I watch a lot of horror but Spielberg's AI was one of the most upsetting films I have ever seen, existentially www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oovq...

The problem with Elon isn't that our free speech is too strong but that our will to punish overt crime by the super rich is lacking. And it's lacking in Europe too. Fraud, sex crimes, lying on security clearances, even seditious conspiracy.

The fact that no European country's banned Xitter despite it committing crimes that would be crimes not only in Europe but in the free speech extremist US (child porn & revenge porn manufacturing & distribution) is the reductio ad absurdum of why weakening free speech guarantees never fucking works.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

The goal of the global reactionary right, from Russia to America to Britain to Israel, is to end the era of enlightenment and roll back the clock on the whole "human dignity" and "equal rights" thing. They want to take the chest of horrors we sealed (partially, imperfectly) shut and smash it open.

A new report compiled by the trustees who oversee Social Security projects that the program, which issues payments to millions of retired and disabled Americans, will run out of money to issue full benefit payments by 2032 — a year earlier than previously projected.

Losers like this need to watch their own media

Music education can make a difference for young people, if Baltimore City schools invest in it baltimorebeat.com/music-educat...

Shasta County residents voted by mail to get rid of mail voting and turn elections into in-person, one-day affairs. The county is a stalwart Republican stronghold that tilted to the MAGA right five years ago.

The wings vs flats debate is an opp brought about by Big Chicken because it’s always been ONE wing! 👁️

Paid $26 for “12 ” chicken wings last night. I hope the person who started cutting wings in half and selling them as two wings dies a painful death.

Texas BBQ is already on the precipice right now - like all of them. You add "rising beef prices" into the mix, and most of those restaurants are gone.

I used to be anti-drug war. Now I’m anti-drug war, pro-prohibition. Fuck all these coked-up inebriated ketamine addled nootropic pushing scamsturbating wastes of skin.

Becoming a lot more temperamentally conservative in response to radical right wing idiots tearing the wires out of our society and selling them for scrap was not something I expected for myself.

A vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children. Our prayers are strongest when we pray together.

Praying everyone who is currently looking for a job, finds one with great benefits

"Hit job." Listen, I think people have to admit the "vote blue, no matter who" thesis has simply been confronted, remarkably fast, with a fatal reductio ad absurdum. The guy who deliberately got a Nazi tattoo and then chose to leave the military rather than cover it up is not the hill to die on.

More than a couple Miyazaki films are gorgeous, but overrated and lacking and plot. I’m just tired of the glazing

Nobody wanted to give boy and the heron a bad review in case it turns out to be his last film, but it's not good

My fat ass thought they were all waiting for Bbq

Trans woman Rihanna Kelver faces 15 years in Wyoming for drawing a gun she never fired after being shoved to the ground by a slur-screaming man outside her workplace. Her attacker was never charged. Stand your ground, apparently, is for other people.

Grammy-winning artist with 'one of the purest hearts' fatally stabbed at 35

Fifa faces empty seats as 180,000 World Cup tickets hit resale market ft.trib.al/7JRtmWr

Men’s watches used to be much smaller. I’m glad we’re moving back in that direction.

www.wowt.com/2026/06/01/k... TIL that Nebraska has lost over 5k manufacturing jobs since 2025. You'll never guess how they voted.

Watch size inflation across the industry is a scourge. Men are walking around wearing Dive watches the size of Pilot watches like they’re Dress watches looking like a looney toon character.

Ppl do this foolishness so they don’t get filters out of anyone’s feed

Same reason he selected every race

I started listening to this Irish cinema review podcast. The hosts seem nice but they do this thing I find irritating where they copy/paste American social justice concepts w:o thinking. Like calling a case a “BIPOC” owned business. In their context, Irish ppl would be Indigenous.

Ppl don’t take off their bags or move to the center of subway cars and when the doors open are slow to get off and move out of the way. We need Subway etiquette PSAs.

Ppl don’t take off their bags or move to the center of subway cars and when the doors open are slow to get off and move out of the way. We need Subway etiquette PSAs.

Do NOT try and disentangle the relationship graduate medical education programs have with tradition, performative suffering and substance abuse. That is not safe and we need these hospitals to keep operating.

Generally, guildlike and anti competitive behavior that has systematically and artificially reduced the labor pool of physicians while kneecapping other allied health professions’ advances, further restricting access to care at lower cost. I could go on for a very long time.

You don’t harbor enough resentment at the American Medical Association tbh.

Harlem Nights

Radio Days

I also hate how essentially mopeds are allowed on them

Rae Sremmurd really fell off. What a shame

I dont like egg creams or ice cream floats. why would i pay more for a worse version of that?

they can keep this in utah where it belongs

⚡The Kremlin restricted access to Putin's private surveillance system, fearing AI tools could be weaponized to target him. united24media.com/world/kremli...

The only reason these shitty AI tech companies are going public is because they ran out of VC money and they dont (or will ever) have the revenue to support their operations. So they need new investors or else the VC early investors wont be able to cash out before the bubble pops.

Correct! In history, the major culprits are Niall Ferguson and Noam Chomsky (who is a linguist, not a historian, but you certainly couldn't tell based on what he writes). It's possible to be a famous historian without devolving into punditry, but it's very seductive to opine on everything.

Anarcho-primitivism falls flat for precisely the reasons you'd expect: states are the most efficient method for organizing violence ever devised. You can dream of turning the US into a vast demilitarized commune. This is impractical, and also will not stop Russia from promptly annexing the land.

People want to normalize shit that's not normal.

I don’t like this latest generation of Blind Box figures. Labubu, Hirono, those creepy little Lolita looking girl characters they carry at Pop Mart are all gross and freaky looking to me. When I was a kid we had Dunnys and Labbits and they were more arty and abstract.

New from me @notus.com: The DOJ has cancelled biannual election-crimes classes for investigators. It deleted the manual that explains how to avoid tampering with votes. And it isn't prepping for the usual Election Day command center at FBI hq. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

historical work beyond test prep.