Corollary - very very few people are smart and dedicated enough to be "independent thinkers". It mostly just means you derive identity from being an extremely basic contrarian

While it's not nearly as heartwarming, this description of Hex is a reminder that Prachett absolutely nailed LLMs way before Google put a single dollar into researching them

Oof, this one sucks. He was great in IT: Part 2 most recently. I always wondered why he didn't blow up more after The Wire variety.com/2025/tv/obit...

Close, but it's actually this guy, right down to the condescending attitude to women

Just got out of the rerelease of Sinners in IMAX 70mm. Anyone who says it isn't an absolutely amazing movie is a fool. As is anyone who says it isn't a horror movie

He's actually got a point on the second part - any plan that drives down the cost of personnel, which I can only assume includes M4A, is going to have to come with a big student debt bailout, especially for doctors.

If you want to know what kind of progress we've made in childhood bullying, consider how the kids of IT: Welcome To Derry are acting like they've never been bullied or fought another kid in their lives.

This post is about California NIMBYs, IE the people who voted hereditary feudalism into being with Prop 13. The "lived experience" they want to preserve is their own home prices going up and everyone outside the nobility can go hang.

Thanksgiving Day Parade ads have some truly sociopathic entries, with an ad for a fake Christmas movie that turns out to be AI and a Gemini commercial and an FB ad talking about connecting people when Meta is openly focusing on connecting its users with bots

See, an expert on Good Times would know not to threaten people with one

Dear Lord, the Ayatollah Mamdani has to look into annexing the state when he takes over. This is positively barbaric

Regret to say that, for all his personal failings, Ethan Slater is extremely good in Wicked: For Good. (And yes, Cynthia Erivo brought the house down with No Good Deed. Literally had a round of applause in my theater)

Is this good

www.jta.org/2025/11/14/p... Really disappointing news from Mamdani. This does not suggest he's taking the concerns that Lander was meant to assuage particularly seriously

Oh, he *really* wants to fuck her

Look, I know Vince Gilligan is doing everything in his power to make his new show, Pluribus, fail, from putting it on Apple TV to saying nothing about the premise, but it's a fucking banger so far and everyone should watch it. Get Rhea Seehorn the flowers the Emmys somehow denied her on BCS!

Honestly, the conditions the Democrats are setting are already a huge favor to the GOP. They're letting them bail out of a horrifyingly bad policy that hurts their own voters!

National mood today

Hey MAGA Andy

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THE TOS VIOLATION GUY DID IT

I do believe that was the GOP's best pickup opportunity

Spanberger won before Trump's bedtime. In retrospect, it may have not been smart for the GOP to be the face of a government shutdown while trying to govern a state that's like 90% federal workers.

Getting too much mileage out of this gif

So what I'm getting from this is that Lindsay Ellis deserves less tedious fans.

Meanwhile, the American electorate elected a senile fascist because burrito taxi drivers started getting slightly less underpaid. I cannot imagine the tantrum many will throw if you tell them they're paying higher taxes to be on the same healthcare system as The Poors.

Boooo, this bloodsport is no fun. This is like if Ben Shapiro stepped into a boxing ring with, like, Rodtang. It's a good thing her job didn't involve talking to reporters, or I might wonder about the people who employed her

Watching the new IT series, and I suspect we have new levels of iPhone face. Like, the child actors are good, but one of them has a face that suggests he was birthed live on TikTok

"What do you people actually believe?" from a supposed leftist defending Nazi tattoos is just hilarious.

Please notice how Harper accepts Platner's "it's an anonymous source" excuse to discount proof of Platner lying, but then uses an anonymous source to support Platner's claims. Because he knows he has to claim it's reluctant, but he *wants* the Nazi tattoos guy.

Slogans from the Amestris election, presumably from a homunculus.

del Toro doing Phantom? Stop-motion animation? Crime?

Whining about "Getting yelled at for wrongthink" is about on the same level of stability as posting 🤣. Anyway, this woman seems to be on the Brie-Brie path.

You could probably solve this with a payout for pairing off - matchmakers have made a living this way for centuries - but then you lose the casual sex audience, which I bet is huge.

Someone at the NYT still reads theory

Excellent ragebait - anyone who doesn't read the article will be outraged, while anyone who does will find out the content is "supply chain for coffee hard" in such a banal manner that it isn't worth commenting on

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So cool how a major organization that's supposed to combat antisemitism just works for Nazis now.

He'd have been an OK fit for the 2017 reboot, actually, but there's a reason that felt a bit off - Power Rangers needs a sense of *fun*, leaning into the ridiculousness. More the Wachowskis than Zach Snyder. More Gunn than Snyder, for that matter.

Broke: Cheesy 90s FMV action movies Woke: Cheesy 90s FMV horror that is actually attempting to be serious (and was strangely over-the-top in the gore department) youtu.be/LW_d04W8QWY?...

Remember, whenever you want to yell at your favorite politician for doing politics wrong, their job is to appeal to people like this. It's not even a "lol voters dumb" thing, just that you might as well be on a different planet.

"Liz Lemon, I don't care about cancellation because I've already cancelled all my haters - IN MY MIND!"

Oh boy, Clown In A Cornfield is the first liberal tantrum movie of the Trump era. I think we peaked last time in 2019 with the Beetlejuice cast yelling on-stage about the Electoral College

Robin DiAngelo:

And they had the good seasons of Law And Order, too :(

Counterpoint - no, and Klein can go fuck himself. And if he doesn't like that response, he's gonna like what Republicans have to say the moment it's convenient for them a lot less