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Markwayne?

Film poster for O Agente Secreto (The Secret Agent). There's like 3 versions of the same guy on it, and some other stuff I dunno I don't speak Portugese

Anyway, watched The Secret Agent the other night and loved it. Brazil in the 70s sure seemed pretty damn horny!

Ok I need to return to posting. "Man yearns to post" - saying I just made up now

This is great, really loved getting to read these oral histories

Happy chocolate Labrador in front of purple jacaranda trees

Don’t really have much to contribute these days so here’s a pic of my dog

Everyone I see on the street is cheering and high five-ing over that Louvre heist

I’m putting this out there now because I feel a vibe in the air: Trump is dead

I saw it in Bologna, the Italian subtitles really added to the frenetic pace

One of my hottest takes is that there’s a good chance that nothing comes after the smartphone because the smartphone is The Last Invention

I’m on a train in Italy and the woman sitting opposite me is literally editing photos of pizza

This is what I’ll remember most about him; his eye for the beauty in America. Such a horrendous loss, RIP

The first time someone says "Can we connect" while we are conversing, l am confused — aren't we connecting now? — but eventually I come to know one connects by bumping iPhones together such that the other person's picture appears and you are digitally tethered, your meeting logged, the conversation transferred into a kind of achievement from which value might be later extracted, which is, for a journalist, a very familiar approach to conversation. Despite the general mania for connecting, the hacker houses don't interact all that much. "We're trying to work on kind of like better coordination mechanisms, a better social layer for all of the houses to like come together," Pat tells me at the Tower. He organized a hot pot, and a week later another hacker house hosted its own hot pot. The houses organize games, "a hacker-house Olympics," with "weird like side games": a Taser knife fight and a "hard-drive huck" where you're meant to throw a hard drive as far as possible, though Pat changed it to a "cucumber huck" when they couldn't clear enough space at the park to safely throw hard drives.

It’s literally all like this

Sanjana is sitting next to Siddhesh. Two years ago, when Siddhesh was 16, he published a scientific paper in a prestigious journal, and shortly afterward a girl “gave me this two-page letter about how much she appreciated me as a friend. I ran that through ChatGPT, and I was like, Does this girl have a crush on me or not? It came back, it was like, Yes, this girl has a crush on you. And then two months later we start dating.” Did he tell her that? “I did, I did. She was like, No, it was wrong, I just genuinely wanted to be your friend. All right, buddy.”

This story about young people moving to S.F. to do AI startups made me feel insane. Their worldview and understanding of people could not be more orthogonal to mine nymag.com/intelligence...

Transmasc Wario

I have broken the posters code by lurking and not posting. I vow to make great and terrible comeback

Gotta admit that banning Christmas was bad optics though

I had one of these when I was stumbling back to my hotel at 1:00AM after a punk show in KL and it was one of the best burger experiences of my life

Meme: American problem. Don't want to know

Anyway

Well, that's fucking wild

Finally, a good post!

The last book was the most "tell don't show" shit I've ever read in a novel. I wanted to blow my brains out reading it

Trump is going to die very soon and the day he does is the day we activate Woke 2: Turbo-woke

My take is: "yeah, nah"

lmao I've assumed they're the same for like 15 years

Do you think I should read the book before I watch the Fassbinder series? Or does it not matter?

I'm always getting my extremely correct news from the Maltese Herald

Having a bit of a laugh at all the people I know posting "should have been Sharon", like anytime they see a man dying they think "damn, I wish a woman had died instead!"

Beyond anything else it is really psychotic how much adult Americans think about university

Kind of cool that I am in this photo (as a formless shape in the background)

I kind of feel like that if you're going to have a fake unregulated "currency" then it shouldn't be against the law to steal it