Whether it turns out to be true or not, college-educated Gen Z are going to have a shared generational trauma about having the entire world basically say "hold up, actually we think we can just make the machines do your job, and we're going to try that for a year or two instead of hiring you."

Since the Vince Gilligan discourse is ramping up and I haven't seen the new episode of Pluribus: Better Call Saul is not a prequel. Breaking Bad is a sequel that came out first.

It must kill Trump that he isn't allowed to brag about killing Jeffrey Epstein, especially since it's the only good thing he managed to do as President.

I don't know man if we don't learn the government has proof of alien life this week I think they just really don't have it.

If you turn to 18 on this day in 2012, happy birthday, you are now 31 years old, and you have never voted in a presidential election where Donald Trump wasn't the Republican nominee.

THE RETURN OF MR GAY! Woke won everybody. Pat yourselves on the back.

Trump: I intend to eliminate free elections. Republicans: We support the President's ending of free elections. Democrats: Trump and the GOP intend to end free elections. The media: It's impossible to guess at what the President intends and it would be rude to imply his words have meaning.

Don't worry Speaker Johnson he may seem unpopular at the moment but you're going to clean it all up and rehabilitate his whole image any day now when you're finally releasing the Epstein Files.

It's all fun and games now but you'll be sorry in a year when Republicans convince sixty percent of the electorate that the devastating recession is because we let a woman run Virginia.

This election is really going to help the Republican party recruit the kinds of candidates they need in 2028: dead-ender weirdos with raging humiliation fetishes.

There is a chance-- just a chance, mind-- that today's election results will remind a legislatively significant number of elected Republicans that there will be an America after Trump is dead and they will have to live there with the rest of us.

Donald Trump killing Dick Cheney is a DISTRACTION. Get to the polls, people.

Being an elder Millennial means coming to terms with the fact that, actuarially speaking, I've likely seen my last new GTA game set in San Andreas.

The same national press that made every stutter out of Biden's mouth a weeklong story about his fitness for office is apparently deciding that the President getting an MRI and taking his second cognitive test of the year is just totally super normal and not anything that deserves follow up.

"Most of the French are starving, so the last thing on their minds is getting to eat cake! Marie Antoinette's statement is therefore of no political salience or utility whatsoever."

Someday, and it could be any day, it could be later today, you're going to open up this little app and it will be a solid wall of all caps posts and celebration memes and blocks of emojis and you will know, before you even see it, that It Happened.

Imaginary Dem President: "Ow! I stubbed my toe on White House rubble. DOJ: you owe me $100 billion dollars in emotional distress." DOJ: "This is fine now. Trump has set that precedent." IDP: "I am donating $100B to eliminate student debt." Treasury: "This is fine now. Trump has set that precedent."

The wild thing about the Epstein Files is that they either contain all the details currently known about Donald Trump's longstanding relationship with Epstein-- in which case it's absolutely damning-- or they fail to contain all the details currently known, in which case it's been tampered with.

President of the United States Demands That You Give Him a Dollar. Yes You, Give The President a Dollar. He Is Your President and That Makes Him Your Boss So Give President Boss a Dollar.

A US president, furious about protests essentially clarifying everyone thinks he sucks and responding to it with AI videos of him in a crown flying a fighter jet dumping shit onto American citizens & Nancy Pelosi kneeling to him as a king? Fuck dog, not even satirical Cyberpunk scifi predicted this

How the New York Times covered the Tea Party in 2009: "Some of these crowds are 500, 1000, 2000 people!" How the New York Times covers No Kings in 2025: "What even are numbers really?"

I actually hate protesting. But here I am.

This is literally a Democratic candidate for Congress that the regime is lawlessly beating with batons in the street.

I have a firm conviction that OpenAI shouldn't be able to make a website full of "new content" built on other people's characters, a firm conviction that deviantart and AO3 SHOULD be able to do that, and a creeping suspicion that those two convictions can't sincerely coexist much longer.

Biden: "With great focus and dedication I believe these next four years we can begin the process of rescheduling Marijuana which is freely sold in like twenty states." Trump: "Weird Science over here says Tylenol makes you screwy hand em over. No more COVID boosters either, too much liquid."

I want a whole series like this. What does Halle Berry think about the works of Wagner? Does Kevin Kline think there's an ethical distinction between reading Ender's Game and the more sophisticated Ender's Shadow given the latter was certainly written by a more openly homophobic Orson Scott Card?

Me: "I wish there was a social media app that was just short fictional videos and if you send the app company a short script they'll produce the video for you and the cost for all that is paid exclusively by billionaires." Genie Two Years Ago: "Okay I know a good curse for this one."

Donald Trump's "Feign of Terror" will die out with him, decades before I forget the Supreme Court justices who decided to let the President's Very Important Feelings become America's Reichstag Fire.

Neil Gaiman sailing along as a beloved genre writer for decades and then, just shy of sixty, suddenly having five television shows in production AT THE SAME TIME, only to have it blow up in his face as people suddenly interrogate allegations against him, is a very "Sandman-style" ironic wish trope.

a lotta y'all still don't get it

The dumbest part of the "Tilly Norwood: AI Actress For Hire" thing is that among people who would be interested in replacing actors with AI, "that way you don't have to pay for the actors" is presumably a big chunk of the point.

Wow this guy called it like dead on.

President Trump's shutdown was caused by President Trump, who caused the shutdown, which is why it's called "President Trump's Shutdown."

This Black Hawk Down sequel is absolutely devastating. Bring our boys home NOW.

Not really prepared for a world where airing an episode of HBO Max DC Universe series Peacemaker counts as an act of political bravery, but also that sort of feels like where we're at.

Come on rapture fairy there's thirteen minutes left on the West coast you can still get it in under the wire.

Lotta folks in this administration who are secure in the knowledge that when it all crashes down they won't be the Adolf Hitler will eventually learn they were the Adolf Eichmann and the end doesn't look much sweeter.

A lot of Generative AI illustrations seem fine at a glance and appear more incoherent and thoughtless the more you look at it. This illustration by Armando Veve has the opposite effect: the more you look at it, the more you see. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Who's to blame in the headline, versus what actually happened in the article, example fourteen billion and six.

There's a really acute irony to this all happening a week after Hacks won like eight Emmys for a season whose central theme was "Late Night is dead no matter what you do."

If Google was trading at the same Price/Earnings multiple as Tesla, it would have a market cap of $30 Trillion Dollars, which is a little more than the entire US GDP.

"I have invented a new kind of fabric! You can use it for lingerie OR wedding dresses!" "Anything else?" "...Tablecloths I guess. But that's IT." - The inventor of lace

The modern smartphone-- a handheld thing with a screen and speakers that can show you anything, record absurdly good video, and is connected to a network of everyone and all information-- doesn't have a lot of precedent in even pre-nineties science fiction. I think for three reasons:

I wonder what Gen Z thinks when they see a character in a TV show from the nineties being worried about "running out of minutes." I hope it sounds super ominous.

"Holodeck-induced psychosis" is an under explored phenomenon in Star Trek. So many episodes where Moriarty escapes the hologram, and it turns out the real risk was just Moriarty telling an already borderline-unstable ensign "You're absolutely right! You SHOULD lead a mutiny against the captain!"

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Vance take idol.

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