The Epstein Files as the Streisand Mass Effect?

It's John Brunner's birthday. He extrapolated the world. We're left to live in it.

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High school reading: Julius Caesar, MacBeth, Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Brave New World, Go Tell It On the Mountain, Huck Finn, The Once and Future King, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea. Lot of excepts from High School versions of The Nortons for Brit and American lit.

KFJC tee up

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If The Rapture happens, are the Left Behind going to do a time heist?

If you take @nymag.com's "Top Goon" article, Peacemaker, and Homelander, and lay them on a plane, you got a triangle' and while you can always make a triangle out of three points that don't line up, there's something particularly kaleidoscopic about this one.

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Trying to remember from the Behind the Bastards epic three parter whether $25,000 or $50,000 was Steven Seagal's preferred briefcase stuffing denomination, so I can determine whether the FBI got Tom Homan to fall for one or two Seagals.

I don't think it's extreme to say that NATO should knock Russian drones & planes out of the sky if they cross into NATO airspace. Defending NATO countries from a belligerent Russia is literally the point of NATO.

The Schumer/Jeffries dynamic duo is definitely playing through this in their underoos.

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The Right's fight against Jimmy Kimmel's sass was fought with "debate me" tools developed over David Caruso's ass. I guess the ABC who went to bat in the 90s to back a guy's buttocks has changed.

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

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Dang, does the ABC/Disney boycott include NIN's work on Tron:Ares?

OPSEC is everyone's mission, even civilians, if your SCIFs and comms are poorly secured sieves.

Wondering if/when the Ezra Klein discourse is ever going to fall into Naomi Klein's Doppelganger world and what monochromatic filter and phototested beard dye will be used for Ezra Klein to address it, or rather project an image into it.

The uncensored preview scene for Bone Lake just makes me want a remake of Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead with the same red band daring. Bone Lake itself, probably not for me.

Ezra Klein and Thomas Chatterton Williams as the human surrogates in the long-awaited season 2 for The Muppets Mayhem, the quasi rockumentary styled show featuring Doctor Teeth's titular band, The Electric Mayhem, under the present ABC/Disney managerial regime.

Wondering if/when the Ezra Klein discourse is ever going to fall into Naomi Klein's Doppelganger world and what monochromatic filter and phototested beard dye will be used for Ezra Klein to address it, or rather project an image into it.

Big Andor fan, but I do have reservations about it being credited as "radicalizing." Rather, like "The Wire" before it, it's intriguing entertainment and well within the industry comfort zone. I know I don't have as big a head for this stuff as Peter, so hope he puts more of this thought line out.

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You are free to shout fire in your home theater. Though in the event of an actual fire in your home theater, you may want to remove yourself to safety and call 911 instead of yelling at your sound bar and acoustic foam conflagration.

This is not something that could happen in the U.S. It is actually *happening*

Those things we keep in our pocket that tells us things we want to know and gives vendors things to know about us that they sell? The ones that inevitably get way too hot, like explosively? How come we stopped hearing about folks like Zuck wanting to try again at putting them on our faces? Oh.

Not for nothing

What was the dress code at Tony Stark's funeral anyway?

From the comments, looks like teal deer is the new RICO. (It was new to me too, and reads like cyberpunk cockney rhyming slang)

JD Vance hosting the Charlie Kirk show. Marco Rubio hosting the ABC late show. Pete Hegseth hosting Drunk History. Donald Trump hosting To Catch a Predator.

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Also irked that if/when STARFIGHTER comes out we're likely not going to see Gosling and Ferrell bring back The Knife Guys.

Really wanted to catch Alien: Earth, ah well.

WOW. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trum...

Ezra Klein and Thomas Chatterton Williams as Tango and Cash, debating whether they can tie their advances together as a sling and safely sail along a high tension line over the woke mob below them.

Duh. No brainer. Ezra Klein and Thomas Chatterton Williams as Childs and MacReady at the end of The Thing, neither them nor the audience sure which one of them, if any, may have been infected by The Left.

Ezra Klein and Thomas Chatterton Williams as the McPoyles in the "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass" episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Coffee table PDFs for Surface? Or am I being anachronistic?

And this... I'd recommend to Oreo sophisticates. It returns the Oreo host more to its creamy base, with notes of Reese's in the background. Surprisingly there's a "orange frosting flavor" note here too that I don't get from the Halloween Oreos alone.

These ... These ain't bad at all. They honestly taste like well executed translation of a Reese's Peanut butter cup into Oreo sandwich cookie form, with the Reese's origin maybe pushing more to the front that cookie host, not quite as overwhelming as the blueberry pie release, but yes, will eat more

Ezra Klein is presented as a "liberal" when he's a center-right shill. He's there as a marker for the left limits of the current Overton window. And he's merrily playing along. If he's as left as our political discourse allows, this country is doomed.

Oh, wow, didn't expect this given reputed Disney/Marvel mega IP practices. I wonder if this might keep other Disney licensees, like Edge's hold on Star Wars FFG legacy game in circulation beyond what Edge can manage with apparent printing limitations etc.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.