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2025-05-09 04:03:00

📫 An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy /// McSweeney’s

She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at. She is herself, entirely. That is not a flaw. It’s a form of resistance.

Mic drop. Fuck RFK Jr. and don’t pardon my French.

2025-05-08 05:18:00

🏀 The Celtics Will Just Keep Doing This Until We Are All Driven Insane /// Defector

But at least it would indicate that the Celtics were aware of what was happening around them, that they exist in Time, and it is moving, and the game’s result will be determined over the next short period of it and not by what happens when you simulate 10,000 contests between the two teams’ respective shooting tendencies and see who wins 50.1 percent of them.

What a whirlwind of a second round this has been—with all four road teams securing game one plus an overtime game and two buzzer beaters!

2025-05-08 04:23:00

💻 EclairM0, the pocket notepad /// Mateusz Nowak

This is so cool, but I wish it had a Blackberry keyboard. That would make it absolutely perfect and I’d buy one yesterday.

2025-05-08 04:22:00

👕 The Häagen-Dazs T-Shirt /// Intramural

I don’t remember what I googled (probably Häagen-Dazs t-shirt’ or something like that) and in the image results, after scrolling down a bit I came across a photo of Henry Rollins wearing one and the photo linked to an article from 2013 on Consequence.net titled Henry Rollins used to work at Häagen-Dazs’ and then everything clicked immediately.

As much as I hate to be that guy, I love the when you get to be that person who is in the know on weird little shit like this.

2025-05-08 04:22:00

🛰️ Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store /// Wired

I’m pretty afraid that they can actually do some stuff that we will not know about. That can be a little bit shady, but all in all, like most of the businesses and most of the activities that we participate in have some kind of shadier sides.”

Man, the dissonance you need to have to know better and just not give a fuck.

2025-05-08 04:21:00

🧮 Algorithmic recommendations are shit. /// Wrote This

I am 100% convinced that, nearly two decades into the age of algorithmic recommendations, we really have not progressed past Other people who liked this liked that” and Here’s a bunch more of what it seems like you like,” both implemented in the dumbest possible ways.

I don’t know that I could say it any better and AI is just here to pile the shit on even higher since AI is essentially just an algorithm that can give you a random result—and one that can’t discern fact from fiction.