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Creator & writer at https://factualdispatch.beehiiv.com/, Tech SEO Consultant, and malevolent asshole (he/him). Previously @terrygotham on the bad site.

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Trump Is Obsessed With These $145 Shoes—and Won’t Let Anyone Leave Without a Pair Forget MAGA hats. The president is guessing shoe sizes and handing out dress shoes to friends and advisers.

www.wsj.com/style/fashio...? Florsheims, the dumbest possible answer.

11.03.2026 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So...it was our fault. Like when Halliburton got the contract for all of those bases and our troops got electrocuted in the showers?

08.03.2026 22:40 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Backpacking in 2005, I told everyone I was from New York instead of saying I was American. I was greeted with open arms, while Dubya supporters were given the suspicion they deserved.

08.03.2026 21:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do we have any details on how they were injured yet? Or just yadda yadda yadda, people ded.

08.03.2026 21:00 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow, they could have put this out in 2024, but that would have helped the wrong people. Incredible cowardice and bootlicking from the Atlantic.

08.03.2026 19:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Three Kings (1999) was so damn good.

08.03.2026 19:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We don't ask questions to visitors about their politics? Don't we screen social media profiles and take phones for review when you get to customs? This was front page news for almost a year, what is she smoking?

08.03.2026 19:20 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So they have Army Brat OnlyFans Miku? Is it a revenue stream for the Pentagon yet? It's not like we're gonna be able to convince them to stop, so might as well get a cut of the action to go to better boots for the E6 Mafia.

05.03.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why plan for all of that when we'll be greeted as liberators?! (Xennial Sarcasm)

04.03.2026 00:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

It's an arms race between LLM bots faking being known as a "user agent" like the one Google uses for its search index, and the CDNs like Cloudflare or Akamai, building detection systems and dunking bad actors: blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

03.03.2026 18:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They can do UA spoofing, but cdn firms are already pushing back in that arms race, looking at clusters of bot activity. If everyone changes their user agent but the IPs are all from one office during work hours, there's your sign.

03.03.2026 18:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course. There's a reason the Catholic Church doesn't canonize Tay no matter how many miraculous text outputs are attributed to them.

03.03.2026 01:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WMDs? Buttery Mails? Literally the entirety of the Gaza Genocide? Which era of lies are you confused about Jill? We can go back to the puff pieces they did about Hitler in the 30s if you want.

02.03.2026 15:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fox News loving NATO huh?

02.03.2026 15:02 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I keep going back to the Ligotti explanation of business in My Work is Not Yet Done, while imagining data centers as the black tower calculating profits.

01.03.2026 23:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bet we will also be greeted as liberators right?

28.02.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do I bet on this corporate leviathan losing money when Trump dies?

26.02.2026 23:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh cool, we're gonna get the end of Fight Club after all of that.

24.02.2026 14:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It used to be "govt so small you could drown it in a bathtub." Now that they accomplished that, I guess "a 4th estate so small you could whittle it away with layoffs and Bari Weiss."

22.02.2026 04:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The total lack of cyber security plus the explosion in vibe coding is going to lead to some hilarious stuff over the next couple of years.

20.02.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is networked nationalism... We used to actually study it before Trump 2.0 cut the funding 😂

18.02.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, the Twitter equivalent of "marketing doesn't work on me" in florid effect. If we had funding for deradicalization efforts anymore I would try to get a grant to build tools to inoculate or at least treat people who want help.

18.02.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Carcinisation, but instead of crab stuff, all economic exploitation players independently evolve sweatshops.

18.02.2026 19:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Next gen of gaming is any studio shipping without Crunch.

17.02.2026 23:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was so sure she was going to win the Puppy bowl though....

17.02.2026 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If BlueSky rebuilds Klout, I'm gonna have such a sensible chuckle.

17.02.2026 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I uninstalled TikTok after their local tab knew where I lived even when I confirmed location services were disabled. The tech is lying to us, and the DOJ Google docs show Chrome is monitored way more than Google wants to admit.

17.02.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dokoupil needs a blonde co-anchor to make it more Fox News-like, and he's going to get her.

17.02.2026 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sycophancy-as-a-service. Previously, you had to be rich or powerful to have your brain rotted by Grima Wormtongue. Now, thanks to ChatGPT....

17.02.2026 16:37 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

They should just nominate Mitt Romney then. He and Liz Cheney can get endorsed by Kamala & Pete right as we draw the curtain on the American experiment.

17.02.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0