RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow." The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

BTW I'm all caught up on WIDOW'S BAY and yes, yes, yes! But one of my favorite things about it is how it never REACHES for a joke! Like they'll go for it if they have a really good one, but they are not constantly undercutting the scenes. It's all tension / character forward which is my faaaaave.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler

2026's latest horror crop of OBSESSION, PASSENGER, and BACKROOMS are all relatively effective horror movies that provide such a good lens to look at the different ways that you can come at the metaphor at the heart of your story. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/159717...

Topical.

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

Couldn't think of a song related pun for the headline no? Nothing in his back catalogue you could link to still not being dead

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

What if taxing the rich works?

ICE is out in full force today at Delaney Hall in tactical gear. They're threatening the hunger strikers with transfer and have already transferred one of the strike leaders. The community is out, too, refusing to let this happen.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Pieces like this are exactly why I love LA Taco so much lataco.com/dishwashers-...

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

Retired Factory Worker Had No Idea Earnings From ’50s Would Have To Support 3 Generations Of Family https://theonion.com/retired-factory-worker-had-no-idea-earnings-from-50s-w-1819576513/

BREAKING: Progressive @chrisrabb.com wins open seat PA-3 for US Congress! Rep Rabb ran unapologetically on universal healthcare, $25/hour living wage, pro Union, pro Climate, anti-genocide, and anti-AIPAC—and won by double digits (Cory Booker came to PA to campaign for Street—who lost by 15) 1/2

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

Caught up with a bunch of the 2025 Popcorn Movies that I missed first go round (Jurassic World: Rebirth, Predator: Badlands, Kingdom of TPOTA) and, as usual, they provide a good lens with which to talk about a few tricky lessons of screenwriting. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/158357...

Caught up with a bunch of the 2025 Popcorn Movies that I missed first go round (Jurassic World: Rebirth, Predator: Badlands, Kingdom of TPOTA) and, as usual, they provide a good lens with which to talk about a few tricky lessons of screenwriting. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/158357...

every one please vote for me to be the next james bond and if you are in line stay in line

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

I guess being a TV fan now is never hearing about any new show until suddenly it takes over your entire social feed and you feel like a loser for not being caught up yet and wondering if you should now prioritize it over the 18 other shows already in your backlog.

So often we think about movie stars in terms of their charms and appeal. Which are important! But often we miss the most important element: the inherent way they are wrong - and whether that wrongness is compelling to watch. Essay here! Enjoy :) www.patreon.com/posts/157956...

So often we think about movie stars in terms of their charms and appeal. Which are important! But often we miss the most important element: the inherent way they are wrong - and whether that wrongness is compelling to watch. Essay here! Enjoy :) www.patreon.com/posts/157956...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Thanks to the funds raised by this year’s Met Gala, we are closer than ever to finding a way to return Mr Met to his human form 💪 ⚾️

Will Asbestos Make Make Cotton Candy Obsolete?

I'm at the part of Slay the Spire 1 where I can make it to Corrupted Heart every time very easily and then every time I actually fight them I get my ass handed to me. I don't feel close? And it feels like EVERY TIME I'm getting boned on my initial shuffle?

Just saw HOKUM and I loooooove Damian McCarthy's movies. A horror filmmaker who is first and foremost worried about tension, and everything good that comes from it. www.patreon.com/posts/157211...

there are whole battalions that have no idea they're already enlisted in the cause

Just saw HOKUM and I loooooove Damian McCarthy's movies. A horror filmmaker who is first and foremost worried about tension, and everything good that comes from it. www.patreon.com/posts/157211...

Well, I have finally rewatched and thus have finally written the column I've wanted to write for 16 freakin' years... The Golden Age of THE SIMPSONS: The Unparalleled Heights, The Un-Sweetening of Homer, and the Unstoppable Law of Entropy... ENJOY! <3 www.patreon.com/posts/156894...

Well, I have finally rewatched and thus have finally written the column I've wanted to write for 16 freakin' years... The Golden Age of THE SIMPSONS: The Unparalleled Heights, The Un-Sweetening of Homer, and the Unstoppable Law of Entropy... ENJOY! <3 www.patreon.com/posts/156894...

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

When you consider that Paul Skenes has thrown 5,568 career pitches, all to major league hitters, and allowed a homer (23) on .004% of those, any Tom, Dick, or Harry saying anything other than "give me the $50,000" is absolutely delusional.

I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.

Call and response test: "Brimful of Asha on the 45..."

Trump’s ICE started DRC third-country removals last week with 15 people from Latin American countries. And we sent an Iraqi interpreter who had helped US military to Rwanda last year. There is no bottom. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

I've been circling back to the random seasons of TASKMASTER I missed, and I have now gotten to SAM CAMPBELL and this is the most amazing rabbit hole ever...

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza