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Went to a charity event tonight and discovered that Russell Brand was performing baptisms in the parking lot next door at an entirely different event. All I can do is quote Doonesbury:

Guys have built multi decade careers as wrestling heels simply by pretending to be Pete Hegseth

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

I Want To Go To There
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor

The idea of Theocracy is basically dead in Iran.
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How does someone say "trillions of dollars of elite human capital" without a fiery portal opening up beneath them

fun fact: Basically no major Bollywood star lives in Dubai and the very few that do are retired actresses who married either European or Indian businessmen who now live there for tax avoidance.

idiot thinks owning investment property in Dubai =residence because he does not comprehend their wealth

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Cheryl Mills vs Lauren Boebert is like bringing in a siege engine to crush a walnut

As a Methodist, I did not even realize that Charles Wesley had a feast day. Happy Birthday and thanks for letting me know.

Here was the pool statement from November

Today's Trump video has a very similar aesthetic to one from November flagged by commentators as likely AI-generated www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...

And I was like "no." But I'm thinking, wow here's a guy who can tell he's receiving psychic damage in the brain cooker but just can't look away, getting more and more demoralized and apathetic. Then I'm like, well, probably happening to me on bsky huh. But more a sous vide brain cook vs a broiler.

There is a version of Nightmare Alley in black-and-white, and it is much better than the color version.

It was in color. A few sequences were black and white.

If you are in London and see a black cat cross the street in front of you, but you are standing on the grounds of the US Embassy at the time, is it lucky or unlucky?

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my bumper sticker is raising some questions already answered by my (other) bumper sticker

it's fascinating to watch Costco lap every one of these clowns because they have the only CEO in America who still thinks his job is to run a company that does business and not be the main character of life forging his personal legacy with one eye on the group chat to see if they're impressed yet

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I was really impressed when I saw this article this morning. Being able to flesh out exactly what is missing is really important, especially given the enormity of the data set. Kudos to your colleagues.

As the parking board meeting rolled into the 5th hour I believe I had an out of body experience. I may be able to speak with crows now. The all-girl scout cookie diet may have drawbacks.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

“An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library.”

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The kid who built this Einstein homework agent has Young Zuck energy about him. Appears to have crashed out of Y-combo-backed AI tutor start-up either just after or BEFORE he registered CompanionAI.

He's about to have access to metric fuckton of SSO creds for campuses all over.

From his substack:

If you didn't have a chance to enjoy last night's farewell concert from the original London/Broadway OPERATION MINCEMEAT cast which had been on duty for six years, it's now on YouTube.

[I have no idea how well this works, past the opening number, for those unfamiliar with the show.]

I almost drove 80 miles to see it as the first AMC Screen Unseen in 3D. Glad that I was too tired that night.

If we were still a proper nation this would happen. www.tumblr.com/loveboatinsa...

Team: scores a run

Person: you know this will force the other team to score right you fools what are you doing

my favorite Mardi Gras memory came near the end of Fat Tuesday, at a dance party near the Slab. I turned around and saw a man holding a framed portrait of David Lynch. He rested his cheek against the glass and danced with it for like an hour