Sunk Cost Pharisee
@Liamjsm
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New short story by me in Harper’s! Featuring three timeless literary themes: love, lying, and SantaCon. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
he has stopped pandering to the horny right in favor of his traditional base, the plastic center
Optimus will bring the food to your car next year
This is what they took from us
95 percent of Right Wing nostalgia is just a picture of a woman with unbelievable honkers captioned, “This is what they took from us 😔”
Has never met a person 👇
nobody talks about how the internet killed regional culture. everyone under 30 has the same personality now. your grandparents' generation had accents, local customs, regional humor. you have tiktok trends and twitter discourse.
True bc we’ve run the speciality store—whose key values were depth and expertise—out of business. Now we have small convenience stores and large convenience stores
Small stores’ key value add is convenience, which they charge a premium for (exploiting hyper-local monopoly over convenience) while larger stores use scale to extract better deals from suppliers, offering lower prices to consumers willing to travel further for a good deal.
Retvrn
Gather round children: once upon a time, before Lyfts, yellow cabs wouldn’t pick you up in Brooklyn and we took sketchy random car services late at night.
This is like that one app from the early teens…lulu or something?
Tea is now the number one app on the App Store Tea is a women-only app where users anonymously share info and warnings about men to spot red flags and get feedback.
ICE agents are bad, but “feral”? I dunno
There are feral humans in the Appalachians and they're occasionally responsible for disappearances
Do you think there’s room in hollywood for an amoral intimacy coordinator? I do. Getting business cards printed up as we speak
If you think the main way to tell that something was written by AI is that it uses em-dashes then I’m not sure why you even care if it was written by AI
You’re going to hell bro
Things that are easy to get rid of: Shoes. Things are that hard to get rid of: Bodies. Things we are supposed to take as evidence: Shoes. Things for which we aren’t allowed to look: Bodies.
david foster wallace gets a lot of shit for the terrible AAVE chapter in Infinite Jest, but based on this atrocious attempt at an Irish accent I think he may have just been really terrible at vernacular writing
We are finally going to figure out which numbers are Owl Numbers. Certain people have been working on this for 6000 years
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
not a serious question
serious question: Hamlet vs Macbeth, which play is winning in your mind
had a stare down with Seth Meyers in the subway today and he did not break eye contact
The Beach Boys and Black Sabbath…the two faces of the dark empath’s coin
Solid ranking. Weights the existence of a common homophone too heavily, but basically correct. Well done
Ranking the U.S. states from easiest —> hardest to spell
I’m with the euros on this one. Prefer to hang dry my clothes.
“Americans love exaggerating European poverty. Anyway, why don’t they just use clotheslines like early 20th century peasants?”
So Jeff Daniels is actually that guy from The Newsroom? Oof.
Speaking to Bush/Cheney spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace, actor Jeff Daniels says how sad he is that Kamala lost, because we would have had Liz Cheney as Secretary of State. I think Liz would have been Secretary of Defense, but it shows who liberals are:
If this famously stubborn 83 year old grump can revise his position on Palestine, you can too.
I met with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, who was imprisoned for 104 days by the Trump administration for opposing Netanyahu’s illegal & horrific war in Gaza. Outrageous. We must not allow Trump to destroy the First Amendment & freedom to dissent.
i feel like i’m going insane. “you should wash your underwear everyday unless you have adhd” like has everyone gone into psychosis