So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
A shortage of large passenger charter planes due to DHS paying 10x the usual rates to ferry kidnapped migrants is threatening NCAA Tournament travel plans
The White House ballroom is Trump’s version of the paddle ball game in Blazing Saddles - something to distract him while his team tries to attack Rock Ridge
its ok that the monetize every possible difference of opinion gambling websites are layering on engagement bait posts to lure suckers into losing $ and that the content creator government sending paramilitary troops to their own cities are layering their propaganda on top of that...right?
Also my wife had a son 2 weeks ago just fyi I guess this is how I tell Bluesky
Literally just said this to my 2 week old son
You can always tell when a new Chat GPT commercial is coming because it's always like someone staring at a pan with a big hunk of chicken in it and then it reveals their search history with something like "Tell me how to not die from salmonella poisoning"
My favorite football team, who I HATE
a combination urgent care and taco bell
I'm at the combination
Life's two essentials: coffee and a charged phone.
three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.
And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”
Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”
Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”
Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”
"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."
Guys is it biased to favor a shared sense of objective reality
Sad to think that on that fateful night, despite the urgent call, it is highly unlikely that everybody wanged chung
If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t?
So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
COYS
Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
we are now entering our third straight summer without Holey Moley
there has still been no official cancellation or renewal
this is tearing me apart
briancgrubb.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
there are not a lot of songs about wonderwalls these days
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
holy shit Edmundo Sosa.
