TarikNaj
@tarikn.bsky.social
Creator & writer at https://factualdispatch.beehiiv.com/, Tech SEO Consultant, and malevolent asshole (he/him). Previously @terrygotham on the bad site.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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'Tokyo Story' (1953)
dir: Yasujirō Ozu 📽️
dir: Yasujirō Ozu 📽️
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
'Tokyo Story' (1953)
dir: Yasujirō Ozu 📽️
dir: Yasujirō Ozu 📽️
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(a big reason that Tesla "full self drive" is so much worse than Waymo is that they just use cameras not LIDAR because cameras are way cheaper, but it's the LIDAR that makes Waymo a public health breakthrough, and also means the unit economics on the cars are negative as hell)
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
(a big reason that Tesla "full self drive" is so much worse than Waymo is that they just use cameras not LIDAR because cameras are way cheaper, but it's the LIDAR that makes Waymo a public health breakthrough, and also means the unit economics on the cars are negative as hell)
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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bring back huge super sketchy illegal raves
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
bring back huge super sketchy illegal raves
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This is your reminder to stop doomscrolling and go to sleep.
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This is your reminder to stop doomscrolling and go to sleep.
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I would wipe Rise of Skywalker from continuity and make tony gilroy write the new end to the sequel trilogy. It can be as bleak as he wants it to be bsky.app/profile/benj...
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I would wipe Rise of Skywalker from continuity and make tony gilroy write the new end to the sequel trilogy. It can be as bleak as he wants it to be bsky.app/profile/benj...
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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Stochastic terrorist POTUS sharpens aim:
Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Stochastic terrorist POTUS sharpens aim:
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The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
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This is why a good SEO strategy is so important for your business
"Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for 'zip ties near me'"
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is why a good SEO strategy is so important for your business
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Most middle managers aren’t yet equipped to recognize the hidden or long-term costs of relying on AI, including integration overhead, quality-control gaps, and the erosion of early-career talent pipelines.
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Most middle managers aren’t yet equipped to recognize the hidden or long-term costs of relying on AI, including integration overhead, quality-control gaps, and the erosion of early-career talent pipelines.
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one genuine issue is that like, there's a sort of generalized cynicism that gets turned into "look everybody sucks so i'm going to support the demon at home"
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
one genuine issue is that like, there's a sort of generalized cynicism that gets turned into "look everybody sucks so i'm going to support the demon at home"
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“My ‘the former president did not receive a blowjob from the current president‘ t-shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.”
NEW: Mark Epstein says that the "Bubba" he joked about with his brother Jeffrey Epstein "is not, in any way, a reference to former President
Bill Clinton."
Bill Clinton."
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“My ‘the former president did not receive a blowjob from the current president‘ t-shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.”
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
I cannot describe how incoherently angry I get when a company screws up terribly and there is only a chatbot to work with. If I can't speak to a human, you should have your corporate charter revoked.
Replacing phone support with chatbots has been the worst customer service shift in the last 30 years. AI promises to spread this trend into even more spaces.
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I cannot describe how incoherently angry I get when a company screws up terribly and there is only a chatbot to work with. If I can't speak to a human, you should have your corporate charter revoked.
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Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.
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When your friend decides to propose at your birthday party and steals all the attention.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When your friend decides to propose at your birthday party and steals all the attention.
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The way people tried to hang the very normal number of train derailments in the Buttigieg is how we need to stick plane crashes to Duffy. The U.S. had gotten very good at making sure large, scheduled flights did not crash and now they are crashing
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The way people tried to hang the very normal number of train derailments in the Buttigieg is how we need to stick plane crashes to Duffy. The U.S. had gotten very good at making sure large, scheduled flights did not crash and now they are crashing
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When you’re not mad
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
When you’re not mad
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I was still at it in 2014.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I was still at it in 2014.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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Happy Halloween
bart simpson in a cartoon holding a sign that says super fun happy slide
ALT: bart simpson in a cartoon holding a sign that says super fun happy slide
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happy Halloween