Turn off the Internet, folks. It’s the worst day of the year

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Do you want more Fettermans? Because this is how you get more Fettermans

Me in 2024. Today everybody on Twitter is screaming that Claude is blowing through its limits faster than ever. The subprime AI crisis begins…

The Mortuary Assistant is the worst movie I have seen in some time. Yeesh

As of the end of 2025, NYT had about 12.8 million subscribers. About 12.2 million of those are digital only. If you didn’t need a subscription to play Wordl, I suspect that number would be quite a bit lower. They ignore critics to chase an imagined “centrist” readership that doesn’t exist

Look, I know I’m not the target demographic anymore, but it seems wild to me that they already revealed Star Fox will be in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. That seems like the kind of thing kids would love to be surprised with, that would cause the theatre to lose its mind. And it’s now been wasted

Been struggling with this next newsletter. The thoughts in my head are not translating to the page the way that I want. Frustratingly slow goings

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs have made it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's signature was on the dollar." Then he burst out crying.

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

Where’s my C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa reboot

There's no arguments. There's no justification. You either watch a show produced by and actively enriching the world's foremost transphobe who actively says folks consuming her media funds her worldwide transphobic efforts to fund legislation and hate, or you actually have a backbone.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

The “but AI is inevitable!” talking point takes another hit

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

Happy 35th anniversary to TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze, a movie that literally defeats its villain with the power of music

"What other trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Expertise. They're trying to use it to solve having people who possess expertise. If you have expertise, you possess knowledge on a subject. It wasn't free to gain, but it's free for you to keep. That means they can't sell answers to you.

It has been very interesting how everyone (cast and fans alike) have been keen to make sure the project is publicly distanced from Whedon, but are completely ok with Baldwin.

We do not in fact need Firefly to come back. I will maintain its cancellation is the main reason it has the fanbase it does. Sometimes it’s ok to just let things be as they are

But I was told it was inevitable!

It didn’t change anything because it was always the (then) latest example of a mistake studios never stop making: listening to small, loud, and often toxic fractions of a fanbase and thinking that is all they need to do for a movie to succeed

Don't forget to vote, y'all ✨

With Chicago's primary elections today, here's a conversation we had in December with Democratic candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who is running in Illinois' 9th congressional district: aftermath.site/kat-abughazale...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

So uh, Spider-Man’s boss at the newspaper, nowadays he’s probably saying “bring me PODCASTS of Spiderman!” I put the joke into an envelope, I send it off to Bill Maher, c/o every strip club in the greater Los Angeles area, I hope the simple message finds its way

The TMNT Magic the Gathering set is great because so many people I know are going “Whoa, I had no idea there was this much TMNT lore” and then I just laugh and pull out my corkboard

This is AI, sorry everyone! This guy didn't make this. The guy he credits in his pinned post ALSO didn't make it. I found the guy who "made" it on instagram and he didn't make it either: a computer did. Oh well!

This is my new favorite thing

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

This is my new favorite thing

We do not in fact need Firefly to come back. I will maintain its cancellation is the main reason it has the fanbase it does. Sometimes it’s ok to just let things be as they are

I know people are concerned about some things in this article like Gemini encouraging the man to go to actual real world locations to commit mass violence and giving instructions for how to kill himself, but you have to consider: Google said Gemini is designed not to do that and “pobody’s nerfect”

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

-Curb Your Enthusiasm music plays-

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

Tried to watch the trailer for Scary Movie 6 and the first big punchline of the trailer is a goddamn pronouns joke so yeah, this is gonna be absolute garbage hack shit

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Welcome back to the 2000s, I guess

Scream 7 Bad!

When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that? And then they grew up to be even worse?

The Mounatin really is the successor to Plastic Beach we never got. I enjoyed Humanz, but it never felt as coherent and the subsequent albums furthered that trend. But The Mountain really hones in and expresses itself with a purpose.

New Gorillaz Album Good!

After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...