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Arin Arcady

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Using this space to list books that were influential on me: Theiss-Morse & Hibbing STEALTH DEMOCRACY Holland DOMINION Fukuyama ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER Scott SEEING LIKE A STATE Abu-Lughod BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY πŸ“Chicago All Saints Hospital

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp is not "saying the quiet part out loud," he is extremely high and does not know what is going on or that nurses are real

12.03.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I went to see him once after FREEDOM came out and he seemed to be having a terrible time! and I can't imagine he needs the money

12.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

one of the texts was β€œYou suck!,” according to the prosecution filing.

12.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Most stupid fraud in history’: Suburban man gets 10 years in prison for $14M fraud tied to COVID-19 loans A south suburban man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Tuesday in a massive, $14 million fraud scheme where he collected kickbacks for filing more than 1,500 bogus loan applications at th…

I really appreciate the detail, farther down in the article, about how this guy's wife sent him a bunch of angry texts because he was using the fraud proceeds to buy his second wife a nice house and car.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/s...

12.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ooooh I can see SIRΔ€T at the Siskel after my meeting at the office on Monday

12.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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at least they know which of his novels are the good ones

12.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is that really necessary to do?

12.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Silicon Valley has inadvertently done more than any conscious effort in making drugs uncool

12.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been pretty busy with my hearing but it looksl ike there's a second main character #blessed

12.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

that man is on drugs

12.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

autotext corrected "done for the day" to "Dune for the day" okay fair I do write about that a lot

12.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what a great main character today!!

12.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

those LiveNation execs are right about $250 for "VIP Parking", anyone who pays for that deserves it

12.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are too many ways to reach me already. Let's trim the fat.

12.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

why did it take me so long to realize I can just turn off GChat omg I'm free

12.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would slap that missle right back! no one messes with me

12.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm on lunch break from a case with a lot of computer programmers testifying. It's fun how much better they are at answering questions precisely, at understanding litigation's analytic approaches.

12.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mama mia!

12.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

why don't they make the entire Strait of Hormuz out of the same stuff as the black box is made out of

12.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Oh sorry I didn't mean to sound like it was making fun of you at all! It's just v frustrating for me at least that this is exactly where a legislature should be stepping up to deal with a completely new kind of thing with new pros and cons

12.03.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah so many of these debates should be solved not by tortured analogy to past technology, but by legislation from a functional Congress sob

12.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elizabeth Kolbert is very good (OBVIOUSLY) but they should have let my celebrity crush--who also works for the New Yorker as I have surely mentioned--write this one!

12.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or maybe he's a habitual criminal in the mouse world and is just repeatedly getting arrested by mouse police and sentenced by a mouse judge to two months in mouse prison downstate! Two months may not seem long but it's pretty long for a mouse. Well great now I feel bad for him.

12.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes there is a mouse in my kitchen. But then I set out some traps and he gets the hint and goes away for a few months. I guess we have a sort of an understanding.

12.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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12.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh like qui tam cases?

I'll, uh, think about the cookies idea

12.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've dealt a bit with the lawfirm for that transgender Chili's employee and, well, I wasn't impressed sorry to say. I support trans people being employed and take no pleasure in reporting this :(

11.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aw man! We've lost a lot of vegan places this year

11.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when was the War of 1812, again? can someone reminbd me

11.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

26-cv-2216 Hudson Webber vs Brinker International

I got the complaint if you want it

11.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0