This is how we're all going to die, and if I'm being honest, I don't like it

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

Tom Noonan. A great character actor, a nuanced and tortured performance in the season 4 gun control episode, Making a Martyr, 1989. RIP

So if I have this right.. the spark of human innovation is truly magical, happens once or twice in a lifetime… but really that magic is just made by maxing out a few key qualities (marketing?), and AI has all those qualities, 10/10 A+, so bring it on.

I don’t happen to believe in this possible future, but even if LLMs did pump out high quality material that inspired and excited to human standard, that would be the end of culture. We wouldn’t be at all ready for instant gratification all of the time. That would break our collective brains.

Writers, if you could shred all of your dignity by putting your life's work in the hands of a slot machine that always spits out crap, would you do it? huh? would you? I bet you would. Say yes so that you can absolve me of my guilt. C'mon faceless stranger, do it

A reboot of Office Space where instead of setting the building on fire, Milton destroys the entire engine of capitalism.

look I grew up not being understood and making jumps nobody else followed and being way out of other people's contextual and background knowledges and I learned that people mostly won't understand unless I provide ten sentences of extra context for every sentence of communication

I often say that if you often find you're the smartest person in the room, it's because nobody actually clever wants to be in the same room as you.

The intro on memory brings to mind a music memory: seeing The Zombies (or at least Blunstone and Argent) in concert. There was definitely a superfan there with a “Rose For Emily” sign. My brain really wants to fill in some gaps and give him a homemade towel/blanket cape à la Ignatius J. Reilly.

Something social media should fix is if I’m watching something and accidentally do something that causes the feed to refresh, the thing that i was watching disappears forever.

ten years ago today no one clapped

it isn't a lack of training. it isn't just feds. it's the cruelty the powerful compulsively inflict on the powerless.

Hey #SNL sorry I know it’s already Monday night, but an idea for you: Some presentation of the purely evil middle management that must be in place at ICE to keep motivating these guys to be so horrible. Either pre-recorded or, if you’re really bold, perform a historic takedown of ICE fucking LIVE.

It does feel nice and right to think of the people trying to destroy our civilization as barbarians.

I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.

If ICE isn’t stopped after this month, would it be stopped after a premeditated public execution?

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

I made this the last time my anger about ICE boiled over but didn't know what to do with it. And here we are. #ice #fuckice #fucktrump #abolishice youtu.be/8ZNkQPc4g1A

As if I wasn’t feeling silly big bookstore nostalgia enough walking into a Barnes & Noble, they were playing Backwater by Meat Puppets outside the store and Change by Blind Melon inside. It’s like they were targeting my demographic down to the birth month.

Look at the difference of what love means for a democrat vs a republican. Dollars to donuts, every single uniqueness of the republican definition is icky, outdated, and/or Tim Walz-style WEIRD.

Lin-Manuel Miranda after saying for the first time in his life the name Alexander Hamilton out loud: “Oh fuck yeah.”

The whole Heart and Soul piano duet thing is pretty old school and the scene from Big is keeping it alive, because without that kids hear it from a) two people they know playing it together (kinda rare) b) YouTubers (maybe cool, but amongst thousands of other weird stunt piano duets)

Twenty years from now: “I shit you not, when I was growing up, we had USB1 plugs in our kitchen outlet.”

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Home Alone fans! Did you know that FIVE actors from the holiday classic Home Alone were guest stars on The Equalizer? Including Macaulay Culkin almost two years before Home Alone came out. Check them out, and Merry Christmas! #homealone www.facebook.com/reel/8749877...

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Also, TV networks should start having ads for themselves like this. Thirty second spots with Ted Danson saying to the camera “Doesn’t it feel good to just sit at home and watch broadcast TV?”

This is the thing that really freaks me out about LLMs. I often don't know what I think about something until I've verbalised it. The process of writing is the process of clarifying my thoughts.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Creepy good defeats creepy bad

For all the jigsaw puzzlers out there: Sky first, baby

Got the Christmas radio station on in the car. My son reading off the dashboard display: “Wait, the Grinch song was an adult hit?”

My kids probably know what’s up with the Tooth Fairy but maybe they don’t know how little effort we put into the ruse. Maybe they think I put on a fairy outfit.

“Four of them sitting at the table have been in the Equalizer” I say to my family while watching Christmas Vacation, earning their admiration and respect.

it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.

Quick who’s got a boulder?

If anybody wants to get back at Tarantino for any reason, remind him that, at a pivotal point in his career, he banked a lot on bringing back Travolta from Hollywood retirement, and it worked, and even so, that man is, 30 years later, singing Greased Lightnin’ dressed as Santa Claus.

Speaking of affordability, I shouldn’t have to pay market price for Cap’n Crunch’s Oops! All Berries.

Anytime someone holds up their phone as an object to illustrate some point they’re making, I’m in.

A political topic we can all agree on for Thanksgiving: JD Vance should at all times be dressed in a silly jester outfit with makeup and everything.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

I like messing with the Facebook algorithm. “I will click on, and only click on, clips from As Good As It Gets.”

Trying to think of a band that could be theoretically be called a one hit wonder but calling them that would make the most people mad. So far I got: Smashing Pumpkins.