Intelligent YaQube
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AKA Gaspar Lewis, among other online (not real) names; you'll never know all of them. Widely tolerated lowbie. Maybe we ate together once a decade ago? (Long Island)
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Turns out it's exactly this... with the addition of White Denim, who remain quietly(?) excellent. Happy New Year, here's a song with an appropriate title.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbN...
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still got no idea what the revelatory advice is that the gambler from "the gambler" gives kenny rogers before he dies. "you have to know when to fold your cards". gee whiz. what's next, "press c to crouch"?
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
still got no idea what the revelatory advice is that the gambler from "the gambler" gives kenny rogers before he dies. "you have to know when to fold your cards". gee whiz. what's next, "press c to crouch"?
I solved* (found someone else figuring the answer to) a minor mystery: ever since Opus No. 1 got famous and wanted to be paid fairly, the default hold music for a lot of systems is this fake Lynyrd Skynyrd library gruel. Well: I know its name now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlA...
Love in Every Pour
YouTube video by Universal Production Music - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I solved* (found someone else figuring the answer to) a minor mystery: ever since Opus No. 1 got famous and wanted to be paid fairly, the default hold music for a lot of systems is this fake Lynyrd Skynyrd library gruel. Well: I know its name now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlA...
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this photo was going viral on here like an hour before Charlie Kirk got shot and now that the dust has settled somewhat it’s time to revisit how funny this is
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
this photo was going viral on here like an hour before Charlie Kirk got shot and now that the dust has settled somewhat it’s time to revisit how funny this is
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don't sleep on Dr Dazzle's ultimate callout track www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qw...
December 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
don't sleep on Dr Dazzle's ultimate callout track www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qw...
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Vast Christmas, as large as a thought
Run while you may, you won't get away
This year, so swollen with fear
Has driven me from the threshold
Run while you may, you won't get away
This year, so swollen with fear
Has driven me from the threshold
December 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Vast Christmas, as large as a thought
Run while you may, you won't get away
This year, so swollen with fear
Has driven me from the threshold
Run while you may, you won't get away
This year, so swollen with fear
Has driven me from the threshold
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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god this woman is such a fucking ASSHOLE. contrarianism that exists solely to flatter power is the worst!!!!!!
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
god this woman is such a fucking ASSHOLE. contrarianism that exists solely to flatter power is the worst!!!!!!
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I once attended a will․i․am New Year's Eve performance in Vegas. He played a bunch of Black Eyed Peas songs from his iPod while occasionally adlibbing "yeah" on the mic. He missed midnight because he was in the middle of a song and then tried to convince the crowd to do a countdown at like 12:02.
The Grammy Award–winning artist turned tech entrepreneur advises Gen Zers to forget about work-life balance if they want to emulate his success. trib.al/RGSO9CT
Will.i.am grinds from 5-to-9 after his 9-to-5—because work-life balance is for people 'working on someone else’s dream' and not for visionaries | Fortune
Will.i.am tells Gen Z to ditch work-life balance: ‘Those words don’t compute for the materializers’
trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I once attended a will․i․am New Year's Eve performance in Vegas. He played a bunch of Black Eyed Peas songs from his iPod while occasionally adlibbing "yeah" on the mic. He missed midnight because he was in the middle of a song and then tried to convince the crowd to do a countdown at like 12:02.
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Thank you so much to everybody who has donated to German's gofundme so far. Even a dollar can go a long way to helping his family fight his kidnapping by ICE just days before Christmas
gofund.me/4f80678c6
gofund.me/4f80678c6
Donate to Support German’s Pursuit of Legal Status, organized by Angela Robles
German has lived in the United States for over 30 years, building a life rooted… Angela Robles needs your support for Support German’s Pursuit of Legal Status
gofund.me
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thank you so much to everybody who has donated to German's gofundme so far. Even a dollar can go a long way to helping his family fight his kidnapping by ICE just days before Christmas
gofund.me/4f80678c6
gofund.me/4f80678c6
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yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
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If I only had the nerve.
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If I only had the nerve.
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This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.
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Oh come ON www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Oh come ON www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
TO ARMS
TO HANDS WEARING RINGS
TO ASSCHEEKS
TO HANDS WEARING RINGS
TO ASSCHEEKS
BLUESKY HAS OFFICIALLY BANNED THE USE OF GOATSE
December 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
TO ARMS
TO HANDS WEARING RINGS
TO ASSCHEEKS
TO HANDS WEARING RINGS
TO ASSCHEEKS
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Don’t worry, guys. Special envoy to the president Ric Grenell wants you to know that the CBS thing is totally on the up and up, and not to please the admin. He’s proving that by demanding CBS fires people.
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Don’t worry, guys. Special envoy to the president Ric Grenell wants you to know that the CBS thing is totally on the up and up, and not to please the admin. He’s proving that by demanding CBS fires people.
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*venture bros grand galactic Inquisitor voice*: ALARMO!!!
*venture bros "the nozzle" voice*: ~alarmo~
*venture bros "the nozzle" voice*: ~alarmo~
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
*venture bros grand galactic Inquisitor voice*: ALARMO!!!
*venture bros "the nozzle" voice*: ~alarmo~
*venture bros "the nozzle" voice*: ~alarmo~
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ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.
Friends, exciting news! We’ve just received a second matching funds grant from The Public Concern Foundation. TRIPLE MATCH!
That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary Watch!
solitarywatch.org/donate
That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary Watch!
solitarywatch.org/donate
BREAKING: We Have a Triple Match!! - Solitary Watch
Friends: This is really exciting for us. We’ve just received a second matching funds grant from The Public Concern Foundation. TRIPLE MATCH! That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary W...
solitarywatch.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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