@docrevan.bsky.social just posted this video while talking about the Cars movies, and it has given me the idea that the soundtrack to all those movies is just different covers of songs by the Cars. I find this delightful and do not want anybody to tell me it is not true. youtu.be/KyT1_jEx6eY?...

This concludes the latest lecture in my 1,000-part series, "Why American Public Life Should Be Governed By a Particularly Stern and Demanding Form Of Virtue Ethics"

hmm.

The election is two and a half months away.

oh this is fun

How did Rahm avoid a Me Tooing?

The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020

So we launched a war for no reason and the outcome is that one of the key chokepoints for world commerce is closed indefinitely?

"Reminds". Solely campaigning as anti-Trump might be a winning strategy for the midterms! There's no particular reason to think it's not.

I feel like there should be a "in fact this post was not written in Portuguese" button I can push

I mean, I think most of the anti-Hasan Piker voices are people who have also been extremely skeptical of the idea that Dems need a "left Joe Rogan"? Like this isn't ironic, this is just a longstanding disagreement.

This is such a shame. I loved this place. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

How strong do we think the correlation is between "extent to which a pro-Trump Republican is willing to oppose the war on Iran" and "level of overt anti-Semitism"? It's got to be super high, right?

Just learned there was an Italian WWII general named "Italo Gariboldi". So that's fun.

The 21st century left-liberal obsession with being hard men about the Civil War gets tedious. Whatever abstract moral arguments one wants to make, killing the entire slaveholding class was not a practical idea.

Raskin seems to be riding circuit for No Kings events. At the last one he was here in Philly.

So okay, my general political commitments make me sympathetic to No Kings, but... I don't really think having a big rally every six months is particularly effective at accomplishing anything? Like is that the whole movement? Big rallies twice a year?

NYT: so the AMA's stance is this AMA: no it's not NYT: first of all how fucking dare you have the gall to talk to me like that

Modi is not a head of state. The head of state of India is Droupadi Murmu. I don't think it's too much to ask the Paper of Record® to get this right.

What is with this fucking account?

There are two ways to stop Platner becoming a senator. One is for people like Ross to get behind Mills and that she beats Platner. The other is for Collins to win. That's it. Those are the possibilities. It's literally too late for a new candidate.

Showing my students the last episode of "Fall of Eagles" and Barry Foster gives just an absolute tour de force as Wilhelm II in this one. He gets to have all the emotions. Do all the Wilhelm II things. Great stuff.

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

This is obviously just cross promotion for the new season of For All Mankind that premieres today. Tim Cook didn't give Trump a solid gold plaque for nothing.

All the more convinced that this riff is correct. (Except apparently it actually was Iraq? Whichever)

Dekulakization

Moyn is such a smug prick

"Overpaying for Warner Brothers" famously a way to make a lot of money.

I know that series finales are probably cheating, but the series finale of Game of Thrones really was extremely bad.

New Daredevil season begins with Daredevil infiltrating a container ship in New York Harbor. And it has guns or something on it, but wouldn't it be better if the ship's cargo was none other than Dracula (Mads Mikkelsen)? That is what I want to see from the MCU.

Hmm...this is a question. Gaiman unquestionably far worse in his private life to people he personally knew and had relationships with. But given that Rowling seems to have decided to put all her money into being a bigot, she's probably worse in a public sense.

I really got blocked for this response to this post?

Sure did boss, real fucking murderous, just like you asked.

People who think LLM technology is a dead end are doing nothing to convince me with their example of a technology dying being one that is now fucking everywhere (we know about QR codes, right?)

"Leon Botstein" is not the name of a university president. It is the name of a murderous robot version of Leon Trotsky.

Smoke, Sugar, Rescue, Monarch, Silo, See, Warning, Bad Monkey, Dive, Disclaimer, Hijack, Omnivore, Dope Thief, Fire Watch only four of these aren’t Apple TV shows

People want to elevate regimental commanders so they can pretend that Robert E. Lee didn't get his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professional soldier from Philadelphia who was a conservative Democrat with pretty shitty political views.

This is so insane. Just like doing bad things for the sake of doing bad things.

one thing i appreciate about Apple's commitment to privacy is the absolute ironclad secrecy with which they treat the questions "what shows are on AppleTV" and "when do the seasons start"

The show "Task" revels in depicting the shittiest Delco dive bars you've ever seen in your life. Also a lot of really intense Delco accents.

I want a full accounting from everyone on the left who made this sociopath a prominent figure in our discourse. Some self-flagellation is in order.

I have no particular feelings one way or another about LaFlamme or any of the other non-Mills/Platner candidates, but I am not sure why Platner immediately got treated like a serious major candidate while a bunch of other people who were certainly not *less* qualified than him got treated as jokes.

I feel like there's a bunch I can *almost* recite by heart... The Second Coming Jabberwocky Tennyson's Ulysses Ozymandias plus some Shakespeare. But I usual falter on a line or two. Tried to do Ode to a Nightingale but never quite managed it.

I'd say "Happy Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil to all who celebrate" but the whole Whiskey Friday team has been laid offf today.

Incredible poasting

Showing my students "Nicholas and Alexandra" today, and man it is a movie that seems like it was made for the purpose of being shown in a high school history class. (Laudatory? Derogatory? honestly not sure)

Has CBS ever presented any meaningful justification for why they're spending millions of dollars on a security detail for Bari Weiss?