It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump,” but this is no ordinary picdump. This one is made of a record-breaking 750 videos, memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week, which includes a lot of Jack Smith / Eric Shmitt stuff. Read, and share these far and wide!
How many kids did DOGE kill? Elon says “zero”, but he has this “tell” that gives him away when he lies: words come out of his mouth.
Adam Conover gets people who are good at math to do the math, and the number isn’t zero, or in the tens, hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. It’s higher.
Want to know more? The Banker, a part of the Financial Times network has this story.
I also subscribe to the Barry’s Economics YouTube channel, and this piece of his on your own influence ripples out farther than you might think:
If you’re looking for something to watch in a theatre, go and catch Forgotten Island, which was woefully under-promoted by DreamWorks, and is actually quite good!
Here’s an explainer of the Filipino culture and mythology in the film:
This one’s given me a lot to ponder, seeing as I’m both a software developer heavily immersed in the AI world and a musician:
Hogwarts meets hog warts.
Canada still wants America as a friend, unreliable as it is. But tell me: have you had a friend like that? I have, and I now keep them at arm’s length and take a more pragmatic, almost Macchiavellian approach with such fair-weather friends:
A very telling thing about the way women are viewed, even in the modern age:
