Ben Loory
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Holy shit
Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Holy shit
Someday I’ll be dead and won’t be able to listen to Danzig II anymore
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Someday I’ll be dead and won’t be able to listen to Danzig II anymore
Amazing to remember how delighted we all were when email was first invented
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Amazing to remember how delighted we all were when email was first invented
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Because literally the only proper response to someone saying that to you is “Go fuck yourself”
And we didn’t get to hear it said. It was STIFLED.
And we didn’t get to hear it said. It was STIFLED.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Because literally the only proper response to someone saying that to you is “Go fuck yourself”
And we didn’t get to hear it said. It was STIFLED.
And we didn’t get to hear it said. It was STIFLED.
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One of the things Patrick Stewart was known for the first couple seasons of Next Generation was being really pissed if anyone goofed around on set and I like to imagine him yelling at his costars for being unprofessional and then immediately cooling off in his trailer by watching Beavis & Butthead
May 25, 2024 at 4:54 AM
One of the things Patrick Stewart was known for the first couple seasons of Next Generation was being really pissed if anyone goofed around on set and I like to imagine him yelling at his costars for being unprofessional and then immediately cooling off in his trailer by watching Beavis & Butthead
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The fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Wil, Switzerland. He is a catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Wil, Switzerland. He is a catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
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I went to a big high school and didn’t do band, this Olivia Nuzzi stuff feels like when a band kid excitedly told me about some “epic drama” that went down between two people I maybe saw a few times in the hall. “Isn’t that wild? What do you think?” I don’t even know, man, why are you telling me
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I went to a big high school and didn’t do band, this Olivia Nuzzi stuff feels like when a band kid excitedly told me about some “epic drama” that went down between two people I maybe saw a few times in the hall. “Isn’t that wild? What do you think?” I don’t even know, man, why are you telling me
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First page of the Epstein files, in black sharpie: IT WAS HILURY
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
First page of the Epstein files, in black sharpie: IT WAS HILURY
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Same.
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Same.
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This "haptic visuality" is what I've always meant by "texture" but didn't know how to talk about it. This is a fantastic video
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
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November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This "haptic visuality" is what I've always meant by "texture" but didn't know how to talk about it. This is a fantastic video
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Dreamed a joke last night.
Do you know what game show host Wink Martindale’s first name is short for?
Wincoln.
(I didn’t say it was a good joke. But for sleep work, it’s surprisingly solid?$
Do you know what game show host Wink Martindale’s first name is short for?
Wincoln.
(I didn’t say it was a good joke. But for sleep work, it’s surprisingly solid?$
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Dreamed a joke last night.
Do you know what game show host Wink Martindale’s first name is short for?
Wincoln.
(I didn’t say it was a good joke. But for sleep work, it’s surprisingly solid?$
Do you know what game show host Wink Martindale’s first name is short for?
Wincoln.
(I didn’t say it was a good joke. But for sleep work, it’s surprisingly solid?$
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Turned down a freelance opportunity that was less than ten cents a word. Their reasoning for paying so low was "they allow AI use." 😑
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Turned down a freelance opportunity that was less than ten cents a word. Their reasoning for paying so low was "they allow AI use." 😑
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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none of my text messages are sending, just like they don’t every November, must be Apple’s annual attempt to convince me I need a new phone for Christmas
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
none of my text messages are sending, just like they don’t every November, must be Apple’s annual attempt to convince me I need a new phone for Christmas
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Palace of Electricity sculpture. L'Exposition Universelle de 1900.
Lots more at the link archive.org/details/expo...
Lots more at the link archive.org/details/expo...
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Palace of Electricity sculpture. L'Exposition Universelle de 1900.
Lots more at the link archive.org/details/expo...
Lots more at the link archive.org/details/expo...
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The itsy bitsy spider’s name is Sisyphus. Not many people know this.
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The itsy bitsy spider’s name is Sisyphus. Not many people know this.
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I wonder which lunatic’s emails I’ll read next.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I wonder which lunatic’s emails I’ll read next.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Be ungovernable
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Be ungovernable
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"Other people have no interiority, and are just services I can access to make myself feel better" is a pretty keen insight into how these people think
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Other people have no interiority, and are just services I can access to make myself feel better" is a pretty keen insight into how these people think
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Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity