In the 5-6 recessions I’ve lived through I don’t think I’ve ever seen a demand for a preemptive bailout

billionaires please keep fucking up your faces. if you're a billionaire and you're reading this: you look good - but you could look GREAT. just a few more surgeries. 10-20 probably

A newspaper willing to publish this is an appalling organization

One of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around re: dating is that in the dating world it’s considered a bonus if you “have passions” which is basically just a nicer way to say “are interested in anything, anything at all”.

It would be very funny if Mr Supergenius here actually pops the bubble

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Oh no

Some famous economists who were also once president of Harvard and Secretary of the Treasury and in their second marriage would rather ask a famous sex criminal for advice than go to therapy

thinking about this disguise George C. Scott dons in Hardcore and cracking up

People are constantly looking for shortcuts or One Simple Tricks that will allow them to be able to stop having to work on this stuff.

For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.

Not that this matters but “a form of life support” is a very odd phrase

Holiday compromise

A classic

Scanning the crowd at that Pope Leo film thing at the Vatican. Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett sure, but front row seat for Dario Argento 💥...

It’s a little funny that a part 3 of an incredibly stupid franchise is making more money this weekend than a bigger-budget higher-profile remake from a previously well-liked director and a new star

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A benefit/curse of social media is realizing that the vast majority of human beings are absolutely deranged

I’m thinking the Dems need to run on nothing less than remaking American democracy. End Citizens United, totally reform the corrupt and broken SCOTUS, a new voting rights act, ban gerrymandering everywhere. And give Trump figures who broke the law fair trials, and ban them from federal jobs.

Am I to understand that this person has “fans” and at some point was considered “popular” or “likeable”?

Abandoned a terrible sandwich

One thing I’m noticing re: the global media is that whereas in 2002-2003 the US govt ran a year-long PR campaign leading up to the predetermined invasion of Iraq, this time they’re barely trying to do such a thing with Venezuela and the media is already accepting it.

Train Dreams (’25, Bentley): Wants to be great but is merely good, will be the new favorite movie of many dads and granddads.

Lately when I go to the Egyptian Theater I find myself just getting aggravated as I arrive (because the new management is actively hostile to its customers).

I guess the logic is that the best time to purge your military is when your main potential adversary is also purging its military

Not beating my “he will not serve a full term” prediction

I was expecting a package today and USPS did the thing where they lie and say that today they couldn’t access the building/mailbox, a place they can get to every other day that isn’t a Sunday.

We didn’t get an aurora in Los Angeles but

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Hoarding pennies in order to sell them on Ebay down the road

there's a sense that conservatives want me to worry about which liberal elites might catch Epstein strays when in fact I am so married to this outcome that me and this outcome have a home in the suburbs and are expecting twins

Only a degenerate psychopath types like this (apologies to the degenerate psychopaths reading this).

With all due respect, I do not automatically follow accounts that follow me.

More plainly visible and dynamic than I have seen before

It Was Just an Accident (’25, Panahi): Another foreign film that will get an American remake.

OP (not Sam, the Katherine lady) is also confusing "are excellent at math" with "are rich"

Is everyone else getting three emails and a phone call every day from companies wanting me to either finish an online loan application or start one on the phone

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

Greta Lee’s agent knew they had to get her into as many projects as possible before the bubble popped

There really ought to be quotes: amid “rising tensions”.

“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’” @axios.com #Panem www.axios.com/local/washin...

There’s nothing wrong with people being so bad at their jobs that they forget how to make money.

At this point everybody should assume the health care market is going to implode at some point in the next three years and stock up on antibiotics or whatever.

Ghost Spy (2027): A spy who is a ghost spies on other ghosts.

Damn Joyce

Groucho Marx: “I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member.” Elon: [long druggy pause] Can I have your invitation

It’s not clear to me what the Senate bill means for CA legal weed products, but I would say that one thing you don’t do when you’re a regime trying to consolidate power is take away things that make the populace calm and sedate.

Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen