cultural entrepreneur

tonight i am a republic of voices

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic to USMNT fans: “If you didn’t believe before, I will repeat. Start believing. They have the country behind them, and when you have this support, it’s difficult to beat you.”

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Welcome to the Reds, Andoni 👋

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

“Trump purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on Jan. 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China.”

Insider trading, corruption, treason. Where are the calls for impeachment?

[cultural entrepreneur @outoftownfranz]

efficiency should be a left wing virtue. if we want to help ppl our dollars need to go further

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do.

That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap.

Here’s some of what we found.

[Kieran Cunningham @KCsixtyseven]

Sally Rooney on Mo Salah.
From The Guardian in 2017.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Key point here: these AI companies need to be nationalized

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Tax cut for the superrich, war in the Middle East, bad economy, wild corruption, now the only thing Trump needs to repeat Bush entirely is a financial crisis.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Google stole all our data and gets mad when someone tries to return the favor.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Apple CEO Tim Cook is now calling for "de-escalation" in Minnesota.

Three months ago Apple removed an ICE tracking app to curry favor with Trump

Six months ago Trump exempted Apple from tariffs.

Corporate America is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

I still can’t believe we left Iraq without the oil.

[Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸 @ZephyrTeachout]

trying to wrap my head around thinking the extreme centralization of power over the production of culture and media is a small issue low on a long list

[Richard Yeselson @yeselson]

Hating Ezra Klein—as opposed to just disagreeing with him when you think he's wrong—is a weird, yet common pathology expressed by leftists here.

Like, I don't get it. Lots of leftists have had very illuminating interviews with him—he actually reads stuff, as Corey

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

I’ve been thinking about the “price of beer at Yankee stadium” debate and how it represents one of the sources of our current crisis—not the cost of beer, but the fact that any kind of change whatsoever, however small, is deemed impossible and irresponsible by centrists.

[cultural entrepreneur @outoftownfranz]

ChatGPT as a source is legendary for a politician who will otherwise be forgotten

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

CURTIS SLIWA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TOOL OF THE ZOHRAN MAMDANI CAMPAIGN TO SPLIT THE VOTE AND LET SOCIALISM HURT OUR CITY.

ChatGPT analysis of Sliwa’s last 100 social media posts indicating approximately how many times he attacked Cuomo vs Mamdani:

Combined approximate totals (Twitter + Instagram, last 100 each): Cuomo ≈ 28–48, Mamdani ≈ 9–19.

“Attacking” = post text (caption/tweet) that directly criticizes, insults, calls out, challenges, or urges action against the named person (Cuomo or Mamdani).

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

a group of literal oligarchs bewailing socialism at a gathering inside a kingdom ruled by an actual monarch is a bit too on the nose

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

Man it's so cool living in Brooklyn

Wanna go to NYC? 0 minutes
Wanna go to Philadelphia? No need

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

tell me with a straight face that he's wrong here
https://t.co/G68viyJ4Zs