Steve Olson

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Ad guy. potato influencer. whiskey & cephalopod obsessed. expat minnesotan.

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For some reason Kardashev never envisioned a civilization that could harness all of the sunlight that falls on their planet but uses most of it to create pictures of extremely busty ladies with three knees and fourteen fingers.

"can we harvest the sun faster than we can make computers squander all that energy" is a short summary of the 21st century

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I don’t know why it’s hard for so many people to believe that Columbia’s Jewish students (and esp visibly Jewish/pro-Israel students) could be experiencing harassment at the same time that pro-Palestinian protesters are experiencing harassment but… I believe many people can be simultaneously harmed!

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We progressed from "students are apprentice learners" to "students are customers" to "students are enemies of the state" pretty quickly

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Now, the cybertruck’s looks might be polarizing, I’ll give you that. But one the other hand, it’s also a colossal piece of shit deathtrap

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AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

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what is up with the tech bros and not reading books what is up with that

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damn, got ‘em

I mean, bacon is exempt, we’re not COMPLETE savages…

richest nation on earth in all of human history

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Lots of Overnight Constitutional Law Experts on here suddenly confident in their ability to second-guess the Supreme Court and adjudicate the actually quite subtle and contested question of [checks notes] Whether Texas can have its own Foreign Policy uh wait a sec what the fuck

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is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?

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Two tidbits: -The father suing says his daughters have never tried and have no intention of trying to get contraceptives from a title x clinic, but somehow the case still has standing -his lawyer is the architect of SB 8–texas' abortion ban

The 5th Circuit grants a Texas father the right to deny his daughter access to birth control, holding that Title X does not override parents' "right to consent to their teenagers’ obtaining contraceptives" under state law. (via @mjsdc.bsky.social) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Every major tech innovation of the past 15 years is just, what if we paid people less money

If the baba yaga does not need real guns, no one does. Granted, he once killed a guy with a pencil… but you know.

And it's not like real firearms need to be anywhere near a movie set. All four John Wick movies, for instance.

John Wick Director: No Movie Should Use Real Guns on Setwww.pastemagazine.com The John Wick series is of course entirely filled with firearms, all of them fake.

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That Katie Britt lied about rape to mobilize violence against migrants makes it even more similar to the way racists used rape scares to encourage lynching of Black men in the 20th century. We can't just laugh this off as a lie - its a very deliberate strategy.

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It's so funny how miserable a guy with $100bn is. With the ability to do literally anything a human being can do, Elon chooses to spend every day online getting mad and responding 🤣 to right wing guys who look like Beebop and Rocksteady

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Just turning the country into little fascist fiefdoms, one state at a time

Monstrous: Arizona bill would make shooting and killing migrants on property legal www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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To all cast iron pan users. Be free. www.foodandwine.com/lifestyle/ki...

Don't Be Weird About Cast Ironwww.foodandwine.com The second you say you're cooking with cast-iron, people will swoop in with unsolicited advice about seasoning your cast-iron skillet, if you can use soap, what the best cleaning method is for cast ir...

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I genuinely appreciate when MAGA tells us who thry are and what their agenda is. First IVF and now overthrowing democracy. Most Americans do not want this future so I'm glad they're getting it straight from MAGA'S mouth. www.rawstory.com/jack-posobie...

Right-wing host wants overthrow of democracy: ‘We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6’www.rawstory.com Jack Posobiec, a right-wing host and activist, told a group of conservatives that their goal should be overthrowing democracy because they didn't get the job done on Jan. 6, 2021. At a Wednesday Conse...

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In 2021, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that he had data showing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he must pay a 64-year-old from Nevada that award, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Mike Lindell must pay man $5M in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge, judge sayswww.washingtonpost.com Robert Zeidman entered Mike Lindell’s 2021 “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge after the MyPillow CEO claimed he had data proving 2020 election interference.

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hot take here, no one wants to hear an 80 year old man talk about sex, but pop culture is absolutely failing us by not lampooning these would-be grand inquisitors as profoundly uncool fucking twerps.

The dumbass who only telegraphs his arguments in public is telegraphing them again, they’re coming for birth control

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orson welles would have fucking dominated Hot Ones

happy tuesday everyone, saddle up those brain worms and get ready for the parade let me see what you’re workin with

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The enshittification of therapy mentalhealthmatch.com/articles/for...

To be fair, the folks who think AI will replace novels and films are the same ones who fall in love with their chatbot. I don’t think emotional intelligence is in their wheelhouse.

Do... do... these dudes know what goes into (a) making a movie or (b) telling a compelling story? Because holy shit.

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more and more people every day are learning about pedocon theory and how it explains american politics

You check out any right wing weirdo who calls everyone a pedophile and you are in for the opposite of a surprise

In my experience, mushrooms are not a productivity enhancer. Quite the opposite. Obviously, YMMV.

are all rich people just high all the time now www.wsj.com/style/microd...

The Working Woman’s Newest Life Hack: Magic Mushroomswww.wsj.com For a select group of moms in high-powered jobs, psilocybin has become the answer to a packed social and professional calendar with no time for hangovers.

Area dog enjoying some very exciting Angeball and last minute heroics from the lads. #coys

Dumb question, but is there no way to release fi vs m lms like this or batwoman directly into the public domain such that it’s still a huge write off for the company? Auction it for charity or something?

Looney Tunes Movie Coyote vs Acme Expected to Be Destroyed Forevercomicbook.com The feel-good story of a cancelled movie being saved? Well, it seems like that's not happening.

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Tell me how it fixes *anything* Tell me the one concrete, real world good that comes from leftist voters sitting out the election A single thing. Go.