BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

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Also that recession never happened and there were no mea culpas from those who predicted it

This is the inherent problem with making movies that cost a hundred million dollars to produce -- the economics of it require you to make it as broad, flattened and toothless as possible. The more you spend the less risk you're allowed to take.

Knew this was coming, eventually.

How is this real

We still have a few first printing, first edition copies of this incredible, handcrafted book about the production of the 1984 David Lynch Dune, signed by author @maxevry.bsky.social. Red foil edges, tassel bookmark. mzs.press/SIGNED-A-Mas...

We need a Joe Rogan of the left, shut up we need new Rod Serling, let’s get on that shit.

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

NYU is, at this point, doing censorship on behalf of a political position that is more conservative than the average *American*, let alone Democrat

Jon raises serious and legitimate concerns about Trump ordering a nuclear attack on Iran. Two other data points: On Monday, Trump told @jaketapper.bsky.social, “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.” This morning, Trump wrote:

When will we be spared from having to see this man?

Jan 6ther Andrew Paul Johnson was molesting a child before he was imprisoned in 2024. Trump pardoned him - and he immediately went back to molesting that child, AND that child’s friend. Then he tried to buy their silence by claiming he’d give them some of the millions in restitution he expected.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.

Make it stick.

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

I feel like this sort of absurd fascination with subjects, outside of the harms they cause, happens to many journalists. I have no idea what the point of this conversation is, other than Dorsey continuing to succeed by failing. God, that opener…

This is called infantile egocentrism and we're supposed to age out of it by the time we're 5 or so.

humans are very easily tricked into believing words are alive, because we mostly think in language. We build our sense of self out of words. That’s why no one thinks the image generators have consciousness.

No one even likes Mario anymore. Everyone’s saying it. Everyone’s saying, sir, we need an American plumber, not a Japanese plumber or an Italian one or a Japanese one. I can do it. I can do whatever I want. There were too many moons, so I said, you’re going to payback 10% of your moons.

I love @attackerman.bsky.social and if you're not following him what are you doing WHAT ARE YOU DOING

I'm still amazed we were able to get @attackerman.bsky.social on the Engadget Podcast to break down Anthropic's DOD fight, and the role of AI in warfare today www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/...

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

(This is the same person, come on)

Why the fuck is Les Grossman in here. I mean why the fuck a lot of things but that in particular is weird. Not the scene in Tropic Thunder where they blow up the jungle. Just the scene at the end where Tom Cruise is dancing. Lol. Fucking ding dongs

What I learned from watching/working in tech: These motherfuckers will say anything if they think it'll raise the stock price. They know they're lying, but if they can lie themselves to a certain valuation, they collect. At these amounts, money corrupts.

I'm so glad she wrote this. The portrayal of her in this series is, to me, indefensible. She deserves an apology from the filmmakers and FX. And if you hear yourself saying you portrayed a real person (who's alive!) in a particular way to manipulate your audience, please go improve.

Surely humanoid soul patch Palmer Luckey’s Anduril has super-good anti-drone technology capable of crushing the perfidious Persians? A lonely nation turns its eyes to you!

I really wanted to love the XPS 14, but Dell's gotta fix these keyboard problems: www.engadget.com/computing/la...

Not content with killing children by cutting global public health off at the knees, the eugencists and racists in charge of the west take a more direct approach.

I don't have words for this. Horrific. Heinous. Disgusting. Actually, I do have two words for it: war crime.

put this fucking guy under the prison

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut

Hey, while we pay super high prices for gas, just know that BYD recently announced an EV that gets 1000 km of range on a 10 minute charge. That's 621 miles for us Americans. It only costs $48,000. About the same as a Honda pilot. A full charge for those $621 miles is around $15 USD.

Kristi Noem’s firing is long overdue. She oversaw vile crimes against humanity and we’ll never forget it. But until ICE is abolished and expelled from our communities, we keep fighting. Lawless federal agents kidnapping and killing people on our streets can never be normalized.

Billions (2016-2023): "rich people! so crazy and terrible but also smart and kinda cool am i right" Succession (2018-2023): "rich people! so crazy and terrible and stupid and uncool but aren't they just so sad" Industry (2020-): "… and in conclusion, that's how you get a Ghislaine Maxwell"

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast this morning, starting early at 10A ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5dw... I'll be chatting with the great @attackerman.bsky.social about the ongoing fight between Anthropic and the DOD, and @nateingraham.bsky.social will join to break down MacBook Neo + Apple!

holy, the Ellisons are so full of shit

Yes. zeteo.com/p/is-this-th...

At this point, I feel like Apple has realized it can't dictate how people use its products. So why not have separate devices that cater to the people who lean Mac and those who want iPad?

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast this morning, starting early at 10A ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5dw... I'll be chatting with the great @attackerman.bsky.social about the ongoing fight between Anthropic and the DOD, and @nateingraham.bsky.social will join to break down MacBook Neo + Apple!

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

Anyway. They gave Ashli Babbitt full military honors for trying to murder Mike Pence and her family got $5 million in taxpayer dollars.

Hannah Arendt spent years arguing that authoritarians put personal loyalty above merit, and in fact prefer appointing mediocrities, since their incompetence helps guarantee their loyalty and serves authoritarian goals by further hollowing out institutions, and Liberty U. Law made it career advice.