Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.” wow, i love the AI future!

I love a little pundit-on-pundit violence. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/09/a...

No one gets glamorized in media more for less valid reasons than bikers, I said what I said

"... the treatment of heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey is one of our earliest warnings against egoism and relying too much on ‘big men’. Each epic explains the separation between the worlds of gods and mortals and why heroes are also bad for us." neoskosmos.com/en/2026/04/0...

Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz for about five minutes and then shut right it down again, because Donny is an impulsive fucking moron who couldn't understand the terms of the ceasefire he agreed to. thank you for your attention to my post in which I mock all that shit. link is here: bit.ly/4tyWnlL

Was an honor to be on the podcast! Wish it was about a more fun topic but also, I wish ill on JK Rowling so I glad I got to talk about the harm she causes.

It’s really this easy!!!

Men will threaten to bomb the Vatican rather than go to therapy.

Imagine going back any further than a decade and telling any American Catholic the pope will indeed be American, and also the president will threaten to bomb him

Keep thinking about how you could probably write a really good Superman story about the idea that Earth is barreling towards the same fate as Krypton. And Clark has to decide whether to use his power to stop it or stand by and become the Last Son of Both Earth and Krypton.

I would rather stab out my ear drums with a rusty screwdriver.

Nothing to see here, move along--LLMs and medical advise edition.

so do the swiss guards have, like, a defcon alert system?

broke: which nation-state will decide it needs its own post-American nuclear deterrent? south korea? poland? the saudis? woke: pope nukes

Dude when your wife wants to jump out of the plane because you’ve been talking to her about Western Civilization for three hours that’s not ”skydiving”

I’ve said it a billion times; I’ll take messy works of art that are trying to say something over art that is extremely well made and structured, but wants to say nothing at all.

We need @kenwhite.bsky.social's opinion on this.

Any video essayists who have discussed trans rep in comic books, now's your time to drop a recommendation.

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

I've seen more people talking about how we need to "open the straight" in the past week than I have in decades of consuming gay porn. Spelling matters y'all.

Going back to Star Trek Picard season 2; it's not a well told story, but man, its explicit point that the Federation/USA is fascist if it lets ICE and tech oligarchs take control and the way to actually build a better future is through exploration, space travel and diversity was on point...

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

Who the Hell is Stephen Miller? @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I sat down to lay it all out, with some help from Peter Laufer and Katie McHugh podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Governments failed to teach sound epistemology in schools and so there is no understanding that quality reporting and analysis are expensive. The vast majority wants to pay nothing for good content, and to have emotional reactions to the latest news, rather than think about the larger picture.

We built a communications system intended to be so redundant it could survive a nuclear war and now it struggles anytime there's a rainy day at an Amazon server farm.

Republicans called Obama a terrorist supporter for lifting a small section of sanctions in exchange for a halted nuclear program and third-party oversight now Trump might lift every sanction in exchange for literally nothing

Russia had several perfectly safe ports on the Black Sea and now it has zero and truly no one to blame but themselves

Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds have emerged as a key vector in oligarchic capture of U.S. media. At least one has invested in every major takeover since X.

the China-Russia friendship posters tell the story of a nice young couple who when they get a bit older have kids

update on this: Ben Roberts-Smith was just arrested for numerous war crimes. www.theage.com.au/national/ben...

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

ICYMI over the Easter weekend: I wrote about why Murray Rothbard and Francis Fukuyama are crucial context for the Right’s assault on birthright citizenship, about how we conceptualize progress in history, and about the possibility of democratic change. No Right is Ever Safe:

to imagine back on that beautiful blue orb that makes all of this unique life possible we can’t stop bombing and killing one another, it’s terribly sad

In the Christian world you get to choose between two flavors of idolatrous nationalism

One striking thing about the moon pics, especially the ones including earth, is they show how dark in color the moon actually is. We're used to seeing it as a mostly whitish gray, w/ some darker splotches, because it's illuminated against the night sky. But actually it's all a pretty dark charcoal.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

At the end of the day, we're all trapped in a far-right fantasy of redemptive violence. It's like how Rumsfeld viewed Iraq as proof of concept of his "doctrine," but incalculably more idiotic.

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive) Find subscribe links here:

An excellent briefing before the hugely consequential (also for the US) Hungarian elections. www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-l...

"Many of those governments will gather in Colombia on 28-29 April for a conference to begin a global transition...Critically, the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels will not be governed by UN rules, which require consensus, but by majority rule"

We are the ones who are coming to save us.

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

When Jimmy Carter's rescue mission to Iran failed, he went on TV and took full personal responsibility The US is in *every* way worse off than six weeks ago. And Iran, for all its losses, is in a stronger position. Starting with control of Hormuz. And NorKor-style determination to develop nukes

Start a fight for no reason then crawl on your knees begging them to let you have some of your economy back: the Art of the Deal.

“Aw, man, i shot [freedom of navigation] in the face”

I love that Pinky and the Brain takes place in whatever decade the show needs it to take place in to justify the jokes they want to make that week.

was the first person to write “well THAT just happened“ feeling clever at the time, or were they embarrassed and now live in a hell where their placeholder joke defines an era of terrible quips

Trump's very deserved record as the president with the most impeachments has no excuse for being just 2.

I appreciate this man's ability to view current events and align them with pop culture and media consciousness.

This week on The ReWind @darrenmooney.bsky.social, Marty, and I talk about the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Which asks a bold question: "Can a movie devoid of any tension be entertaining?" The answer is: "eeehhhhhhhhhh!!!!!" Watch/Listen Here: