Andrew Barker
@barkerrant
Echo chamber enjoyer
Ironic that the solitary mention in the piece comes from this quote, about Asian hate crimes being ignored. The article never touches on it again.
I honestly wasn’t worried about AI replacing me until I learned it could also accomplish tasks like “got confused uploading files to Google Drive” and “gave up and downplayed its failure.” Probably faster than me too.
We’re all kind of numb to it by now, but it remains remarkable that the man running both of these trillion-dollar companies with around 150,000 combined employees is currently spending his time pledging to make an AI-slop Odyssey movie with no black people in it.
Considering that the DA seems embarrassed to have to issue a press release about it, I would say probably not.
They had it pretty spot-on in the moment. Crazy to soften it into mush the morning after.
One of the most consequential political developments of the last five years: the people represented by the blue line on this graph becoming convinced that their wealth and power were on the decline.
I will never understand the NYT copy desk. The story itself is fine — reporter did her job well. But then they give it a headline that weirdly downplays what happened, and a deck that drops in a detail which, absent the context it gets in the full story, almost seems to suggest he deserved it.
I know everyone kinda decided years ago that there’s nothing to be gained by engaging with his posts. And maybe that’s true. But it’s wild that the President of the United States appears to have regular psychotic episodes online, and his opposition rarely even mentions it. These are all from *today*
I’d really like Apple to explain why they thought this was a top news story for me, specifically.
A legit municipal campaign! Local news reporters were wearing the shirts and everything.
The city right next to me just killed a big data center project in town. An account of the city council meeting where it happened includes this detail:
Jumping through Eras Tour-style hoops to buy Slayer tickets feels morally wrong, somehow.
This is a great thread, and I’m trying not to take it personally how this describes my band almost exactly. (Minus the “made a little bit of a splash” part.)
This is very good, and Exhibit No. 4080 on why allowing the trending tab on social media platforms to dictate your coverage is a terrible idea.
The Blankie Incident is getting all the attention, but Lewandowski’s campaign to get a gun and a phony badge is quite a thing.
Put on any track from any of these three albums, and I am immediately transported to my freshman year dorm room, having just bought an eighth and decided to skip my afternoon classes.
Basically, one of the biggest divisions in American life right now is whether you think the people in the picture on the left or the people in the picture on the right are a greater menace to public safety.
In the 2010s Inter Milan replaced their great Brazilian RB Maicon with another Brazilian RB named Jonathan who wasn’t any good but looked kinda like Maicon if you squinted right. Fans started making signs depicting him as a messianic figure — “I belong to Jonathan” — and slowly forgot it was a joke.
From Morgan Stanley analysis of Tesla earnings, Jan 2025. Has aged quite well.