I stopped reading Free Planet after the first two issues because it felt like it was all exposition with no character-driven story. Spencer Ackerman trying to pitch it on here and in his newsletter is somewhat compelling but the backlog, the backlog

you getting mad at dems for being conciliatory towards republicans, friendly towards republicans, voting with republicans, confirming republicans, etc. = helping republicans those elected dems talking about republicans are their trustworthy pals = this is okay for some reason

Whenever I talk about the transphobia and racism and ableism and misogyny I see from judges, I get people saying that must be illegal (it is, they do it anyway because there are no consequences) or that I should report them (for a while I did, and nothing happened),

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It's incredible to watch people continue to do the "Wow, I guess you don't understand how the system works!" routine when every single day we are shown incontrovertible evidence that the way the system works is apparently that the president gets to do literally whatever he wants.

I've said it before but one of the most revelatory things about reading Marxist theory is seeing just how much genAI automation is just the same old business-as-usual capitalism. Here's Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism in 1972.

Looks pretty cool

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

The thing about decisions is that, after and under it all, you have to live with yourself

I guess people are going to address this phenomenon differently depending on whether they care about how it happened to Parker, Sky, or neither

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“Oliver Clothesoff” is such an amazing drag king name

The Raiders win has not cured me of this sick Madden craving. And the Ravens loss makes me want to fix it for Lamar lololol

Wait Parker’s not here anymore because of this shit? Jeezus

Keanu Reeves and Molly Ringwold starred in a romantic thriller together 7 years ago. I can watch it for free, but it’s only got a 12% rotten score lol (I might have to investigate)

I can go so long without an invite and then everybody wants to party on the same day

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In Bruges is such a funny movie

I think we're seeing the beginning of a dangerous precedent here: if an AI does it, it's nobody's fault. Which is a convenient stance when so many people in the media and the tech industry are increasingly relying on AI to do their work for them.

following this franchise continues to be a humiliation ritual lol

It is kind of wild living in the United States after rap went mainstream, while having a working memory of what it was like before that. Doubly so because while a lot of vernacular like “baby mama” was popularized, the stigma attached to the communities closely identified with it remains.

I don’t think it’s completely useless to outline that the US is frequently in fragrant violation of an international legal system it claims to uphold, but it sometimes feels daringly close to pointing out Republican hypocrisy domestically. There has to be a next step at some point.

If you’re on a podcast discussing your relationship to someone’s work, it’s okay to go on Wikipedia to see their academic background instead of saying you don’t know it.

During my time in SDS during the Bush era I put a lot of effort into educating activists about their civil rights, talking to them about how to stay within the law to avoid arrests, etcetera. These days I would probably focus on telling people when to run.

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you can chart the decline of media literacy by watching all five seasons of that show in order

i still like stranger things and all but after watching s5 what a sad time to be a writer. i guess the role of dialogue is to literally explicate story now and everything is an AAA video game

doing the “he was no angel” to Maduro would perhaps work better if our own current president wasn’t a serial murderer who 100% fucked kids

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“Hamburger menu” is such a silly phrase. Who looks at three parallel horizontal lines in a vertical stack and sees a hamburger? Does Wimpy from Popeye work in tech?

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May DeMeco Ryans and co put an end to this foolishness, amen

I've let so many directors down. This is the least excited I've been by new collections on Criterion in a while.

Idk how exactly the combination of NFL QB and high school coach combines to equal “viable NFL head coach candidate” but it would be very funny if the Raiders hired Phillip Rivers. Not *good* for Raider fans, per se, but very funny

US Americans are so often incapable of seeing the victims of our foreign policy as victims and only speak of consequences to domestic morale

The fucking crybaby centrists on this site suck ass.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

I made this a few weeks ago

Chelsea played like they didn’t care in the first half and like they did in the second. I like how decisive McFarlane was with lineup and tactical changes at halftime and in the second half. I don’t like what Boehly and Blue Co are doing in many ways, but I’m glad this wasn’t a loss

US taking Greenland would be the “I never thought leopards would eat *my* face” moment for NATO/EU

damn who could have imagined that a commander-in-chief unilaterally using military force against another sovereign state with no consequences could have gone this way

if you've never spoken to someone they're not in a "community" with you, you are not beholden to them or responsible for their actions. It's okay if fascists are gay, they're bad people for being fascists, not for being gay.

One of my corniest traits is probably how much I like seeing players dap each other up and hug after sports matches, especially hard fought rivalry games

Finished Octopussy and the Living Daylights. Story rankings: The Living Daylights (most lively) Octopussy (cool story even if it’s only an interview, dramatic ending) 007 in New York (added in 2001 edition, funny ending) The Property of a Lady (feels like it’s missing an ending)

“This is dying empire shit.” “these are the acts of a flailing empire.” Sure but kinda weird cope. I don’t think victims of imperialism or domestic victims of ratcheting up fascism are super comforted that this country won’t exist in a century.