The year’s best movies were populist critiques of inequality and corporate dominance. Populism is the cultural zeitgeist.

heard a mouse in the walls and waited next to the gap by the heat pipes until he poked his lil head out and made eye contact with me

Bulgaria day after joining euro is now suddenly so rich Bulgarians can afford to throw money away. Another Lagarde W.

achieving AGI by reducing the intelligence of the average human rather than increasing the intelligence of AI

There goes my spring break in Ouagadougou.

The ideological breakdown of figures popular enough to sell in Belgrade is incredible

Julio Torres' review of BUGONIA: "We have entered an era of necessary skepticism, easily dismissed as paranoia by a ruling class who have positioned themselves as the voice of reason."

Every major attack begins on Friday night so not to disrupt oil markets. Like clockwork

Could have been Azerbaijan or Sweden so NYT is right to hedge here

Jews and Assyrians: still arguing over gold like it’s 200 BC 😭

Ni un día llevan gobernados por Trump y ya se rigen por las leyes de la Isla de Epstein

The global situation now is an American fossil fuel hegemony, controlling reserves and production across North and South America, allied with authoritarian religious slave state oil powers in the Arabian peninsula and gulf

Every time I think “this can’t possibly get any dumber” I am punished for thinking that

No fucking way. For those who weren't up last night, they spent hours going "we dunno who done this"

maduro walks into court on day 1 and reveals that he’s hired a portly southern gentleman-type barrister in a full white suit as his chief defence lawyer

The New York Times reports that this is what finally pushed Trump to send Delta Force to storm Caracas and abduct Maduro:

It's not even a non-happening, it's like an inverse happening. A happening black hole.

jesse ventura said that streets of st. paul look like they were designed by drunken irishmen. and that organized religion was a sham and crutch for the weak minded. he made the press wear badges that said JACKAL. very entertaining governor for a kid who read the paper every day

I love Björk, this is a *scorching* hot take--one of the best to ever do it