Christopher Drum

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

A blank "Home" page for YouTube which supposedly means YouTube isn't tracking my watch history and thus frees me from the constraints of some algorithm. But strictly speaking, between you and me, I don't trust that Google is telling me the whole truth here.

Solidarity, sister.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

13. Should feature a bald billionaire who is really smart and gets the hottest babes easily and he's also funny and handsome. Named Geoff or something like that.

Billionaires truly do believe rich = smart, huh?

Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance | CNN Politics Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney Gen...

The highest levels of the Trump administration are collaborating with the FBI and DOJ to cover-up evidence the President committed sexual crimes against children.

Unspeakably corrupt, and not a single Republican in Congress can be expected to speak out against it.

Some important facts about Greg Abbott.

Millions will lose access to emergency alerts, kids’ education, and local news because of this - all while we spend almost $1 billion in taxpayer money on a personal plane for Trump, a ridiculous and unnecessary $200 million ballroom, and non-stop trips to his own golf resorts.

#ResistTrump

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”

No. Fuck you.

I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

Five Uneventful Nights at Freddy's
#MildHorror

Scott Adams made databases fun, so why not?

I think Apple is basically taking the right approach. Industry pressure put them into an untenable position: announce grand AI plans or else.

Apple has a history of being "late" to markets. I feel they're the only clearheaded voice of reason around AI. AI doesn't work; they'll use it when it works.

Oh crap. I certainly shouldn't have said I knew Jeffrey Epstein was kidnapping young girls from my hotel spa.

The non-leading question to ask, "Who did Epstein take from your staff?"

It matters because he said of throwing E. out,
"I'm glad I did, if you wannt know the truth" in hindsight.
So "young girls" was not in the original calculus, nor in the lie 2 days ago. Only when led into it by that reporter.

To Whom It May Concern, I became aware of your recent article “Trump posts fake video of Obama in jail, declares ‘treason’ and ‘crime of the century’ in AI-driven blitz” which contains a completely fabricated quote from me. The article attributes the following to me regarding Donald Trump’s AI video depicting Obama’s arrest: “This deepfake is political disinformation at its worst,” said Nina Jankowicz, disinformation analyst and former executive director of the US Disinformation Governance Board. “It erodes public trust, damages reputations, and poses serious threats to democratic stability.” I did not say this. In fact, I have not issued any comment related to this Trump AI video to your outlet or the public. The manufactured quote is incorrect and irrelevant, and it negatively impacts my professional reputation. Please remove the false quotation and append a correction to the article, stating that a prior version of this article included a quote falsely attributed to Nina Jankowicz. Sincerely, Nina Jankowicz

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

Much obliged. Search engines are untrustworthy these days; had to turn to the people!

Dang it, I guess I'm not online enough to know Substack has such a problem. I've been working hard to start a tech-ish newsletter there (but have not gone live yet)

Anyone have suggestions for an alternative? I need a place with traction, has decent writing/publishing tools, only takes a small cut.

Goddamn I'm tired of these fuckers and their superhero cosplay. Punisher/Batman vigilante justice, a constant adversarial stance against the public, face coverings like in Watchmen (TV series), carrying the arsenal of a small country as though a video game mini-boss might show up at any minute.

Twitter/X post by Kyle Langford @KyleLangfordCA “My 0% Unemployment Plan” Kyle Langford is running for Governor of California, he posted a photo of himself smiling, it appears he superimposed a photo of himself in front of an Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. A symbol for the terror of the Holocaust. Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. Auschwitz I and nearby Auschwitz II-Birkenau was the extermination camp where an estimated 1.1 million people, mostly Jews from across Europe, were killed in gas chambers or from systematic starvation, forced labor, disease and medical experiments. The original photo that he superimposed his photo on top of, is the main entrance at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, with the inscription, "Arbeit Macht Frei," which translates into English as '"Work sets you free," pictured on Dec. 8, 2019. AP/Markus Schreiber

I really hope that folks get off their couch and vote in the midterms in 2026.

We’re facing unprecedented times. When you don’t vote — we end up with POS like this.

This nazi is running for Governor of California.

More info in ALT

Reminder—Today is a good day to check your voter registration

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

A Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox with thermos. Steven Austin's head is surrounded by images of his strength and speed: bending a railroad tie, racing a stallion, ripping a tree out of the ground, jumping over a speeding car.

I suddenly remember eating little tins of vienna sausages and chocolate pudding, bologna sandwiches, and apple slices in a baggie. Thermos was full of milk. My box of choice, shown.

No, what makes my palms sweaty is mom's spaghetti.

An ad from the classifieds section of the August '85 issue of Computer & Video Games. It reads, "BUSINESS opportunity for quality Games Software Programmer. I have an idea for an original computer game, but not the knowledge to program it. Help me out for 50/50 split on profits. Apply in writing to Computer Game...." And then the rest of the address, which has been edited out of the image so we don't innundate the new tenant with the hundreds of programmers leaping to take 50% of the profit of an 80s computer game.

The more things change, the more things stay the same. (Source.)

"Golden" from the KPop Demon Hunters movie.
That movie's songs are way more infectious than they have any right to be (said as someone with only shallow, passing familiarity with KPop)

When you strip away humanity