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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 6h
Saw a laptop listed on Ebay today (location, Beverly Hills, CA) that was described as "Working, but won't power on."
Working on a clever joke for this right now.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 6h
It's a fair point.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Democrats should go on TV to say they need to impeach Trump because of the cocaine-fueled pedophilia parties that he holds in the East Room of the White House with his friends in MS-13.

I mean, if he gets to lie shamelessly, why not them?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h
"Antifa-led hellfire"

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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 11h
..and he gets a 1 million dollar bonus if he can pronounce the name of the city he's appearing in (bonus will be uncollected).
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 5d
RIP
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 5d
If you've never seen or not recently revisited Patricia Routledge as "Kitty" on Victoria Wood's "As Seen On TV" it is such a gem. I wish there were far more of them.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d
I wrote about politics in 2025: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united...
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-flying-carp “OK, I’ll tell you,” I said. “A giant flying carp hit me in the face and knocked me half out of my kayak into a fallen tree which trapped me with branches like claws and as soon as I broke loose, the goddamn carp flew back and smacked me again.”
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i am personally against the jeffrey epstein memorial ballroom, sponsored by youtube.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 5d
Can't stand watching TV news anymore, but afraid you might miss something you really need to know? Subscribe to this email, and you can get the headlines of what happened today, along with links leading to where you can read further.
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WTF Just Happened Today? @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 6d
💌 Makes the news make sense.

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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 5d
Did you hear about the new A.I. designed just for cats? It's called Clawed.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 6d
There hasn't been legacy media in decades. It's all corporate media now.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d
Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 6d
John Candy was a great comedian, and Paul Myers is a great writer. Seems like a no-brainer deciding what book to buy next!
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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 7d
JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY by Paul Myers (@pulmyears.bsky.social) is out NEXT WEEK! 🫢📖

✨ “An insight into the man, John Candy was a revelation to be enjoyed." —Laraine Newman, original cast member of Saturday Night Live

Out October 7th, order a copy here: houseofanansi.com/products/joh...
Two copies of the book JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY are stacked in front of a concrete wall. The cover features a black and white portrait of John Candy with bright pink text.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6d
My Financial Times interview got reprinted on the front page of the newspaper The Australian Financial Review with an incredible illustration of the contents of my mind and the big handle I turn when I blog

