Geoff Geoff

Existential Nihilist and Disillusioned Curmudgeon without a party. Enthusiast of the absurd. My favorite ice cream is rainbow sherbet.

[Geoff Geoff @EnterTheSwett]

If you're part of the "everyone in America should have a gun" crowd, I'm just going to assume it's because you dream of random movie-style shootouts being a part of everyday life where the "good guy with the gun" actually saves the day and that's a serious red flag.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

If you’re fine with mass surveillance because you’re “not doing anything wrong,” just wait until they redefine what “wrong” means.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

[★☭MassStrikeNow☭★ @strike_dr]

Alien Predators are more human than IDF

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Evan @daviddunn177]

This is the most accurate anyone has ever described Elon Musk.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This is a great way to handle the Flock Camera issue.
We all should use this speech at our own city council and say we have decided to join Shepard safety 😁

[your mom @____rehtaeh]

It's so weird being raised by Christians, and spending your entire childhood being told to care about others…then one day they're just like you're not actually supposed to care about others, you stupid Marxist libtard socialist.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

This amazing website, called "Worse on Purpose," is cataloguing all the ways companies are deliberately and secretively degrading their own products

As usual, in most cases the culprit is private equity extracting enormous sums while everyone else is left worse off.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

LMAO there’s a guy directly behind Trump mocking him

[Man City Brazil @ManCityBrazil]

O comentarista suíço David Lemos, encerrou a transmissão resumindo com precisão os problemas desta Copa do Mundo, ele foi perfeito.

🗣️"Não há dúvidas de que esta foi a Copa do Mundo mais comercial da história e também uma das mais politizadas."

"Não esqueceremos os preços que pessoas sem grande poder aquisitivo tiveram de pagar para viver sua paixão pelo futebol."

"Em alguns casos, sequer puderam entrar no país por causa de sua nacionalidade, fossem torcedores, jornalistas ou até árbitros, como o somali Omar Artan."

"Também lembramos do tratamento inaceitável dado à seleção do Irã, que não pôde defender suas chances de forma adequada durante o torneio."

"E há ainda o caso de Folarin Balogun. Vimos um presidente se vangloriar de ter ligado para o presidente da FIFA para conseguir retirar a suspensão de um jogador."

"A política se infiltrou no coração do futebol, embora a FIFA afirme querer mantê-la acima de tudo. Fica claro que isso só vale até certo ponto."

"Foi uma Copa do Mundo em que todas as partidas foram disputadas em quatro tempos, e cuja final teve um intervalo de quase 30 minutos."

"A crise tem dois nomes: dinheiro e poder. Hoje existe uma crise de confiança entre muitos dos envolvidos no futebol e a FIFA."

"Nas próximas semanas, muito dinheiro será distribuído a diversas federações e a muitos agentes do futebol, que serão educadamente convidados a permanecer em silêncio."

"Esperamos que tudo isso seja levado em consideração e que não volte a acontecer."

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is WILD

American went to a parking garage in Detroit with a friend. They leave the parking garage and the friend who drove didn’t pay

That parking garage somehow automatically identified her by her phone, charged her card and texted her a receipt with the make, model and license plate of her friends vehicle

Again she didn’t drive, she didn’t interact with any machines, the parking garage was able to just identify her and charge her because she had her cell phone with her

This is real

The building was the Fisher Building garage in Detroit. It’s a shopping area

It’s a modern automated parking management system on Metropolis Parking’s platform that has License Plate Recognition cameras combined with phone-linked accounts and stored payment details

Because this woman had been there before and paid, the system saved her data, recognized her by her phones signal and automatically charged her with a previous payment method

Technology is going way too far

[🫶🏼💖 @SunshinesDeluxe]

Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

The real victims are the innocent animals who have no control over how humans have treated their planet and then have to suffer the consequences. What a fucking soul-crushing video.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

In the United States, roughly 30% to 40% of the entire food supply goes uneaten

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years.

If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously.

If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work.

You aren't making "poor financial decisions."

Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence.

They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The reason "Everything is a Subscription" is because the elites realized that if you "own" things, you are dangerous. If you own your house, your car, and your tools, you can say "No." If you rent your life, you have to say "Yes" to everything.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

This statement from Liam Cunningham depicts the real conditions in Gaza.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

The funniest thing about this racist post is that it accidentally started one of the most uplifting trends on X.

Thousands of women over 38 posting gorgeous photos of themselves, celebrating life, confidence and ageing.

Hate tried to divide people.
Women turned it into a celebration. ❤️

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

A lot of people are asking “why hide McConnell’s state? Not like a Dem would win the special election?”

If McConnell vacated before August 3rd cut off it’d be a special election and any one can register as an independent…

Including Massie.

Which would split the Republican vote, giving him or maybe even the Dem the chance at the plurality.

But, if McConnell’s seat is not vacated before the 3rd by legally stepping down or a signed death certificate, then it’s too close to the next election and rules prevent a special election which bars any new registrations at this point.

With McConnell’s wife having travelled to China AFTER he was hospitalized, the next of kin isn’t available to sign off and so the bar for ending life support is extremely high (would require full brain stem death, which is not present in some patients who are never coming back)

So all they have to do is drag their feet until August 3rd, then tell you that he didn’t make it.

And in turn block Massie from disrupting an otherwise safe Republican seat.

Just like that fucking old turtle would have wanted.