Notices by Dan Sinker (dansinker@omfg.town), page 3

Watching Peter Theil’s sputtering condemnation or reading the new United Healthcare CEO’s op-ed, it’s ASTOUNDING to me that even they are starting with “look, we know the system is bad and needs fixing.” This feels like a real, actual shift of the overton window on this. It took an assassination.

Now that Facebook, Amazon, OpenAI, and others have donated a million each to the Trump inauguration committee, let’s remember that the last Trump inauguration was a essentially a criminal enterprise with something like 10 different corruption investigations.

It took a murder to get this discussion on Good Morning America

Definitely think that there’s nothing more indicitive of the desperation of right now than throwing all your hopes behind a CEO killer.

This investigation of cops all over the place reselling tens of thousands of guns on the sly over YEARS in basically full knowledge of the feds who won’t prosecute should perhaps be a bigger story? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/

love my ancient ancestors for creating a body system to survive being eaten by a sabertooth cat just so I can stand in front of a screen shaking for no reason great work everyone

Surprising number of folks fell for the Enron joke

Quietly judging people who refer to it as X.

Maybe not so quietly.

doesn’t get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. https://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/

This Airheads in my kid’s Lunchable just got a gig as a NYT columnist.

Taylor’s analysis of how the right has built such a powerful, well-funded, multifaceted media ecosystem and how replicating that on the left is structurally impossible (or close to it) is very good. https://www.usermag.co/p/why-democrats-wont-build-their-own

Hey dudes, get that vasectomy.

Grieve.
Build.
Fight.

TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND SUBSCRIPTIONS CANCELLED HOLY SHIT. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

@powersoffour they should have made it a fundraiser so they could have started by saying TIME TO MAKE SOME CRAAYYYYZZEEE MONEY

Tim Walz bringing “jackwad” back is the thing to boost tbh.

Dear editors getting their op-eds banned. Just do this.

This might actually be the worst form on the internet. No basic data verification. Name, email and phone can be garbage. Address can be anything. No lockout after submit. It’s just… trash? I know this should not be surprising but also it’s sort of surprising. https://petition.theamericapac.org/

39 minutes of Trump awkwardly swaying to the world’s saddest songs is the funniest thing to happen to his campaign since Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

One of the long shadows of the pandemic is that nobody is given the space to grieve about anything ever.