can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Our dystopian future is looking light, bright, and just a touch whimsical.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

No one is listening to you except your phone

Bluesky rn

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

ICE raid this morning at Cypress Park Home Depot. I can’t imagine much more awful than seeing grown men running terrified through the aisles, unless it’s the teenage girl I saw in tears on the sidewalk, describing the arrest she saw. I was in there for some picture hooks.

Did a new one

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

And we cannot placate them because they do not actually want the things they say they want. They do not want to be heard (they are heard) or to be treated fairly in politics (they are in control of the country). They want to feel victimized so they can retaliate.

99% of the culture war from the right is them going out of their way to look at stuff that they don’t need to look at that just ends up making them mad

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Freedom from debt in exchange for your soul. It’s a bargain with the devil.

I will say again, generative AI is the non-consensual U2 album of the consumer tech world.

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

This merch is the stuff people are going to find in their parents’ basements in 50 years and go “god, I know it’s important historical context but I just don’t want to touch it, do you think a museum would want it or should I just burn it”

“Christian Zionists are better Jews than Jews who do not support the state of Israel” is absolutely where American political discourse is headed.

"It's not what a movie is about. It's how it is about it." -- Roger Ebert (I didn't really understand this quote as a teenager, but boy do I now!)

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

We've reached a point in the Upside Down where the white Christian nationalists are threatening to strip citizenship status from ethnic minorities and political opponents and claim it's FOR JEWS. These tactics have been used against Jews by fascists and authoritarians countless times in the past.

Very correct choice, Apple!

one of the most incomprehensible to me things that a lot of people appear to believe about pop culture is that a bad movie can be made good if its supplementary material is good, or that it is somehow OK to make a movie that demands you to watch hours of other material to make sense

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

It's almost like our law enforcement should identify themselves for a reason? (well, multiple reasons, but this sure as shit is one of them)

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

WHISKEROLOGY has been out in the world for two weeks now and I'm so excited and proud! 🎉

Keep remembering all the things that the Supreme Court found legal that were later determined to be morally-and often legally- wrong. Start with Plessy vs. Ferguson and legal segregation. The law is not the arbiter of rightness, it often hoards power. Protect trans people at all costs.

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

I told you guys

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

the random item shop/save spot deep into a dungeon before a boss

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Union leader David Huerta was just released on bail. The effort to incarcerate, smear his name, and prosecute him as a means to intimidate other prominent leaders from standing up against injustice will backfire. He emerges a hero and is already igniting a groundswell.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?

It's final paper season.

First interview with @sgoldmcbride.bsky.social (my amazing sister) for her upcoming book, Whiskerology, just dropped. Listen, follow, buy her opus!

WHO DID THIS?

Sinners (2025)

There has been a lot of talk about how The Pitt is a comforting, old-school ER procedural, and in many ways it is. But it's also hitting, I think, because an overtaxed emergency room captures the mood in a country that has let every problem tear through the safety net and escalate into a crisis.

Maybe they could make future seasons of The Pitt 52 episodes long and release one every week for the rest of my existence?

We coulda just taxed these motherfuckers and it would have cost them less than $485 billion and we’d still have a postal service and social security and the NOAA and USAID and…