It’s true, but the problem is the helpless “plz help us gop” framing. They need to stop saying it like “they need to help us stop this” and start saying “they want this, they’re using their majority to support this”.

Wallace and Scromit

This is verbatim the Iraq war messaging playbook for those who didn’t have to live through it.

If you wanted to spark a destructive civil war in another country, you couldn’t do it better than this.

I have a crush on EVERY boy*. * every boy is James Holden in The Expanse

this is an incredibly crucial, terrifying point

Unfortunately at my age I’ve already been through an entire American war cycle waged by a Republican with Democrats who refused to do their jobs in response.

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

i love the implication that crypto gaming was fundamentally sound and only died because VCs failed to manifest it

HAVANA (AP) — An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths. apnews.com/article/cuba...

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

June 5, 2025: Trump is in the Epstein files! Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!

lmfao

A commenter alerted us that a cover we featured in our latest Get Rec'd post was AI Generated. This is our response: I removed the buy links and the cover copy from the listing, and replaced it with an alert that the cover was AI-generated (confirmed by two different scans).

OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public

The thing about these monsters is that they need to thump their own chests so much that they will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every time. They’re correct that, as a country, Americans have far, far too much tolerance for projecting evil into the world. But they can’t fully leverage it.

Happy birthday to my favorite music weirdo.

The reason WWII was the only just war this country has ever fought is because we were against the people doing the regime change. Everything else is just spinning evil little tops at the world’s expense.

Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed

Nothing is wilder than watching US pundits on many sides of the aisle argue about whether Trump got the right permissions to invade another nation, instead of, you know, whether any part of the US government should be allowed to once again invade a nation based on US preferences.

I’ve been testing out LLMs again as part of my unfortunately necessary research as part of my job and I am amazed at how fucking awful it still is at nearly everything. A ton of superficial improvements to cover that it’s still a foundationally broken technology for anything outside of NLP.

what do u think the fake family in his head is saying about this

As our federal budget will clearly demonstrate, using the military in foreign operations is totally free, and definitely cheaper than $50 million.

Just a jaw-dropping statement from a Democrat. Wasserman Schultz calls Trump's military action in Venezuela "welcome news" that "offers beleaguered Venezuelans a chance to seat their true, democratically elected president." They're not even bothering with sternly-worded letters.

Any choice he makes here is evil, there is no non-evil regime change choice like this, but this is once again a great sign of their political foolishness: A quick smash and grab of someone people believe is a dictator could be seem positively even if they left chaos. Owning the chaos after, though?

That’s American exceptionalism babbbyyyytyyt

Lmao when has the pentagon press corps ever broken a story or even meaningfully elucidated one? Yeah it would be good to have, y’know, a legitimate press. In general. But.

Oh, we need to? Who benefits from this critical need, Satya?

No. i want to see them fight

Post 1: *something inflammatory* Post 2: God it's annoying when people are inflamed

I liked Fire and Ash a great deal, folks. letterboxd.com/saalon/film/...

The confidence with which a lot of people declared 2 the better movie (and it’s great, this is not a knock on T2!) was always baffling to me because the first film is so perfect calibrated into something that tightrope walks melancholy, romance, horror, and SF background scope… it’s That Film.

Imagine being someone who can this easily clear the GWB bar of stupidity.

Fire and Ash, babbyyyyyyyttt

One of the coolest things I got to do all of last year

Energy for a new year in the modern world.

This is… an untenable and unfair read of the film’s text and subtexts. I’m honestly pretty mad at this piece and I’m trying to be kind when I say you need to do a lot more legwork and reading into something before calling someone’s metaphor *for their own abuse by an alcoholic parent* blood libel.

Me writing slick stranger things quips like “Vecna? More like heck nah!”

When you’re at the holiday dinner table and that one relative starts talking

I’d watch Perfect Stranger Things but maybe that’s just The Leftovers.

Happy east coast new year, ya filthy animals.

Why would you treat me with such disrespect on this, the day of my birth (I’m old now, people)

“Is he with you?” “I thought he was with you.”

Corleone v Draper: Dawn of Don

It’s a mood.

how is nobody puts babby in the corner formed

I showed this to a guy at work who said, "I bet it'll get better" and I immediately said, I'll take that bet! I kept saying how much until he left for lunch lol