If OpenAI gets everything it wants - an unlimited money faucet poured directly in its gullet until The Singularity lifts Sam Altman directly into heaven - that will not lead to money trickling down to radiology or traffic research. I am sorry. They are the enemy.

Wow so I guess putting Bari Weiss, who sucks shit, in charge of a network has resulted in that network sucking shit

It’s Movie Monday on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and, with a prequel series in the offing and the president apparently wanting to recreate it as a reality show, I take a look back at the first installment of THE HUNGER GAMES, which, if you want to feel your decrepitude at Christmas, came out 14 years ago.

Just watched IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE with my wife, who had somehow never seen it before. The mark of a truly great movie is the depth that it gains when you see it under different circumstances

This Christmas I am giving myself the precious gift of not participating in the Discourse

“We should cut jobs at [public service], they’re fake anyway and it’ll save us tax money" “Do you use [public service]?" “Oh, no, never, it’s terrible" This fucking country

Sure, why not

Gavin Newsom is the latest Democrat to try and suck off Ronald Reagan’s dickless skeleton, but he wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. It’s never a bad time to remind ourselves that Reagan was a complete disaster of a president, so today on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, let’s remember…the Reagan Legacy!

Jake Paul and Andrew Tate both getting their asses beat on the same weekend? Merry Christmas to all!

I have been playing TTRPGs for literally 40 years and this has never once been an issue

Happy anniversary to Luis Carrero Blanco, the first Spanish astronaut

I hear this but actually my #1 gear is that the Dems are going to focus *exclusively* on this cosmetic shit and ignore things like defunding ICE/CBP, aid to Israel, voting reform, putting controls on AI and online betting, checking the power of billionaires, etc.

Boxing has been a complete disgrace as a sport for most of this century but it still sometimes gives you a little treat like Jake Paul getting his chin checked

Whole lotta kids are gonna die because we let people get really rich and pass all their money on to their kids

I’m sorry, YouTube, but you are confused

It’s Funny Friday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and this Christmas, things are tough all over - even for elves. “Christmas Call from a Worker North of Reykjavik”, today on the blog for your holiday enjoyment!

Good Advice, Logan Square, 12/19/2025

If capitalism is the great economic disease of our time, individualism is the great cultural one. But clout and its shadow brother, parasociality, stalks close behind

Kush got me like

Do we think of Santa Claus as a tall man

My response to anything over the next two weeks

This is America, not [North Korea/China/Russia]! We don’t stick some powerful asshole’s name on a building just because he gets a swelled head about it! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to take a swig of coffee and visit every university and municipal building in the country

Once again, IMMORTAL SCIENCE yaps about criticism. When will I shut up about it? Probably never. At least I make fun of my own ruined career this time!

I’m glad Democrats are on board with this!

My least popular opinion is that I don't understand the point of snooze functions on alarms

no hits for 'palestine' or 'israel' I'm good, thanks

Say, you're familiar with Richie Rich, right? Harvey Comics' popular "Poor little rich boy" with his amazing inventions, his butler Cadbury, his dog Dollar, his Freudian undertones, his messiah complex -- oh, you *don't* know that Richie Rich? Well, lemme fill you in ...

And now, for a holiday treat: My top ten uses of “motherfucker” in modern popular culture! #10: “How would you like to die today, motherfucker?” from SILICON VALLEY

Rest in piss to Norman Podhoretz, a racist shitbag

Today at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, in these dystopian days, I find myself looking back at some of the great dystopian works of art — specifically, UK noir master Derek Raymond’s curious but compelling quasi-remake of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR entitled A STATE OF DENMARK. Read all about it:

THE HUMAN LEG, RATED Secondary sex characteristic: 8.5 Use in combat: 7.0 Culinary value: jury still out Cultural application: 6.5 Means of locomotion: 3.5

It is beyond belief that people keep saying Venezuela is a "distraction" from the Epstein files. We have known about Epstein for years and absolutely nothing has been done about it or will be done about it but the US has done regime change dozens and dozens of times

The democratic establishment has also been happy to blockade Cuba for 65 years, launch hundreds of failed plots at regime change, and cut Cubans off from the global banking system, all because their socialist government dares to provide for its people instead of accepting US imperialism.

I hate to be such a bummer but this is no different from the established Democratic approach to Venezuela (and, you know, dozens of other countries), except insofar as he’s more open about it. They all support regime change and think it’s our right to engage in imperialism all over the world

I’m about to get off FB and Insta, I’m using a VPN almost all the time, I’m using DDG (with the AI functions disabled) exclusively, and I’m off my phone as much as possible. 2026 is the year I try to be less constantly annoyed by technology

is it good or bad for society when people realize that getting away with murder is extremely easy now that the cops use all of their resources to beat up protestors and the FBI are all meth-addled podcasters

Going into 2026 like...

Got to thinking about the insanely anticommunist “Sister City” episode of PARKS AND RECREATION and realizing that according to the show’s internal timeline, Leslie Knope would be preparing her run for governor of Indiana right now. She would 100% be advocating for regime change in Venezuela

I am about as cynical a person as can be imagined when it comes to capitalism but I honestly cannot remember any development since the dawn of industry that immiserated so many people and created so much environmental havoc with so little to show for it

It’s Tabletop Tuesday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and when in doubt, roll on a random table of adventure ideas! Here’s a hundred for your fantasy RPG needs:

If you've ever been curious about how the Mafia helped the CIA in Cuba, how the US government planned to smuggled sea urchin toxin in a dart gun to kill elected African leaders, the real playbook by which the US government tried to tear apart the Civil Rights and anti-war movements--this is for you.

This guy gets it

Merry Christmas, everybody!

LOL

It's Movie Monday on IMMORTAL SCIENCE. Political violence has been much on my mind lately for pretty obvious reasons, and I keep drifting back to the 2004 revolutionary drama Всадник по Имени Смерть (released in English as THE RIDER NAMED DEATH), a compelling but frustrating thriller.

Lots of articles starting to swirl around with powerful condemnations of the American intelligentsia's complete failure to meet the moment, politically and culturally speaking. The first, by Pankaj Mishra in Harpers, is the best:

Boy howdy the new iOS update sucks shit

Whatever you think is the cause of or the solution to mass shootings, nobody in power is going to do anything about it because it's not in their interest to do so. Their interests and yours will never intersect

It's time to do Lib Jan 6 I fear