Mega Patriot

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” -H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Steve Ballmer promoting Windows 1.0 in 1986

[Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes]

You mocked me from outside the cage

Then 24 hours inside one brought you to tears

I won't mock you. I know why you cried

I've lived in that darkness for 1,190 days

It didn't break me

It made me invincible

We aren't the same

Find God @Nero

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

The most consistent theme of conservatism is being completely unable/unwilling to understand how a thing is bad until it happens to you.

[Dope thrills @essa_muse]

Hunter S. Thompson refused to come to the studio.

The only way Conan could get him on the show was to meet him on a farm in upstate New York. To shoot guns. And drink hard liquor.

They set up a full bar in a field. A bartender in a tuxedo handed Hunter a shotgun he’d never fired. Then an M60. They blew apart stuffed animals and a Bill Buckner target while Conan tried to look like this was a normal interview.

Hunter howled. Conan looked like he might not make it home.

This is still the least talk-show interview ever done on a talk show.

Genius making Conan come to him, or just the most dangerous booking in late-night history?

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Somewhere out there someone really fucked up the timeline we're all on and whoever it was needs to suffer for their crimes against humanity. Whoever you are, shame on you.

[Shannon Joy @ShannonJoyRadio]

Canadian Geese RENAMED. They’re officially Donald Ducks.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws.

Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal. 

Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.

[DHH @dhh]

Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.

It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.

Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.

Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.

They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!

That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.

This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.

For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.

But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.

We can fix everything.

Let's do it together.

Let's go.

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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

"Reacher" star Alan Ritchson calls Trump a "f**king rapist" in a tirade about the Epstein files.

"That b*tch has the keys to the nuclear codes. He's, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail.”

[Lucy @lucygeog]

This week will be my 9th year at the @EsriUC …Here’s my UC must-do list (1/2)
1. Walk past every map in the map gallery!
2. Make a new friend and get lunch or a coffee during the conference
3. Get outside on breaks and at lunch to soak up the sunshine and fresh air
#EsriUC2026

[Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes]

The only way Candace Owens would believe Charlie Kirk was shot is if she pulled the trigger herself.

And even then she’d go home and record a three-hour podcast explaining why it was actually a psyop by Egyptian bees funded through a Mormon Mossad black project.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A startup in China packed roughly 1,000 Mac Mini M4 computers into a single data center to run AI workloads without paying ongoing cloud fees. The base Mac Mini M4 starts at $599 and draws just 10 to 30 watts under load, a fraction of the 300 to 500 watts a traditional GPU server pulls.

[L2-B2 @L2_B2]

En el segundo episodio de Yani Neko (Chainsmoker Cat/Gata Fumadora Empedernida) se hace una referencia a una escena de la película "Leon: El Profesional".

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

So this is why elon wanted to rush the IPO so bad... 🤔 China just did it cheaper on their first try. RIP 🔻

[roman @Nozelcode]

Un youtuber brasileño le acaba de clavar un puñal a la suscripción de Photoshop.

Se llama PhotoGIMP: un parche gratuito (GPL-3.0) que convierte GIMP en una copia idéntica de Photoshop.

Misma interfaz, mismos paneles, mismos atajos de teclado y muchísimo más espacio para tu lienzo. Tus manos ya saben usarlo sin aprender nada nuevo.

Por qué está explotando?
- $0 en vez de $276 al año
- Sin cuenta Adobe ni login
- Todo se guarda en tu PC (nada en la nube)
- Compatible con Windows, Mac y Linux
- Se desinstala borrando una carpeta (sin rastro)

Instalación ridículamente fácil: copias 9 archivos y listo. +8.8k estrellas en GitHub y traducciones de la comunidad.

Uso personal y comercial 100% gratuito.

Enlace abajo

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, this dude @JonathanPieNews thoroughly OBLITERATED trump, and it is glorious.

Definitely worth a watch.🔥🔥

[La China @ChinaNipona]

Disney nos vendió la misma animación durante años...

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[Catsuka @catsuka]

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)