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Eating out: When prose becomes poetry

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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741764/eating-out-when-prose-becomes-poetry/

Eating out: When prose becomes poetry https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741764/eating-out-when-prose-becomes-poetry/ #50FloridaRoad #bill #cape #cobb #english #GlenwoodBakeryMorningside #Italian #kassler #madeleine #mains #margherita #Mediterranean #MediterraneanCuisine #MiddleEastern #morningside #Parmesan #poet #vivek

how it started / how it's going, indian american grifters edition

#Vivek #vivekRamaswamy #DineshDSouza #fascism #uspol #racism #MAGA #2000mules #KashPatel #Desi #indian #indianAmericans #leopardseatingfaces #LeopardsAteMyFace

In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat”
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.

But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.

They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it.
“People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.

“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

Does Donald Trump surround himself with stupid people in order to look smart by comparison? Or is he only concerned with loyalty, and his sycophants simply tend to be of low intelligence? #trump #mtg #gaetz #vance #musk #vivek #rubio #giuliani #boebert #hegseth #mcmahon #noem #rfk #leavitt #burgum

On the last Friday of September 2023, #Elon #Musk dropped in about an hour late to a dinner party at the Silicon Valley mansion of the technology investor #Chamath #Palihapitiya.

Musk’s visit was meant to be discreet -- Still skittish about getting involved publicly in politics, he told the guests he had to be careful about supporting anyone in the Republican nomination fight.

And yet here he was
— joined by Claire Boucher, the singer known as #Grimes and the mother of three of his children
— at a $50,000-a-head dinner in honor of the presidential candidate #Vivek #Ramaswamy, who was running as an entrepreneur who would shake up the status quo.

As the night wore on, Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics, according to four people with knowledge of the conversation:
his visit that week to the U.S.-Mexico border;
the war in Ukraine;
his frustrations with government regulations hindering his rocket company, SpaceX;
and Mr. Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the federal bureaucracy.
Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge.

He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the key was gaining access to the company’s servers

Wouldn’t it be great, Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government?

Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, and he would make the government fit and trim.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

vivek just got fired from #DOGE. maybe there is a god after all.

#vivek #uspol #trump #Uspolitics #donaldtrump #VivekRamaswamy

Grab your popcorn. 🍿 And watch the MAGA Games:

"This was supposed to be the week of Squid Game 2, and Beast Games (if you have kids, you know).

But who knew that an unscheduled breakout of MAGA Games would rival them?"

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/the-maga-games-continue

#ElonMusk #Musk #Vivek #MAGA #Trump #GOP #Politics #Twitter #USPol

Cracks appear in future Trump admin over foreign worker visas
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv7gxp02yo
#Vivek

So, none of you caught on that when #Elon and #Vivek were talking about "Americans" not being qualified enough for Tech Positions, they are saying, only the #DEI people you hated were qualified. And now, you're not getting the job either.

MAGA got took it with no Vaseline.
#techbros

Elon Musk’s DOGE partner #Vivek #Ramaswamy says they’ll scrutinize Biden's proposed $6.6 billion loan to Tesla rival Rivian
https://fortune.com/2024/11/29/vivek-ramaswamy-elon-musk-doge-tesla-rivian-biden-federal-government-loan-trump/

pssst.. #Elon and #Vivek are #Dogebags

Dogecoin futures open interest hits all-time high — Is it a top signal for DOGE? - The DOGE price top could be in, despite constant endorsements from Elon ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/dogecoin-futures-open-interest-hits-all-time-high-is-it-a-top-signal-for-doge #leverage #dinosaur #markets #futures #funding #stellar #vivek #trump #musk #xlm #xrp #ada

At this point, if the #SEC and the Office of Government Ethics are not conducting investigations, they are complicit in this speculation. It’s likely that #Vivek was the intended choice for this position, but #Elon Musk might have asked for this small favor to put his name on #doge after contributing $190 million to the election.
#elonmusk #dogecoin #trump

So the Department of Government Efficecy #DOGE which #ElonMusk came up with while simping for the #Trump, is going to be a real thing and he's going to co-lead it with #Vivek Ramaswamy.

Too the moon baby...

I fucking hate it here. But ride the dragon!

Trump taps Musk, Ramaswamy to oversee ‘drastic’ changes to U.S. government

Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is appointing #Elon #Musk and #Vivek #Ramaswamy to lead a new commission on cutting government spending and regulation,
handing an enormous portfolio to the billionaire who gave political and financial support to his presidential bid.

In a statement, Trump said that Musk and Ramaswamy would be leading the
♦️ “Department of Government Efficiency,”
an idea championed by Musk.

🆘 Trump said the department would operate outside of government,

while partnering with the White House and its budget office to provide recommendations for overhauling federal operations.

Musk has adopted the nickname “#DOGE” for the commission,
a reference to a meme-based cryptocurrency he also touted.

During the campaign, Musk called for the commission to find $2 trillion in cuts to the federal budget
— a goal even some conservative budget analysts have panned as “absolutely absurd.”


While details remain vague, the commission could have major repercussions for the operations of the U.S. government and millions of federal workers.

Republicans are poised to control both branches of Congress as well as the White House, giving the GOP an opportunity to pass into law an array of regulatory and spending changes.

Musk’s elevation to lead the commission comes despite concerns about his array of personal business interests with the federal government.

His companies in the auto and space industries have grown through government contracts and subsidies,
and he has long criticized government regulation of his firms.

Musk has emerged as a key Trump ally during the presidential election, donating more than $118 million to Trump’s campaign.


Ramaswamy rose to prominence as a candidate in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.

During that campaign, he embraced extreme cuts to the federal government
— at one point calling for reducing the workforce by more than 75 percent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/12/elon-musk-trump-doge-vivek-ramaswamy/

I’m lowkey still salty that we have too many old racist boomers around to allow #Vivek to win anything anytime soon. He was by far the best candidate this time around.

I’m really looking forward to the political landscape in the #USA post #Trump once all his old #MAGA base dies of old age.

RT: https://qoto.org/users/freemo/statuses/113311592171140703