#HappyPride from Ron Swanson

I think we may be only at the very beginning of a true Golden Age for people going Full Jellicoe.

A fun thing for those who know the Deep Lore is that the head of CBS News has firmly established that leaking details of work meetings in newsrooms — and even, specifically, audio recordings of tense, internal CBS News meetings — is to be encouraged.

“It’s working for me” is such a funny line.

Imagine fucking up so badly that Scott Pelley, the most sedate, slowest-talking man in news, tells you off in front of a roomful of people. It’s like getting mauled by a sloth.

The people cry out for Jarnathan

I feel like “Amazing” and “Real” are both weird words to use, and they’re only on the packaging to put as much space as possible between “Mike’s” and “Mayonnaise”.

Yes of course conservatives can and have made great art throughout history. Not these ones though. These one have not and cannot.

Others who study criminal justice can point out all the problems here — from artificially picking a high point in the pandemic instead of a wider timeframe, to cherrypicking cities to imply this is about changes in prosecutors — but misspelling Freddie Gray’s name tells you a lot in a little.

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

The Brakrooms "Yeah, buddy!"

This is very good reporting but I’ll warn you the three videos that autoplay when you open the story are worse than you’re expecting them to be.

Aside from the fact some people actually wear masks when they’re sick out of consideration for others, let’s take a moment for the guy who presumably spent half an hour on elaborate, mostly pointless TSA theater to get inside an airport, but thinks a person in a mask has succumbed to paranoia.

This is exactly the kind of thing I've been concerned about with current-gen and next-gen LLMs; there is just so much information available on the open web about most people that it can be trivially easy for the system to follow a trail of breadcrumbs that might take a human days of work.

(left) a description of the new head of "60 Minutes" (right) his cover story for Vanity Fair

I mean, if we’re really going to go to Sunday school right now, Christ is also the immigrant deported with due process.

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

I don’t find The Free Press branching out into “experiences” all that unusual, because that’s long been a profit center for magazines. But I will say — the title on their announcement is a hilarious encapsulation of how their whole brand is selling you the flattering idea you’re a brave iconoclast.

The true galaxy-brain part of grabbing every low-sample-size p-hacked study and suggesting it proves causation is when you have to come up with a plausible way to make all the bullshit causes fit together.

I'm sorry, you can't run this headline and this photo and not expect everyone to immediately look to see if the guy has six fingers.

Paid subscribers on Letterboxd can choose the background they want to appear on each movie’s home page. For some reason, this is one of the options for The Muppets Take Manhattan.

My gift to media reporters ahead of whatever makeover comes next at CBS News is to inform you that the building housing “60 Minutes” is also home to an exhibit where you can enjoy a 3-D virtual reality reenactment of the sinking of the Titanic.

dammit frank luntz is a colossal piece of shit but he’s clearly mocking Scott Jennings here

It’s not even a hot take, but: Your whole job is to learn to parent the kid you got, not to turn them into the kid you were expecting.

One thing I really appreciated about the finale for “The Comeback” is the quick scene where Valerie meets with three TV writers and the show makes it crystal clear how deeply annoying we are.

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

I get that this is just law enforcement diction but this really carries a tone of “look, we KNOW, we’re askin’ around, get off our ass already.”

The rarely-seen “push alert that realizes it probably shouldn’t have been a push alert midway through.”

If someone (especially a child) is quiet in the water and doesn't answer when called, you have only seconds to save them from drowning. Skip paywall on article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

I finally figured out why that piece was giving me déjà vu and it’s because men’s magazines in the ‘90s ran stories just like it in the back of the book in every issue. The only thing new—and this speaks to the new media incentives—is the decision to frame it as Discourse, as a Thing to Fight About.

Oh wow, this is, precisely, “proudly ‘contrarian’ college newspaper op-ed columnist who’s run out of ideas and looks around his dorm room”-level bad. Sometimes the kindest thing an editor can tell you is “no.”

I admit this is idiosyncratic and anecdotal, but: after many years of science-heavy litigation against big corporations, I see references to the "gold standard" in science the same as references to "IQ." It's a tell that the speaker is a liar and a fraud, like these climate-deniers.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

I, for one, think more Congressional Republicans in swing seats should invite the historically unpopular president to come to their district and say stuff like this.

“Sorry I can’t be at your wedding, I have very important war stuff to be doing.” (HOURS LATER)

It is so funny that after a week of flagrantly unpopular moves, from the bail fund to dancing on the grave of a beloved TV show, he has the world’s easiest PR layup of just “showing up and playing devoted dad at his son’s wedding” and is like, “Nah.”

but like I said the other day, NBC cast Vanessa Williams in The Odyssey in 1997 and no one gave a shit because this outrage is manufactured by racist incel billionaires from South Africa who no longer touch grass.

I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

why are they so weird and defensive amanpour didn’t impugn the reporting she’s just reacting with the level of surprise that a reasonable person with knowledge of the parties would experience at reading such a story

I can’t get over the weird, affected terse writing here, where he changes his mind from sentence to sentence about which parts of speech he’s deliberately omitting or mangling.

Seeing the headlines about Barry Blaustein I knew he’d done something other than the “SNL” stuff, and only near the bottom of the NYT obit do they mention he made the amazing “Beyond the Mat”, which should really be right up in the first paragraph.

people love to criticize ai just because it makes mistakes all the time. you shouldn't criticize things

Truly a Criswell-level commencement address. youtu.be/jb6H14gVWjM

@guillaumegaluz.bsky.social Your NYC showtimes seem to be glitching — the app doesn’t show any showtimes or theaters, just a list of movies with no showtimes when you click on them.

I feel like there must be a half-dozen Republican governors and senators who see clips like this and immediately start an exploratory committee for a 2028 presidential run.

It is wild/sad how many Bluesky users see this story and then comment that the family deserved to experience this.