Joel Cunningham
@joelevard.com
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Joel Cunningham
@joelevard.com
· Jul 10
With every day that passes I wish more fervently that I believed in hell
BOMB (back on my business)
Boox Palma 2 Pro Review: This Phone-Sized E-Reader Is Almost the Upgrade I Wanted
The Boox Palma 2 Pro is a souped up version of the beloved Boox Palma e-reader with a few great feature additions (mobile data, stylus support) and one that will frustrate some (a color screen).
lifehacker.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
BOMB (back on my business)
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This seems like a good time to note that Proton Mail is doing a Black Friday sale right now
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This seems like a good time to note that Proton Mail is doing a Black Friday sale right now
Both my parents and my wife’s parents have (or had) dementia and I really don’t recommend it
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Both my parents and my wife’s parents have (or had) dementia and I really don’t recommend it
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
My wife is trying to explain the plot of Rashômon and I keep telling her that's not how I remember it
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My wife is trying to explain the plot of Rashômon and I keep telling her that's not how I remember it
No they do, the showrunner is just a gibbon with cognitive decline
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
No they do, the showrunner is just a gibbon with cognitive decline
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Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
Clicking "continue without supporting us" on New York Post articles always gives me a little jolt of dopamine
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Clicking "continue without supporting us" on New York Post articles always gives me a little jolt of dopamine
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Remember when the internet was good? Pepperidge Farm remembers
“The [online] platforms that appear to serve users hungry for information—and did serve them, at first—now go to extreme lengths to seize attention.” —James Gleick
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
www.nybooks.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Remember when the internet was good? Pepperidge Farm remembers
What do all the Pluribus hive mind bodies do all day? Do they talk to themselves? Do different bodies care what jobs they get?
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What do all the Pluribus hive mind bodies do all day? Do they talk to themselves? Do different bodies care what jobs they get?
Really just wanted an excuse to show the internet my dog
Aura Ink Review: This Digital Picture Frame Gives Your Photos a More Natural Look Than LCD
LCD photo frame maker Aura's newest device is something different. The Aura Ink has an e-paper display that makes your digital photos look like real prints, and it doesn't need to be plugged in. But t...
lifehacker.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Really just wanted an excuse to show the internet my dog
Someone is walking around the office whistling like Darryl Hannah in Kill Bill.
Probably fine
Probably fine
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Someone is walking around the office whistling like Darryl Hannah in Kill Bill.
Probably fine
Probably fine
The premise of Pluribus is giving me Leech by @hironennes.bsky.social vibes (you should read it!)
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The premise of Pluribus is giving me Leech by @hironennes.bsky.social vibes (you should read it!)
Disappointed Tor didn't use my review of Leech on the cover.
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Disappointed Tor didn't use my review of Leech on the cover.
Great pics! Here's one I captured with a long exposure on my iPhone 17 Pro.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great pics! Here's one I captured with a long exposure on my iPhone 17 Pro.
I will now be using "THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET" as shorthand
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I will now be using "THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET" as shorthand
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(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
December 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
I don't think you're allowed to make this argument unless you're wearing a fedora and a predatory goatee
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don't think you're allowed to make this argument unless you're wearing a fedora and a predatory goatee
Is this a safe space to admit that I could barely parse Wuthering Heights on, like, a narrative level? Why was it told as a series of nested flashbacks by a character who barely mattered to the plot?
Anyway this looks ridiculous youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ
Anyway this looks ridiculous youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ
"Wuthering Heights" | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Is this a safe space to admit that I could barely parse Wuthering Heights on, like, a narrative level? Why was it told as a series of nested flashbacks by a character who barely mattered to the plot?
Anyway this looks ridiculous youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ
Anyway this looks ridiculous youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ
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along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
Jim Spanfeller once brought Wolff in to talk to the GMG staff and it was honestly one of his worst ever failures to read the room, which is saying something
Aside from every other repulsive thing about these Epstein emails, they offer direct confirmation of Michael Wolff as one of the sketchiest creeps in a teeming universe of gross behavior
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Jim Spanfeller once brought Wolff in to talk to the GMG staff and it was honestly one of his worst ever failures to read the room, which is saying something