So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

I really, really wish someone would leak this. Hagiographic estate bullshit robbing us of what was surely (based on reporting and the director) a definitive work on Prince, his life, and his legacy.

Prince died ten years ago today. I remember that day vividly, given the number of friends who reached out to me as if I'd lost someone I actually knew personally. But he was one of one in my musical life and all that it extends into. I still miss his presence in our musical world.

Not wrong, but: how much of this difference is mostly just about the collapse of traditional mass marketing? The message in 1999 was 100% “you need a cell phone” but that message feels very different delivered via TV commercials and print ads vs versus the corporate PR/integration campaigns of now.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

There’s good stuff buried in Speechless, the big CBC-promoted doc about campus political issues… but the fact pretty much every person on one side of the debate seems to end up readily and willingly going on Fox News showcases — at a minimum — a woeful lack of practical political awareness.

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

JD Vance saying the Pope doesn't understand Catholic doctrine and Pierre Poilievre saying Mark Carney is badly educated in economics are attack lines from the same "hilariously misapplied hubris" part of the modern conservative brain.

Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power. There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Let this be a teachable moment in bracket construction to all potential bracketeers.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Mamdani, Houston and Fillmore all seem deeply invested in “content production” as part of their leadership. Difference is: Mamdani’s model posits that helpful, engaging content can be politically helpful, whereas Houston and Fillmore appear mostly interested in content for politics’ sake.

Truly interesting, detailed, super journalist’d long read from Chris here

Checking in on Pam Bondi:

Today I was in a large meeting where a woman announced “I’m sorry, I have to leave, I just got a call that I’ve got a family doctor” and the room CHEERED like she’d won $10 million dollars. What a joyous, dystopian moment.

And we have a highway (104 - Cobequid Pass section) that has a “tariff” (toll) on New Brunswickers. How is this any different?

Same vibes.

1) Say what you will about JJ Abrams productions, but they sure as shit know how to "movie trailer." Hopes placed with this one. 2) I really, really wish we'd find a way to break Richard Kelly out of director jail.

Literally just heat at every turn on this project let’s goooooo

Open the schools

A+ quote here.

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! (Ok - mostly just pretty good. But we love a pretty good time at the movies!)

"Researchers say the way to help humanity escape the Turing Trap is to make sure that chatbots don’t communicate as if they were sentient... [but] this solution runs counter to the financial interests of any AI companies that depend on steadily increasing user engagement."

Happy Spring,everyone!

The paradox of Team USA's vibes in the World Baseball Classic is they took the wrong things too seriously (the ill-placed militarism, the lack of fun, no camaraderie with their opponents) but didn't take any of the right things seriously (the tournament format, showing pride and joy of country, etc)

THANK YOU VENEZUELA!!! 🇻🇪

These are unprecedented times. And as such, I agree 100% with these Yankee fans.

Real Blade Runner-era Rutger Hauer vibes from Robert Pattison in the new Dune trailer...

Interesting Oscars factoid: the past 15 winners of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay were all writer-directors on their films (some as sole writer, a few as co-writers). In the previous 30 years before that (1981-2010, only a third of winners were writer-directors.

Same but for Ernie Clement.

So without the tool booths to help with this, apparently the new strategy for keeping high-sided vehicles off the MacKay in high winds is... close one lane right at the main access point to the bridge and back traffic up to the mall? Basically, causing the same traffic effects as an accident?

MLB has gotta love the WBC basically operating as a full-blown advertisement for the new ABS system… through its absence. A game that big can’t end on a call that bad. Embarrassing.

This Adrien Brody gag would have gone over a lot better had they not just aggressively and meanly played off the Golden crew minutes earlier.

Sunday night swingin’ and Sinnin’

How much better do you think the Academy felt knowing a pro like Kumail was up there when something extraordinary happens (a tie! For best live action short!) and not, like… Faye Dunaway.

Every member of Team USA is free to quit their lucrative career playing sports and go join the military like Pat Tillman did. This is all just cosplaying eyewash. It's a game. It's entertainment. It's supposed to be fun, not joyless, humorless war.

Harper and Speier with the only halfway decent answers here, what a non-metric ton of suck.

Not that the 2025 Blue Jays didn’t have a few boring white dudes, too, but a big reason so many Canadians fell deep into that team and run is because there were PERSONALITIES on that roster: underdogs, goofballs, weirdos, superstars, nut jobs. They laughed. They cried. Baseball’s better than way.

I want to know who is responsible for this, why they did it, and why just rallying around being really awesome at the best sport on the planet with a chance to prove on a global stage it is seemingly not enough motivation for the dudes in this clubhouse. It’s poser bullshit and it sucks.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

The meritocracy is going great, as we can all see.

Joe is the obvious choice and the right choice — the clear heir apparent to Buck's seat for years now. But you gotta love an article spending 800 words contemplating nearly the entire Sportsnet Jays broadcast roster of analysts but not mentioning Madison Shipman. However could she be different, hmm?

30 years ago tonight:

An absolutely beautiful profile of a national treasure. If Samson never finds his way back to giving us songs again, I'm just grateful he left us so many great ones to cherish. hazlitt.net/longreads/la...

Fascinated by the Spielberg-forward marketing campaign for Disclosure Day. It's Universal taking a page from its Christopher Nolan and Jordan Peele playbook and applying it to a legacy director — and I'm very curious to see how it goes.

Team Canada through to the quarter-finals of the World Baseball Classic for the first time ever!

I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military

clown event still possible