"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Somewhere in the afterlife Sam Beckett is smiling with satisfaction. Or perhaps not perhaps its all a meaningless void of non-existence 🤷

Silent movie edition! THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH (1901) was a joke that was taken seriously by later generations. "Look at this smock-wearing country dolt, I bet he thinks movie trains will hit him!" quickly became a much-repeated "fact" about early cinema.

Sinners (2025)

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Did not realize how much I needed @aywarhiannon.bsky.social's absolute banger of a rant on the new @fivefourpod.bsky.social. Suck it up buttercups, and get yourself some dialectical materialism! History is contingent! We make our own but not in circumstances of our choosing.

universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam

Migration is fundamentally good, and it's the job of governments to build institutions that allow people from wildly different backgrounds to live together in harmony and prosperity, not cater to xenophobic fear-mongering among people who have no idea what they're talking about

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

Hell yes, I am down youtu.be/Cyj_N0TqNyc?...

Unfortunately the entire team exclusively has Ph.D.s in marketing psychology

Using ‘furthest point of a trip in that direction’: N: Arctic circle waters N of Iceland E: Petra, Jordan S: Sydney W: All the way around!

What if GG Allin was created by K Mart that’d be even more punk rock and Better Art

You figure Mamet, who writes those brilliant Mamet characters, is smarter or more insightful than them. But over the course of this dramedy you discover, no, he’s just Ricky Roma, a guy who can close a bit more than the other guys in that room youtu.be/Be62DXxpgq0?...

Most people don’t know this amount of head room was just not technically achievable in 1939. If Fleming et al had access to AI, this is how the shot would’ve been framed!

We need a Freddie Krueger of the left

“Even I have to admit I’ve been wrong on every past issue. But you should trust me this time.” — War crime enthusiast Bill Kristol

Go further: 'Broken windows' approach, but applied to cops. Zero tolerance for speeding, parking in a red zone, etc., unless it's demonstrably necessary to stop a crime in progress.

One thing undercovers are really bad at is saying “Excuse me” and squeezing by you in a crowd without conveying that they’re gonna make you move no matter what

Remember to shut the fuck up. Tell your family and friends to shut the fuck up. Don’t out/id protesters, intentionally or unintentionally. Wear a mask.

The preamble of the Declaration of Independence contains the answer to the question. (No state has the right to exist.)

Episode 3, "Driver's Seat," is now live! Check it out on YouTube or wherever you like to get podcasts: youtu.be/xFewbDKFc9k

KPBS has reporting on the ICE raids at a restaurant in San Diego: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

This is the key to understanding A.I. It is a bullshit machine that automates the generation of bullshit. In a sane world, we'd try to decrease the amount of bullshit we require people to produce but instead we automate it

Yes. Please stop saying “hallucinate.” LLMs are Bullshit Generators and they are working exactly as designed

Super easy to do the leopards/faces take, but a political project that actually wanted to succeed would be saying "welcome to struggle comrade" a lot rn

goddamn, all “content” rn is so fuckin bad i may have to go read a book or something

I have loved Lomax field recordings for years. Huddie Ledbetter is one of the greatest & most influential 20th C. American musicians. But absolutely f—— John Lomax. This was a great & eye-opening listen. (Dang, mixed sense-metaphors? Oh well…)

A true originalist reading of the constitution means landlords and billionaires are illegal. How you ask? Check back with me if this gets any traction

The thing about ChatGPT answers is that if you are already enough of an expert to know if they are correct, you don't need it, and if you aren't enough of an expert to know if they are correct, you shouldn't use it.

This is the capitalist system working 100% as advertised. Can anyone explain how this profit-seeking is immoral now but not all the rest of the time?

I once had a professor ask “Why is there a Business section in the newspaper but not a Labor section?” My classmates and I probably rolled our eyes, but damned if I haven’t remembered that question every few days for 30 years now.

Father: Protects child from unfair legal trouble. Institutionalist: Supplies bombs that shred tens of thousands of other people’s children. What is the bigger problem — fatherhood run amok or institutions run amok? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...

Our #audiodrama podcast is now on here! Modern, found footage style takes on classic weird fiction. If you haven't yet checked out Keeping the Bones, give us a listen.

Joe is the perfect synecdoche of the Democratic Party. Confusedly wandering the halls of power decrying the Existential Threat to Democracy… Then graciously welcoming said Threat in.

do not hand your unlocked phone to a cop apple wallet *technically* doesn't require your phone to be unlocked, but please don't be the test case in court

What if the crackdown on dissent illustrates the danger of centrist and liberal conceptions of the cops

Man, STAR WARS (1977) really looked like shit in its original screenings Honestly it’s disgusting that George Lucas and Disney are ashamed of that fact They keep burying history!!! Be proud that your lucrative piece of intellectual property began as something kinda silly and chintzy!!

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

If only I had gotten something practical like a half million dollar RV instead of a Masters degree, maybe my debt, too, would be legally cancellable www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/u...

Black Holes vs Regular Holes xkcd.com/2844

This is great news. I know quite a few students who live in Tijuana & cross to come to class. We are one region, lines on a map notwithstanding www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/educati...