Hegseth is wearing about a half inch of foundation this morning.

That’s $300M for those playing at home.

This has to be just a really awkward way of saying “several likely successors” and not “a number of guys we lined up to replace.” Right?

The man’s quoting Bruce Hornsby circa 1986. Or Walter Cronkite.

Okay, honest question, does the phrase “Thank you for your attention to this matter” appear in some early to mid-century standards in business correspondence textbook? Maybe his father made him recite it? Or his dad just beat him with it?

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

Don’t want to be a cynic here, but I backed this Kickstarter in 2012…

He’s out-Reagan’d Reagan.

Anthropic being an adult in the room is surprising, and very welcome, even if this is the epitome of a obvious statement: “First, we do not believe that today’s frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons.” Nope. They sure aren’t.

“I can’t and won’t accept this victory tonight without calling out politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society.” Maybe decent people (who care about other people) running for office is the way?

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

It looks as if the Greens have taken Gorton and Denton… Which sounds like the kind of hyper-local Monty Python joke that went right over my head when I was a kid.

everyone say thank you millennial thomas cromwell

Mayor Mamdani secured the student’s immediate release, but this doesn’t change the fact that Columbia University allowed this to happen.

Any parent of an enrolled student at Columbia University should be melting the administrative phone lines or flooding the email boxes or marching on the gates. This is as appalling as it is terrifying.

When it’s just a numbers game, this is what victory looks like.

Ah [snow], here we go again.

On March 4, 1841, President William Henry Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in American history. 8,445 words in total. It took him nearly two hours to read. He died one month later. Just a fun little fact.

a two hour speech you say? ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ 𝐈𝐓 ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ ⏰ ⏰

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.” A far shorter, far better speech than the one droning on right now.

Seems like the kind of thing that the old “Don’t Be Evil” version of a certain company simply wouldn’t be capable of doing.

What if Moulin Rouge was All That Jazz but also Singin’ In The Rain plus Hamlet and the whole thing was just unmitigated joy as well as high melodrama but also reincarnation and revenge while being loaded from beginning to end with amazing songs and choreography? Om Shanti Om (2007) is so good!📽️

“Nah, we’re good. Thanks.”

“Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other [countries], and I want that for [my country].” 🙏

I’m not even sure “Wuthering Heights”™ (2026) fits into any of these categories.

If you’re wondering what the Upper West Side sounds like this evening…

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

It’s time to call Skinner.

It will take about 12 hours to move (roll) Artemis II back along the 4 mile stretch to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Does Emerald Fennell know just how camp “Wuthering Heights” (2026) is? No, I don’t really think she does. Does Margot Robbie know that so many of her lines in “Wuthering Heights” sound like a Zucker Brothers take on classic literature? Yeah, I really think she does. 📽️

contemplating, awestruck, the centuries-long geometry of material and historical processes necessary to create the conditions for me to have just sent a text asking “want to go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights”

help, mom [capital] and dad [fascism] are fighting again.

Regrets, he’s had a few. But then again, too few to mention

Headline Suggestion: No So Tariff-ic, After All

“movies are going to become video games”

“He took six frames in ⁠all – two showed police, two ​were blank, one was out of focus.” As they say, you only have to be lucky once

Profit-hungry tech evangelists for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

So you’re saying this game asks you to be the in-house chef at a mini Meow Wolf deep in the woods? Sold.

Thanks to this review, I want so desperately to see a Wuthering Heights directed by the same visionary genius who gave us the videos for 2Pac’s “California Love” and Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa.”

“Thames Valley Police” sounds like a sitcom that ran on BBC One from 1967 to 1983.

Just sitting here staring into space, sighing that we only ever got three D’Angelo albums. Though if I’m honest, not sure we ever deserved even one.

It’s February in 1988, and a tired old man in the White House is threatening war on Iran. It’s February in 2026, and a tired old man in the White House is threatening war on Iran.

What makes Reds (1981) so phenomenal is how it offers the entire world (the politics, the weather, the scenery, the risks, the opportunities) through the experiences of these two perfectly human people. And if we’re honest, isn’t that all any of us have?

Why bring poor Laura Branigan into this?

So does he get locked up in the Tower now or what?

It’s February in 1988, and a tired old man in the White House is threatening war on Iran. It’s February in 2026, and a tired old man in the White House is threatening war on Iran.

I. Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?