This checks out.

Does anybody think these two headlines are unrelated? J to the Fucking C, CNN. Do better.

I've had a vintage copy of Ricky Jay's Cards as Weapons around for a couple of decades which is where this is from. Still out of print I believe. Sagan has been and remains my guru, so this is one of the coolest pictures ever taken for me.

Watching Knight of the 7 Kingdoms, which is rather good. Nostalgia alert: I'm old enough to note the old HBO opening. 20+ yrs ago it meant you were in for a treat on Sundays. Now it's so anachronistic that it literally shows tuning in from analog TV static that can't even be seen on modern devices.

For more than a few reasons, One Battle After Another is like if There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men had a baby. They were famously filmed near each other at the same time. Decade or two later and now there's this thing that shows up.

Well, fuck. I check in with Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-Fascism from time to time. The word was overused during Bush Jr and I didn't endorse it at the time. More boxes got checked off after the first Trump admin. Not that I didn't see this coming, but we're hitting 100% on all 14 points now.

I'm up so late that morning UK stuff is showing up in my feed. This does not portend well for tomorrow.

This seems mostly correct to me with one caveat: It's asymmetric. The right will love that AI slop more since they generally act on emotions and don't give a shit about facts to begin with. Those of us on the other side prefer critical thinking and skepticism because we actually care about truth.

Name another franchise that has been reinvigorated the way Trachtenberg has done with Predator. Prey/Killer of Killers/Badlands. He's 3 for 3 so far. I'll offer one: Coogler and Jordan's Creed. All of them are on point. That these ~40+ year old IPs can work again is a minor miracle.

During the Iraq war Thomas Friedman always said the finish was 6 months out. So much it was derisively known as the Friedman unit. Someone needs to come up with an Elon/Musk unit. Note: It does not need to only be time. Money/time/bullshit works as long as the dimensional analysis checks out.

There is literally nothing I could write here that would express how formative Rob Reiner was for me. Not just as a filmmaker, but as an activist and all around good person.

Purposefully not linking to this. Still can't decide if it's for Trump's benefit or RFK Jr's.

Legit question for anyone who gets mathmatical formalisms. Why are imaginary numbers that don't exist in nature okay to use in equations and divide by zero isn't? They both look like placeholders on paper. Black holes and singularities even seem to exist and imply the latter is more real than i.

Not even gonna link to the shitty framing of this CNN piece. "Hasn't been accused of wrongdoing"? Except by dozens of women, one proven in court. Multiple federal and state prosecutors with one felony conviction. Countless people who've ever done business with him.

Unlikely Pluribus prediction just to get it here, sure I'm not the first: We know it involves aliens. They contact us to say we're assholes and they don't want to meet until we fix our ways and start making each other happy instead of being dicks. People do. Rhea Seehorn doesn't buy it and rebels.

They. Do. Not. Care. About. Tariffs. This is a bit of Roberts moderation so he can pretend his court isn't full of right wing reactionaries. It's taking away a piece of Halloween candy. Trump still gets a full dinner of burnt steak, ketchup, and a chocolate cake dessert.

Made this for my kid cause he's been playing the game. He laughed for like 5 minutes straight. Fathering accomplished.

A house on my way to work has intermittently flown Trump flags. The 2020 one came down on *exactly* January 7th. And still the 2024 came up later. Dude also had a "No Kings No Masters" one for years until that recently no longer applied. These people have no fucking idea what they believe.

Sadly a bigger problem with Trump isn't that he's fucking us over in real time. It's that in the future no one will deal with us if terms can be capriciously rescinded at any time. Iran nuke deal? Fuck off. Paris climate? Fuck you frenchie. Now they're fucking over people who agreed to help us.

I get the Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man impulse, but there is no world in which a so-called "lifelong Democrat" should be okay with current MAGA policies. Pretty sure the brain worm crawled across the pillow into her ear at some point. www.huffpost.com/entry/tig-no...

There it is. Threats of straight up autocracy. Any media outlet that was indignant about what the left and Dems from Hilary to Kamala were saying should be offering nothing but mea culpas now. And yet they won't. That'd be acknowledging their own mistakes and that the sides are not the same.

As a sandwich aficionado, nothing elates me more than the fact that they've become a symbol of the resistance.

Again, it's always Democrats fault that Republicans suck.

I was just talking to someone and tried to bring up the Dunning-Kruger effect, yet the only thing my brain kept coming up with is Sapir-Whorf which I knew was wrong. I just sat there blankly, hoist with my own petard.

Am I the only one that feels this is a bit tautologous? The thing is trained on the limited, selective data sets we feed it. It'd be like me training someone to skydive. I know some principles but have never actually done it. If I ask them in the plane how I'm doing of course they'll say great.

Up late cause I haven't been sleeping so well recently. Been lax on my public media donations, but now's the time for all of us to step up so I got that done.

On a lighter note, not enough people are pointing out that there's a Weyland-Yutani android in the new Predator trailers.

Not the first to point this out, but Trump has never been anti-war. His self interest means he's only against it with totalitarians he admires that happen to be our traditional enemies-Russia, DPRK, etc. A big reason he's considering attacking Iran is because he hasn't met with them yet in person.

I’ve been a long time lurker who didn’t want to wade into the cesspool of social media, but when they come for the golden retrievers I’m gonna come out. fox8.com/news/minneso...