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Antidote to Glibness www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

The figures are compiled from the official corporate disclosures and financial performance updates released by each firm:

Combined, these three conductors direct a staggering $36.4 trillion in active global capital.

In addition to the $7.8 trillion it actively manages, Fidelity also oversees an incredible $19.9 trillion in total Assets Under Administration, which includes all the self-directed 401ks and brokerage accounts held on its platform.)

As of mid-2026, the total assets controlled (Assets Under Management) by each of the Big Three firms have reached historic highs:👑 BlackRock: $15.3 Trillion🥈 Vanguard Group: $13.3 Trillion🥉 Fidelity Investments: $7.8 Trillion

‘The ballroom will be a solution’: Republicans, Trump demand speedy construction after weekend chaos

The avg price for a gallon of gasoline jumped 11 cents overnight to about $3.11 in the US, according to AAA. It's OK to admit this isn't what you voted for, MAGA.

Trump looks and sounds absolutely depleted today. He's so weak. He would hate if you shared these photos taken earlier with your followers.

One Christmas I told Santa I wanted the Americans who control 90% of the wealth to pay 90% of the taxes.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

Who would've guessed that "the Mark of the Beast" would wind up being just a clot of cheap spray-tan goo.

That was legitimately impressive by the Jets given how good New England’s run defense has been this year

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

God Shohei made that look so easy. Real life demigod.

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

trump declares war on his own country and the newspapers are not really interested in saying this because they are owned by chickenshits

Face it, MAGA, if your president's name weren't all over the Epstein files, they would have been released unredacted, printed, and bound in $500 special editions signed by Trump, recorded as an audio book by Mel Gibson, and tattooed on Laura Loomer's ass.

Vivian Wilson made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week.

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there will be a moment of total (wearables and universal translators are right out of sci-fi) symbiosis with the AIs. Hope I live long enough to see it

The problem for Trump’s defenders, and his invertebrate media enablers at The Washington Post, is that the context in which Trump's greeting to Epstein appears—that sickening birthday book—lends veracity to the ghastly note.

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*

Zelensky wore a suit this time.

We’d like to report a murder.

I’m just going to say “MURDER…”

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

New U.S. Army Shaving Rule Could Affect Many Black Soldiers www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u... cuz shaving is the source of valor

The MAHA agenda is a death cult.

theweek.com/media/ai-por... this seems like a good conversation to start the week off

The French Senator Claude Malhuret has become President Trump’s European nemesis. His barbed speeches, viewed tens of millions of times, have cast the president as an “incendiary emperor” and suggested that “never before has anyone so trampled on the Constitution.”

If you ever want to see a Trump supporter go insane, just casually mention he's never won an election against a man.

In recent decades, gym culture has seen a change in the winds: more and more women are taking up weight lifting.

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u... like Trump gives a flying fuck about any of these: “honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,”

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

Alonzo Davis, a Los Angeles-based artist whose work celebrated the mix of cultures he encountered in Southern California, died last week at 82. His gallery, Brockman, brought national awareness to the renaissance in Black art during the late 1960s. nyti.ms/40Z4Ovc

The Lakota People's Law Project's 2025 Decolonized Reading List. There is so much to choose from here. lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01...