TarikNaj

@tarikn.bsky.social

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Creator & writer at https://factualdispatch.beehiiv.com/, Tech SEO Consultant, and malevolent asshole (he/him). Previously @terrygotham on the bad site.

Fell for it again award, firing MAGA out of a launcher
The fall of Rome, but with "fell for it again."
Four books - two named communion, one by Bell Hooks and the other by JD Vance. And two named Appalachian Elegy and Hillbilly Elegy.
(French) Movie poster for behind enemy lines, staring Owen Wilson & Gene Hackman.
Gavin Newsom & The Smiler from Transmetropolitan, for no reason at all.
The smiler from Transmetropolitan, who Gavin Newsom looks more and more like every day.
The fall of Rome classic art piece (I think?), but with the fell for it again award.
Octopus pride rainbow
With you watch your husband get handsy with a single mom in leather pants, but you can't make him sleep on the couch cause he'll fuck that too.
A graph of interest in 69 vs 67 for everyone not under 18.
Cut on the dotted line to have progress
Quote from Man Stabbed: "What are you gonna do, stab me?"
Helldivers facing the hive Lord, basically a Kaiju in the starship troopers universe
Micah saying "what I want out of the next president is someone who thinks General Sherman didn't go far enough.
A screenshot of a Google search, asking "is it 2025" and Google's AI Overview being so wrong, SEO job security just extended by a few years.
Selling weed on Instagram, but with weird branding like "lolli" and "it's like taking an Edie"
Bluesky is an echo chamber, unlike twitter, truth social, parler, gab, rumble, Instagram, 8chan, Facebook, telegram, and the signal group chats where I spend all day discussing race science.
Trump, as seen by those who he has hurt, visual art that has been seen at a protest or two.
A political cartoon, in which MAGA supporters are being tortured in the style of the early Berserk anime. A whorl of people who fell for it again. Leopards Eating Faces, but an eclipse of suffering instead.
Berserk x Leopards Eating Faces Party. Typhoon of falling for it again.
A man finds himself before a giant demon. "You should not have come here human. Why do you cross through my domain?" "I was on my way to the kitchen for a snack and I got lost," The human replied. "You ended up in the 12th plane of torment on the way to your kitchen?" The demon asked. "I am not a clever man." The human replied.
Do I think Trump wants the payments system to become political? Absolutely. But Musk wants something far worse. In China, WeChat is a “super app” allowing citizens to call a cab, pay bills, shop for clothes, make group chats, and even get train/bus tickets. Musk has been pretty loud about wanting to turn Twitter into a domestic WeChat, but it would fail given how many choices Americans have. What if gov’t services and public digital infrastructure is politicized and degrades so much that all of us start using WeTwitX as it’s more reliable/less weaponized? That will be a dark, Idiocracy-infused day. Every transaction, every message, every rideshare, every Shein purchase. Flowing through Grok or whatever the X AI is called.
A chart showing the Top 10 Gen AI Use Cases in 2025, from a Harvard Business Review study. In the most worrying finding I've ever seen, Therapy/companionship is now the most popular & prominent use for AI. #2 is organizing, #3 is Finding purpose. Way over learning and generating code. What have we done.
A chart of the proposed tariff rate, compared to every other nation. All adult pants wearing countries top out around 1.6%. North Korea leads at 8.6%. our rate would be off the picture by the width of your phone.
This gulf is dedicated to the brave mujahedeen fighters of Afghanistan.
Here’s where I go off the rails. Do I think Trump wants the payments system to become political? Absolutely. But Musk wants something far worse. In China, WeChat is a “super app” allowing citizens to call a cab, pay bills, shop for clothes, make group chats, and even get train/bus tickets. Musk has been pretty loud about wanting to turn Twitter into a domestic WeChat, but it would fail given how many choices Americans have. What if gov’t services and public digital infrastructure is politicized and degrades so much that all of us start using WeTwitX as it’s more reliable/less weaponized? That will be a dark, Idiocracy-infused day. Every transaction, every message, every rideshare, every Shein purchase. Flowing through Grok or whatever the X AI is called.
Under Zuckerberg’s new “censorship”-free plan, Meta’s social networks will immediately fill up with hatred and harassment. Which will make a fertile ground for terrorism and extremism. Scams and spam will clog comments and direct messages. And illicit content, like non-consensual sexual material, will proliferate in private corners of networks like group messages and private Groups. Algorithms will mindlessly spread this slop, boosted by the loudest, dumbest, most reactionary users on the platform, helping it evolve and metastasize into darker, stickier social movements. And the network will effectively break down. But Meta is betting that the average user won’t care or notice. AI profiles will like their posts, comment on them, and even make content for them. A feedback loop of nonsense and violence. Our worst, unmoderated impulses, shared by algorithm and reaffirmed by AI. Where nothing has to be true and everything is popular. A world where if Meta does inspire conspiracy theories, race riots, or insurrections, no one will actually notice. Or, at the very least, be so divided on what happened that Meta doesn’t get blamed for it again. ~By Ryan Broderick
Elon writing slashfic about himself using his alias.
A picture in the style of Obama's Hope, but it says The Public Option, and the background is shades of yellow and orange instead of red and blue.
A photograph of the new York City skyline, during sunset. The reflection in the windows gives the buildings an orange glow playing off the gray sky and clouds.