Ah yes, Schindler’s List, Go, Waterworld, Born on the Fourth of July…. all the millennials’ favorites from childhood.

South Korea police just raided Starbucks office over what may be the worst promotion anyone has ever conceived. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It turns out that "never shut up and carry an empty holster" is kind of a shitty policy. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.

The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.

washingtonpost.com

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

This article could be a comedy sketch

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3d ago

“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

Dumbest, Dumb, Dumber

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

It's legitimately death throes of the republic stuff. bsky.app/profile/cybe...

CyberOtters@cyberotters.bsky.social · 7d ago

I dunno, but I think it's a bad, like, extremely bad thing, that the President of the US looks at these two maps (which one depends on the day) and is totally unable to conjure up the idea that inside those blue states are still millions of people who voted for him.

this story is absolutely wild. i would taste the 25-year-old fish sauce.

Defector@defector.com · 5d ago

Let me and a food scientist sample the abandoned fish sauce terrorizing a small Canadian town:

say what you will about the Ewoks but that party looked fun as fuck

Don't tell me this war doesn't have a winner.

It'd be so funny if Chris Nolan had you over for movie night, and the setup was a 47" LCD hung way too high with motion smoothing on and the built-in speakers blaring.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6d ago

Christopher Nolan says he has movie nights with Robert Pattinson now that they're neighbors in LA “Rob and I, we’re old friends at this point. And we actually became neighbors ... so we have the odd movie night together and stuff ... Rob and Suki are wonderful people"

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation

This is why I pay to subscribe to @404media.co. They keep writing stories that matter.

404 Media@404media.co · 6d ago

NEW: After a 404 Media report about ISBNdb sourcing printed books for AI companies to train on because they don't contain AI slop, the company has removed its webpages about training AI citing backlash and says it was just a "test of market interest."

Graduated from Columbia at age 19 as valedictorian. The reason you don't give young men billions of dollars to invest is because they're dumbasses. All of them.

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 7d ago

if CNBC is right it sure sounds like they lost $45 billion IN A MONTH ahhhhhhhhhhh www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/l...

We did it, boys. We're trending in America. All of us.

This is devastating. Now how will we know what you learned about B2B demand gen from watching Dune 3?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

That shadowy place way out there? That is beyond our borders. You must never go there. That is the Big Boy graveyard.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Collecting milk crates for the mob on the Lower East Side. I know, I know. But it's not as glam as it sounds.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

<Kash walking into the courtroom all googly-eyed> Judge: CASE DISMISSED

Barbie Devyndarbė@katchin05.blacksky.app · last wk.

A federal judge has thrown out FBI director Kash Patel’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” 😭

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

Truly one of the greatest rug pulls in history. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SpaceX Falls 20% Below IPO Price, Erasing $1.2 Trillion Value

SpaceX shares erased one-fifth of their value since the record setting debut of Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company, as investors shunned riskier technology firms.

bloomberg.com

A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.

"Who's better on..." 🔵Women's Rights: D +18 🔵Environment: D +17 🔵Democratic Norms: D +10 🔵Cost of Living: D +4 🟣Political Violence: Even 🟣Wars/Terrorism: Even 🔴AI: R +1 🔴Corruption: R +1 🔴Guns Control: R +3 🔴Immigration: R +5 🔴Crime: R +14 Ipsos / July 26, 2026

WSJ reporting that Trump is hammering RFK for not being MORE anti-vax. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Turns Up the Heat on RFK Jr. to Cut Back Childhood Vaccines

​The president is focused on the shots’ alleged tie to autism, even though White House advisers wanted to tone down attention to the issue ahead of the midterms.

wsj.com

This honestly reminds me of the x10 spy camera pop-up ads that temporarily ruined the web in the early 2000s. The ads would call them "security cameras" but also feature a photo of a woman in a nightie. Sometimes the ads would urge, "Don't use this to spy on sexy neighbors or anything!"

Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · last wk.

Just if your days are filled by devising measures to stop the customers using your product to harass and secretly spy on others do you think you'd wonder if your product was bad? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Trump spent his first term lying "I rebuilt the military that Obama depleted," then spent the first year of his 2nd term lying that he'd ended 8 wars and demanding international recognition, and then spent 2026 depleting our military with useless concurrent bombing campaigns on 3 continents.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · last wk.

People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.