Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

People care for more about being seen — feeling seen, in the case of sharing a fake but funny video or bit that generates affect — than being accurate or “right”. We misapply our nerd obsession with enlightenment values of truth onto people who just want to boogie.

You will be visited by 3 spirits

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

Constantly reminded that for hundreds of years after the South American silver mines had essentially run out there continued to be vast resources pumped into the idea that previous regimes hadn’t been extractive enough rather than the idea that the value simply didn’t exist.

FINE i have UNPAYWALLED this piece, and a MERRY CHRISTMAS to all EXCEPT FOR COLLAGEN

Post production is extremely complex -- every final version of a show is comprised of multiple elements. VFX, sound, color. If you're doing a massive transfer/remaster like this, PAY PEOPLE who understand how post works to supervise. You can't just cut and paste.

One of the very best 🧵s from last year is worth a revisit

Load-bearing Huge Wak˜ ∏◊ı˜ Closet

It's Thanksgiving and I'm feeling generous so here's Busta Rhymes and the TMNT

I love this!

The only bad part about rewatching 30 Rock is that everything Dr. Spaceman says is how RFK Jr. thinks medicine works

I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:

I think I’m just not going to respond anymore to foolishness about how LLMs are a true substitute for thought. It’s an utter waste of time. People who commit to that idea will find out that it’s nonsense in time, and they aren’t going to listen until then.

We need more honest language: Theft Tech (AI) Grift Tech (crypto) Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)

Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen

Reposting this…for reasons.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it

Happy Holidays.

Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.

top tier french

…ya know what? I would try it 😏

Yes, this, & set up a recurring donation if you can. Cash is ALWAYS better than collecting food through drives. Food banks have deals with suppliers that enable them to stretch a dollar further than what we can buy at retail prices. They can take $5 and get $15+ in value from it to feed folks.

BTW, it really does appear that Tori Amos created the first known pumpkin spice latte. (Not a joke!)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

Don’t use AI to write your articles. (Or do literally anything else.) It doesn’t know what it’s doing. Because it doesn’t know anything. Because it’s not a sentient thing. The amount of people being fooled by this patently obvious get-richer-quick scam is wholly depressing

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.

One of one. Made everything she was ever in better just by being there. 💔

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

the person who published this is about to run CBS

New never before seen levels of

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Periodic reminder that hitting skip on the Peacemaker opening credits sequence should be illegal

"So... the bubble's about to burst, how should we spin it?"

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Instead of this ridiculous story quoting one person who doesn’t want a bathroom in Runyon Canyon because of “odors” (have you smelled the dog piss there?), please read my story about how we can and should have beautiful public bathrooms in ALL our parks

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