Bulwark readers in Toronto—see you at the show tonight! It's going to be a blast

latest in @mcsweeneys.net — the crust has never been thinner www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

*puts down phone, slaps knees, stands* whelp! Time and tide flow wide, I guess

Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all.

ABC News is out of control

Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944. * for me, anyways

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

Did anyone else hear that terrifying horn in the sky just now? Or was that just over Etobicoke?

From booby-trapped mics to "sleeve guns," Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories are running wild on the right, thanks in part to FBI director Kash Patel. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com : www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

Okay but Serious Post for autistic and otherwise neurodiverse people in my orbit for whom today has been hard: I'm grateful you exist. Your life is a good thing.

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

It was the best of times, it was the end of times

realized during kid pickup I had a bit of a Commissioner Gordon thing going on

good lord

"'I remember going to the door to let him in,'... Disco Elysium’s art director has said of his early discussions with [Robert] Kurvitz. 'He looked me dead in the eye and said, "My friend, we failed at so many things. Let us also fail at making a video game."'" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"For enterprises, the message appeared clear: AI hallucinations represented not a temporary engineering challenge, but a permanent mathematical reality requiring new governance frameworks and risk management strategies." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

been feeling so forgetful lately . . . of Being . . .

Watching All the President’s Men when my wife pulls out her phone and takes this photo. “The desk resemblance is strong,” she says

have isolated the likely cause of a recent slight uptick in mental health (switching from Adam Curtis documentaries to Ken Burns documentaries while working out late at night)

This has all just been one big “What if an entire government was run by Mishima” bit.

Phenomenology Friday “But since, on the contrary, we are in and toward the world, and since even our reflections take place in the temporal flow that they are attempting to capture … there is no thought that encompasses all of our thought.”

"In reviewing the leaked materials, I have identified a number of deeply concerning questionnaire responses that can be connected to people who now hold positions of influence." Chance Phillips looks at a lesser known element of Project 2025:

Thanks to @thebulwark.com for publishing my latest analysis of the leaked responses to a Project 2025 questionnaire for government jobseekers. Contra Sam Haselby, Pat Buchanan is not a “marginal figure.” The folks running the government appear to be his acolytes. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-...

"Sommer’s newsletter False Flag for The Bulwark reaches over 861,000 subscribers. 'Someone needs to explain to people,' Sommer says, 'that a Gopnik is not necessarily a Pepe.'" www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

"When you've lost John Yoo in the exercise of unilateral executive power, let’s just say you're way beyond the bounds of what can reasonably be defended." 👇

More people need to read the shorter Bolano novels. Basically the whole state of the country can get summed up with a mixture of Nazi Literature in the Americas, Amulet, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star

Read @chancephillips.bsky.social over at @thebulwark.com on the Buchanan and Bukele fans in the administration www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-...

You know that thing with some gas pumps and the elevators in expensive condo buildings? Now you get to have that inside your home! It will be in your house, if you want!

"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a 'Godfather of AI' — a technology that likely wouldn't exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT." futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Not often I recognize a banger on @vintageobscura.net, but here is one. A sign that it’s time to log off, for me at least. Perhaps it would be a good idea for you, too. Goodnight…

Robert Redford films obviously speak for themselves, but from a menswear perspective, I can’t think of many other A-listers whose personal style (actually personal; not carefully crafted by a paid stylist) have endured as well as his. Almost every fit over the decades can be worn today

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

the problem for miller here, imo, is that his work has been focused on immigrants, who are definitionally not protected in the same way as citizens are. he's moving from targeting people trapped in the zone of necropolitics to targeting people/speech at the dead center of constitutional protection

Nick Cave: "I thought on your question, Mies, 'Did love mean freedom to me?' I reflected on the things that matter most to me on this earth... family, friends... these things seem far from freedom. Instead, they are forms of containment that place demands upon us, sometimes greatly so..." RHF #336

Got to p. 38 of this complaint, by which point the account of the alleged wrongdoing has not proceeded much further than roughly "some NYT reporters once wrote Trump was 'discovered' by a reality TV producer, but this is wrong. He was already successful and famous before that." Tapping out

This is how we heal from AI art.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky

Received a vaguely menacing push notification from a takeout delivery service: "since you've been gone, we've added thousands of new restaurants." Okay. I did not ask you to do that

It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!

I wrote for @msnbc.com about what the engravings on the shell casings of Kirk’s shooter represent and where the references originated. Given what we know so far, they suggest a young man who had his brain fried by the irony poisoned, anti-social nature of certain aspects of online culture. /1

TIL … well, TIL a lot of things

You can’t brush off digital behavior as not real life. That’s why I cited @cheetah.bsky.social’s excellent piece at @thebulwark.com on Mike Lee from earlier this year. The internet isn’t just warping young men. It’s affecting U.S. senators. Obviously, our president is a malignant poster-in-chief.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

now torn between starting a new playthrough of Disco Elysium and starting to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time

No, I need to go back to a time when *love* was still possible.