I hate it. I wish violence upon it, thoughts toward it bloody or nothing worth. No hammer can smash it hard enough, no flame can evaporate it fast enough. I want every vapid, soulless peddler of it to sit in a stiff-backed chair in the marketplace, hearing rebuke until they realize their mistakes.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

My world is not the same after reading Reich's book The System. Please read it. I am worried that I have been less of a hoot at parties, because I want this to be THE political discussion.

After my first play I finally understood how carefully the government, the people, and the businesses have to waltz to stop a city from Dropping Dead.

I'm in a google drive of the gd House Oversight Committee. I can't believe this. It's like I'm looking at a shared work folder, but it's Epstein's texts. Why is there a video of a dog chewing a toy? What world is this?

I misspoke in this episode, Hermanos paid me $4 an hour initially, but I got to $4.25 after a year.

You go to a restaurant. The food is not only worse than it used to be, but it costs more. You can eat standing, but a stool is $60. The waitstaff is still paid the same crappy wage, but the owner makes 1000x what she makes and she is forced to offer you a credit card that gives bonus meals.

Maybe a hot take, but the flight attendant who makes $30k a year should not have to give a speech on a delayed, water-only, $60 a bag flight to ask you to get a credit card so that it can benefit the CEO who made $31 million this year.

I'm trying to go to bed but I'm ALSO trying not to make a video where I play three competing Michael Caines where one is doing Ozymandias, the other the prologue to Henry V, and the third Kiss from a Rose (on the bloody GRAVE)

If I have to read about anyone else "sounding the alarm" I swear I'm gonna lose it.

I'm starting to feel that 911 and the Butterball help line are the only two places I can call where I'll be able to speak to a person

Tonight I'm feeling for the poor fellow who writes the Ira Subaru of Manchester newsletter that keeps popping into my mail.

I never understood as a kid why watching the movie M*A*S*H felt like cool water on my brain. Or getting a multiball. Or sleeping in a room with 30 people talking. Robert Altman rewards the scattered, fearful, hyperfocused mind and coyote ears. Oh how I love him. Who can listen to just one thing

This isn't just a unique thing, a history podcast to accompany a game's release, it is AMAZING. I would listen to this even if I'd never heard of the game. It's stunning.

This was good for me because I got a LOT of 1776 outta my system.

Age verification? My sister and I shared my father's sweater to play the role of William "The Refrigerator" Perry in a talent show rendition of the Superbowl Shuffle.

Man, what a movie. Don't know why I woke up thinking about this scene!

What's this? Oh, nothing, just some artwork for our Shakespeare's First Folio game.

Snack for Odin

Look I'm a xennial who wishes his kids would go poke around the neighborhood on their own but I keep my mouth shut most of the time. But holy mackerel today my boy said he played Red Rover and I was SHOCKED to hear what it entailed

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Justice Department has released the Orson Welles cut of The Magnificent Ambersons

Hey everyone in other states, let's just... Look I don't want to be forward or anything but would you be cool if we took things a little further? I was thinking maybe like 'A Firm League of Friendship' or something I don't know

Today's a good day to stop myself from getting a Learned Hand tattoo. But it's hard.

Since making this episode I bought two books, stopped using irony when talking about politics, and then sat at the kitchen table for an hour trying to decide how to refer to "climate change" without using an expression that was tested in focus groups like a damn happy meal toy. Jen is a gift.

I got the chance to chat with the awesome @capodice.bsky.social about frame wars for Civics 101 on NHPR. This is such a great show, if you don't already listen--you should! www.npr.org/podcasts/512...

Recovering from jetlag I woke up on the couch in NH having no idea who I was or when I was, *subsumed* with a dream about The 7th Guest. I was at a dinner party, I bungled all the food, and was impersonating the magician saying, "can you teach me REAL magic?? Can you SHOW ME!" Where are they now.

I tell this story too often, but my first month (Sep 2011) in NYC was a rough old dog. I wasn't sure if I could make rent, I went to a bunch of terrible auditions, I was cadging quarters from my roommate's couch for American Spirits and eating one bagel a day. Roomie invited me to a party. 1/∞

The worst are full of passionate intensity, but today I no longer think the best lack all conviction.

