The best thing about ads for gambling apps is that muting them, the only message is the warning text about gambling addiction. They become PSAs that happen to have silent bro-dudes on the screen.
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Dave Clapper
Профиль VivelyHe/him Improviser in Kansas City (mostly at The Bird) Alumnus of Unexpected Productions (Seattle) Founding Editor (Emeritus): SmokeLong Quarterly Currently reading fiction submissions for FRiGG I don't auto follow back people I don't know personally.
This is one of the most quotable essays I've read in a while. Here's one: "That’s the meat of AI technology: scraped flesh from fellow humans, molded until it’s unrecognizable, slick like plastic skin." And yeah, I'm Gen X. Why do you ask?
Sarah Kendzior"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Cramer is late to the party in recognizing this. The Big 7 have been a massive financing circle jerk for a while now.
Jenny Cohn“There are so many companies counting on the data center for their earnings,” he said. “If the market decides it doesn’t want to fund any more data centers, & the companies themselves don’t have the money, or they don’t get paid, then we’re back in 2000.” 7/27/26
Perfect comment in response to Heather Cox Richardson's excellent (as usual) post. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-24-2026
July 24, 2026Tony Romm and Brad Plumer of the New York Times reported this afternoon that the Trump administration’s claim last October that it was cutting programs in order to protect taxpayers against waste was,...heathercoxrichardson.substack.comIreshresistsHe cares so much that in 2014 CNN obtained documents showing Trump shirts were made in a Honduran factory, where workers earned about $1.30 an hour. The factory’s contract reportedly ended in 2015, because even that wage was too high. Between he and Ivanka one could write a book on forced labor.
I call these continents West America and East America.
MeidasTouchAerial view of the green Reflecting Pool today. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
I read through to the end with a part of my mind rebelling against doing so, and I hate that this is what my mind has become. And now I share, urge others to read to the end, and then--as I will do once this is posted, turn the phone off.
Tom Joad™️Everyone tells me to keep it under 500 words. Nobody reads long pieces anymore. This one is long. If you make it to the end you'll know something about yourself that the algorithm cannot measure My newest article open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
Elon Musk is the biggest kidney stone in the history of kidney stones.
David DayenFinancial institutions are giving SpaceX shares special expedited treatment to burrow onto indexes that millions of index fund holders will then robotically purchase to induce demand. It's an innovative version of a pump-and-dump scheme. Eleanor Davis-Diver reports. prospect.org/2026/06/10/e...