GTA 6 looks great

one more step toward a lawless world where people are allowed to stand in places that force cops to drive slow

Marketing manager at every company that starts with A thinking up a name for their new useless AI integration: “Wait a minute…fuck yes!”

it's so important to support indie game designers marc-egg.eieio.games

I am once again here to preach the good word that Thomas Pynchon is a gorgeously readable writer and also probably the greatest american prose stylist of at least the last 50 years and people who tell you his books are calculus tests for boys don’t love you and Vineland is a great place to start

The therapy-style didacticism around emotion that's become common in fiction lately really does bother me, just as a pure reader. What's the fun in thinking about a character if the author tells you exactly, note for note, what's going on with them

Slen, a plan, a canal, panels.

Holy shit

"I don't understand my second grader's math homework. This is because kids today are taught math the wrong way."

That classic philosophical question: What happens when the unstoppable loser meets the immovable losers www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-plans...

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Big, if true

Every headline these days looks like what happens if you let a game of Civilisation on the PC go on too long. Nuclear Gandhi shit.

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

Just a reminder that the Times is extremely gormless about covering up who their favorite anonymous sources are. Remember when they all went to the mattresses for Sarah Hucakabee-Sanders? lol

Trump's whole strategy with Iran was to break the "rules" and kill their leaders. He assumed that would scare everyone else into submission. Instead Iran said, "No rules? OK, then we'll close the Strait and fling missiles at every oil facility within 2400 miles. How many Patriots you got left?"

Hey if you're a young adult in the US pay very close attention to the moment because in shockingly few years the popular account of who did or said or supported what right now will be at times unrecognizable. Don't let that break your brain or just you, as a person.

Good time to remember that rich people are okay with this in exchange for tax cuts

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Taken literally this is the Times saying it doesn't have an opinion on if women should vote and I for one do take it literally

its wild that they think this statement makes them look good

Most literary agents also believe this lol

The stock market is 90% computers guessing what other computers will guess about Microsoft and then a bunch of guys using vibes to try to out-guess those computers

Why didn't they put Sora on the blockchain?

New way I’m old just dropped

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

People keep saying the Constitution was set up specifically to stop tyrants and mad kings, but the thing most of the notably unusual features of our Constitution were actually designed to do was protect slavery.

Broke: if a computer passes the Turing Test it has attained sentience Woke: if a computer can convince Jensen Huang to stop wearing a jacket that makes him look like a fucking loser, it has attained sentience

This is excessive confirmation of my priors about guys named Markwayne

Imagine having an argument so vacuous that even Ezra Klein notices

I remember this ad in Gamepro.

Happy Mario day!

This is bad, and part of what makes it so bad is that this is clearly pulling from *genre* understandings of reality, which the statistical linguistic machine seemingly cannot distinguish from other text included in the training data. Truly an ideology machine where every episode of CSI is true.

They're also counting on the fact that those are the only people our vapid and submissive political press talk or listen to

So, the GOP is betting that rich and powerful people (i.e., those with the resources and incentive to sign up for Precheck/Global Entry) will get so annoyed, having to wait with the regular folk, that they'll lean on Democrats to cave. Sadly, I suspect it'll work. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

This is also how a lot of the stock market works. Hedge funds are betting on what their computers predict other funds’ computers will predict about Microsoft

One structural problem with Gen AI is that one of the few jobs it can do with 0% loss of efficacy is McKinsey Guy

Steve Jobs is the Rosetta Stone for the deciphering the Tech Bro Mentality informed he had an eminently treatable form of cancer with excellent odds of a full recovery, he ignored his doctors, treated his cancer with juice cleanses and fasting because He Knew Better, and promptly died

instead of a fanboy the ideal creative director for lucasfilm is someone who doesn’t give a shit about star wars but does care about making good movies and TV

I began using an iPhone recently after more than a decade on android and Google and Apple try to leverage their monopoly power in pointedly different ways Google plainly and simply wants to collect your data at every turn and sell it to anyone who will take it. But Apple…

If these aliens cause any trouble, I hope there’s a troubled father around to set them straight and, in doing do, repair the frayed relationship he has with his kids

The trailer for Disclosure Day, a new movie about aliens directed by Steven Spielberg. Very excited for this! In theaters on June 12, 2026. [kottke.org]

Leviathan, Paul Auster

I have far too many holiday work lunches

Your boss is very impressed by this guy

Congrats to Facebook users who want their websites to have millennial house flipper vibes

Problematic Spotify wrapped listening age gap

It has “Christmas In Hollis” and “Let It Snow.” It has Christmas packing tape and a Christmas tree at a Christmas party. It has a Santa suit and “HO-HO-HO.” It happens at Christmas and involves a visit for Christmas. This is not a hard question.