“Network” premieres today in ‘76 “.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.” @ditzkoff.bsky.social

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

In contrast, I just finished this week's Pluribus, which would be entirely unwatchable unless you were looking at the screen most of the time. And if you were watching, you would have been rewarded with the best physical comedy every performed by a drone.

I have a short tale to tell about Google Gemini. I stopped bothering with it or Google Assistant on my phone because my phone is a Galaxy Flip and for some reason, access to Gemini was blocked on the outer screen. Tonight I accidentally triggered the Assistant button and, oh, it worked this time!

Bad news @gamegrumps.bsky.social. Turns out they are into cash.

I periodically go back and remind myself that the Theme for Quantumania (and its title sequence) deserved to be in a better movie than Quantumania. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOe2...

This is, uh, where I’m starting to land. Because “16-year-old records a song called Jailbait” implies a lot of things leading up to said recording and regrettably explains a lot of choices that follow it.

We, collectively, no longer deserve good things anymore and, MAN, is the universe delivering.

I'd like to offer my congratulations to both QAnon and GamerGate on being right about powerful, connected pedophiles and about ethics in journalism, respectively, while also being profoundly too stupid to actually find and identify the real occurrences of these issues.

My apologies to the writers of The Morning Show. I was unfamiliar with your game.

WOW, okay then. Didn't expect this news! forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/thread... Development of the Cities Skylines franchise is moving away from Colossal Order to Iceflake Studios... CO will stick around to release their long-delayed bike patch and a beta version of the asset editor, but that's it.

Pluribus, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Human Instrumentality Project

I feel like part of it is a failure in execution. You go from having a big revelation, which they also did at the end of Act 1, but then you have none of the tight storytelling and progression. Just challenges and level up opportunities on an open map or the final boss. No trying to sell the twist.

Who knew "the pee tape is real" would end up being the moderate position?

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

I keep struggling with how The Morning Show seems to portray Alex Levy as Girlboss for having slept with her (married) co-host and later portraying her sleeping with an interview subject who then tries to take over her network as but a small mistake she recovers from. Then reality catches up.

I’m not saying that snooping through Epstein’s Amazon receipts is or isn’t a worthwhile story. What I will say is why is this tweet so softball when THIS IS THE HEADLINE.

Are tech execs watching Black Mirror like it’s a free fucking business plan or something?

I don't get. No one asked why M wasn't remarking on the fact Bond changed faces and also was doing his first 00 mission all over again in Casino Royale. These are stupid questions to ask.

I've been generally surprised how elastic American Delusion has been this last year. But I'm wondering if a No-Pay-No-SNAP-No-Planes Combo will finally break that elastic.

I guess America is getting The Cool Zone™️ for Christmas.

Gonna go up to my local Subway Sandwich Artist and tell them the news, like that scene from The Newsroom.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

I misunderstood the rules of baseball and I now understand we are, actually, still in hell.

NOT NOW ROGERS

Is this the series finale of Baseball or something?

This is such good baseball, i hate it so much

It just had to be Game 7, Bottom of the 9th.

Pure uncut baseball right fuckin’ there

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. GETS IT. He's wearing a Marie-Philip Poulin jersey entering the Rogers Centre ahead of Game 7. Captain Clutch. Just what Vladdy wants to be for the #WANTITALL tonight.

We have been blessed by Sloshed Bandit.

My entire life, Anglophones often assume “Stéphane” is some sort of White Girl Spelling of Stephanie. And those who do attempt to say my name butcher it often enough that I settled on an English pronunciation (STEPH-ON rather than the more accurate STEH-PH-ANN). So just fuck off with this shit.

Coffeezilla waves the white flag on gambling. Be forewarned, there's more than one clip in this that will make you lose faith in humanity. youtu.be/9Ii1ROzeSwU?...

The highlight? Brining back playing old NES games within Animal Crossing (via NSO subscription). youtu.be/7nODHyw3lgs?...

bullpen. Bullpen. BULLPEN. BULLPEN!

Oh you've got a sidearmer?? The Jays have a Medieval Trebuchet

OH. Like that, then?

I kind of hoped that the game would end before I could finish this, so I wouldn't have to post it. No such luck.

So this was game 4 all along?

Fuck it, let Ohtani hit. Life has lost meaning. We must escape.

Maybe if we all stop watching, the game will just whither and die.

The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.

Rogers Centre doing a watch party means this game is causing two whole stadiums of people having to experience purgay.

OK so you know the gag on the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob is stepping on the rakes, it's funny, then it's too much, then it's terrible, then it's transcendently hilarious this baseball game

Most of the suffering we must endure is imposed upon us. But this is the kind we can give enthusiastic consent to.