The Lowdown is a criminally under appreciated series considering the lack of discourse it gets. It’s gonna be a stone-cold classic in a decade.
Linus Fairing retweeted
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it’s crazy france never had a riot or a protest until a muslim or black person showed up into their peaceful cities that have never before known conflict
Gonna be extremely pissed if Gregg doesn’t show up to the On Cinema Oscar Special next year dressed as Digger.
digger is the movie of the year and you should go see it while it’s still in theaters. seats are easily booked since this hog nation seems to hate it for obvious reasons.
You: $99 trading tutorial PDFs, 5-hour long YouTubes on charting techniques and strategies, 20-page DD manifestos on r/wsb, $89/month AI signal trading tools.
Me: Speaker of Islamic Republic of Iran’s Parliament tweets.
People who claim AI is all bad are wrong. The failures when people try to automate their lives with it will be endlessly entertaining to me, which is good.
Linus Fairing retweeted
I resigned from Slim Chickens today. I spent the last three years doing seasoning research at both Slim Chickens and arby's. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to Four loko nuggets and gambling with our lives.
the cool thing about instagram and meta’s aggressive data broker tracking is that after making a big purchase i get to watch ads for all the alternatives i didn’t know existed for the next month
People like this are as culturally foreign to me as uncontacted tribes like the Sentinelese.
Driving around Austin, Texas with my 5-year-old and 8-year-old when we spotted a driverless Tesla Cybercab in the wild.
So naturally… we started chasing it.
My kids grabbed the phone and filmed the whole thing.
This is literally their footage.
And then it hit me…
They may be two of the youngest kids in the world to ever see a driverless Cybercab operating on public roads.
Something they would not see today if they were at school today.
I don’t think they fully understand how big this moment is yet.
They just see a cool car driving itself.
But this is the world they’re going to grow up in.
A world where cars drive themselves, Robotaxis pick you up, and transportation looks completely different from what Daddy grew up with.
To me, this feels like the future.
To them, it might just feel normal.
One day they’ll look back at this video and realize they were there when that future was just beginning.
The fact that local right-wing psychos like Kane are in this thread defending Manny really tells the story.
JUST IN: San Francisco Democrats endorsed Manny Yekutiel in his supervisor race tonight, despite allegations of sexual assault.
The meeting was contentious. Yekutiel's accuser took the mic, & outraged attendees cried “Shame!”
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If Neera ever leaves her sinecure at CAP, the inevitable reinvention as a right-wing grifter who had to leave the Democratic Party because of the DSA/Piker will be the least surprising media development of the subsequent years.



















