Saturday, April 12, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Mass Games





Womp-womp, they DOGE'd the tariffs. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

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— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM








Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
















An unexamined side effect of encouraging every single American to be a hustle grindset small business owner is that a lot more Americans have now interacted with Chinese factories and know they're responsive and easy to work with.

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— Chris Person (@papapishu.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
















("He said he doesn’t know why he was shut out of city recovery planning, though it was 'possible' that the mayor’s office found him 'too aggressive.'")







("A spokesperson from the Chancellor’s Office said that its fraud detection and prevention has caught more suspected scammers than ever during the application process and stopped them there. However, even with that getting better, financial aid fraud is getting worse")







(Sites that game Google to try to grab traffic are in trouble because Google is trying to eliminate the need to click through search results) (But also this, "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said the company could eventually take a cut of sales ChatGPT helps facilitate")







Gonna take this opportunity to say that I can personally deliver no script for as little as 7 million, and I know some other writers who can do it for as little as five million.

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— Paul Tobin (@paultobin.bsky.social) April 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
("Prime Video signed up [the creator] to a megabucks exclusivity deal in 2019 worth $20 million a year, but since then it has produced no shows or films from [her]")







(Long article about how the business works and why the investigation into presumed cattle rustling has struggled. "Out in Montrose County, [the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office's administrative sergeant] is hoping the sheriff might let him purchase a horse to use for exploring the plateau once the snow melts. Any tire tracks will most likely be lost to moisture, any carcasses to predators or bugs. But Searcy figures he might come across a makeshift corral or some other sign. And maybe someone will talk.")







About as many people watched KRAVEN THE HUNTER on Netflix than THE ELECTRIC STATE on the same platform during their "debut streaming" week.

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) April 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(And since it was a Sony movie, it wasn't even available on the ad tier)



















Watching FP2 now, Fernando Alonso had a steering wheel issue and it came off while he was on track

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM








Bill Kennedy has to interrupt his review explanation to shoo away Julius Randle who videobombs him anyway πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM








Getty's went back into their archives and pulled more photos from this dance event! Can we match these dancers to the original photo? www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-... www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-... www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...

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— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) April 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
(Tracing the group photo from Kubrick's The Shining)















































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