are there prediction markets on who’s next, conviction outcomes, etc?

The future is real things, tactile things that make sense on the scale of individual human beings. That’s where it’s all heading—you heard it here first.

friends I have been listening to rough cuts of some early episodes from Season 2 and holy moly the show @evrat.bsky.social's making is one of a kind. www.shellgame.co

a real “Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call” moment

Full Moon Paterson Ewen 1988

This insightful paper is by the directors of the Covid oral history project at Columbia which I wrote about for the NYT Mag a couple of years ago—a product of that research. Good reading, good to think with, with newer and newer species of trouble around the bend.

It‘s that time of night when Louis Varland gets loose.

is there a little league game or something happening tonight?

is there a little league game or something happening tonight?

we will still detect tsunamis, just not in advance

True of lots of things! Use your bodies! A great embodification is dawning! Thank you, Pope!

in what universe is it reasonable to get *penalized* for hitting the ball right into the squishy lower wall nook 400 feet away? M-f’ing balloons should have dropped. Free shrimp cocktail.

I'm teaching my disaster film course again in the spring, and I'm tempted to assign this as their final project. Create a sequel to San Andreas about the recovery. Create a prequel to Sharknado showing the attempted mitigation efforts, etc. etc. Disaster movies about response are so boring.

Sick of no one in Hollywood being brave enough to make a Titanic movie that starts AFTER the ship sank. Show us the crew of the Californian realizing they fucked up! The body recovery efforts from Halifax?!? Give us the donation collection high-society drama. Give me a feature film on Dorothy Gibson

baseball game not of unusual size.

can you believe we all have to watch more baseball soon? It’s like we work in a baseball game factory.

"No bother at all, Jon! I’m here to help anytime." - Eve, in an email to me last night, after I apologized for writing to her after hours and assured her I hadn't expected her to reply until the morning. Just learned Eve is a computer. Sometimes I feel very sad. I just wasn't made for these times.

baseball is the best American sport because it captures the feeling of tenacious not-dying (despite wishing for death) rather the cheap, increasingly manufacturable sensation of feeling alive

Some of these relievers are AI

game duration has just surpassed all 11 seasons of “Cheers”

was that Jason Bateman in the slow-mo agonized fan shot, going into commercial?

pew pew pew [laser noises]

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Arrival (2016)

grizzly bears on the field.

ripping off my morose-looking mask, Scooby-style, revealing kind smile — I was Canadian all along, hahahaha!!!—yanking up sleeve, revealing tattoo of Lloyd Moseby riding a loon, spraypainting “Tom Henke > Tom Hanks” on sidewalk, instantaneously torching my ascendent congressional campaign

Joy receptacle Joy, IL

they did a multicultural reboot of “Annie Hall”

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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Usually we do this in war zones or flood zones or to look for nuclear facilities. Now it's our own president demolishing a large portion of the most famous and historic federal building in the country, without notice to Americans

I am not trying to be funny but keep wondering when he will sell commemorative East Wing rubble hunks

It was, but the river of time carries on

Mookie Wilson listening to the play by play of the ball going through Buckner’s legs.

important for parents and teachers to explain to kids that the video the president made of himself dropping diarrhea on Americans is fake.

The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.

This is a worthwhile read—and also, I initially thought this photo was of a skate bowl, the interior of which was painted to look like the Constitution being unrolled, which it isn’t, but which would be extremely cool.

Hi Rebecca, Thanks for your email. No, I have no reason to doubt that squirrels routinely cause power outages. Sorry to hear about your situation. Yours, Jon

great day to read a book for pleasure

When I used to sort Susan’s mail as a production assistant, I saw a postcard sent to her from someone in prison. It said, “dear susan, whoever I hear your voice, it’s feels like an arm around my shoulders.” I felt that way too.

“Morning!” “Good morning!” “Beautiful day, isn’t it?” “Sure is! It’s getting crisp.” “Yup. In the mornings.” #NeighborCore

happy birthday, flea and bob weir

postseason series should be best of eight games. the result of one game, chosen at random, is immediately tossed out as soon as that game is over. Like, before the winning team is even done celebrating.

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

Instead of starting conversations with “How are you?”—an increasingly unfathomable question—try saying, “I am ready to empathize with you,” which is very beautiful and very normal.