End over end, tumbling down a staircase, over and over, Democrats keep thinking a well-timed dunk on social media is both an effective longterm strategy and capable of moving the needle.

Of all the millions of "What jokes didn't you get as a kid?" threads that populate the internet, I've yet to see one that mentions the Pinky and the Brain Godzilla parody that features repeated, poorly-integrated cameos from Raymond Burr, parodying the 1956 Americanization of the original film.

The one time I subscribed to Paramount+ was to watch the new Top Gun and Jackass movies. After I saw them, I looked around the site, and wow they had nothing. I don't mean nothing interesting, I mean vast, cavernous deficits. I wound up watching I Love Lucy reruns until the month was over.

World keeps spinning, sun keeps shining, Republicans keep calling themselves the party of small government and advocates for the free market of ideas

As much as I detest underclassmen using AI, I at least understand it. They're lazy, they have no investment, they're looking for a shortcut. Seeing honest-to-God researchers who don't want to read, learn and discover in their chosen fields? What are we even doing?

We need to think about GenAI the same way we think about ClipArt. Originally, a novelty. It allowed early adopters of personal computers to experiment with graphic design, which was practically and technically closed off to them.

Know me better: I was somewhat obsessed with Mensa in middle school. Maybe it was the idea of hobnobbing with intellectual giants, maybe it was validation for the nerdy kid. But eventually I just lost interest. The group seemed pointless and a bit lame. I was in middle school.

It has been a hot minute since I've used my film school education for something besides helping my brother win his office Oscar pool

It's not just me who, every day, spirals into an apoplectic state after reading the news, complete with contorted hands and threatening gestures that makes coworkers audibly question if we're okay. Is it?

The final stages of a new project; where you're so proud of what you've created, you ruefully know nobody else is going to meaningfully engage, and you live in fear how you're going to trip and fall and wreck it all steps away from the finish line.

End this stupid trend of bringing back popular villains from the dead. Palpatine fell down a giant shaft, Darth Maul was sliced in half, Boba Fett was eaten by the Sarlacc. None of them survived; any argument otherwise is advanced fanon.

Of Mice and Hominids

The thing that bothers me but I can't complain about, people who say "The 1900s" when they mean the 20th Century I get that it's a gibe, kids are trying to pester the adults like all kids do But when I'm trying to research things from 1900-1909? Y'all have made things unnecessarily difficult

World According to Garp and Grogu

As much as Blues Brothers 2000 is considered a mistake by everybody, it did hold the distinction of breaking the record of Most Cars Wrecked in a Single Movie. A record previously held by the original Blues Brothers.

We should make "seashell" every bit a pejorative, just as others have made "snowflake"

Know what? This isn't the first time a president has been embarrassing about their ball room youtu.be/tiDxhgwxqgQ

It might just be me, but if I was supposedly close to being assassinated, and the following day I gave an interview to somebody who was in the room at the time, and they still chose to center the interview around whether or not I'm a pedophile? Then the pedophilia issue isn't going away.

Itʹs weird seeing The Backrooms, a creepypasta thriving on a digital version of the oral tradition, get acquired by mass media. Thieving magpies, snatching up anything anything unguarded, adding it to their hoard. It wasnʹt unclaimed; it was the peopleʹs horror!

The Dan Olson video from earlier this week, about how lousy MrBeast is as a showrunner, producer, and executive, came out at the last possible moment it could. These complaints pale now, but its still a fun video to consider as this house of cards starts tumbling down.

End the internet. As far as Iʹm concerned, were never doing better than this.

Of course I'm happy that marijuana and related substances have been heavily decriminalized, but has anyone else felt that over the past ten years or so, as it's been mainstreamed, stoner culture has gotten extremely boring?

The purpose of a mummy movie is the Egyptology. Thatʹs the draw. Thatʹs the appeal. The desert, the tombs, the history, and a parable about the ethics of archaeology. Croninʹs made The Exorcist by way of Prisoners. Heʹs missing the oasis for the palms.

World Party - Ship of Fools Good as a timeline cleanse, or as a soundtrack for your doomscrolling. How versatile!

"As a doctor, I assure you those sores and boils are unrelated to your recent blasphemy. Please deposit another $1.99 to continue."

We should probably hold off on celebrating Hungary until we know, four years from now, they aren't going to re-elect Orbán because gas prices went up by a quarter for six months.

Know what this moment needs? A James Horner score. youtu.be/qY1xNnyMrrc?...

It, Dune II, Nosferatu... We've established Bill Skarsgård can do the Kubrick Stare, we need to see him do something else now.

And here's why I'm not really optimistic about any 25th Amendment-based solution.

I should be jubilant over the Artemis II mission. But a decade plus of popular science being less about science and more about populism has left me bitter. I can't fight this feeling that an incredibly successful mission is going to be turned into something horrible later.

Feel the rhythm Feel the rhyme C'mon up It's light speed time

Fine stuff

The guided tour of Alcatraz features historians subtly implying that the concept of an island prison was impractical, stupid, and a colossal waste of money and resources. What I'm saying is, this tracks.

Other strategies included burning an AntiAI-er inside a giant wicker man

Night is night, be it 10 PM, or 1 AM, or... fuck, the birds are singing. Okay, yeah, I fucked my sleep schedule again.

I can understand millions of people watching hours of video in hi-def requires lots of data transfer and energy. But seeing how much it's a literal blip compared to the Hallucination Machines? It really highlights the level of irresponsibility involved.

Dreamt I was a millionaire and loved it. But now the dream is over. I have been logged off.

Of all the good feelings in the world, none gives me more relief than when the last warning light on my dashboard shuts off. Probably because it happens so rarely.

Knives were out for Chalamet, but I think what really caused the Marty Supreme shutout was just having Kevin O′Leary in the vicinity of the picture.

Continental decision to follow-up the In Memoriam section with the Frankenstein reel.

Drift catching is not the end goal of engaging with a film. If you think otherwise, you′re conflating art with a manifesto.

Divide your attention proportionally between the unsubstantiated and unlikely rumors that Iran would use the Oscars telecast as a potential target for terrorism, and all the scenes from The Naked Gun 33 1/3 featuring a bomb in the Best Picture envelope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go5a...

Mountains of evidence AI is destroying the planet, the economy, and causing biologic changes to the brain: "It's okay, I only use it for the lulz" One rumor about MSG from 50 years ago: "Oh god, that stuff is dangerous. Keep it far away from me."

Sit tight, I need to check something...

In his defense, he cops to not watching the thing he's trying to discuss, actually watches it, and changes his mind when he realizes how incredibly wrong he was instead of doubling down. First of all, don't be that guy to start with. Second, be willing to forgive folks who escape indoctrination.

A truly great insult is when you just present the facts and they're humiliating.

Line in the sand, I'm not watching any cartoon whose ads are filled with characters screaming and making dopey faces at the camera. This is Minions bullshit. I don't care if Hoppers actually is Pixar's funniest film ever, your commercials annoy me.

Leonard Nimoy's narration puts Civ IV over the others. #My9Games

"Bernstein, why don't you finish one story before trying to get on another?" "I finished it." "The Virginia legislature story?" "I finished it." "All right, give it to me." "...I'm just polishing it."

Leonid Andreyev once wrote: "I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis... What is it if not madness?" It was written, appropriately, concerning his home country's endless series of wars in Persia and the Middle East