That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MUST READ: time.com/article/2026...

🧵The great James Burrows died today. I owe my TV career to him and to the Charles brothers. They read my first book and invited me to write a pilot. The result, Gloria Vane, was about a 1930s movie star. Jimmy directed. What does a great comedy director add that’s not on the page? One example: 1/

The only time I ever get swarmed with angry replies and personal attacks on this web site is when I suggest voting for Kamala Harris would have been a better strategy than not firebombing a Wal-Mart, and…

embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world

I wrote about the genius of the late James Burrows, the greatest sitcom director of them all:

A lot of the time, when you call someone "the best to ever do it," it's hyperbole. But when it comes to classic multi-cam sitcom direction, Burrows was without any scintilla of a doubt the best to ever do it. RIP.

“Grimace will never ask you for your credit card number, social security card, or blood type, so please do not follow any dubious links no matter what the sender does to convince you he is the giant personified taste bud representing our company,” read an all-staff email

"If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What’s wild about media outlets pretending they don’t know why conservatives hate the HPV vaccine is that they said it. Out loud. All the time!

I want all the Europeans trying American food for the first time to have a blood panel done when they get home.

Hot take: While I am proud of to be African-American, I refuse to believe that my history and culture began with slavery. As far as I'm concerned, Black folks in the diaspora are also a part of where I came from.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I can't decide which Scottish World Cup chant I'm more proud of: "The Tartan Army's on a bender, Donald Trump's a sex offender!" or "He's orange, he's bald, he likes 'em 12 years auld, Donald Trump!" Outstanding work, lads.

In case anyone wants to know, I, too, will not work on acquiring a nuclear weapon in exchange for $300 billion. Hell, I'll do it for $100 billion.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

They like to scream about the Democrats being "controlled opposition", but it is *their* branch that never actually exerts effective resistance against GOP priorities, instead sitting on the sidelines screaming performative nonsense and accomplishing nothing. *They* are controlled opposition.

www.channel4.com/programmes/f... My third feature FAR NORTH, beautiful, dark and twisted! starring Michelle Yeoh and Sean Bean, avail on channel 4 player in UK

@theguardian.com is veering into @nytpitchbot.bsky.social territory. “Is the Pope Catholic? At this JD Vance book signing, they’re not so sure.”

The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media.

So, hey: If you casually conflate "The Israeli Government" and "The Jews" in my comments, you're gonna catch a block. I'm not going to indulge your either intentional or unexamined general antisemitism by using Netanyahu, et al as cover. If you can't or won't parse the difference, keep walking.

I’ll add my local black-owned bookstore to the list, Little Boho Books in Bayonne. Charming location but they also take online orders. You should buy a book from them!

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

Transgender Hair Journal While painting a random photo in my sketchbook (during a live) I decided this person was transgender and we (everyone on the live and I) decided to give them a trans flag tattoo. It's become my favorite piece of art. Happy Pride Month ♥ 1/2

On International Women’s Day, we honor Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng. Here, she smiles after receiving a 20-year labor camp sentence from the US-backed South Vietnamese government. She told the judge: “20 years? Your government won’t last that long. pipedreamdragon.tumblr.com/post/8197940...

I also don't think it's a total coincidence that the apex promoter of the Mars colonization grew up in apartheid South Africa: Mars colonization fantasies always include the idea of escape from the terrestrial political reality of having to share space with one's lessers.

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Help us spread the word by pre-ordering a print copy today buy.stripe.com/7sY28s9AJd79...

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

HEARTWARMING: This 11 year old developer still plagiarizes their games the old-fashioned way

Another piece that I was really excited to write. Why has South Africa’s judicial transformation been so successful when the judiciary was so heavily implicated in apartheid’s crimes? And what lessons does that transformation hold for us?

Jersey Vindicator sues for release of body camera footage in Delaney Hall theft case

this guy is crazy if he thinks a bunch of money and fancy tech will ever get Speed Racer to turn his back on family

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

Dress for the job you want.

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

COME THE FUCK ON

the reason dsa candidates are winning is because theyre saying theyll do actual things to make peoples lives better and identifying billionaires as an obstacle to those things, its not super complicated or anything

I did not realize that a large part of The Onion buying InfoWars was about getting the Sandy Hook families the money they were supposed to have gotten from the lawsuit against Jones, and honestly that's some top-tier human decency right there?

@mayor.nyc.gov's 🔥 Knicks speech was a message to all Americans: "Standing here before what feels like the entire city, there is a Jalen Brunson quote I can't stop thinking about: 'You are allowed to think about the worst possible scenario — but you gotta go out there and do something about it.'"

The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/

The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

Just putting it out here, but this was Joe Biden's answer to a similar question. www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...

Man, Iran really took Trump to the cleaners. Eh?

Trump 1: Destroyed JCPOA 2: Started a war with Iran 3: Lost the war in 40 days 4: Handed a regime that murders tens of thousands of protesters $300b You do not, under any circumstance, “gotta hand it to him”