Or its demonization. Nor its lionization. What can I say. I've enjoyed it the handful of times I've eaten there. But I also enjoy the music of Cheap Trick. That has nothing to do w/ barbarity nor irony. It has to do w/ gratitude. Namely, that I'm not you.
Jeff Bernstone
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Boston based freelance writer and content strategist. Culturally ambiguous by design. Mercenary, but not in that French Foreign Legion way. Once referred to as an asshole by Patti Smith. She was justified. My cat will beat up your dog.
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A friend much wiser (and unfortunately more dead) than me once told me that the defining hallmark of American culture over the next 50 years would be confusing barbarism w/ irony. That was shortly after 9/11. I don't think he had Cracker Barrell in mind.
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Donald Trump hired Peter Thiel’s AI company Palantir to vacuum up Americans’ data.
Dems in Palantir’s home state are now pushing new legislation to block watchdog groups & citizens from filing consumer protection lawsuits against AI giants like Palantir.
www.levernews.com/the-plot-to-...
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"This is the real gamble at the heart of Altman's CALIFORNIA SPLIT: the risk you take when you put your care and trust into another person."
No Special Feeling: The Doomed Love Story of California Split
This is the real gamble at the heart of Altman's 'California Split': the risk you take when you put your care and trust into another person.
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Are there any historical examples/writing about an authoritarian takeover where the newspapers got purchased and turned into regime propaganda and everybody just kept reading them (and complaining about them) anyway? Is this how it usually goes down or are Americans being particularly weird in this?
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Oh my god
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
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“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...
J.D. Vance Heckled With ‘Couch F*cker’ Chants During D.C....
JD Vance was confronted by angry hecklers at Union Statio...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lytg...
Poochinski - Full Pilot (1990)
YouTube video by blankety blank
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I had to prove to myself I was not hallucinating this, but that it actually existed. It did and... suddenly any negative karma I've accumulated over the years due to a whole lotta noxious behavior dissipated.
Failed TV pilot where cop Peter Boyle dies on duty but lives on in the body of a terrifying bulldog puppet. Poochinski 1990 #puppetbulldogsky
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Feed: "The Lever" Published on Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Monopolists Just Got Their Hall Pass Revoked
Business empires have long used “refusal to deal” tactics to protect their monopolies — but now, judges are pushing back.
