15 October 2024

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🗳️ What the Polls Really Say About Black Men’s Support for Kamala Harris /// New Yorker

It’s worth remembering that Black men voted for Clinton in 2016 at a level that surpassed white women by thirty-six points.

Might be an unpopular opinion, but blaming any group of people is stupid. I’ve heard white women say they think women are too emotional to be president—which is idiotic. And as a white guy, if any group is to blame, it’s the ones who vote over 50% for the spray tanned nincompoop. There are, hands down, more white men that vote against their own interest than any other demographic.

14 October 2024

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🔫 NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member /// Guardian

Are we really surprised that someone obsessed with guns is cool torturing and killing a cat?

14 October 2024

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🚕 Tesla’s sporty, two-seater robotaxi design puzzles experts /// Reuters

In their defense, when you get a cab in the city, you’re probably stuck with just the backseat—but that still gives room for three. Ridiculous that they are just like, yeah, two seats is good.” So much for forward thinking.”

14 October 2024

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🛰️ NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability /// New Scientist

This is pretty cool.

14 October 2024

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🏥 We’re Turning Our Emergency Room into a Spirit Halloween /// McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Of course, I get it–this seems drastic. But let’s face it, rural hospitals like ours are barely hanging on. Medicare plans drown us in paperwork, making it impossible to turn a profit unless we start offering luxury VIPappendectomies with complimentary champagne. Meanwhile, private insurance companies are busy collecting premiums while doctors are stuck on the phone chasing prior authorizations, leaving little time to care for their patients. The result? Patients fighting to survive in a system that’s barely functioning. Talk about spooky.

Talk about efficiencies. Helloooo nurse.

14 October 2024

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👨‍💻 HTML for People

Been meaning to link to this since Blake launched it, but it’s been hectic. As someone who only knows a tiny bit of HTML from tinkering with this site template on Blot, I’m super stoked to dig into all of this and actually start to understand how all of this works.

12 October 2024

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🌌 The Move /// Omeleto

This is the kind of stuff I’m really hoping to cover more of over on foofaraw. I love short films, but it’s often hard to find good ones.

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12 October 2024

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🚗 Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event, says you’ll be able to buy one for less than $30,000 /// TechCrunch

Musk also noted he expects Tesla to start doing unsupervised FSD in Texas and California next year” with the Model 3 and Model Y. He acknowledged that he’s too optimistic about timelines, but said he expects the Cybercab to be in production by 2026 or before 2027.”

I’m sure everyone already knows this, but anything Musk says is bullshit.

12 October 2024

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📱 TikTok is designed to be addictive to kids and causes them harm, US states’ lawsuits say /// AP News

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, saying that the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their mental health.

12 October 2024

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🤪 We’ve gone insane /// End On End

I’ll be honest, I didn’t read the study Jason looks at here, but I trust him not to mislead. And he’s right, we’ve gone insane. The immigration topic (for most, I’m sure you and your dad are the exception) has never been about jobs, money, opportunity, or crime—it’s always been about race.

12 October 2024

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📔 Trump’s God Bless the USA Bibles were printed in China, AP review finds /// AP News

How surprising… 🙄 Probably made the same place his Swiss” watches are. So much for America First. To make matters worse, I think Nebraska is buying tons of these for their schools 🤮

12 October 2024

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⚽ Jürgen Klopp: Ex-Liverpool boss takes Red Bull soccer job /// ESPN

It was only a matter of time. People who go through the grind like that tend to love the grind so sitting at home never made sense. I imagine this will be lower stress than managing while still allowing him to be part of the game. I give it two years tops before he’s managing again though.

12 October 2024

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💽 Dookie Demastered /// Green Day

Pretty incredible stuff albeit impractical. Although, I wouldn’t mind having the doorbell one.

11 October 2024

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🎞️ Letterboxd besties

No one had the same top four as me, but one person shared three!

11 October 2024

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⚾️ MLBs Television Product Is Getting Shittier In Exciting New Ways /// Defector

Across all sports, we need more in-game commercials. You think I’m crazy, but hear me out. Games are so over long with extended commercial breaks for time outs and half-times. But what if they weren’t. Look at hockey and soccer—entire periods of play. Amazing!Now I know the networks and leagues will never give up money, they’d inevitably add in-game commercials on top of the existing ones, but I prefer to be optimistic and think one day we can have nice things and enjoy them.

11 October 2024

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🎼 Pink Floyd Sells Music Rights to Sony for $400 Million /// Yahoo

Roger Waters doesn’t seem like a great person so I’m a bit ambivalent about this. I still don’t understand the economics of these big music deal rights given how little streaming services pay. I guess over the super long term it’s good since once it’s paid off, it’s free money, but the time it takes to get to that ROI has to be crazy.

11 October 2024

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🛬 Boeing Will Cut 17,000 Jobs in Bid to Slash Costs /// NYT

When your planes start falling apart in the sky, what do you do? Cut costs, of course!

11 October 2024

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Behind on sharing links so be prepared for a bunch of old stuff you’ve probably already seen…

2 October 2024

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🔥 Bonfire on the Mountains /// Kinopio

Friend of the Variable and foofaraw contributor Tony Tran is going all in on Inktober doing three different drawings across three different styles. Every. Single. Day. And he’s recording them in this Kinopio space. Incredible stuff.

1 October 2024

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✨ Kazuaki Koseki’s Dreamy Photos Capture Japan’s Forests Shimmering with Fireflies /// Colossal

Some gorgeous photos.

1 October 2024

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🍆 God’s Penis Visible In Night Sky For First Time In Millennia /// Onion News Network

Apologies for anyone not thrilled to see this heading pop-up, but the Onion News Network is back with a splash 🤣

30 September 2024

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📽️ Livestreaming classic cinema /// One Thing

I really want to subscribe to the Criterion Channel again, but I don’t think I can convince the wife to watch enough to get my moneys worth…

30 September 2024

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🤳 GOP Candidate Derrick Anderson Borrows Friends Family for Photo Ops /// Rolling Stone

This right-wing obsession with the straight, multi-child, nuclear family is just weird. They want everyone to conform to the same ideal so they can feel good about their own decisions. Not everyone wants kids. Not everyone wants to get married. Let people be.

30 September 2024

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💸 If you must raise taxes, raise VAT /// The Economist

Sure… but also… maybe tax the rich…?

30 September 2024

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🗿 43-Foot-Tall Naked Trump Marionette Debuts in Las Vegas /// The Wrap

Oy vey.


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