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Battle lines Railing against AI slop, aggressive algorithms and firms bleeding users of data, Ed Zitron has become one of Silicon Valley's punchiest critics, writes Tabby Kinder. Mad as hell: the man calling BS on big tech Style over substance. Ed Zitron says tech giant leaders are greedy fools who have risen through a broken system. ILUISTRATION F d Zitron is not a journalist, performance to polemic - take aim at the not a whistleblower and cer- "idiots". "conmen" and cynical tech billion- tainly not a prophet. He's not aires he believes are responsible for a "rot- here to spread conspiracies, ten" economy, and they have earned him a to "tell it like it is" or to con-viral following. Take the blog he publishes as I board a truth and that evervbody plane to Las Vegas to meet him for this inter- else is a moron. He is, he says. just a pissed view. A 13,000-word screed about the "era of off. emotional guv who needs to get "these the bucinoce iint" it ic writton with ar fing words out of my head". apostate's disaffection, and argues that mod- Listeners to Zitron's podcast, Better Offline. ern companies, especially those in the tech or readers of his blog. "Where's your Ed at". industry are no longer run by competent are used to the swearing but might scoff at people, but by greedy fools who have risen his protests. Zitron's sneering manifestos - through a broken system that rewards delivered with the dropped Ts of his London superficial action over substance. It opens orrontonio hirinue rhuthm that toore from by calling Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, the second-largest public company in the world, "either a liar or a specific kind of idiot" for comments Nadella made in an interview about the sorts of questions he asks his company's own Al chatbot. More than 75,000 people subscribe to and regularly read these posts, a number that is growing. Zitron's podcast is owned and produced by iHeartRadio, the largest radio broadcaster in the US, which says it reache… Mad as hell: the man calling BS on big tech righteous energy so lamilar trom his podcasts. "Look, when it comes down to it, everything's like this: it's f--ed, and you are not insane for feeling bad," he tells me. "You are not stupid for feeling wronged. Things are unfair and you should f--ing say you're angry." Zitron monologues with the visceral dis- of the washed-up broadcaster Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network: he's mad as hell and hes not going to take it any more. In the film, Beale delivers one of cinemas most famous rants about disillusionment and powerlessness in the face of corporate domination but is ultimately exploited by his bosses for views. Beale was deranged, Zitron says (Zitron is not, "thanks to a wonderful therapist I see regularly"), but the character's sincerity, turning a personal grievance into a collective howl of frustration is something to aim for. "Emotionally and sincerely explaining why shit sucks, that's compelling, he says. Over the next couple of hours together, I will hear plenty of breathless tirades. It is, I come to understand, Zitron's default way of expressing himself. His arguments make my head spin, oscillating between grand observations on the business of technology and unguarded revelations about his mental health. Sometimes he reminds me of an opinionated teenager who hasn't yet developed the social skills to know when not to take themselves so seriously. "Tve been told my whole goddamn life to calm down, that I'm too much," he says. But with each unburdening I notice more and more a well of vulnerab-ility; a need to be listened to and liked. Zitron's path from hobbyist blogger to one of big tech's punchiest critics happened first very slowly then all at once. Born in Hammersmith, west London, his was a mostly normal but, he admits, friendless childhood. He did badly at school, struggling with ADHD and dyspraxia, a disorder that affects fine motor skills, but found solace in gadgets, the internet and online fantasy rol… onmental Protection Agency for policing the don't have that in me. I find the idea of Ed internet - although he has little hope that catron the chancerreal unny because is anything reining in big tech will happen dur- just me, I dont have a mask I put on." Hegoes ing Donald Trump's second term. But when on: The irony is my mask would probably asked how he would actually solve some of be a bit less emotional, a bit less aggressive the issues he sees with the tech world. his about this stilla answers become almost metaphysical. In many ways, The Sphere - a $US2.3 bil- "We need something that savs vou cant hon LED-wrapped orb just off the Vegas make shit worse like this," he says. Silicon strip - is the perfect analogy for the tech valley needs a reckoning with how man world.as tron sees it. It is an overwhelm liars there are. I think we need a better moral ing visual assault, its 15,000 square metres of society in general, but in the valley alone . screens demanding total, verugo-inducing he goes on to list, again, the tech bosses he immersion, and it lost SUS500 million last thinks are makins the world worse year. It is a lascinating, pointless shrine to Last year, Casey Newton, who co-hosts scale and spectacle. The New York Times tech nodcast Hard Fork Zitron and Thave left the Venetian to watch defined two camps of Al critics in an article the movie created for The Sphere, and shown titled The phony comforts of Al scepticism there at least once a day. Postcard from Earth The first camp, which Newton says is made directed by Darren Aronofsky. As metaphors up ol techs external critics, Delieve ALIS upon which to trame this aracle go. it is fake and it sucks", while the second - New- almost too on the nose. Fifty minutes of foot- ton's camp - consists of internal critics who age or earth, loosely Iramed around a science think Al is real and dangerous. Newton fiction plotline in which humans have aban- namechecked Marcus as the archetype of doned the planet through spa…
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 6d
I hear that Pete Hegseth was especially excited to hear this news.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 7d
The year I was born... but not there!
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 8d
What fresh hell is th...
Actually, this one is kind of interesting.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 9d
Bad Bunny is set to perform at the next Superbowl halftime show.
a cartoon of bugs bunny sitting at a table with a stack of money
ALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny sitting at a table with a stack of money
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perry dimes @prdgm.bsky.social · 10d
ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 9d
If you look for a GIF with the search term "Chris Elliott David Letterman Show" this is what you get if you scroll down. It's a feature, not a bug. 😉
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 9d
Luckyyyyy!
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 9d
The Louis Lee "So Minnesota" piece is on the KSTP homepage now. It's near the bottom of their main page. Probably nothing new in it for you, but I thought I'd let you know.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 9d
Technologically advance a band"

Talking A.I.
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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 17d
Technologically advance a band:

And You Will Know Us By the Information Superhighway of the Dead
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كريس @heauxly.click · 17d
Technologically advance a band:

Florence & the Machine Learning
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 9d
Did you hire a new cast member for this episode? 😺😉
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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d
RIP Kaleb Horton
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I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
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Arthur N. @arthurn.bsky.social · 12d
Josh, I saw a picture of you on my TV this noon hour. KSTP in the Twin Cities has a feature called "So Minnesota", and they did a feature on Louis Lee. At the end they showed a picture of him with you & other comics. Only caught the tail end of it, and unfortunately it's not on their website (yet).
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April Richardson @aprilrichardson.com · Jul 23
As a child, I was told by many cartoons & comics that we would have future robots to do the boring-ass chores like dishes & laundry so we could spend that time reading & writing & watching movies & listening to/making music & thinking & pondering INSTEAD. It sucks so much we got the OPPOSITE of that
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 22
What are we losing by offloading our thinking to A.I.?
Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
As A.I. grows more powerful, we may be more and more tempted to give up in advance and let it figure out things for us. What will we lose as a result?
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