Proud Papa, PhD

Public intellectual and thought thinker. I enjoy a good sacred cow roast.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@Ummietaa @grok Cut a potato - hold the cut part against the wart nightly for a few hours. Eventually it will be drawn out. Easy peasy.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@thehill Dude just wants to perform - he’s not in it for the political games - he’s just doing what performs should be doing. Performing.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@DisrespectedThe C’mon now. It’s “I love you” in sign language 🤟

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I don't even need to make campaign ads anymore. Karen and Nithya just keep making them for me.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@Ovniologia01 @3iAtlas

[kennethtanner @kennethtanner]

available for preorder everywhere

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@blueskypinit Every moment of this video was an increasingly rage-filled soul-crushing reminder of how utterly stupid we’ve become. I want off this rock.
#PlusSheFuckingSneezed

[kennethtanner @kennethtanner]

Grateful to announce that this is now on pre-sale at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at the Brazos Press platform. A long time coming but fairly soon it will be here. It’s what I’ve been trying to say in online spaces for a decade and more.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@TheFP

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

Fan or not, this is brilliant. Viral political marketing done well. Political campaigns have just been changed forever.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@thehill #schadenfreude

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@samueljrob 74-68 3:05 left

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@samueljrob 71-63 Det 4:30 left in 3rd

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is what local accountability looks like:

In Festus, Missouri, a town of about 14,000 people, the city council quietly approved a $6 billion Ai data center to be built on 360 acres just north of Highway 67.

Residents say they were never properly heard. Meetings were held in private. Documents were released too late. A week after the approval, the town held a regular election. Voter turnout jumped 129 percent.

Every single council member who had voted yes lost in a landslide. A 70-year-old first-time candidate beat an 8-year incumbent by 40 percentage points.

Now a recall petition is circulating to remove the mayor as well. The lawsuit against the city is already filed.

Has your local government ever been held accountable like this? 🔥

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1.

Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site.

When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The @WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible.

Explore 30 years of web history: https://t.co/26v2OOgRbq

#90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@justicecometh Genuine question - what’s with the different colorings of the cards? That’s a lot of yellow, and one quarter with no color at all.

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@CBSNews I guess it ends with them

[Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith]

@AP You know this isn’t news, right?

[Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange]

Everyone was afraid that alien disclosures would stop the world from operating normally!

Everyone’s like the government‘s probably lying and I got too much going on to care!

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Had I been invited to the lunch with King Charles, I would have brought along the copy of the Senate Manual that he was given during his 1970 visit to the Capitol, which he must have accidentally misplaced because I found it in a used book store for $20