We are exhausting our supply of boomer Naomi’s who didn’t let the internet get to them

I for one am shocked that the big account that has a crashout everytime there is an international event in the Middle East because it is not about them is now having a bit of a crashout about an international event in the Middle East not being about them

A reminder that the power to make war is a legislative, not executive function; it is why even after literal attacks upon the US, Presidents have had Congress pass authorizing legislation to make sure what they do is legal; (1/2)

I don't see what problem people had with the new Wuthering Heights

The Zone of Interest (2023) Dir. Jonathan Glazer

Her (2013) Dir. Spike Jones

In 2436 anthropologists will write about how people in the lands near the city of Port Land on the North American East Coast have a unique ritual where every 6 years they "elect" a folk hero known as Susan Collins to the "Senate"

The NYT is basically selling a variation of an MLM; anyone who is fine with computer generated books can already most cut out the middleman and just ask for one, and that software is going to get better over time; actual human books, however, you can't auto-generate with a lot of work (1/2)

The work I did 23 years ago taught me that a vanishingly small number of people know how an election physically and legally works in America; in the past decades the # of people who think they know has increased exponentially with no actual evidence that more people know how we cast/count votes

“What’s the charge? Letting people enjoy a meal? A succulent pizza meal?”

As a general rule, try not to live your life so that Bruce Springsteen feels compelled to write a song about how much of a monster you are

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies." Lord Palmerston

It is the difference of saying your are nostalgic for your past memories and relationships that can never come again because of the passage of time; or the later, which is a consumer based offer to sell you all the product you wished you could buy as a child

In fairness, this time of year a black bear still needs to burn like 4,000-8,000 calories a day

Over the past two years 40% of my ads have stopped being in any language I speak

Every day teaches me in new ways that people thought the joke in the Office of Michael Scott shouting "I declare bankruptcy" is because he yelled, not because that isn't how any of this works, since it's clear they think think everything from elections to criminal cases to war work that way

I know someone who back in the day claims they were the first person to say "no way" in response to being surprised by something

A lot of people are trying to build followers/a brand by telling people that the reason the world doesn't work the way they thought it did is not because they were once children and didn't understand the world but because the world is wrong for not being an imagined nostalgic future

With the end of the NYC Metrocard, Le Tigre's My My Metrocard joins such classic songs as Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not by X, Answering Machine by The Replacements, C30, C60, C90, Go by Bow Wow Wow, and Kodachrome by Paul Simon, on the that tech is gone mixtape

Big posters wistful at the end of the year: I can no longer identify subtle changes in art, fashion, music, and culture for what signifies cool, unlike 20-30 years ago when I could tell changes in look mere months apart; culture must be stagnant, not that I, a forever cool is out of touch and old

My position that Jon Stewart is less a "political truth teller" and more had a good call about Iraq and has been coasting on that ever since has been paying off for some time

The history of the Tea Party can't be fully written w/o Stewart's tacit support; his brand of politics was failing at least 15 yrs ago; I am a broken record but he got a lot of attention because he was one of the only voices against the Iraq War and everyone has been buying him dinner ever since

I might not be a fancy HLS professor but I I thought Title VI still applied to his actual job

The key is that in the extended cut you just have a lot of uses of it, like Jimmy McNulty and Bunk Moreland solving a shooting levels of use; a 90's indie crime film levels of use; hell, let David Milch take a pass at the script!

The Simpsons from The Tracey Ullman Show must be the king of this, no?

And Tiny Tim, who did not die. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Apparently Santa and I still have beef, nothing yet again

It is really hard to convey how much Star Wars broke people's brains on how to sell things to kids and that everything for decades had to have a lot of original fantasy/scifi lore in the hope that it would be the next thing thing that popped and let you retire to a private island by 40

Unlike everyone else, I would just notice that I am cooking my brain with cognitive offloading and simply not have it happen to me, because I am built different

Once again going to subtweet the popular leftists podcasters who not but a few weeks ago decided to yuk it up with someone who just happened to be the kind of leftist that hated liberals more than the right and now has taken a real public turn

Looking at the office shelf full of action figures and boxes of Blackwing pencils, tugging my collar nervously, “yeah, really weird example, yeah, haha”

My only contribution to video game price discourse is that I am old enough to remember when it was normal that a middle class kid got 1, maybe, maybe, 2 new games a year because of cost and games in absolute costs were about the same at the time as they are now; (1/x)

I did not realize my last two posts were both about Andor. I am really not a big Star Wars person

The evil office in Andor is nicer

The point of the Andor protest sign is that Disney owns Star Wars and ABC, its asking the people that did two things if they remembered they did two things; its not a sign of limited cultural references

The Venn diagram between those who look me dead in the eyes and tell me we have been living under a totalitarian system since 1776 and those who post online with the same self regard as if the internet was an unpopular high school paper at an alternative arts school in 1997 is a perfect circle

Even setting aside the policy part, politically, it is a real "what If we Willie Horton ourself? Checkmat!"

Voltaire might be the most misattributed writer on the internet; though it is impressive that it is not just one "type" of person that goes with the fake Voltaire quote - there is one for just about everyone

When did “little green men” stop meaning space aliens?

I see we are back on earthquakes mean California can’t have buildings discourse and once again I would like to remind people of the large population of people who live on the western side of the Pacific Ocean

This is a very specific subpost but any statistically meaningful difference between genders in upper body strength, etc. means nothing between a human and lion, bear, auroch, etc. and part of the point of tools is to shrink the difference between people

Everyone is acting like Passover Coke hasn’t been a thing for over a decade

"Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." is the rare title that can be both a Simon & Garfunkel album name and the name of a stage in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game

While it is not, not-important, I will note, as I do every 4 years, that the national American media and political junkies spend far to much time and thought thinking about the Mayor of NYC; think about the coverage vs. how they cover LA, Chicago, Houston, etc. or even vs. gov. races or (1/x)

In the early Mapquest era; I once had someone call me from a cell phone because they could not figure out DC so they needed me to get on Mapquest and give them turn by turn directions like I was a living Google map; I cannot imagine what that call must have cost

Bragging online about how you are too smart to fall for a scam is a really good way to make yourself a target for scams