I think its probably bad we just treat this level of unhinged disconnected from reality as kinda normal in our political discourse also I think its bad for humanity that "genocide" has been stripped of any meaning and is just an insult now

I’ve seen some folks using this as a commentary on the reactionary streak of Gen X but the childhood Gen X longed for was at least the very different world of c.1980. This is late millennials and early Gen Z reactionary nostalgia posting about a world that still largely exists.

Will elaborate on it one day but the main issue with Dune (1984) is that it's a literal translation rather than using film language to translate the ideas of the book.

The entitlement of some is unreal. You don't get an author-on-request. Books are not for you personally. What you take away from them is. If you don't like a book, cool! That's okay! Move on. Also, bring back manners. Write your reviews how you want, but saying this to an author? Who raised you?

Ben Shapiro is obviously correct about the absurdity of Third Temple claim, but his entire project is in crisis. He thought he could let the bigots in but that Jews would still be allowed to pass as good allies of the Christian right. Turns out when you open that door, you can’t close it again.

the Bari Weiss CBS takeover is part of this; it's why she trumpeted having Erika Kirk on - it was supposed to be a slap to the anti-semitic faction on the right, and instead supercharged it.

It's slowly dawning on me that the Falun Gong may be The Moonies if they failed to gain political influence.

Tet is a great example. A military disaster for the North. The VC basically ceased to exist after Tet and had to be filled with northern returnees and NVA. But a huge psychological victory, since no longer had any real idea why we were staying.

there's been a notable surplus of Gaza + Undecideds 2024 discourse *again* this weekend, it's always from the usual suspects, and my theory for why they keep doing this is: 1. they know they've lost this argument wholly, and 2. constantly relitigating it is the only coping mechanism they have left.

Tonight in 1978, the first episode of Douglas Adams’s wildly original radio series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. (The first US broadcast was on June 7, 1981, on the NPR series Playhouse, which I heard on Santa Monica station KCRW).

One of the more deeply disturbing culture habits on Twitter is the belief that it is both effective and important to retraumatise oneself over and over again while getting mad at people who don't want that.

If you haven't gotten to it, THE STAR DIARIES is also good.

my only-lightly-ungenerous answer is that a lot of people in tech don’t know many lenses other than “corporate investor”, and we have generations of folks who grew up tech with incubators and combinators and can only speak in MBA

According to Variety, here is the "hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" they cut out of their film. This is just bigotry, folks. Pixar has had dozens of straight characters.

Furthermore, they push AI to replace Humanities students with far more vigor than other subjects (even ones were AI could be useful). They see our work as "bad work" because we're not impressed by cheap tricks.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

I don’t know how exactly but I blame tiktok for this

"Walt Disney ruined animation when he mixed it with real-life elements. He is the demise of hand-drawn animation."

Not even the mega rich enjoy making a profit. If anything they're gambling addicts.

Become ungovernable.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Flannel, flannel everywhere.

Big Clock doesn't want you to know that Daylight Savings was made up by the government.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

"The bodies laid on the ground, circuits and imitation skin thrown into the crater with little regard. No human remains lay there for the men of this planet didn't want them in the first place. A testament to their need to control others and their indifference to their wills."

"BUT THAT MAKES ME A CRIMINAL! Right on... Thats the real stuff!"

Like Gandalf, I'm never late or early, I arrive exactly on time. Source? Myself.

When I began to follow China after the Hong Kong protests I was specifically warned about that cult.

The "Shen Yun" performance advertises a lot around here and when my daughter was small I thought oh maybe we should take her for the experience. Then I learned that it was a Falun Gong thing and the numbers included one about how Marx was bad and another about how abortion is evil

"Girl gamers", aka the load-bearing demographic of the BioWare game fandoms

I do not care for Tarantino

To be clear he's always been like this. He's for right-wing populism because it enables this hatred of his. His Islamophobia is the main drive in all of his writing.

“Great artists are entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they've got their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.” - David Lynch

I want to believe.

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

This is like when people say they’d have kids if they had time and money and that’s the one solution no one ever offers and every article is still all HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS MYSTERY NO ONE HAS EXPLAINED SHOCK PIKACHU

Not only that but you're expected to follow, to the letter, their moral complaints regardless of the consequences to your friends and finances. This is demanded by people who's moral compasses are sundials in caves.

“They are children in mind… They turn their play into great matters and great matters into play … Anger they show … when they become aware, suddenly, that there are other wills in the world beside their own. Then they will be as ruthless as the seawind.”

if the Hays Code didn't exist, modern fans would have invented it

Call me crazy, but I firmly believe that if all your life, your privileges and physical separation have shielded you from having to consider the needs and wants of people outside your socioëconomic class, you are not going to make a good leader to your people.

Also site not beating the "people with anxiety disorders validating each other" allegations

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

The God Emperor seeing Duncan Idaho

Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise? He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist. There is a reason you hold the line at sports.

in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

got another one

hey listen i love elijah wood and morgan freeman but between armageddon and deep impact one of those movies was the number one movie on the planet and also was nominated for four oscars and also is a part of the criterion collection and the other movie is deep impact

Stalin finally died 73 years ago yesterday. It’s a great time to watch this pitch perfect dark comedy if you’ve never seen it.