Esau

Still covering Elon Musk as a business mogul and not foregrounding his murderous white nationalist politics is like doing a piece on only the clown career of John Wayne Gacy.

Sounds legit, reuters. Appreciate the diligence running this to ground.

Subtext is for cowards

Seems like a normal thing to announce.

“I think America is big enough for all of us. [JD Vance’s] view of America is small. It's small like him.” A lot of money quotes in this @gregsargent.bsky.social interview with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, but this is the best one in my view.

Trump Slams The Beauty Of A Lotus Flower In Scathing Truth Social Haiku https://theonion.com/trump-slams-the-beauty-of-a-lotus-flower-in-scathing-truth-social-haiku/

I love how every news story now comes with "and here's what problematic gamblers think is going to happen"

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with WSJ when she was ousted. She was telling The Journal about her plans for the role. Then Jason Miller knocked on her door. 'JD wanted to chat with us real quick.' Zacharia never returned — to the interview, or the job.

This 7-term congressman - chairman of the House Freedom Caucus! - thinks he can tell a reporter at a press conference it’s illegal to record him. They’re all really mean, but so many of them are also so incredibly stupid.

OMG. The best part is him accusing the woman who laughed at him of not supporting the First Amendment because her laughter interrupted him saying something stupid.

Our Caligula phase

It’s reasonable that we focus on cases where chatbots push people to do violent things or self harm. But one has to wonder how many cases like these, where someone goes into debt buying tokens to support their “genius” startup idea, there are. Is this essentially OAI running a pig butchering scam?

“.. In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650, up roughly 80 percent from a year earlier ..” @nytimes.com #MEsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

Well, that’s refreshing. A court orders Trump campaign ads to stop, finding plaintiffs likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that DHS is misappropriating taxpayer funds to pay for them.

Snl chasing the podcast bro demo like dem strategists pining for a joe rogan of their very own.

Well i wouldnt want to inconvenience a missile.

www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...

New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

I don't think this is how gas prices work tbh.

“The primary reason that diesel and other refined products aren’t making it out of the Middle East is that refineries across the region, in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and elsewhere, are down following missile strikes and other outages stemming from the war.”

hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods (and mind you, John Georges is a first-generation Greek immigrant who still has a home in Mykonos) bsky.app/profile/alex...

Do culture and music writers at rolling atone not know about algorithms? Personalized feeds are perhaps *the* defining characteristic of our contemporary media landscape yet this writer thinks we all tune into american bandstand then get our news from walter cronkite.

I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran

"Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said. Maven, which is made by Palantir..." Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

So we’re joining nato? Does he know we are already in nato?

Damn that's a lot of words to say "literally exactly the same as it has been for 80 years"

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Trump says he's "banning the free press"

"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

You can’t put a percent on the chance AI ends the world bc we have absolutely no data to estimate it with. The error bars are +/- infinity. And yes, I know, Bayes exists for these subjective cases, but then the initial subjective priors matter. I 🙄🙄🙄 at this sort of faux quantification.

This is what they say to the shark. It doesn’t work

I saw precisely one podcast with barkan, having never read or heard of him before, and it was immediately clear he was relying on poorly executed rhetorical/debate tricks while being needlessly condescending to his interlocutor. Cant speak to the plagiarism charges but, imho, the vibes were off.

Is that illegal? I feel like that should be illegal.

“The wallet inspector assured me he was properly authorized. I dont know what else I was supposed to do”.

oh wow r/washingtondc found the worst one i've seen so far

bullshit of this sort has been a talking point one way or another since conservatives got away with attacking Obama for having “a public position and a private position” that’s how negotiations work, you rubes

To quote Harry Reid on Collins, "always there when you don't need her."

“Everyone is so mad about men wearing shorts” - guy who only knows people who attend ny fashion shows.