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This... wow 🤯

They can't make a movie about this 'cause no one would believe it. I'm fatigued reading the article lmao

Some of the roots of silicon valley, geeesh
Ziz Lasota and her friends set out to save the world from an AI apocalypse. Now, one is dead, two are charged with her murder, a fourth disappeared, and Lasota, accused of starting a "cult," is in jail awaiting her own trial on unrelated charges.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
At this point, I feel like if *anyone* can do it, AppleTV has the best chance of facilitating its scope! Silo & Severance are both amazing... and Foundation is gorgeous, even if I have big issues with every part of the script/transitions/acting (outside of Lee Pace carrying every scene he's in).
Please, Apple, do this one right.
Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social finally gets a TV series. Could be amazing, but expectations will be high from all of us who read these books when we were young.

Count Zero was a personal fave.
Apple TV's New Cyberpunk Show That Was Called 'Unfilmable' Is the Sci-Fi Event of the Decade
One book-to-screen adaptation that was once thought impossible is finally coming to Apple TV next year--and we couldn't be more excited.
www.cbr.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
wowwww
like we haven't said this enough in the past year, but: fk yeah costco
Costco Wholesale has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking the Court of International Trade to consider all tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act unlawful.
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
nbcnews.to
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
lol noooooo shit
What a bunch of shady creepers.
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I haven't been to a primary care doc in a while. No insurance and all. I used to go to the U but it's been so long that I'd be a "new patient", which they currently aren't accepting right now...

...went to quick care for that strep test and the barest of Covid symptoms, which I wrote off 'cause--
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I want to care about things

And be productive

And a good friend

But I got strep throat for Thanksgiving

Holy shit is this miserable. It's been a while. Can't find a panacea for any of the symptoms

Whining on bsky, maybe 😂
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I've seen so, so many bands live

How about 5 ive seen multiple times, hmmm..

Failure
Big Wreck
Our Lady Peace
The New Regime
The Backstreet Boys

😁
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —

NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *

* multiple times
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Mmmmmhm
Also they say "half of GDP growth" and hope you hear just "half of GDP": these are huge companies but also we'd be okay if they collapsed for not doing anything useful besides lighting money on fire.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"The unemployment rate has reached a four-year high, job openings are at a four-year low, and leading members of Trump’s own economic team have gone so far as to concede in recent weeks that parts of the U.S. economy are already in recession..."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The White House’s celebration of the weak job market makes no sense
Job growth in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term is on pace to be the worst since the Great Recession. So why is his team bragging?
www.ms.now
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🤣
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I got mistaken for someone who graduated college recently enough that it's relevant (~late 20s) on a consulting call today. Which is weird if only because I know they have seen my 15-yr resume 😆

#indoorkid life, i guess, it's good for preventing skin damage lol
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I've turned into a RT bot.
Mostly because life got weird and small for a bit. Finding words of my own that I actually wanted to say, ehhh

Think we're back up for air. Happy friyay, erryone. May your weekend be warm and full of good gamin' :3
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's actually no need to tolerate swastikas in our military ever. We don't need policy papers on this. We don't need long discussions and to "better understand" those who wear them. We can just ban all Nazi imagery and call it a day.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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This is the the thread you had no idea you needed tonight but YOU ABSOLUTELY DO
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I feel like Google thinks it's too entrenched in peoples' lives now (even if you max opt out) that they can't be harmed by public opinion.

I don't know if they're wrong. But gd, I've tried my best to get rid of as much Google in my life as I can. Fwiw, protonmail has been a good alternative.
Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
...lol, wow that's a tidbit I didn't know
You know who has Universal Healthcare provided by the government? Folks in Argentina do and the US taxpayers sent them $40 Billion Dollars so they can keep it. How are your premiums doing?
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is an incredible photo.
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🤣
‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms.

‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM