literally all netflix needs to do is stop trying to reinvent the wheel and just start hiring actually talented execs to greenlight genuinely good entertainment people will watch instead of trying to craft entertainment from user data (another plug for my avclub piece this week 💃🏻)

somewhere @couts.bsky.social is thrilled. i am fury

i feel like one of the reasons leftists online have so little tolerance/patience for others with differing views—particularly antiquated ones—is they’re on the internet surrounded by good and right PoVs and forget that many don’t see the same online media and others don’t even have internet

James Atlee Phillips was a pulp spy novelist and brother of Lee Harvey Oswald’s CIA contact. He also wrote THE INHERITORS about the Texas elite of the 30s, fat from oil wealth, and describes it in his autobiography in the hardest way possible. “the dollar-aristocracy“ is now in my word bank forever

Kind of like I wrote about for @avclub.com this week—Netflix is a tech company. it cannot build culture. just acquire it. www.avclub.com/netflix-seas...

If the different generations were fantasy races Millennials would be the ethereal elves that live apart. - a grasp of technology so impressive it appears to be magic - eternally young with dewy skin - everyone else hates us

the thing with Platner and Trump and plenty of others is….there are many many men who are never accused of sexual assault. like so many guys just living their lives and never ever being in a situation where they’re accused. it’s not hard. in fact it’s pretty easy! just don’t be a god damn creep!

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this show is just absolutely dead serious operatic comic yarns. really drives home what Fox/MCU took from us for two decades and reminds me of what made comics fun to begin with.

what sports team should live in fear of Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement next?

if you thought the consolidation of media and it’s subsequent collapse was bad and you’re now beside yourself due to the consolidation and collapse of console gaming just wait! Hollywood isn‘t done consolidating.

this is like when your dad “knows a guy at the sheriff’s office” who can get you out of a speeding ticket. but for a whole ass sports team.

One year ago, the level of catastrophe in Kerr County, TX was just becoming known - and dozens of families were starting down a path of horrific pain. We need to honor those families by realizing we have a flash flood problem and work to try to prevent future tragedies. tinyurl.com/4zk5tzav

250 years ago the educated children of an empire rebelled and with the aid of other empires they won their freedom and built something new and never done before. they would inspire others and it would lead to the collapse of empires and the freedom of millions worldwide. that rules

The cable box is still alive and worse than ever only it’s made by Google, Amazon, Apple, and/or Roku and you will say “but Alex open source/plex solves your issues” and they do NOT.

this is just all of Texas learning they tried to ban thc again.

it took me forever to realize his argument is apparently “only I and the majority of Christian denominations may have a creed of beliefs” which is wild because I also worry he thinks it’s a Catholic only thing.

Nikola Tesla once made Mark Twain shit his pants with technology. We should get back to that era.

I was going to be like “France your militant anti-AC culture is so dumb it killed over 1,000 people this week.” The I remember about 68,000 Americans die every year due to lack of universal healthcare. So on average more Americans die every week from our obstinance then France from theirs.

If you want to be an indie writer and/or critic in 2026 you'll also need to be: a) an editor b) an accountant c) a social media director d) a video editor e) a lawyer f) a benefits manager g) whatever sales does Like the independence is nice but the lack of institutional support ain't.

The other day I walked the dog after a brief rainstorm because it had cooled down to like 75F but everywhere the sun had been hitting pre-rainstorm was just a steamy steamy mess. It was so warm below the knees we cut our walk short. More trees.

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Working with the fantastic @danettechavez.bsky.social at AV Club to explore tech and culture's increasingly fraught relationship! my first piece is about the wonderful streaming service our government provides. I'm celebrating by watching Frontline.

Will Steam Machine be up there with Quibi as a brilliant idea deployed at the absolute worst time? 🤔🤔🤔

walked into my closet and said “it’s jorts time”

Got crime in your neighborhood? Toss up cameras and microphones everywhere. Traffic getting worse? More cameras! Everywhere! Need a timer for baking? A speaker with an always on microphone will help! Want a TV? Now its smart and has a microphone too! Kids online too much? Stalkerware to the rescue!

