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Just trying to figure it all out. Read my newsletter, the Future Phatness. https://open.substack.com/pub/futurephatness

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · Jul 23

I wrote something: People Don't Use Headphones in Public Anymore and I Hate it

People Don't Use Headphones in Public Anymore and I Hate It

It's the 1980s all over again but way way way worse.

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 57m

That doesn't stop us from saying it.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1h

Absolutely going to get fed into an LLM with a "tell me who to fire, I want to reduce headcount at least 50% so I can replace with people who I can rely on ideologically"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the full memo.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 1h

Also: no one sits down and watches news at 6pm anymore. No one has done that in fifty years.

Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 1h

This shit is just a scam. She'll hire some of her friends, they'll make some millions, then quit.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2h

Someone’s gonna make him his own little participant trophy peace award.

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 3h

Obama didn't deserve that Peace Prize, by the way.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3h

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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 5h

“This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that the committee gave it to a Hispanic woman....

a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer

ALT: a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 6h

Forbes article about Washington Post losing subscribers

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 5h

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11h

need to someone to date me so i have someone to assemble furniture with

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 6h

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 12h

The government is shut down, so government workers, contractors, and beneficiaries aren't being paid. Yet the Treasury Department is using $20 billion in unappropriated funds to aid the right-wing government of Argentina in their upcoming elections.

An undemocratic abuse of financial statecraft.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 12h

"Racism is bad" is too politically charged. Think about that.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12h

I just really fucking love Chicago.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 21h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 23h

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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