twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Show

This is an old Dwell article by one of my favorite writers. @evepeyser.bsky.social www.dwell.com/amp/article/...

am I the only one who thinks ALIEN EARTH is mid????

the Miller’s Crossing soundtrack absolutely rips. been bumping it all day every day.

the older i get the louder my sneezes get 😔

"The academic literature on hairy robots is sadly limited — and the results are mixed."

i had an amazing idea for how to make boston dynamics' robots less creepy, so i wrote a proper blog about for the verge: www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24...

i’m no political scientist, but if i wanted to get a bunch of 18 year olds to make my 100 year old ass president again, i probably wouldn’t support banning tiktok

hold music is fine. but hold music that gets interrupted every 30 seconds by an automated voice reminding me that I'm hold will be the end of me.

I wrote about the waning relevance of all-star games for nymag: nymag.com/intelligence...

“This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, the most beautiful is:”

“Iron Man (Tetsuo’s Version)”

my three-year-old niece is weeping and yelling “I want to watch TV” and wow, same

charmin making the tear lines on its toilet paper squiggly is truly genius and deserves greater recognition.

we, as a society, should offer greater respect to lil wayne for “real g’s move in silence like lasagna”

my most strongly held belief: arnold schwarzenegger should not say “i’ll be back” in movies outside the terminator franchise

do you want to see something so so beautiful

calling out sick to work with woke mind virus

what do u think happened

hamburgers at real restaurants are too big. the ideal hamburger is mcdonald’s-sized.

how much was this person spending on iceberg lettuce???

be the sleve mcdichael you wish to see in the world

super mario rpg is truly one of the strangest games i’ve ever played

what happened to cinemagrids is simply outrageous. the critics choice awards must be stopped.

Brother (d. Takeshi Kitano) is actually the best movie i’ve ever seen and it’s crazy to me how critics just totally didn’t get it

By @evepeyser.bsky.social

wrote about how i like this website because here, people aren’t mad all the time and nothing matters

being an nba player must be so crazy. like one day your life is normal and then the next morning you wake up to a text that's like "your boss doesn't love you anymore so he's forcing you to move to indianapolis"

products like these make me love america

read @knifedog.bsky.social on consumption as political activism

lmaoooo

in tokyo, i got omakase at this hole in the wall sushi place, run by a husband and wife. the place looked like an elderly person’s living room and neither of them rly spoke english so we communicated using google translate and a japanese phrase book. by the end of the meal, we'd become friends...

feel like i used to hear a lot more about canadian quarters. now, not so much.