it is extremely easy to create a podcast about bad people and not plagiarize me. literally just call it anything you want. the premise itself is almost impossible to plagiarize. and yet somehow AI found a way

one more from me for your weekend, on the real legacy of Chuck Norris. not as fighter or actor, but as pioneering meme template that came to shed its sense of humor as the subject at hand embraced his worst tendencies: slate.com/technology/2...

I swear it is a coincidence that I wrote this one this week, it had nothing to do with ~the discourse~ from yesterday -- but it might be an interesting add to the convo anyway

Pittsburgh City Paper is back!

Hideo Kojima's commitment to Acronym jackets remains undefeated: aftermath.site/hideo-kojimas-...

Afroman won a jury verdict clearing him of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by police who raided the rapper's home, then sued him after they claimed he defamed them by ridiculing them on social media www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

I wrote about the Afroman trial

Taco Bell protein hot sauce packets

Photos of a friend holding manga he wants me to read, for reference.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look a what they did to him 😭😭

Play 'You Are Elon Musk', the sequel to 'You Are Jeff Bezos': aftermath.site/elon-musk-vide...

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Now leading HuffPost:

Internal messages from Live Nation reveal two execs talking about "robbing [fans] blind." “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," one says. That man is now the head of ticketing for the unit responsible for Live Nation's 150 amphitheaters.

gm #np www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZ1...

THX 1138, the first movie directed and co-written by George Lucas, was released 55 years ago today. Lucas has always loved politics and car chases. THX 1138 is so key to understanding his work. 👌 Iconic role for the late Robert Duvall (1931-2026).

Everything used to be core, now it's all slop.

Stardew Valley turns 10 today! @katyar.bsky.social is here with some critical feedback we really wish the devs would implement. www.mothership.blog/10-years-sta...

An easy free way to help me out would be to follow, subscribe, or share some of my recent streaming and video work. Been grinding on that since October: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/juraalplays YouTube: www.youtube.com/@JuraalPlays Insta: www.instagram.com/alexjameskane TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@juraalplays

sweet, sweet contract glory ⭐️

Contract ratified baby 😎

Reminder: Your local library has all of these already for FREE. Related: External CD drives aren't expensive.

Faculty union fights have been wildly successful; graduate student workers have voted to unionize at a nearly 90 percent clip in recent years. buff.ly/FgjaHvU

lol. lmao. gizmodo.com/ai-added-bas...

Officers responding to a planned snowball fight in Washington Square Park were struck by members of the crowd. The NYPD commissioner described the incident as "illegal" and said authorities are investigating.

I've been woimpilled It's time for some woimposting

So honoured to be aboard this ship and write about one of my all-time favourite games... that is still not perfect. Ten years in, there are ways Stardew Valley can do *better*. Read my first for Mothership: www.mothership.blog/10-years-sta...

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

To celebrate One More Catch's launch, we asked the biggest Pokémon fans we know what they want to see from Gen 10, which is almost guaranteed to be revealed on Friday:

So basically they tell us trans people are mentally ill & destroy their bodies while they literally hit their heads with a hammer like a cartoon character loosing their mind?

Just landed in Florida and I’m ALREADY learning flat earth science from my Lyft driver. I miss it here.

Tempted to pack all of these in my suitcase before taking off tomorrow but I know they wouldn’t last the flight

gee who'da thunkit bsky.app/profile/mike...

wrote about Discord's new age-verification rules, the resounding backlash to their implementation, and why the users who are (rightfully) angry about this change need to aim their ire at the real culprit: the bad social media laws getting passed worldwide that are *forcing* platforms to do this:

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Watched Rental Family last night and it was such a sweet movie that it also feels extremely…suspicious? Incredibly sappy, not a cynical bone in its body—its friction is so coated in sugar but l also so so so sincere.

I had really good luck with this last year and it was 100% a net positive and I am trying to do it again this year and am... failing aggressively aftermath.site/reels-shorts...

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

evil dead but this is the necronomicon

Porn performer Siri Dahl’s personal information, including her full legal name and birthday, was publicly exposed earlier this month by Grok. Dahl told 404 Media she wanted to reclaim the situation, and her name, and asked that it be published in this piece. www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

What a name.

ANNOUNCEMENT 2 As you are likely already aware, @starfruitbooks.bsky.social founder and publisher Matt Haasch passed away last September. In line with his wishes, I have been working with Matt’s mother and the rest of the Star Fruit Books team to ensure a continuation to their publishing work.

The holy month of Ramadan is celebrated by over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. For Palestinians in Gaza, Ramadan is defined by hope amid destruction and loss. https://to.pbs.org/4kJoQCe

Saw somebody refer to Mumford and Sons as Imagine Wagons today and lost it