Everyone, say what you want about ol' Deano on his birthday, but never forget we were once a country that had people like Orson Welles on comedy night shows like Dean's to talk about Shakespeare, how history repeats itself, and old-age makeup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6v...

32 years ago today was opening night of Henry V at Wellington High. My first real play, just a handful of lines in my American accent. What people they were. Wouldn't see any of them again, until this week. Each cast is a kind of family and it never ever weakens or fades.

You can have a rough day where you stare at the feed and pull your temples back and go 'aaaagh!' but I tell ya, a half-bottle of chianti and reading your kid the Grimm's tale where the tailor kills "seven with one blow" for the first time? To hoots of delight?? Twelve hours of reprieve.

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

I remember when I used say "ya know, it's not THE Magna Carta, it's just Magna Carta!" And while I was insufferable, I yearn for the time when that little pedantic thing was ok to bring up because rule of law and habeas corpus were a given.

(guy at the alehouse) "Man, 12th Night, what a PLAY" "what? Never heard of it." "C'mon, with the twins? And the crossdressing? The mean servant in the stockings?" (other guy grimaces) "you went with your dogsbody and your grandnam last week!" (pause) "Ohhhhhhh...you mean WHAT YOU WILL"

Call me the Blue Prince because I spend an inordinate amount of time watching myself move left and right and raising my hands in security cameras

I'm cozying up to the rules for Molly House tonight, but my goodness doesn't @wehrlegig.games make just the most beautiful things?

The story that sort of sneaked by that I cannot stop thinking about is that CAPTCHA doesn't do anything. Never did. Doesn't stop any robots or hackers whatsoever. Just made google trillions of dollars through ad trackers. But they remain. Why? Why are they there? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

i think it was descartes who famously said, “to be human is to select all the pics with crosswalks in them.”

Boston folks! People in the land of the bean and the cod. Come hang out! We're doing a live show at the Moakley Courthouse on 4/11, and afterwards there will a panel of judges. Real live judges weigh in on your questions about "The Rule of Law." forms.mad.uscourts.gov/civics-101-p... #sschat

When cooking I cannot grind pepper without mimicking the opening washboard riff from Emmet Otter's rendition of "Barbeque."

Now is as good a time as any to start watching what stocks tariff-supporting politicians are buying. I have like 100 bucks. www.capitoltrades.com/politicians

DEAN MARTIN: I finally made it... Omelas! Wow, what a town... feels like I've been making my way here my whole life.... *music starts* I've ah been ah walking.... to.. Oh.... MEyah lusss! JERRY LEWIS: *in a hole* AAAAAUWWWWWWWHAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH

"Now who is THAT talkin' on the Wolfman's SIGNAL! How how HOWOOOOOOOuthi"

Everybody is showing guns in their gloveboxes shooting galleries in their basement, saying "try me try me just come and try say it to my face" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/...

I know it's pretty much every book ever written, but doing an ep on the process of suing a billionaire for stealing a book we wrote? Stolen to pump into his robot machine? It would be a joy to work on. Chianti-fueled math: MZ-$230b net worth, Meta $270b. 7.5 million books, comes to about $66k each

It is VERY hard to not stand on the chair at this airport with a delay due to air traffic control and bellow general questions about "how this could have happened"

ORYX AND CRAKE?????? I want to play a goddamn marimba on bones until my knuckles bleed and I cut the blisters in the webbing in my hands so stronger callouses can be formed and pound the bones until I'm too weak to stand.

Tonight I cried 'agent' on the phone just to get the number for the front desk of a hotel. And a guy answered and said he'd help me out, the sounds of other folks buzzing and nattering in the background. After a strange conversation with him, I dared to say, "I hate to ask, but...are you a person?"

Note to our #sschat #edchat #apgov friends. Tomorrow our ep on Times v Sullivan comes out, and @appc.upenn.edu is giving away 50 copies of Samantha Barbas' book, Actual Malice, to educators who sign up for the Civics Renewal Network newsletter. Please share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Showed my 8yo Blues Brothers. He has the attention span of a wonderful hummingbird, but it went SO well. I maybe paused and waxed a bit too long on how you should always drive Nazis off a bridge and always pay the band first. Maybe...the costume my father and I wore in '89 could take another turn?