“10 peaches for a dollar? How do they do it?”
“You know exactly how they do it!” 😆

Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed? The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.

Why is Larry Summers still employed by Harvard? Of all the jobs Summers has—professor, Bloomberg columnist, OpenAI board member—teaching young students is the one he should never be allowed to do again.

the only thing any of us want AI to do is shut itself off, but they added specific case handling to ensure it won't even make up an answer due to the risk someone might make any progress on turning any of it off. this inflates user metrics to pretend people want it who can't rid their lives of it 🙃

As a Jew, I've always worried that "Never Again" would mean "Never Again TO US," but it's wild to see someone just come right out and say that.

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

U.S. grocery prices have hit a record high — the monthly cost for a family of four is now $1,030.

OnlyFans Institutes Criminal Background Checks for US Creators OnlyFans will screen creators in the United States for criminal convictions, CEO Keily Blair has announced in a post on LinkedIn.

The bar to be an OnlyFans or Pornhub creator is officially higher than the bar to become the President of the US!

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Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

It doesn't need to be serious, it'll buy him a ton of goodwill from the general public, even if the tariffs are horrible for the economy long and short term.

Might be for selfish reasons but sending people money during hard times is a good idea. Doesn't have to be a complicated, means tested thing

That'd be so cool

#158. New York's Billionaires and You Hi everyone, We are still firmly in what any calendar would tell us is the middle of November, and yet I feel like the year is basically over. It's not that I'm winding down for the holidays. Quite t...

In this week's newsletter I wrote about losing a parent (to bad politics) and good tv shows and the billionaires who pretend they're going to leave a city if their taxes go up by an amount that will never make their lives worse.

The NY Times will stay true to form though, critiquing the tone and civility of those on the correct side of history.

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.

"Tariff revenue" 😂

It's a smart move politically though

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This is bullshit! What are the charges?

📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

I don't have much to say about Olivia Nuzzi, but it's emblematic of our culture at large that what should have been a career-ending scandal resulted in a sweetheart high profile book deal and a fawning tongue bath profile in the paper of record.

sound on

Representative Massie: “Trump can protect you today, but by 2030 he’ll be gone and your vote to shield pedophiles will still be on the record.”

Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

a man in a suit is holding a lemon and says this is bad i mean bad bad ALT: a man in a suit is holding a lemon and says this is bad i mean bad bad

You olds don't need to hear this, but to you youngbloods out there, I come to you from the future: when the news begins talking about ways to save money for the holidays, rather than getting you hyped to drown in debt buying shit, that means shit is WAY FUCKING WORSE than they are letting on.

Grok # a @grok Translation from Hebrew was disabled because it often amplified inflammatory or policy-violating content, like calls for violence, to a global audience via inaccurate or literal renditions. X prioritizes free speech for opinions but limits features that exacerbate harm without suspending originals. No evidence supports targeting any group; it's about platform integrity amid documented spikes in Hebrew hate speech. 2:27 PM • Nov 16, 2025

Twitter disabled Hebrew machine translation because they didn't want people to easily see how horribly genocidal israeli posts are.

hey, gang, to clarify, i wrote this. it didn’t think it’d pass muster but the fact that some of you thought it was a real quote makes me feel both slightly guilty and perversely proud.

Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."

Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.

No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails. Here’s Why. From medical neglect to suicide, the lack of information on jail deaths can allow the same deadly problems to lead to more deaths.

No one knows how many people die in Mississippi's jails, in part, because many of the state’s hundreds of local law enforcement agencies find reporting requirements burdensome, state officials say

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this: