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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 12h

Found some classics on the hard drive

Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16h

"I'm afraid Paramount and Warner decided to pass, but the estate of Jorge Luis Borges wondered if you might like to take a crack at a new translation of Misreadings"

Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16h

The way it flicks literary asides at you sentence after sentence without leaving the constraints of a formal pleading.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 18h

We stopped doing these at Boing Boing a few years back. The money was not what it used to be and you're competing with comically formulaic SEO chum ("I'm a toilet expert and these are the best 17 bidet attachments for women in New Jersey") and that was even before AI.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 21h

The Stephen Miller comparisons are genuinely insulting to Gríma son of Galmod who carefully positioned Rohan to avoid risky commitment during a serious geopolitical crisis and whose failings were driven by inflexibility and shame rather than opportunism and malice.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 21h

Honestly want to make a contemporary kids' coding book just so I can commission a painting of a dragon.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 1d

Dark Side of the CPC

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 1d

This what the English Civil War was fought over!

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 1d

Schrodinger's Crew: a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. The crew is simultaneously detained by ICE and furloughed by shutdown until observation collapses the wave.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 1d

Existential rebel, Idealism purist: Social media is a Soulslike

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 2d

Roger Dean not only did fantastic artwork for Psygnosis but named the company! spillhistorie.no/2025/10/03/l...

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean - Spillhistorie.no

We spoke with the man behind the Psygnosis logo – and so much more!

spillhistorie.no

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 2d

Wonderfully cynical hypothesis! I like the idea that he is a supernatural entity that feeds on ego and has to risk failure to bring it out.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 2d

Chotiner: So you challenge suspects with inconsistencies in their stories?

Lt. Columbo: Yes sir, that's what I try to do.

Chotiner: And that is why you reveal the evidence against them and the likely theory of prosecution before they've been mirandized?

Lt. Columbo: Hold on a minute, Sir,

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 3d

Enshittification, out now!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

www.nytimes.com

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 3d

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 3d

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 4d

Sometimes I just want to publish a modern gadget catalog with that DAK/oldschool Sharper Image vibe. Hammacher Schlemmer still does one but it's heavily optimized to "digital dartboards and garden gnomes"

Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 4d

As amazing as this is remember that this is definitely "7 page document is 1 page of text and then website footer nav icons strewn across the other 6"

franknez.com/a-whopping-1...

A Whopping 100,000 Pages of Epstein Documents Now Confirmed Unreleased

Explore the Epstein documents and how they reveal the DOJ and FBI's handling of the case amid political scrutiny and debate.

franknez.com

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 5d

Sir, I’m going to explain every detail of our investigation, detail every piece of evidence, and exhaust every theory a prosecutor might use to convict you. And sir, I'm going to do it right here in this conversation.

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 5d

"I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will"

Bluesky and enshittification

No one is the enshittifier of their own story.

doctorow.medium.com

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 5d

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 6d

The hangover this party night leads to is unfortunately, President Mike Johnson

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 6d

Great point here about Microsoft renaming the GamePass tiers from Core/Standard/Ultimate to Essential/Premium/Ultimate: all of them are synonymous for best. Who cares if they are angry and confused, we got their card on recurring.

aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

Microsoft Just Made It Easier Than Ever To Stop Putting Up With Microsoft - Aftermath

After another Game Pass price hike, many users have had enough. But they should think bigger: It's time to cut ties with Microsoft altogether.

aftermath.site

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 7d

Feel a kinship with the Quiet Editor, though I'm not holding back on that whisky

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 7d

Slop just quietly inserted in with the photos at shutterstock. Still obvious but it's going to be hazardous soon enough.

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