The Thug Who Grins

This is a Steely Dan song

this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

My extremely hot take is that I actually don’t hate it when people get rich off stock options. My problem is that not everybody is given those options and they’re awarded to “consultants” and not the people on the ground floor actually implementing shit

Damn I didn’t know Jon Arbuckle had it like that

Mullvad remains the one good company

Twitter is an echo chamber and Bluesky is an echo chamber. My opinion is that that’s fine actually, you don’t need to entertain the bad ideas the other side has because they don’t engage in good faith

Frankly I’m kinda tired of talk like this because the Europeans and Chinese have largely just been shutting up and taking it. Until somebody hits us back we’ll never stop, so somebody desperately needs to hit us back. Sooner rather than later.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

I am very much enjoying KBJ’s “you came up with this stupid fucking test and now you all are going to have to live with it” routine.

"I can't find any reason to celebrate the assassination of the Iranian supreme leader because I think it's part of a package ... It's also part of the killing of Iranian innocent people," says Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a longtime critic of the Iranian government.

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

There are at least 3 of them in Middleton Wisconsin and all 3 are fucking horrific. One is matte black one is bright pink and one in hunter green

Just saying, pretty much every later Pynchon novel is kind of detective fiction in a loose sense (bleeding edge, inherent vice, and shadow ticket specifically)

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:

www.404media.co/leaked-email...

New column from Matt Yglesias: What The Left Misses About The Torment Nexus

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

RIP GOAT you were my first introduction to the concept of the mob lawyer

Wisconsin is a women’s hockey school

You can try to convince me it would be easier to resist things under a liberal but none of you helped with Gaza and we couldn’t even convince the dems to stop a genocide when they were running against Trump. Do you hear yourselves

PANEL 1: MATTIE, standing outside a building that has a huge glowing eyeball affixed to the door. A GUY leans out the window. MATTIE: EXCUSE ME? GUY: Yeah? PANEL 2: Closer in on the GUY and the eyeball. He gestures a thumb at it. MATTIE (VO): What's with the big eyeball? GUY: A wizard sold me that – it watches every single thing that goes on and tells me! GUY: I think the wizard can see it too. I guess. He wasn't clear on that. PANEL 3: The first shot again. The EYEBALL speaks. The GUY shrugs. MATTIE spreads her arms wide. EYEBALL: ANGRY WOMAN OUTSIDE MATTIE: Isn't that a violation of the social contract? GUY: I guess so! PANEL 4: Close in on the GUY. He holds up a scroll that says "Special" in ornate script. GUY: No, no. Wizard also sold me an exception to that. EYEBALL (VO): WOMAN MEAT GOOD FOR SPELL COMPONENTS

what’s with the eyeball | patreon.com/lubchansky

Much like a WoW raid boss you need to kill X and Bluesky within 15 seconds of each other or they keep respawning

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.

AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

As someone that works for a community bank, our fiserv retail and business platforms are down WAY more often. Fintech fucking SUCKS

He’s right. The way bubbles work with emerging tech is that eventually it pops and annoying people lose their shirts but the underlying technology has already been invented so eventually some actually smart entrepreneur comes along and makes a real company using it instead of pumping the stock

China finally ramping up DRAM manufacturing vs American allied producers devoting their entire stock to making the next chatbot that kills you

You can trace the radicalization of GamersNexus over the last 3-4 years as they’ve traveled to China more and realized how evil Jensen Huang is