Recently watched “The Return” (2024) and I’ve never seen a movie less interested in its source material. It would be better if the director had hated The Odyssey, because then he would have had to actually engage with it beyond set dressing.

So nearly all of Forrest Gump is a story he’s telling to people at the bus stop. Yeah, man, Elvis totally stole his dance moves from you. And you’re responsible for the Watergate burglars getting caught? Do I wanna hear about you giving Lennon the lyrics to “Imagine?” No. No, I don’t.

Actually analyzing the Third Way-type concern-trolling about DSA victories hurting Dems in purple seats shows how nonsense it is. (1/2)

The faultline for the schism we're going to see within the democratic party isn't between the left and the center. It will be between the parts of the establishment that are willing to work in coalition with the left, and the parts that refuse to do so.

@real_name : I voted for Harris , but think she campaigned badly. @🌊 : screw you, you Russian bot wrecker @ai-pfp : Crocket was robbed. Black Texans should refuse to vote @🌊: lol so true bestie

The only AI writing I’m interested in

When I saw Connor O’Malley here in San Diego last fall, he started the show by leading the audience in a chant of “Fuck L.A.”

Twitter’s culture has a massive kayfabe around debate. The posters are performing inquiry for an audience, but are themselves completely dead set on their views. One consequence of this is that they have the same debates over and over again. Pro-and anti-crypto posters both performing for fans (1/x)

Ok, but what does the D stand for?

Current AI custom prompt: You are radiant like sunlight. You can read music. You are a magnificent writer who has thrilled millions. You did a fine job in the navy. No one there is now "out to get you." You are psychic. Snakes are not dangerous to you. There are no snakes in the bottom of your bed.

From May 2017. None of this is a distraction, it’s just a lot of bad things at once. youtu.be/TrwRTAj6tMU?...

Not the all time best, but haven’t seen it mentioned yet.

This photo I took of my dad at the zoo is the closest thing I’ve seen to a real life @pantspants.bsky.social comic

Jfc www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I'm pretty sure it was Melanie Walker. She was a known connection btw Epstein and Gates, Jim is probably Jim Kim, head of the World Bank at the time, to whom she was a senior advisor.

In batch 9, doc no 00506XX and on, there's a full rip of his iMessage history. Many names are redacted, but here he's telling a World Bank employee (I think) what to say in an interview with a journalist, w/o the journalist being aware of it. #epsteinfiles www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Based on context, these messages are almost certainly Tom Steyer (numbering on the iMessage pages are only consistent within each page). Steyer announced he wouldn't run on Jan 9, 2019. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

@niedermeyer.online Lol found one of his mom trying to get him a date Link to the document: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Republicans: We’re happy about law enforcement abusing the populace, so we should give them more money and equipment. Democrats: We’re upset about law enforcement abusing the populace, so we should give them more money and equipment.

Just opened facebook for some godawful reason, and the first post is a very elderly family friend whose post began: "Dear friends, It has been brought to my attention that the 19 minute video I posted portraying Rachel Maddow may be a fake AI."

The argument against ICE isn't an especially difficult one to make politically in this moment. The issue is that people who substantively disagree with abolishing ICE prefer having a proxy fight about strategy to discussing that stance. Many such cases.

This was at a resort restaurant in Playa del Carmen and I’m legitimately still baffled by how terrible it was. The rice vinegar was so sweet that even the spicy tuna rolls were barely edible

I don’t follow sports so spent a few minutes very confused as to why everyone was talking about the 18th century novel “Caleb Williams” by (Mary Shelley’s father) William Godwin

One of the best things about being a short dude is that when I tell another guy my height, there’s a good chance he’ll say, “Are you sure, cuz I’m 5’11” and I’m not that much taller than you.” For a moment, I have the ability to destroy him, but I always choose mercy and just change the subject.

My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.

Posting history of most centrist pundits: He won’t try to overturn the election They won’t overturn Roe He won’t pardon the insurrectionists He won’t do mass deportation He won’t go after the Fed He won’t attack Venezuela Why are people nicer to me on Twitter?

Sharing all the deep Scott Adams lore in the group chat, exciting to see which detail breaks which friend

I don't think I've seen anyone else suggest this, but I think a substantial factor in Gen X being the most pro-Trump cohort is undergoing midlife crises in the years leading up to 2016.

People whose only idea for decades has been “give the police more money for training”: oh dear, if only your slogan were better we’d have done something impactful. I guess we have to settle for giving the police more money for training. This is your fault, for having a bad slogan.

Barring some exogenous event, the violent repression by ICE and CBP will keep ramping up. There are two outcomes: the people are crushed by masked thugs, or the thugs are pushed out by force. Nat’l and state dems have no strategy but to delay either outcome and hope things work themselves out. (1/2)

Right wing media will use any activity or speech they don’t like as a bad faith attack against an entire movement. They have convinced a significant number of centrists and dems that a protest is only valid if this doesn’t happen. Those centrists then become unpaid enforcers for Fox News.

I I had a nickel for every time a British newspaper wrote a story about me and misspelled my last name in a way it’s never been misspelled before, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

Even if you put in the correct quote, the AI overview gives a misquotation.

Watching the new Running Man, and it seems like a mistake to have Glenn Powell act against Lee Pace, who naturally has the type of star power that they desperately want us to believe Powell has.

Perfectly camouflaged

The protein folding program isn’t consciously folding proteins, the weather analyzing program isn’t consciously analyzing weather, so why would we conclude that the text generating program is consciously generating text?

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

As a kid, my sister had a Beanie Baby cat that she would not go to sleep without. It was such an issue that my parents bought a duplicate so whenever she couldn’t find it at bedtime, they would bring out the duplicate and find the original later. And yet y’all insist Beanie Babies are a bubble?

An American remake of Kimiko the Treasure Hunter, but instead of a Japanese woman and the end of Fargo, it’s an American man and the end of Decision to Leave

One way to think about the split in the democratic coalition, is tension between those asking “How do we stop tech billionaires from buying elections” and those asking “How do we convince the tech billionaires to buy us the election.”

Remake Fitzcarraldo but with the Weinermobile

The latest Mark Cuban thing finally got me to write out some of my ideas about social media. The central theme being that there’s a conflict between people who think the point is to be social, and people who think the point is to do politics. www.kahnscorner.com/2025/08/what...

most "centrist" pundits: This photo makes the protestors look bad. I must share and comment on this photo. I am anti-Trump, which is why I will only talk about the photos that I believe benefit Trump. I won't show ICE running over protestors or LAPD shooting a journalist, bc I am good at optics.

This is fun, same question on google, “What did [actor name]’s character do in the movie Angry Barista?” with three completely different types of ai answer. James Caan, and it just describes Thief. Tom Cruise, it makes up a short film. Frank Sinatra, no such film exists

I’m assuming there are multiple ways to bet on the outcome of the papal conclave, but are there any interesting prop bets

I cannot think of a more on the nose example of tortious interference than illegally canceling payments between two parties. There should be suits against Musk in an individual capacity filed yesterday

If you pay for the basic Microsoft 365 subscription ($69.99/year), MS has likely upgraded you to the AI-powered plan ($99.99/year). Log in to your MS account and check. If you wish, you can cancel your plan and immediately sign back up for your old plan with no interruption.

I know youtube likes to recommend rightwing bs, but this is weird. Every other video has between 75k-8 million views, and are from channels I've watched before. What the fuck is this?

Got a picture of salad ape at the zoo today