My man using Family Feud methodology for stats. “How fast did baseball players used to throw? Survey SAYS!….”

I think a big part of what’s different here is their ability to just put this shit on things we already own. I could ignore them telling me to buy crypto. But it’s different when my phone or computer updates and suddenly there’s AI trying to write my emails.

Exactly one year ago today:

Despite the extreme and well-deserved unpopularity of the Catholic Church in recent decades, the fact that the pope acts like he’s not scared of Donald Trump and politely tells him to go fuck himself has made the pope very popular. I wonder if there is any lesson to learn from this.

Mayor Mamdani we are calling upon you to bring back to the movies the greatest supporting actress of all time, a little lady named New York City

“Blue no matter who!”

Me at the gym tomorrow when i can listen to the Nine Inch Noize LP

It’s morning in America

Cirie effortlessly getting in everyone’s good side at camp vs Cirie suddenly “suggesting” who needs to go next

For time immemorial a lot of criminal enterprises have specifically made giving over dirt part of the initiation to ensure omèrta but now there’s a circle of goons whose specific job is to heap slop into the content trough and they don’t care about airing laundry

Everybody loves to say manga outsells US comics bc they start with issue 1 and then end but less remarked upon is manga outflanks on both material better tailored to kids and stuff that’s more actually adult. DC has clawed back some space playing to both these sides the last few years but Marvel…

Re: subtle recession indicators, this is 100% correct

I have some huge news! I am making my debut on a Criterion disc for their stunning 4k restoration of Neil Jordan's THE CRYING GAME. I wrote an essay for the booklet and I'm very excited for everyone to check it out. www.criterion.com/films/33812-...

If you are so paralyzed by an indecision that you need a chatbot to tell you what coffee drink to order, you probably need to check into a rehab. Also we’re gonna need a rehab for chatbot addiction. Where you have to like relearn colors and how to do laundry.

Spaceman world, caveman problems

Sorry to lib out but they are all going Führerbunker Mode, this “movement” is in its death throes.

Despicable fucking government.

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just incredible that while the last shipments out of the strait are finally rolling in and there’s nothing coming behind them, the entire executive branch are obsessed with winning online flame wars with the pope

This is so obscene I can’t even speak in a way that won’t trip like six different alphabet agency flags

Dwyermaxxing after being Ozmogged

Artists have to beg for precarious contract jobs on a per movie basis, but Robert Downey Jr needs a hundred million dollars. Sure. Sure.

Insanely funny thing to say as a doofus worm who appointed herself the regent of an astroturf op like it’s a Middle Ages German duchy when the vice president of the United States is on stage.

For the sake of saving money they’ll have to pay anyway when the c suite figures out AI can’t just do it they’re gonna torch the level of enthusiasm they already had an uphill climb trying to recapture. Makes Bob Chapek look like a genius.

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

This week is when the last of the pre-war oil shipments arrive, whatever people think has been the impact of this war has genuinely not even begun in the US and you should know that massive price adjustments are already being made that are going to lead to another supply chain crisis like 2020-21

With Nine Inch Nails on the brain I broke out Year Zero, an album I hated when it came out for being too “soft” which is a good reminder that the only known cure for being 18 is time. Anyway it’s neck and neck with Downward Spiral as their best imo.

Bill Hicks on the cops’ defense during the Rodney King trials: “well…if you play the tape backwards, you see us help King up and send him on his way!”

I am very sorry for sharing anything involving this child but you really owe it to yourself to see one of the best reverse shots in ages.

There’s only one man who can stop Geese.

Look, she’s just your average Jane Six-Pack who just so happens to keep popping up Zelig style in every state clumsily hand Trump a Filet-O-Fish as he riffs on how they’re saying more and more that a seal has been broken and you can hear a voice saying “come and see.”

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Peter Hungary may also be a right wing chud but he also ran on “I will imprison every one of these thieving goons” which the NYT will spend the next three years insisting no one ask for

there is no prosocial career that lets you buy a house

Got my contributor copy of Radiance’s Romancing in Thin Air Blu and thank god I didn’t know the other essay in the booklet was gonna be an archival Bordwell piece, I’d have gotten so badly into my own head about not wanting to look like a clown next to him (prob still do!)

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Planning the best and most natural photo op of all time: Hello DoorDash? I would like hamberder. Also do you have an especially depressing driver who can bring it, like a living symbol of 50 years of rotted social contracts leaving everyone to work to literal death? Thank you this is the president.

Even among those who are not at all sanewashing Trump, there’s a tendency to ascribe mesmeric power and flair. And I think the much simpler truth is there’s a demographic of this country that’s basically the old ladies Mostel fucks in The Producers. They’re flattered anyone even cared to con them

“We’re training an AI to ape Zuckerberg’s mannerisms” well this is AI’s easiest task yet because he speaks and moves like a Skyrim shopkeeper.

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

This piece being written in response to that haymaker of an article about how a chunk of Pitt fans are behaving like hallucinating chatbots is even funnier. Actually it’s good to call out that these people are entitled toddlers.

Without a shred of irony you are told by “career advisors” that being good at a job is a hindrance to your advancement, meanwhile you are fed a constant stream that running scams are the literal only route to financial security. It’s a testament to how cowed we are that it’s not all on fire

People saying “so 60yo Trent Reznor put on an instantly iconic set while Justin Bieber just sat there and played off a laptop?” is a funny mad-libs situation but the far more brutal truth is that of a 60yo and 32yo, the latter was the nostalgia booking.

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