@arjun
Novelist. Proud Montrealer/Fier Montréalais. Beer league hockey. Habs. Board member Access Copyright. A "Certified Elder.” Brand/content consultant. Host The Full Bleed, a podcast about the future of (print) magazines. https://linktr.ee/arjunbasu
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
An anatomical drawing of a cross-section of a man's head. The eyeball has been replaced by an RSS logo. To the left of the face is a "code waterfall" effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movie. To the right are clouds of grey roiling clouds, infiltrating the brain as well.
Never let them tell you that enshittification was a mystery. Enshittification isn't downstream of the "iron laws of economics" or an unrealistic demand by "consumers" to get stuff for free.
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This makes sense and is bonkers and asks the question: where would we be without crystals?
Subaru in the front. Saab in the back.
Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.
This is a press freedom issue.
Here’s what happened:
Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the United States and Israel should “accept all the migrants” that may flow from the ongoing war on Iran, arguing that the countries responsible for the conflict should shoulder responsibility for refugees
jrnl.ie/6978059
Because empathy is weakness. Something like that. Also, thinking is hard.
it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war
of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school.
if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.
Watch Obama eviscerate the pedophile führer without ever saying his name. 😳👇
New pod up with Steve Watson of the great Stack, kind of an indie magazine of the month club. If you love magazines, Stack is a great launch pad for discovery. Available below or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Also, the language is straight from the movies. Because they have no experience and that’s what they know. These guys are playing out their schoolyard fantasies. I expect one of them to say “smithereens” in the next couple of days.
@info.radio-canada.ca Pour quoi? C’était un décision stupide. Aucun sens.
Yes. It's called Gander. And it's kind of like Bluesky. In beta.
Everything is stupid.
Deadly, to be clear. But still.
DOW moves to distance itself from Pam Bondi.
These people play one domino at a time.
Also "strategy" is elitist. Probably.
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
Sea level rise is like that thing that always stays at 5th on your list of things to do and so you never get to it but when you do it's too late.
#thehigherthewater
M. Drainville doit fermer sa yueule. Peut etre.
"Understanding ecological change may depend as much on listening as on measuring." Nice @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social column on traditional ecological knowledge and shifting baselines
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bird...
not now, sea levels
Targeting desalination plants is an incredible double edged sword. Iran is extremely vulnerable, but so are the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. If pushed to the brink, Iran could easily depopulate much of the region. Iran already struck Israel’s largest desalination plant three days ago.
It’s like being transported to another dimension. But with Olivia Newton John.
There are no drugs as strong as the ones the creators of Xanadu ingested and they ingested those drugs for months on end.
Same. We are the rebellion.
Meta + Anus = Manus
The answer to why the nonfiction book market is struggling is a resounding: “duh.” Escapism may be as big as ever since the pandemic but desire to acquire knowledge is at an all-time low.
We are living in the Post-Fact World
