Yet another technocorporate disappointment.

Tech companies are complicit. The police are complicit. The military is complicit. Our representatives are complicit. The courts are complicit. None of the people who are "supposed" to help us are going to help us. This problem can only be solved with the unity of those who won't be bought.

Someone is currently arguing with me that the UK is a surveillance state because it has lots of security cameras, and the US isn't because it doesn't. So, since I'm going to have to explain constitutional law anyway, I may as well just give a free lecture on how the 4th amendment really works: 🧵 1/?

Your moment of ocean zen.

it's like New Years with a generous sprinkle of Fahrenheit 451 and a pinch of Groundhog Day, I feel all tingly

"...interrupted only by occasional federal courts telling the president that doing so is illegal, which the Supreme Court subsequently brushes aside." THIS. All of this. Government as we know it has *been* fucked, as per The Orange Crime Syndicate's design.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

I hate the subscription economy more than anything "We wrapped our subscriptions in a subscription so now you can subscribe while you subscribe. Somehow this is better than paying a flat rate for cable!"

Disconnect from things that don't bring value. Connect and reconnect with the things that do. Always be prepared to toast your emergency s'more. Like and subscribe for more wisdom

A - Anyone who resubscribes has fallen for the trap of American complacency B - We should have *been* recovering our money from the major corpos as much as realistically possible. C - It's not just a boycott. Don't think of it that way. You are freeing your cash to work for YOU again.

Everybody gets to have an opinion about what the brand should look/feel/sound like, but not everyone gets to say anything about the Product™ because that's too difficult to fix in post

If the universe were to abruptly wink out of existence, in what moment would you prefer to be spending your final seconds of existence? Think on it. Make those seconds count.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Damn, I thought living through 9/11 as a muslim was a pain in the ass. I had a lot of hope, somehow, back then. Faith, even. Now, every day my faith is suffocated by the crushing, ceaseless weight of human stupidity.

As a low key End-Of-Earther, glad to hear it

Waiting for Ortegas glamping with a Gorn to crossover with Alien: Earth somehow. Just needs a Pearl Jam track to start playing #SNW

Foundation S3 crushed it. This show 1000% makes up for the time I lost forcing myself to watch Game of Thrones for 5 seasons. A superior program and adaptation in every possible way, I will not be taking questions now or ever regarding this take

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

Moonfall was such a good movie. It’s plot was incredibly, unspeakably stupid but somehow so full of hope

great advice going around for turning off autoplay videos but might i suggest

They got several series out of the NXIVM cult thing. The Epstein scandal will need 8 dramatic adaptations (each by a different director, at least one should be Ari Aster), a four part 60 minutes special, full docuseries on Hulu, Netflix and Apple, and at least several TikTok breakdowns

And yet, he persisted

• type password to open laptop • enter password for intranet browser • enter passcode into personal phone • enter passcode for MS Authenticator • enter time sensitive numerical code • enter passcode for MS Authenticator (again?!) This is insane I am just trying to put in a request for time off

Critical thinking is already at an all time low world-wide/culture-wide. The advent of LLMs into everyday use isn't helping. The folks who already didn't want to use their available brain cells can now do so with relative impunity, minus the ppl reminding them to fact check.

I think this CDC fracas is the critical part that was left out of all those zombie movies. Leave a moronic human raisin who is host to a sentient parasitic worm in charge of the nation’s health and of course a zombie apocalypse will happen. Expect nothing less. Plan accordingly, my friends.

older kid: “who even invented money anyway?” me: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities,’ its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must thus begin with the analysis of a commodity.”

Was not expecting Alien: Earth to be unintentionally hilarious

End-of-month reminder that America's government has been hijacked by lawless, regressive, incompetent, morally bankrupt fascists. We're all huddled in the house trying not to starve, and self-soothing with gallows humor, cute animal pics and trash TV. Send more snacks, thanks.

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

Don't tell my mom but the next Harley girl you see might be me

bad alt-history future ass timeline

This is the new “shiver me timbers”, please update your slang

Watching German Shopping cart archery can be very satisfying.

Increasingly I consider this: Religious orders offer a promise of community, predicated on following a set of values, traditions, and social hierarchies. When those communities fail or betray us, it shakes our spiritual faith, despite that community never offering authentic spiritual guidance.

As someone who was partly raised on internet forums, which can be quite unforgiving and are generally capitalism allergic, it's always a bit meta to see the shitposting and overall language of those watering holes deconstructed and appropriated for the use case of corporate or startup marketing.

The new Fantastic Four was actually pretty good. I complained a lot less, and the cast did a fine job. However once again I am submitting to the powers that be a request to revive the cartoon about the only Marvel/DC/Whatever character I remotely care about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcxi...

this movie is an American classic and I’ll die on that cheesy, cheesy hill. I’ve seen it over 100 times, half of those times by my own volition

The fact that we all exist right now is so interesting. There could just be nothing. Or whatever would exist if we didn't exist. Isn't that wild? Imagine intentionally bringing [gestures vaguely] to life. Where's the value add here? Whose KPI are we helping to measure? Who's the audience for this

Maybe there really is something in the water

Sometimes watching Strange New Worlds feels like watching a show made by someone who loved the TOS aesthetic and skipped over everything else on their way to write Spock ship fanfic

Feet up if only for a moment

Love me a bit of Sade.

Previously, on “As The Steak Sears”…

"AI is the future!" Meanwhile I'm on try 30 of trying aggregate my subscriptions so I can get my finances under control. ChatGPT shit the bed when I fed it three differently formatted csvs. Gemini is only a bit more competent. I guess it's better for accidentally generating napalm recipes.

Whoever takes over after this clusterfuck is gonna be like Superman in Superman III restoring everything evil!Superman fucked up. He (or she, at last) will need to be out here re-wokeifying things, putting back the rainbow sidewalks, giving people back Medicare

Nothing gets the blood pumping like a good “as per my last email”

It's wild how America is over and we're all still out here just going to our little jobs at 9am and paying taxes and waving omg hi to Catherine that we haven't seen forever from our Hyundai Palisades in the Whole Foods parking lot