I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLDDDDDDDD
I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLDDDDDDDD
Trump tariffs send market reeling
Oh hey the NYT rooted around in their basement and finally found their scream headline font
2025 everyone
The New York Times "A current policy approach is like if you signed up for a Crunchyroll anime subscription that you knew you couldn't afford, but now that it's time to re-up the subscription, you pretend it's free because you've already been paying it." Bobby Kogan Senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a progressive research group; former adviser to the director of the Office of Management and Budget; former Senate Budget Committee staffer
lmao I canβt believe they printed this
I wrote about Kendrick Lamar Superbowl performance-- its subversive messaging about America being a rigged, deadly game of survival-- especially for Black people.
But we need to stop pretending revolution is going to come from celebrities. It'll come from us.
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As I understand it as a very non-techy person, they add a couple spaces &/or tiny images & format quirks - things normally unnoticeable, which they use to identify shared copies as coming from individuals
They used this at Tesla
www.ndtv.com/world-news/e...
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We all like to yell at the Democrats, but itβs really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!
The pillow book is just a beautifully written piece so 10/10 do recommend!
Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness."
"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."
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Would Park Geunhye count or is she too recent?
If not Murasaki Shikibu or Sei Shonagon would be someone I'd immediately write down
If labor is the hope of the world, rely on the workers to be the voice that matters most.
Today's main character is HER
Thank you so much for this block list!
Wait this is like a concafe... for Americans...
Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo.
You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth.
What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat."
Please join us for this event on February 12! www.brookings.edu/events/us-so...
I feel like I've lost so much faith in society over the past week
28th Amendment showing up like the Cardinal of Kabul popping into Rome for a conclave
If you are a manga or comic fan, and you know who Tezuka is but not Shigeru Mizuki...
Let's just say your knowledge is lacking.
This is such a satisfying @austincarr.bsky.social story about a niche disaster that has fascinated me for years: The Walgreens video cooler door fiasco. A true retail cautionary tale. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Frank Miller has the ability to summon up so much emotion and clarity in a single, graphic image.
It reminds me of Mizuki Shigeru's single, powerful piece of art on the 2011 Tohoku disaster.
The best part of writing an essay about my love of small regional art museums is that now everyone is recommending their own favorite small regional art museums in the comments. π₯²
As a heads-up, βPrice Gougingβ is legally defined as raising the price of a thing (here, rent) by more than 10% over the pre-event price. If you see that happening in LA via, say, Zillow or somewhere, you can report it there, or(inclusive or) list it here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...