Tim Hwang

SORRY

happy thirteenth anniversary to adventure time broadcasting this pure emotional crisis right into your brain

Wife: What’d you get in that huge box?

Me:

What is the oldest book you own?

No Country for Corporate Memphis

yeah sex is great but have you ever stepped into the MIT Press bookstore in Kendall Square with some money burning a hole in your pocket

a smooth brain encounters less friction

jack dorsey's flickr page is still up and it's this incredible time capsule from 2006/2007

moby dick is a book about a startup

Washington, Washington
Twelve stories high, made of radiation
The present beware, the future beware
He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming

CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that

guys who read seeing like a state and decided that they wanted to be the state

raising my kids right

been trying to get 4o to apply a norman rockwell filter to 2000s nostalgia and it is turning up some nice results

big following, poor epistemics, can’t lose

With the decline in the influence of social media and the rise of the groupchat, we are probably operating in the twilight of the big, public kayfabe brawler as the apex predator of media

Gangsters vs. Nazis: How the Jewish Mob fought American admirers of the Third Reich Emboldened by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, and fueled by the Great Depression, anti-Semitism increased throughout the United States, and over 100 anti-Semitic organizations sprung up acr...

Just learned about this wild period in American history where Meyer Lansky mobilized Jewish mobsters to go after domestic Nazis in New Jersey

www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

It was there our troubles began

This is a good one

What is comparatively the most minor event that marks the point at which the timelines started to diverge?

The Shukhov Towers on the Oka River in Russia, the world’s only diagrid hyperboloid transmission towers.

Pictured in 1988, only one stands today because the entire left tower was stolen, Carmen Sandiego style, in 2005.

oh my god

Flashing lights, large screens ablaze with animated graphics reminiscent of the oughties. The CPAC logo spins around as generic rap-rock blasts across the crowd. Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the DOGE update. Please welcome Newsmax host, Rob Schmitt. Schmitt: Man. That is a big crowd. And they are not here for me. Crowd cheers. Schmitt: How you guys doing? Nice vibe this month, right? After the best month we’ve ever had. Nice to see you. Thanks for coming out. It’s good to see you. Let’s not kill any more time, let’s bring out Elon Musk. Crowd goes wild. Elon Musk enters stage, pumping both fists high in the air, walking slightly unsteadily. He is wearing a black MAGA baseball cap and sunglasses that look like they were bought in a gas station in 1989. He continues to pump his fists as he makes his way in front of the beige arm chairs at the front of the stage. Rob Schmitt attempts to get his attention, but he turns and waves at the crowd. Schmitt: We’ve got one more surprise, in case this wasn’t enough.

Musk: Well, President, uh, President Milei has a gift for me. Schmitt: [hamming at camera] Javier Milei from Argentina, you guys know who that is, right? Milei, a friendly-looking figure who resembles Bilbo Baggins right before he Smeagolifies, enters the stage carrying a chainsaw. He presents the chainsaw to the billionaire, who then waves it around unsteadily. Musk: This… is… the chainsaw for bureaucracy. [pumps the chainsaw in the air] CHAINSAAAW!

He takes a beat to examine the chainsaw. He is still wearing his sunglasses. He turns around and starts wandering to the other side of the stage, waving the chainsaw around. Musk: Uwaaauwaargh! Milei lurks awkwardly in the background, trying to wave goodbye to Musk, before Schmitt takes notice. Schmitt: Mr. President, thank you so much. Nice to meet you. I love it. We love it. Musk’s attention snaps to Milei. The two men shake hands with the Argentinian president, who then departs.

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

"the woke mind virus" mind virus

1979 - We Have Always Been Techlashing

french mcdonalds is something else

seven year old nephew just drew this in crayon on my window (???)

my toxic trait is scheduling slack messages with odd minute increments (0:17, 0:22, 0:56) for that added “in front of keyboard” verisimilitude

one of my absolute favorite things is seeing a friend pop off in multiple mutual groupchats at the same time

vibe shift: substack officially renames "trust and safety" to "standards and enforcement"