The most immediate (and probably the most pernicious) effect generative AI has had on my industry isn’t job loss. Directing, editing, or cinematography jobs haven't been replaced by AI, nor is AI in danger of replacing actors anytime soon, regardless of what breathless tech bros insist. (1/4)

Rewatching THEY LIVE and when Roddy Piper puts on the glasses, laughs bitterly and says "it figures it'd be something like this" I felt that in my soul more than I ever have before.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

BILLY JOEL: So I have this new song about my unrequited high school crush and how it seems like only good people die young. PRODUCER: Ooh, nice. So we're probably gonna want that to be moody and somber, right? BILLY JOEL: Fuck no. It's gonna sound like you just got a star in Mario Kart.

25 years later 😬 this song still goes hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5W...

Literal royalty facing accountability before the law while our king decides if he wants a new war — happy semiquincentennial!

"The greatest threat to democracy today is anonymity" fucking PREACH IT www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCn...

Two years ago I was in a car accident that destroyed the remaining cartilage in my arthritic knees. I’ve had multiple procedures since then, including regular cortisone injections, but there are still days when even walking across a room is extremely painful. Today is one of those days.

Dear parents: if you bring your kid into a restaurant and then set them up with a phone to watch with the volume cranked all the way up, yes, we are all judging you.

Barack Obama failed to close Guantánamo Bay, prosecuted whistleblowers while promoting mass surveillance against American citizens, deported record numbers of immigrants, and is the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner (it’s true, look it up).

March for Lifers brought measles to DC because of course they did. The timing and location line up so neatly it’s hard to imagine a clearer transmission trail. www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

Interesting signage spotted in LA this weekend

The line between there and here is thinner than you think." Fuck the oligarchs. Long live the artists. Слава Україні! youtu.be/uIfqSTBTJXQ?...

I’m alone in a mostly empty coffee shop, clearly working. There are at least ten open tables. Three young men walk in and choose the one table that's basically right on top of me and start talking loudly. Why? Discuss (the vantage point in the pic is from my NEW spot):

Don't you know atomic power Is just God's celestial shower? There are those that He has chosen And those that He has not There are many who will die In the Lord's plan by and by But it won't be you or I Thanks to The Great Caucasian God www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK7p...

Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

When ICE takes videos of protestors & says "We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."

Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

Darren Aronofsky has gone full AI slop mode. What a pity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4cL...

For instance, note @adamserwer.bsky.social's point about Trump/MAGA deep ideological hatred of Minneapolis. The real function of ICE, as he notes, is to "terrorize American communities for being too diverse or too democratic." Much wisdom from him in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

I went to a local bookstore today to practice being up and walking on my own. (And to feel calm in my head as I did so.) They had anti-ICE signs everywhere so I did my duty as a citizen and spent more than I could afford to on books this month. Fuck ICE. And support authors and your local bookstore.

I think that sound you’re hearing is millions of people simultaneously realizing that a large percengage of every generation has always been eager to destroy their fellow humans, and that kindness, generosity, and empathy have been fighting an uphill battle against that impulse from day one.

The iciness of the roads is always directly proportional to the number of Truck Bros™ who are completely confident their oversize vanity trucks (used exclusively for commuting to desk jobs) can handle it.

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis. AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including: "Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"

Impossible to dismiss or ignore.

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

It's been somewhat vindicating to watch the Trump administration rapidly lose control of the narrative. There's just something about killing people and kidnapping 5-year-olds that will do that . . .

Looking forward to reading whatever Tom Nichols writes today about how we're still not living in a fascist state because he hasn't personally gotten shot or dragged off to a gulag yet.

The closest thing I have to a New Year's resolution is: if a place has ads, spend as little time as possible in it. So far that's been doing wonders for my mental health.

My kid had a Spiderman backpack just like this. I bet that blue hat has a silly name that the whole family has adopted. And I bet this kid's dad would move heaven and earth to keep him from making this scared, sad face. This is a "peccata clamantia": a sin that screams out to God for vengeance.

There is a real conversation to be had about if it's ok to protest in a church. However, it's clear that many people are focusing on that conversation as a way to avoid addressing the situation in Minneapolis itself, and what it means for our civil liberties. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Very Steven King core

American voters and members of congress would rather have a third world war for literally no reason than admit they might have made a mistake. www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...

🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈INDIANA🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

DOINK

Trump showing up for the IU/Miami game and getting booed by fans of both teams is warming my heart.

Biden's (first-half) agenda was tremendously *economically* progressive, which made a lot of appallingly rich people very angry, but they knew they couldn't win against "tax the rich", so they dumped their resources into "CRT, cancel culture and woke (derogatory)".

The original How To Train Your Dragon is always better than I remember.

It's official. The apocalypse is here. The Bears just beat the Packers in the post-season.

In other words, he's a vice president.

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

Becoming increasingly obsessed with this dude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3NU...

People have started calling Stephen Miller "Pee-Wee German" and I am here for it.

What the online reactions to Renee Nicole Good's murder tell us about people's real beliefs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #ice #reneenicolegood #minneapolis #timwalz #ashleebabbitt

When you go online to defend ICE agents murdering people, this is what the rest of us see.

I feel I'm flying blind when I know that my mind won't relieve me Not much to be said when my heart and my head still deceive me Don't offer up help that you know that I won't be needing Cause I do it to myself like I never get tired of bleeding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIk...

Happy peaceful demonstration day to those who celebrate.

Right-wing podcaster brain is a form of dementia and you cannot convince me otherwise.