Ruinizer
@ruinizer.bsky.social
Millennial father and reformed Silicon Valley Banker. Lover of small business, science & innovation, strong social safety nets, and the Oxford comma.
Peter Thiel doth protest too much, methinks
February 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Peter Thiel doth protest too much, methinks
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“Strong women aren’t threatening to guys like this because they’re loud. They’re threatening because they’re unimpressed.”
Well said.
Well said.
A man of quality isn't threatened by a woman's equality. Pls read, subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
February 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
“Strong women aren’t threatening to guys like this because they’re loud. They’re threatening because they’re unimpressed.”
Well said.
Well said.
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Deepak Chopra in the Epstein Files writing, "God is a construct, Cute girls are real." In this same exchange, he responds to Epstein, asking, "Did you find me a cute israeli? :)" with "Cute girls are aware when they make noises." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 3, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Deepak Chopra in the Epstein Files writing, "God is a construct, Cute girls are real." In this same exchange, he responds to Epstein, asking, "Did you find me a cute israeli? :)" with "Cute girls are aware when they make noises." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Lots of good stuff in this week's newsletter! A quick thread:
www.howtoreadthisch.art/whaddaya-mea...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/whaddaya-mea...
Whaddaya mean, 'home'?
"You can't go home again," Thomas Wolfe wrote, but he didn't have geopositioning tools on his cell phone.
Chapter 1
Sorry about your luck, kids.
So the president of these United States, one Donald ...
www.howtoreadthisch.art
February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Lots of good stuff in this week's newsletter! A quick thread:
www.howtoreadthisch.art/whaddaya-mea...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/whaddaya-mea...
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From Bundy's 10-page essay www.peoplesrights.ws/asset/news/a...
February 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
From Bundy's 10-page essay www.peoplesrights.ws/asset/news/a...
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52
Michael ‘5000’ Watts, Swishahouse founder and Houston hip-hop pioneer, dies at 52
Houston hip-hop icon Michael "5000" Watts, the founder of Swishahouse Records and a pioneer of the "chopped and screwed" sound, has passed away following a recent hospitalization.
www.fox26houston.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52
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NEW: Howard Lutnick, the billionaire who serves as President Trump’s commerce secretary, planned a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012.
Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier.
1/6
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Planned Trip to Epstein’s Island
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:26 PM
NEW: Howard Lutnick, the billionaire who serves as President Trump’s commerce secretary, planned a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012.
Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier.
1/6
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier.
1/6
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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This story about David Brooks is one of the most brutal takedowns I’ve ever read.
By the late Tony Judt
By the late Tony Judt
February 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This story about David Brooks is one of the most brutal takedowns I’ve ever read.
By the late Tony Judt
By the late Tony Judt
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This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
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Decades after the Cold War there is something irritating about centrist liberals continuing to give exceptionally lazy and stunningly inaccurate takes on Marx and Marxism that dont even seem aware of the basics of his thought.
January 26, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Decades after the Cold War there is something irritating about centrist liberals continuing to give exceptionally lazy and stunningly inaccurate takes on Marx and Marxism that dont even seem aware of the basics of his thought.
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This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public
President Donald Trump will not be attending Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif., he said in an interview with the New York Post.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
January 26, 2026 at 12:52 AM
This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public
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The gun visible in the video closely matches the gun shown in a photograph later published online by DHS bsky.app/profile/bell...
The gun taken by the agent appears to match the general appearance of the firearm shared online by DHS, and which they said was Pretti’s. This agent’s back is turned from the scene with the gun in his hand when the first shot occurs.
January 24, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The gun visible in the video closely matches the gun shown in a photograph later published online by DHS bsky.app/profile/bell...
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"the practice by colleagues and others of critical washing (...): wherein scholarly critique is rendered decorative. Logics such as ‘I am aware of the downsides, therefore I can now use AI’"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
tinyurl.com/yedbsfhr
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
tinyurl.com/yedbsfhr
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 PM
"the practice by colleagues and others of critical washing (...): wherein scholarly critique is rendered decorative. Logics such as ‘I am aware of the downsides, therefore I can now use AI’"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
tinyurl.com/yedbsfhr
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
tinyurl.com/yedbsfhr
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
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I absolutely believe 7th grade civics-class ideas about America as a nation of immigrants and free people
At the end of the day, this is why you can't take anything Stancil does seriously. He's not a serious person with serious political ideas. He's an idiot with a concept of america formed by 7th grade civics class. He is exactly the kind of idiot that got us into this mess.
Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I absolutely believe 7th grade civics-class ideas about America as a nation of immigrants and free people
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Into my veins www.ft.com/content/e2ae...
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Into my veins www.ft.com/content/e2ae...
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Dr. Oz: "If we can get the average person to work one more year in their whole lifetime -- just stay in your workplace for one more year -- that is worth about $3 trillion to the US GDP. That's the productivity we would unleash ... if you're sick, you can't work."
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Dr. Oz: "If we can get the average person to work one more year in their whole lifetime -- just stay in your workplace for one more year -- that is worth about $3 trillion to the US GDP. That's the productivity we would unleash ... if you're sick, you can't work."
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That Heritage Foundation guy back in 2024 was talking about The Second American Revolution being 'bloodless, if the left allows it to be' and I'm increasingly feeling that was a Delphic oracle moment too
January 20, 2026 at 3:25 AM
That Heritage Foundation guy back in 2024 was talking about The Second American Revolution being 'bloodless, if the left allows it to be' and I'm increasingly feeling that was a Delphic oracle moment too
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Scientist: We were testing what effects podcast recording would have on mice
Journalist: What did you find out?
Scientist: Somehow prolonged podcast exposure would always end up summoning Mouse Hitler
Journalist: What did you find out?
Scientist: Somehow prolonged podcast exposure would always end up summoning Mouse Hitler
January 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Scientist: We were testing what effects podcast recording would have on mice
Journalist: What did you find out?
Scientist: Somehow prolonged podcast exposure would always end up summoning Mouse Hitler
Journalist: What did you find out?
Scientist: Somehow prolonged podcast exposure would always end up summoning Mouse Hitler
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
January 13, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…