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Chicago train rider: "I'ma kiII whites. I got out 2 days ago. I finna kiIl for real."

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

Mack Bolan: The Executioner slow-walked so Frank Castle: The Punisher could run.

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

A robot in China just smashed some dishes started dancing instead of working 😂

Peter Thiel on how the psychedelics revolution changed introspection: “We stopped going to outer space because we started going to inner space.” “We landed on the Moon in July, 1969.” “Three weeks later, Woodstock started— and that’s when the hippies took over the country.”

No community needs to allow this. Miami Beach used to be infamous for chaotic and violent spring break crowds, but they've shut it down in recent years by: charging $100 for non-resident parking on peak weekends, putting license plate readers & DUI checkpoints on the causeways, sharing videos of how the police detain unruly visitors and arrest people in stolen vehicles, and publicly communicating in no uncertain terms that this chaos will not be tolerated.