Kevin Kortum

Introducing the new and improved TIV Featured Post

If you're reading this, you're probably thinking, "Great, another idiot with a Ghost blog who is probably going to try to ask me for money. And this idiot isn't even a journalist or a real writer."

DAMN STRAIGHT!

I'm here to bleed your wallet dry—capitalism, baby; it's a game and there can only be one winner: me.

Okay, to be a little bit more serious... if you've enjoyed reading the links I've shared with commentary in the past, nothing will change. Not only that, I'm committed to getting back to more frequent link blogging as I've gotten some things

🔡 GT Era

design

Grilli Type

Our latest release transforms the warmth of 19th century grotesks into a 21st century tool.

The new typeface from GT is very, very nice; falling somewhere between GT Standard and GT Flaire in terms of that minimal approach and infusing it with some personality.

🐺 How to tell the difference between a lone wolf and a coordinated effort by the radical left

politics

McSweeney’s

If a Democrat calls Republicans “fascists,” he basically just signed their death warrants.

If a Republican calls Democrats “Marxists,” or “the enemy from within,” or “vermin,” or “human scum,” he’s just trying to fire up the crowd.

It really feels like we are living in some bizzaro upside world where where left is right and right is evil and moronic.

🇺🇸 DOJ deletes study showing domestic terrorists are most often right wing Featured Post

politics

404 Media

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025

If it quacks like a fascist and says “maybe Hitler had some good points”, it couldn’t actually be a fascist, could it..?

🤖 ChatGPT will guess your age and might require id for age verification

tech

404 Media

ChatGPT will now also apply different rules to teens who are using the chatbot.

ChatGPT used to be a far more restricted chatbot that would refuse to engage users on a wide variety of issues the company deemed dangerous or inappropriate. Competition from other models, especially locally hosted and so-called “uncensored” models, and a political shift to the right which sees many forms of content moderation as censorship, has caused OpenAI to loosen those restrictions.

Because, you know, why solve a problem and save lives when you need to stay competitive in our ruthless capitalistic society that cares more about

🤔 The Sunday Edition — 09.14.25

A young father with largely the same list of values was killed for having those values.

Oof… here are some of Charlie Kirk’s values in his own words. Not to mention the blatant intolerance of others of all walks of live, especially his anti-trans views. Hiding behind a book doesn’t stop one from being a deplorable person—Jesus fed the poor, while the people Kirk aligned himself with are calling for massive lethal injection of the homeless.

On the off chance this is the first time someone is reading me, I think Charlie’s death was wrong—even

Introducing the new and improved TIV Featured Post

🔡 GT Era

🐺 How to tell the difference between a lone wolf and a coordinated effort by the radical left

🇺🇸 DOJ deletes study showing domestic terrorists are most often right wing Featured Post

🤖 ChatGPT will guess your age and might require id for age verification

🤔 The Sunday Edition — 09.14.25

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