"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

"nearly half" is a really funny way to describe losing an election lol

Quisling auditions

Chubby Checker is still with us

No.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening. Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual. Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65

This is usually the way. It’s why it’s so exciting on the rare occasions when the biggest thing is also the most interesting thing

"Labour Alienating Rural People by opposing hunts" lads I'm gonna be real with you the purpose of a social democratic party is not to speak for the country squire

They're desperate to rationalize "heritage American" as if it's some serious intellectual theory and not a white nationalist twitter meme. Which doesn't work because it is, in fact, just a white nationalist twitter meme.

Interesting piece. There’s demand for video versions of audio podcasts but once you start introducing elements that only work visually you’re alienating (more than) half your audience

COMMISSION SOME SITCOMS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

I like how very direct the politics of the Knives Out movies are. Each one identifies a different dreadful group of people in American society and rinses them while delivering its whodunnit pleasures

For me, in WAKE UP DEAD MAN, this scene is the *heart* of the movie. I still think about it two weeks later. It has no role in the plot nor mystery. Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.

Jordan Peterson watches Muppet Christmas Carol

I think the problem with Sir James Dyson- guest editor of the Today Programme today- is that he genuinely thinks that "inventive spirit" is enough to run an economy on. We can't all be entrepreneurs. We can't all invent a revolutionary new product. Also, for a "futurist" he's massively nostalgic.-

We need to talk about the crisis in Christmas telly. Hoping something good (other than Amandaland) will materialise if I stare at the Radio Times long enough

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Proper face-tingling cold this Christmas, as it should be

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

this gotta be the worst aged movie poster of all time man

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

In many ways humans are ridiculous

Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This could be like in Long Shot when the former TV star president (Bob Odenkirk) decides to step down so that he can finally break into movies

This education polarization is essentially nil. That’s the most notable thing here for me.

I reviewed a very big book about a very big idea

It gives me no pleasure to come to such a simplistic conclusion at this age but experience has taught me that the majority of rich people are dreadful and the ones that aren’t are a delightful surprise

OK, I need more people to engage with this story. I risked life and limb for this piece!!

lot of people seem convinced that "actually Bari Weiss is doing exactly what they want" and I'm sorry but you're just wrong on that. she was supposed to quietly shift CBS to be rightwing. instead she Streisand Effected a story they wanted to kill because she is incredibly stupid.

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

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This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

I listened to a whole podcast about Avatar: Fire and Ash, a movie I will never see, to understand what people get out of these films. I can’t articulate why the world of Avatar leaves me so cold

The Intelligent Man’s Guide Through World Chaos is a keeper

Literally demanding it should be illegal for people not to like them. Totally incapable of accepting any responsibility for themselves www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism

I love and miss Platonic. It turns out the same team made a Netflix show called Friends from College a few years ago that I’d never heard of and critics hated but it’s doing the trick as Platonic methadone

The ways JD Vance could become president: 1) Trump dies in office 2) 2028-29 coup attempt succeeds That’s it

when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money

I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year

UK happiness suffered a lot in the pandemic and its aftermath, but it's still higher than during the early 2010s. Declinism is the same nonsense it was in the early 60s and mid 70s.

It's clear that a lot of usually peace-loving people fantasise about seeing people they hate punched very hard in the face and it was extremely careless of certain right-wing influencers to allow that fantasy to come true

Farewell to the all-time champ of combining amazing taste with maddening chat

Trying to explain to my wife why the name Tond is now terrifying to me and you must not mock Tond