of civilians

Mad Frankie Fraser wasn’t happy about it (see every documentary about London underworld)

Interesting how far apart Washington and Oregon are on this table. (Fond memories of the absence of sales tax in Oregon).

Trump hates dogs and loves performative cruelty - so it reads like a pitch for the VP post. And it might still work.

the right wing is so enthusiastic about cops harming and arresting college kids and faculty because they’ve been waging an intellectual war against them for so long and their blood-thirst finally has a physical outlet

Galaxy brained tech utopians ‘We should just flat out bribe the police to only enforce the laws we want’.

@danmcateer.bsky.social -

I want better reporting on the motivation and pressure behind Columbia and NYU’s shitshow reactions. Which donors or politicians are making threatening phone calls? What/who are administrators afraid of and why? Coverage so far offers basically no insight.

Very funny to me how Weiss and Berliner both tried so hard to get fired so that they could become martyrs of liberal bias but their publications were so committed to letting conservatives do and say anything that they had to resign

I imagine when a cuckoo goes mad the others refer to it as going Naomi Wolf.

Many of us have been talking about what might happen if Trump gets into office. However, we really need to be paying attention to how the right to protest is being clamped down right now. This is bigger than Trump. Universities are being squeezed and students rights are being trampled on for donors

Anyone else noticed that increases in Elmo’s intensity of retweeting blatant and provocative falsehoods largely corresponds with big slides in Tesla share price. Almost like he is trying to distract people.

The overlap of ‘Colonize Mars now’ and ‘staying indoors for two months to prevent a deadly infectious disease spreading was a completely intolerable infringement of my liberty’ is pretty funny.

quote from an nineteenth cencury Icelandic lullaby reading Sleep, you black-eyed pig Fall into a deep pit full of ghosts

Iceland keeping it real

Renegade Nell seems fun.

Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop Amazon promoted Just Walk Out as AI-powered cashierless technology. But the tech reportedly relied on workers in India for accuracy.

Next up: Tesla's Autopilot is actually just some dude in India driving your car with a Playstation controller.

I just saw this and died

Hit by an epiphany this morning- quiche is just a poor substitute for the gourmet delight that is cold pizza.

Pinned tweet from Elon Musk announcing “Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8”

Given Musk’s fondness for nonsensical winking references to particular numbers (remember “taking Tesla private at $420”?), he should get no benefit of the doubt regarding his announcement of a big reveal on 8/8. This is Nazi dogwhistling, nothing more.