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🔫 Charlie Kirk Shot at University Q&A /// NY Mag

2025-09-11 03:58:00

He’s a despicable human being, but I still hate gun violence of any kind… In this weird place right now because he went to my high school (he’s a few years younger) and was on the varsity basketball team with me my senior year… but he’s still despicable… and while no one deserves to be shot, he is the same person who said gun deaths are unfortunately’ worth it to keep the second amendment.

💀 DOOMscroll /// The Game

2025-09-10 01:07:00

Incredible new game from David Friedman that combines DOOM with our societal addiction of scrolling. I went 400 meters and killed 174 monsters on my first go this morning.

🤖 Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It? /// Wired

2025-08-27 01:50:00

One engineer at Notion compared the economic panic of this AI era to when the compiler was first introduced. The idea that one person will suddenly do the work of 100 programmers should be inverted, he said; instead, every programmer will be 100 times as productive. His manager agreed: Yeah, as a manager I would say, like— everybody’s just doing more,” she said.

Sure, that sounds nice and dandy, but that’s not actually how economics and the world of finance work. If you keep the same number of programmers who make the same amount of money, add in the additional cost of AI, expenses increase. But being 100 times more productive does not mean you’re going to increase your revenue in an equal manner. So cuts have to come from somewhere. Unless you have a magic fairy. That’s capitalism for you, baby.

🧦 Trump’s Intel Deal: Also Very Fascist /// New Republic

2025-08-27 01:45:00

In Congress, Rand Paul excoriated the deal as a step toward socialism,” but otherwise, as Politico’s Jonathan Martin noted Monday on Morning Joe, the silence is deafening among elected officials.” He meant Republican ones.

The constitutionalists” who shriek at even the slightest hint of socialism are now ignoring the constitution to allow the government to buy stakes in companies. You don’t even need to take this liberal’s word for it. Rand Paul will tell you all about it. But hey, we gotta pay for that tax break we gave to the rich somehow, don’t we?

💍 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Engaged /// THR

2025-08-27 01:31:00

It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for… 🙄

🪀 Yoyo Elevated to Performance Art /// Kottke

2025-08-22 00:37:00

I don’t know the first thing about YoYoing, but this is incredible. Jason says this is the best routine he’s ever seen, but I took a few minutes to look around the International YoYo Federation YouTube page, and every single video from the competition is mind-blowing. Apparently, there’s also a 4A competition, where the yoyo isn’t actually attached/secured to the string, which I find endlessly fascinating?!?!?