The Art of Not Understanding How Deals Are Reached

I mean, Bowie's Nazi phase was less than a year...

At the video store where I worked in the mid '00s, we had VHS tapes of old trailers that just played all day, the whole shift. This one for Hitchcock's TOPAZ was in there. I still randomly hear this weird VO in my head all the time.

Obviously those PJ movies are all time classics but I'm not super against this. They're great novels, you could 100% do a different take on 'em. I'd watch.

I use AI every day at work. It's better than Google at this point for research (so long as you verify everything)! It's amazing for stuff like spreadsheets and analytics; you just load in a doc and ask it questions. But it really is functionally useless for creative writing. It's not imaginative.

I wonder if the astronauts have a strong preference between pooping in Soyuz vs. Shenzhou. Like, obviously, if Soyuz is occupied, you'd go with Shenzhou, but if they're both open... would everyone default to one? Like, it's just a little nicer or more private?

Spent time on both platforms this week, and at this point, I think the X vs. Bluesky divide is less about politics and more about whether or not you're excited about the potential of AI.

"Don't mention the war! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it alright."

apropos of hollywood’s big day

My read on Karp is that he knows his work is morally indefensible so he just plays this manic warmonger character as a way to dodge difficult conversations.

Honestly don't get why they don't just order a pair of these shoes in their own size and start wearing them instead. Don will NOT NOTICE because of the brain damage, and even if he did, he will just think "I picked out their exact perfect size because I'm so fucking smart."

I guess this is supposed to say something about our culture or the American character but the thing is, we are correct. A lot of us are just awful. Why sugar coat it?

"I only know you as Paulo, the bear, who is my friend."

Also at one point Grace Jones says "Wow, what a view..." and then Walken adds "TO A KILL" which doesn't even make any sense but is, in fact, the title. Great movie.

The kid who shot this is gonna have to change schools. I'm sorry, there's no recovering from attempting to seem cool by praising ICE, then having a kid threaten to punch you and responding "You're gonna get in trouble!" Even if he didn't get punched. That's just RIDICULOUS.

Crazy to live at a time when political cartoonists can just doodle things that really happened and submit it to the editor. They're just courtroom sketch artists now.

It's so funny that the "welp, filmmaking is over" clip features two very very famous human actors. What happens when computers start making all the movies? The Ghost of Tom Cruise stars in everything forever?

"We've received a credible tap that as many as three or even four of these performers were, in fact, livin' la vida loca. And we will not stand for it."

The Ents are going to WARRRRRRRR

"Americans, you must choose: Your beloved Olympic athletes or me, President Crimes." Another brilliant gambit from Don.

Let he who has not injected acid into his penis so that he can fool the 3D scan of his genitals required to compete in the Olympic ski jump cast the first stone

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This formulation makes it sound like she's in FAVOR of some kind of program that gives you a hand UP. But no, she's just saying we get rid of the hand out and replace it with nothing. A kick in the teeth, perhaps.

I need you guys to know that "Harry Hole" is actually the detective character from THE SNOWMAN. "You could have saved her mister police" THE SNOWMAN. Like, this is based on that and the other books in the SNOWMAN series.

If only there was a name for the kind of regime in which the leader's personal army of thugs executes civilians in the streets... Wish we had some way to describe that form of government...

Every single MAGA tech guy that I know believes very strongly that you can find great meaning in front of a computer screen. I guess they're just going to ignore this.

People are like "It's our first look at Lobo!" but he was pretty much already playing this guy in FAST X, just without the make-up.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

"Everyone is doing an incredible job except all those guys you've seen on video doing a terrible job. But seriously, trust me, everyone else not on video is the best."

Rearranging deck chairs is a long and painstaking process...

I don't know who needs to hear this but a court just ruled that it's not a police officer's job to protect you.

2026 is already off to a volatile start, but @djtalkstrash.bsky.social and his guest @lons.bsky.social do their best to try and figure out what's ahead for the rest of the year anyway, from Netflix/WB to AI, the US invading itself and other countries, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3d...

Wow, that is very racist.

You can tell she's a visionary, inspiring leader because her first impulse is always "blame my colleagues and throw them under the bus."

This guy is like IRL Ron Burgundy but without the charm or jazz flute skills.

Time to get real. These guys are not scared of the administration or bad at their jobs... They are complicit.

These guys are unhinged and leading us to a very dark, scary place and it's becoming increasingly obvious to anyone who has read some books.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

You would think they'd be absolutely desperate to avoid this situation purely on pragmatic, self-interested grounds. xAI is valued at $200 billion. This is no way to build a global brand, doofuses.

Stranger Things Season 5 "Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up". Directed by The Duffer Brothers

I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?

If you start The Last Dragon at 10:22:14 PM, Leroy will get The Glow at midnight

They are hiding... SOMETHING. Just say it, Chuck. We all know what they're hiding. This is not a 6-part Peacock crime drama. There's not gonna be a twist ending.