Don't listen to my face here - I had the BEST TIME hollerin' about Hellraiser with my @escapehatchpod.bsky.social besties, @haitch.bsky.social and @goldman.blue. These fellas are so welcoming to me even when I'm being a loudmouth. Join us in the further regions of experience: solo.to/escapehatch

Sir Salman talking about one is his deleted scenes from Curb

The Coen brothers need to reunite for one last movie and it needs to be a Western starring Timothee Chalamet as a Jewish sheriff. This is how the world will heal. Please join me in setting this as your intention for the day.

Me: “You know they’re making a Bluey Movie” 4yo: “How do you know?” Me: “I know things” 4yo: “oh yah then what came before space?” Me, sitting there with an undergrad degree in astro, just totally owned by a child: “…”

I have a meeting on my calendar in 10m just labeled Meeting that I put as a placeholder. And I have no idea what for. So if it’s you, drop a line

6yo opens his eyes and immediately says: “Dad if aliens aren’t real then we’re the only life that exists anywhere us and the plants and animals but nowhere else!”

Ridin dirty

Sir David Beckham was knighted as a string ensemble played Golden. Blessed. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMgysFFb/

The third part of the trilogy better be Godzilla Plus Zero or the IEEE is gonna go ham

4yo made this out of found items outside and lemons for the purpose of “covering up the smell of everyone’s farts”

Legit saw a house in SF giving away a copy of Blitzscaling for Halloween

This rules. You get messages when the ballot is picked up and processed. It’s great. Mail in voting rules. Yes on 50!

You’re listening to K-pop Demon Hunters on the school dropoff run; we’re listening to it sung by synthesized cats. We are not the same.

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

I spent the best part of 30 years helping develop jet engine control system software which probably explains why my reaction to this is rather visceral as if I was in a submersible driven by people with a lax approach to certification.

I once heard another Meta exec make a version of this argument using cars instead of planes. And it is hilarious to me that they think using analogies to some of the most highly regulated industries in the world is a super killer point for their side.

Me: ok go pee before we leave 6yo: I don’t have to Me: … * We walk out the front door * 6yo: * pees on house *

But I thought Jared Kushner used his immense and generational influence with Netanyahu to broker a 3000 year peace

The 4yo really thinks I’m a moron. And it’s not that she’s wrong but she’s right for the wrong reasons.

AWS outage fucked up the app used for drop off at my kids school but everyone knew about the outage bc SF

Sounds like it was pretty clear.

The more quickly and publicly prestigious institutions reject this, the easier it is for the rest to do the same (and, indeed, the more embarrassing it becomes to consider folding)

Our campaign momentum is building! Honored to earn the endorsement of Congressman Mike Levin and ready to keep fighting for Orange County’s future — together. #TeamKluwe #AD72 #OrangeCounty #StateAssembly

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

How your email finds me

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Obama is on the last Marc Maron WTF pod today and the first 20m is on the internet. He gives a very robust endorsement of MeetUp. And in doing raises an interesting challenge: namely is it possible for a platform to encourage people to get together in real space for good.

Breakfast discussion topic w the 4 and 6 year olds: are humans the strongest predator only because they can use tools like katanas and cannonballs

This is why we Warcraft folks. A Devil Wears Prada reference in a raid armor collection achievement.

@goldman.blue and I were thrilled to welcome @jamellebouie.net onto @escapehatchpod.bsky.social to talk the classic sci-fi social satire film RoboCop and what we can learn from it about our current moment. Full episode here (or wherever you listen to your pods): open.spotify.com/episode/2i8c...

Last season of West Wing is grim in so many ways. But the scene of Bartlett giving away Ellie gets me. Martin Sheen really does it man. Unreal bit of business from him and in all the seasons a side of that character that is new. youtu.be/DrIB2DvvcDY?...

Lenny Pearce a big hit at home, we’ve even been to the concert. Really hoping someone picks up the idea of techno but for little kids and does IDM for little kids. Can you imagine daddy shark over the amen break at 2x speed.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

We podded about One Battle After Another! It’s a very fun movie to talk about. open.spotify.com/episode/6wUv...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

It’s wild WB is out there making them do these TikTok trends. Can you imagine if they’d asked Kubrick to do a lil dance while promoting Full Metal Jacket www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMYbrqwh/

One of the more remarkable feats of One Battle After Another is that it pierces the heart of our fucked up moment but it isn’t a political satire. That’s a tricky one to pull off.

Just want to listen to One Battle after Another pods and have to go to an all day board meeting.

Jim Downey (famous for SNL and latterly the “Jeff Epstein, the NY financier” meme) has the following feature film filmography: * Billy Madison * There Will Be Blood * Happy Gilmore 2 * One Battle After Another

Among other things there’s a good essay to be written on the parallels between Death Stranding and One Battle After Another

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go in against Chotiner when Kissinger is involved

**Ashokan Farewell plays** The civil war was fought in 10,000 places: from national broadcast television networks to national television station owners.

The most amazing meetings with ABC standards and practices happening over the next 24 hrs

Best case: Trump is a once a century narcissistic charlatan who managed to harness the base energy of America to his personal benefit. But that there is no broad movement that supports the Miller vision absent Trump’s charm. The harm will be generational but finite. Worst case: it’s a wrap.

I’m grateful that when you migrate to a new iPhone you’re still logged in to all your apps but it does make me nervous.

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

Now at the “watching fighter pilots analyze the lyrics” stage of being earwormed by the I Stole an F-16 song

Humans are pattern seeking by nature, motivated reasoning happens to everyone, audience capture is a helluva drug. Really not the best combination for finding nuance in complex, emotional circumstances.

Me: “Love you buddy! Hope you have a good day at school! 6yo: “Yah I may poop today.”