A *BILLION*?! They are just letting children doodle Rob Liefeld weapons and submit them as “proposals.”

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Fell for sharing an AI reel on IG because it was all about how much AI sucks, oh I’m mad.

That's because they are in tension with one another. The people who want smartphone bans are teachers and parents. The people who want AI education are politicians and tech bros.

I’ve said this before but the opening night sold out screening I went to is one of my fav theater experiences bc I’ve been in plenty of movies that alienated ppl (esp at fests) but I’ve never felt an *entire room* turn feral against a movie en masse. One of the wildest atmospheres I’ve ever felt.

You’d think it wouldn’t be possible for WWE to be run more cynically and exploitatively by someone other than Vince McMahon but TKO is mixing carny mindset with McKinsey mindset

I made a lemon pepper chickpea recipe that turned out kinda bland despite me increasing the garlic/shallot quantities just based on knowing who I am. But then I remembered I have Lao Gan Ma.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Rewatched Johnny Guitar yesterday and so many shots are just still floating around my mind. I’ve always said that the studio era and even silent westerns were as revisionist as the post-Leones but truly no other movie is like this. Truffaut nailed it when he called it a Beauty and the Beast dream

The Dark Horse comics are the best thing to come out of it.

Not like I expect anything good in the long term but I’m honestly shocked SCOTUS restored mifepristone access at all.

Devens is the best kind of self-aware player, not merely a superfan who talks about himself in relation to prior players but someone who understands that the goal should be to make great tv while also playing smartly. He’s simultaneously chaotic and able to calmly observe how everyone else unspools

I’d never listened to one of Larry Heard’s LPs so I put this one on and was transported. Hard to call a two-hour extravaganza a “distillation” but it really does synthesize everything he’s great at while also doing things I’ve never heard on his singles alleviatedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mr-fin...

Even the deepest red areas in the country are running data center contractors out of town on a rail but Dems are happy to keep taking controlled opposition money from a sector that is 100% behind the republican neo-feudal project. Complete fucking swine

this guy wrote a book about how the civil rights movement was bad and made it so black people had it too good

the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood

The Pitt is becoming the repository of the worst fandom psychosis since Rick and Morty is depressing as hell

Ernest Dickerson is one of the only American filmmakers I've come across who is so clearly inspired by Mario Bava's expressive usage of color & because of this he is one of the greatest horror filmmakers of his generation & one of the best cinematographers.

This is the part I like: “To recover the funds, nearly all of Noel’s assets were ordered sold at auctions. Among the items on the block, dozens of his personal items, guns, custom suits, watches, old police cruisers and luxury vehicles.” I wish this on every criminal billionaire. Take EVERYTHING.

Jordan Peterson: when young men see Fred and Barney sliding down a brontosaur’s neck, they realize what’s been taken from them by (choking up) by these Marxists Joe Rogan: they’ve never even had a yabba doo time Peterson, tears openly falling now: not even once

“Is Pepsi ok?”

I had absolutely no idea this was being released (baffling to not release it under its original title when the only people on earth who know about this movie at all know it as Dangerous Encounters)

The GA governor race ads may actually kill me. Rick Jackson is running some of the most demented ads I’ve ever seen, basically Hillbilly Elegy inspirational resentment where he mentions being abandoned by his father and growing up poor, then instantly pivoting to tax cuts and racism.

That scene in Brazil where Pryce goes to visit Michael Palin’s torturer and he sees a secretary pleasantly humming to herself doing steno for what’s going on in Palin’s office and she pulls off her headphones and you hear bloodcurdling screams is basically me listening to metal while working.

Yall already know youtu.be/4rqZZgVxnCk?...

Really I think WWE’s last truly great arc, and all of it ran counter to the company’s wishes. Danielson is the best for so many reasons but throwing himself into leaving the company no option but to put the belt on Kofi is better even than his own Mania moment.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

It's been long enough that I can post this link again: The Heat Warps, a repository of Miles Davis live recordings from his electric era (1969-75), full of some of the most essential and *alive* music any band has ever recorded theheatwarps.com

seems like good time to drop any available resources to support our comrades in various states having their bodily autonomy fucked with www.plancpills.org

Between Prince’s takedown notice trigger finger and the Chappelle’s Show ep, I was genuinely the only millennial in my friend group who seemed to even know who he really was. The reason I made those playlists I posted the other day was to show my friends his genius.

Difficult to overstate the long term harm of the 2000s wave of prominent atheists all being racist, misogynistic freaks who seemed to think the problem with religion was giving some kind of woo-woo permission structure to be a bigot vs “evolutionary” reasons to be one

BREAKING: The American South has invaded the UK

Thunderball is stunningly dull. Sluggish underwater movements and editing that suggests Connery was only on set for like a week and they just had to make it seem like he was there.

Only I could be hyped by 4K releases of The War Game and Threads. Gonna be depressed in the highest possible fidelity.

The funniest thing in Purple Rain is always the juxtaposition of the crowds at First Ave consistently going ape for Prince while the promoter just shakes his head and is like “The Kid is losing me business! No one wants his daring blend of funk, soul, and hard rock!”

Top 15 shows. US only for my sanity: Simpsons Sopranos Twin Peaks Mad Men Arrested Development Survivor Deadwood Roseanne Batman TAS DS9 Rocko’s Modern Life Seinfeld Eastbound and Down Batman ‘66 Mr. Show

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

We do not concede the south, the birthplace & continued lifeblood of the Black American experience, to people who hate us. We do not throw in the towel. Black people have every right to be southerners & very much are no matter who likes it.

Dads and uncles all over America will be striding up to the box office with families in tow and loudly saying “yeah, uh, 3 for Gogurt?”

Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Burial - Ashtray Wasp Martha and the Vandellas - Heat Wave Stevie Wonder - Isn’t She Lovely Duke Ellington - Sophisticated Lady Bob Dylan - Mississippi Björk- Pagan Poetry Judas Priest - Painkiller Fela Kuti - Zombie Donna Summer - I Feel Love

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

Anthropic warns that Charlie Brown could have hoes by Q3 of this year

Erika Kirk talking about how she has to wake up to new lies every morning

They could appoint so many judges because Obama left so many vacancies. He also oversaw historic D losses in state legislatures in part because he put party resources into his own campaign and let Rahm run shit. Bernie Bros are nowhere near as responsible for the courts and loss of our rights.

Every state advancing racially discriminatory redistricting plans under Callais should lose its congressional representation, per the 14th Amendment's apportionment clause.

Just hours after the Roberts Court legalized stripping Black Americans of representation, Alabama moves to do just that, repeating a pattern begun in 2013 with Shelby County v Holder. Within a day of that decision, Texas & North Carolina advanced broad spectrum vote suppression bills.

Jeff Probst pitifully thanking Mr. Beast for coming onto his “little show,” the quarter-century running ratings staple Survivor. Embarrassing stuff.