I’m not even a hard liner about remote work I don’t mind working in the office but it’s so funny how every company acts like being in office is important for collaboration when 95% of my meetings are still video calls

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

I think it’s a little weird to show up at random screenings of movies that aren’t yours to promote your movie but that’s just me…

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Not sure which is funnier, “anything in English” or the idea of spending your Super Bowl watching 30 minutes of dogshit boring worship music to own the libs.

No fucking way. How bad is it that my joke is Shedeur's reality.

a great blog from the best website defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

“What if we did the Civilian Conservation Corps, but for arming men who aren’t allowed to see their kids”

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

Judas Priest - PAINKILLER and I don’t think anything else comes particularly close

Imagining a modern Leni Riefenstahl trying to make the American TRIUMPH OF THE WILL out of this event and having to spend thousands of hours editing around Trump rambling about stairs and the n word while also having to figure out how to make Pete Hegseth look less wet

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

worst thing you’ll ever read and a revealing glimpse into shapiro’s neuroses and prejudices. also you’ll quickly see why he couldn’t hack it in hollywood.

like a bolt from a blue, i just remembered the “problematic height gap/short women are minor coded” discourse lol. people really let their freak flags fly on social media

hegseth: [face swollen, eyes red] who among you will stand with me in this dojo

It rocks that this sort of thing is just playing with the sound on in every waiting room in the country once you get 50 miles outside a major city. Two people with stuffed animal eyes shaking their heads sadly over footage of the president being inconvenienced briefly.

I'm actually enjoying the fact that THIS is what replaced the Charlie Kirk hysteria. "Charlie is a martyr, and we'll never forget his sacrifice." [a fucking escalator stops briefly] "HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE BIGGEST STORY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD."

Blaming pregnant mothers for their kid's autism is so vile and damaging, especially if you know just how bad and guilty they already feel about a million other things. I know that there are moms out there who are believing this shit and it makes me so angry.

1. The Master 2. There Will Be Blood 3. Boogie Nights 4. Inherent Vice 5. Phantom Thread 6. Licorice Pizza 7. Punch Drunk Love 8. Magnolia 9. Hard Eight

Everything people say is good about the Prequels is actually good about MEGALOPOLIS.

Dang, that's crazy. Anyway, we moved our annual refugee resettlement fundraiser to Bluesky this spring, after running it entirely on Twitter for over a decade, started with ZERO followers, took our "shrunken" audiences and beat last year's total by $200,000 in a time of massive economic upheaval

To think I spent 20 years as an arts journalist paranoid about the slightest whiff of impropriety, turning down so much as a free soda at movie screenings and donating every piece of media mailed to me when that whole time I could have been Facetime fucking my sources for profit.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take

Perhaps worth remembering in light of the Emmys is that when Robert Redford got uncomfortable with how corporate and hollow Hollywood was becoming he actually did something to elevate independent voices instead of just making a shitty Apple show about how much the industry sucks.

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate

I’m not confident of much but I can tell you that no matter how it happens my last words won’t be blaming mass shootings on trans people

How about I meet you halfway and I fully admit that I’m racist against AI but it also means I get to invent slurs to call AI and AI users

Some Guys I loved watching as a Dbacks fan even though most of them were ass (except for a year or two)

I can count on one hand the people who work as opinion columnists at national broadsheets, which are positions of frankly insane power over the public perception of any given issue, and do the job with anything like the kind of rigor and humility it demands

ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!

not just people who worked in the space either. i’m just some dumbass with a law degree and a single econ class under my belt (intro to game theory lol) and i predicted this!! it’s the most obvious and predictable outcome imaginable

bumping one more time, here’s a thing i wrote about ChatGPT ushering a kid to his death, and about the world not being something you can simulate

Extremely proud to have a mayor who will take a second to defend innocent trans people even in this awful moment. A powerful contrast with the many moderate Democrats who abandoned trans people simply because they lost an election. Don't let the gun nuts scapegoat any minority; it's the guns.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

every day i am haunted by this from First Reformed

this is the greatest threat to the safety of american jews in my lifetime.