“woah why is the guy in severe cognitive decline doing stupid and nonsensical stuff???” i love how everyone is just doing the emperor‘s new clothes, but with dementia.

this is not true. its not his autism keeping my godson from baseball, its his absolute loathing of the sport because his brother loves it. (also he once wrote a poem and played it for his mom and I on the guitar on facetime) RFK Jr is an awful human being

one of the oddest things about “we must protect children on the internet” is that every time it becomes easier to convey ideas to the masses we all fret about this! then the purveyors of new mediums (in the US) adjust to avoid censorship. meanwhile social media just throwing money at lobbyists.

starting Sunday we will have not one but TWO popular and critically praised fantasy shows where consensual incest is a thing.

employees in this piece are so appalled they are being told “take the job or kick rocks” and outside of the talent oriented tech labor market this is pretty…typical in American labor? (and also why people unionize)

according to some yahoos gender affirming care for trans kids is mutilation but filling autistic kids with untested stem cell treatments is a-okay. nasty

Ranchers aren’t going to view Trump’s admin or even the Doge cuts as disastrous for cattle because they’ve known this was coming since the screwworm crossed the Darien Gap in 2023. but also we’ve had years to prepare and “ai on drones” is a loud little bandaid on a gaping chest wound.

one of the women is a Sunday school teacher and nanny who has lived in the US for decades and was snatched up during a routine meeting at immigration. These are folks who cannot safely return to Iran and have built good lives in America being denied the American Dream due to bigotry.

now back to me ranting about how Amazon clearly keeps doing some exclusive region locking nonsense for books that leaves them Amazon only in the US for a while and it is quickly becoming my villain origin story

If you’re ragging on Scott Pelley’s interview I am BEGGING you to look around at the mainstream media ecosystem from which the vast majority of people get news and realize just how much work Pelley was doing to inform a populace constantly inundated with propaganda tailor-made and delivered to them.

data center folks are used to swaying opinion online where with money it’s so easy it’s trivial. local affairs aren’t quite as susceptible to online propaganda as national because people can just…talk to their neighbors.

”AI is being built by a homogeneous group which will lead to biased results” was a concern for nearly a decade. so it is no way surprising that AI built by businessmen would care just as much about safety and reliability as those businessmen.

Really reminds me of the Spanfeller era and a couple of other moments in my career where folks with not nearly enough understanding swan in and announce they're vision and then are shocked when all the reporters they employ??? have questions???? Then they police the language. Get 'em Pelley.

if men like Bezos and Musk are supposed to be so amazing then why do their rockets constantly explode when we put a man on the moon with a rocket that failed exactly once in a near decade of launches? Like get on the 60s Space Program’s level if you’re so cool.

moved last year and got a job so I cancelled my marketplace health insurance because yea! get to texas and job start is delayed until new year. new year comes and job is on hold indefinitely. I’m told AFTER marketplace enrollment ends. File appeal when app is immediately rejected. Appeal failed. 🫠

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

I am absolutely living for how Pope Leo and Talarico have turned the entire right-wing commenting corp into theologians.

Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi. One hand stencil was dated to at least 67,800 years ago historyguild.org/humanitys-ol...

They set out to build God but instead they're building a less cool Skynet that thinks it's Gandhi in Civilization.

Help a person out!

Absolute de-googling is hard (see Kash Hill’s excellent series) but I cannot praise Kagi enough. I switched to it from Google for search and have never once regretted it. If you cut just one google product from your life search is the one!

I'm sorry. I'm gonna add to the discourse. Short 🧵: I think there's a certain group of privileged people who interpret social media as "a place where we're entitled to each other" vs "a place we can connect with each other," and fundamentally misunderstand why others use it differently.

this is good, but then why are all the editorials from NYT condemning trump below the fold?

as a person prone to typos hell yeah. as a professional writer and editor who has definitely submitted cover letters and at least one resume with a typo…no typos are still bad and words have meaning.