Mark Zuckerberg continued his wild, whimsical evolution from ‘alien lifeform attempting to learn English’ to ‘jacked, terminally chill tech God’ this week, with an incredible Instagram update: “Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife,” he posted to his platform, then shared a picture of the giant statue he had commissioned of Priscilla Chan, his empress, who casually accepted the gift in her pajamas. It was a gesture reminiscent of the statue Bezos had adorned to the prow of his yacht, clearly fashioned after his wife Lauren Sánchez, and further indicated we are entering an era of increasingly competent, if deeply eccentric billionaires. Thank God. At this point, the state is basically a zombie. I’m ready for the tech ascendance. Do a 500 ft. Musk Colossus next, just also give me high-speed rail and prisons absolutely packed with all the criminals. I’m ready for the new dawn.

Yesterday, Bloomberg’s Dave Lee unveiled his latest brilliant opinion piece: “Musk’s X Reeks of Failing Social Network Syndrome,” a strained reference to the “Failing Restaurant Syndrome” coined by late liberal paladin Anthony Bourdain. Highlights from the piece include general horse beating on X’s declining ad revenue and litigation issues, backlinks to NYT articles to substantiate those claims, dismissal of the Trump space cyberattack because it “was quickly debunked by The Verge,” and the final, unequivocal nail in the coffin: X’s user base is in decline because “several prominent football journalists and blogs have migrated to Threads.” This whole “[insert-thing-we-don’t-like] is over” angle is not a new tactic. They’ve done it for everything from Christianity to Burning Man. Why? Because whether it’s Bloomberg, Bourdain, or journalists bloviating about desert drug festivals… none of these people are interesting, and they just want all the things that are to die.

A federal judge ruled UCLA must allow equal access to campus for Jewish students after several alleged they were blocked from certain areas by pro-Palestinian protestors. While I’m not exactly sure why we needed a new court ruling to tell us “banning people from the student lounge because of their race or religion is a bad thing” in the year 2024, I’m totally here for the budding, common sense revolution boiling over in the state of California. The governor telling us homeless encampments suck? Judges ruling jew blockades on public property have to go? Sure, these are baby steps, but a man can dream about the state’s restoration. Look away, Austin and Miami — Cali is only a few epiphanies away from realizing crime should be illegal, and if you want a bunch of tax revenue for wasteful grifty social programs you can’t literally burn down all the tax-generating businesses.

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