I’m not gonna share but if that’s not extrajudicial murder then I’m not sure the term has meaning.

Way down the list on how insane and evil this is, but... just a point of con law trivia, I guess: the president doesn't have the power to annex territory. Like, even assuming we militarily occupied it. Just on the domestic law angle, it still wouldn't be "part of the US" w/o Congress saying so.

I have a rotation of 90s TV I keep on in the background when I'm writing, sometimes you'll hear some anachronistic tech talk that makes you chuckle. The kid in the show brags about his new PC, and I ran the numbers... there's 750x more RAM in my pocket.

Every time I think I’ve imagined how bad things can get reality reminds me how shortsighted I am.

It’s super bad! A lot of lawsuits are gonna be filed!

Venezuela's oil reserves are gonna take a long time to develop, but cutting off Cuban oil imports and pushing that country further into crisis can be done with the stroke of a pen. Just a thought.

Leftists 20 years ago: it’s bad to invade a sovereign country for flimsy reasons and no plan to avoid monstrous ramifications Leftists today: it’s bad to invade a sovereign country for flimsy reasons and no plan to avoid monstrous ramifications It’s like they don’t even see their hypocrisy 🙄🙄🙄

Pretty sure this was a plot point in Mountainhead.

Yeah I’m not so convinced this is gonna go the way the administration thinks it’s gonna go.

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

He was gonna say Pearl Harbor he was totally gonna say Pearl Harbor.

Reminder: there are several balls in the air.

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

If I were a political leader from a country whose sovereignty had been repeatedly threatened for over a year by an autocrat who falsely maintains we are a source of illicit drug trading, I simply wouldn't be cheering for an illegal military strike made by the same regime.

Congressman, I'm really glad you weren't there when I got mauled by the neighbor's out of control dog as a child. Also, you're the owner of the rabid dog here! The rabid dog leads the government of which you are a part!

First first watch of ‘26. Let’s go.

Rangers/Panthers Winter Classic in Miami… just call it the Billy Joel Bowl and move on.

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

This felt... deeply uncomfortable to read. Maybe it's the absence of words like "truth", "facts", "evidence", "reporting", or "journalism".

Calling it now: this is the coolest thing I'll see today.

I was one of my lawyer’s first calls of the year this morning. I asked if he’d seen this, if he could gut check my immediate reaction: This going to trigger a LOT of slam-dunk class action suits. His response: Thousands. If you’re a victim of Grok, get screenshots and call a lawyer. Seriously.

Not to get all faux economics professor about this, but an object lesson of the past year or two is that when labor (players) isn’t artificially restricted in its movement, the apparent value of management (coaches) is diminished.

Gonna need a lot more of this energy going into the Olympics.

Hey I don't think you should use a website that generates CSAM on demand

The scale at which this is happening will become difficult to ignore. They made a one-touch deepfake softcore machine that can be applied to anyone whose photo is uploaded to the platform. The harm this can (and likely will) do seems incomprehensible in scope.

Rob Reiner laughs at this man in Heaven.

Taking this as a good omen for 2026

Retrontario's annual WTV rebroadcast is my Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO_K...

Something about how most gamers don't care if there's AI in the stuff they're playing. Wasn't calling it a good thing, just calling it as I saw it.

$100M is substantially more than WBD spent to promote a new Superman movie in the US this summer.

There are plenty of legitimate ways to assess fraud. That was not Shirley’s purpose. He wanted to impose terror and loss on this community. So did Trump. And that is what is happening right now.

Films have been made with worse setups.

A 27-point swing from ‘24 doesn’t give you everything, but it gives you a hell of a lot.

I’ve got a modest corpus of writing over the past 25 years, I don’t think it’s worth much but if you’re building an everything machine, I suppose you’d want to have my stuff. It exists, after all. If Meta asked for my number, I’d give them a sensible one. But they never did that, did they?

“Your dead grandma wants to hang on to you forever” is like 98% of the plot in Weapons. Gonna take a pass on that.

I'm not immune to the occasional bout of Poster's Madness but I try to live my online life in ways that present fewer potential portals to that outcome, because getting mad at strangers is one of the worst things you can do for your mental health and quality of life

I googled "Current SNL Cast" and was presented with 8 headshots, 6 of whom aren't current castmembers. The other two were Kenan (which I'm disinclined to give credit for, feels like cheating) plus Jost (and is he really a castmember?).

I never list Led Zeppelin among my favourite bands, but my God they've got so many bangers.

Focusing blame for the negative impacts of Trump on the Arab community of Dearborn when, even if MI had gone blue, Harris would’ve lost the election… is a choice.

The amount of fun I’m going to have with a precise induction cooktop. Whoa Nelly.

Again I say that we gotta find a way to make this specific thing turbo illegal

A crystal clear cinematic thesis with which I couldn’t agree more. God bless ya, @rianjohnson.bsky.social

100% honest, not just saying it for the bit: both The Onion and Sabrina Carpenter have near equal influence on my understanding of pop culture, and the amount of that influence is a lot.

🎵 Here we are as in olden days 🎵 Happy Honda Days of yore 🎵 Those in winter in need of cars 🎵 Get low APR 🎵 Accords

This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

This never gets old.

“You will behold me and fucking despair.”