ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why is the day after Christmas called Boxing Day?
December 26, 2024
CHANGE: These large companies are funding Trump’s inauguration despite pledge to withhold support after Jan. 6. “People just really want to move forward and move on. The election results were very clear.”
LIGHTNING DEAL: imarku Non Stick Frying Pans, Frying Pan with Lid 2Pcs. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING (CLASSIC): Dreams Can Come True. “One of my clearest and fondest memories from the 2016 presidential election involved the few minutes leading up to the announcement that Donald Trump had won the state of Pennsylvania, and the next several minutes after that. The looks on the faces of the mainstream media talking heads are forever etched in my mind. They knew what the Trump victory in the Keystone State meant, and the sheer panic was delicious.”
“THE BEST PART IS NO PART”: The Musk-Led Manufacturing Revolution Nobody Is Talking About. “When most analysts discuss Tesla, they focus on new vehicles or the electric vehicle company’s advancements in autonomy. Yet, according to Launch i/o CEO Jeff Lutz, one of the most significant—and under-discussed—developments at Tesla is happening not in its design studios or on the road, but in its factories. Lutz, a former executive at Google and Motorola, argues that Tesla’s true innovation isn’t just the electric vehicles or robots it’s building, but how those products are being made. The company’s first-principles approach to manufacturing is a radical departure from the industry norm, focusing not just on cheap labor or existing models, but on rethinking the entire production process.”
Yes, that’s right, both Rogers — Kimball and Simon — are talking about Musk Derangement syndrome. Surely a sign that it’s a big thing.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
All communism is about destruction therefore all communism requires lies at all times. That’s why communists have been more obsessed with controlling information than anyone else in history. And it’s why our media is the devil.
Without lies, there is no communism. Anywhere. https://t.co/1DctSVmws7
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) December 24, 2024
AND YET THERE ARE STILL MORONS OUT THERE PROMOTING COMMUNISM:
Cuba runs out of sugar.https://t.co/U6VV1eNtGm
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 23, 2024
It’s not even, in Churchill’s words, the equal sharing of misery. The dictators and apparatchiks and nomenklatura — all of whom are invariably present in communist regimes — pretty much skip the misery. That part is reserved for the workers and peasants for whose benefits the regime allegedly exists.
Cuba is in fact a brutally exploitative slave state run by corrupt and incompetent slavers. And yet there are still some in America and elsewhere who pretend there’s something admirable about it, which in fact there never was.
BIG BROTHER BILL IS WATCHING YOU:
No greater nightmare. This is the window they want to break through into the house. Then they will own it and you'll be in the wilderness, being tracked by drones. https://t.co/ohQXtLh7Ms
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) December 26, 2024
Neither 1984 nor Brave New World were instruction manuals.
FROM BRADLEY THOMPSON: More on Revolutionary Constitutionalism.
OUT: TRUMP WILL POLITICIZE THE COURTS!!! In: White House Vetoes Bipartisan Bill to Create Needed Judgeships: It is apparently unacceptable that some of the new judges would be appointed by a Republican.
LIST: Nominees for the 2024 Tllman Award. Can I just say that he’s annoyed all the right people?
SO WE’RE NOT EVEN GOING TO BE ABLE TO TELL JOURNALISTS TO LEARN TO CODE SOON: A fascinating thread.
Absolutely nobody predicted this: AI Code is the new NoCode.
Honestly, I like talking to AI more than to human developers when building small apps. It understands me better, even with half-baked specs.
I've literally tested all AI builders I could find 😑
1/20 🧵 :
— John Rush (@johnrushx) December 24, 2024
FROM SARAH A. HOYT ON SALE FOR 99c:
Odd Magics
This is a very strange collection of fairytales, recast for modern life. In it the prize isn’t always to the fairest, the
magic is rarely to the strongest.
But lonely introverts do find love, women who never gave it a thought find themselves at the center of romance.
Doing what’s right will see you to the happily ever after.
And sometimes you have to kiss an accountant to find your prince.
I THINK HE’S SERIOUSLY OVERTHINKING THIS: The Secret Geopolitics Of The Netflix Christmas Movie Universe.
DON’T THROW AWAY YOUR C-PAP JUST YET: FDA approves first medication for obstructive sleep apnea — which also promotes weight loss.
THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT: Of Course NYT Mocks the Virgin Mary.
BYE-BYE BIDEN, BYE-BYE: Poll Shows Americans Are Hopeful For 2025, and the Reason Why Might Make You Smile.
THAT WAR WAS THE FIRST TRUE FORAY OF INTERNATIONALISM: Christmas in the trenches.
SOMEWHAT MORE THAN BIDEN/HARRIS RAISED: Here’s the Final Tally on How Much Money Trump Raised for Hurricane Victims.