i have thought for several years now that a key aim of the democratic party should be to polarize the public against the supreme court

You know what might be a better way to cash in on the Western anime craze than live-action remakes or genAI filters or whatever? CARTOONS. ORIGINAL 2D CARTOONS, DRAWN BY PEOPLE, NOT JUST AIMED AT CHILDREN.

How this works: - Rich guys losing money because of tariffs? Finally pushing back - Millions of poor people starving? Business as usual. You say that the effects of millions of poor people starving also might eventually cost rich guys money? I really don't see how that could be possible

I think we're genuinely flirting with a societal rupture and I'm not sure I want to experience that

criterion 50% off sale at barnes and noble btw

One thing I especially like was how it got the textures of mental illness right - both music and recurring sound effects like files and the dog mixed a little too loudly, the too-fast cuts back to the reverse shots of Lawrence when she's trying (and failing) to avoid or get through banal small talk

consumer spending sentiment is at the lowest since both 2008 and 2020. did something bad happen in both those periods

Expert on PBS Newshour says the functional unemployment number is about 25% not 4%.

“It's kind of a cosmic gumbo. It almost moves to the beat of jazz”

I don't know, I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I think it's worse, I think this is worse than "Biden was just a senile fanatic about it". They all knew. They all knew what was happening.

Don't worry, he's got a patsy all lined up tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...

Enjoy the schadenfreude but then recognize they’re booing the idea that their techbro gods are accountable to the law.

E.g. This kind of shot is legible in a dark room on an OLED but it always looks terrible.

Is there a name for that digital version of day for night where it looks like they just turned down the brightness during the color grade? S2 of Silo uses it, S1 did not, Weapons is festooned with it, it looks bad.

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

This is, as described, a fold. Clean CR was on the table in Sept. “Minibus“ of approps bills is getting done anyway, pre-negotiated, there’s nothing new. 1-year ACA extension: better than three months. But not permanent. Cmte to negotiate with fascists who want to destroy healthcare is just PR

Ad I just got from a podcast hosting site: 'Say what you want to about AI, but...it's here.' Once again, how is this even a good pitch? 'We're sure you have concerns about this new tech/product, but guess what, consumer - TOUGH SHIT'

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

cs is just a department

DIE, MY LOVE (Or, WHEN BOHEMIANS PROCREATE: A CAUTIONARY TALE) 'I shot a dog!' Really liked it, and also got why some people hate it - you are either on board for watching this woman's complete inability to relate to life/the world/other people or you aren't

Someone on here pointed out that when people are dealing with dementia they are advised to clearly label everything in their vicinity to help with day to day tasks and that’s the best explanation I’ve seen for what’s happening here

every women’s professional sports league is like trans lives matter we love everybody i will die for my gay teammates and every male sports league is like text WIN to access your draft kings account and get fifty dollars toward your first parlay.

The reason Bluesky is doing the "rude" post labeling based on keywords or downvotes is that for them it's an easy-to-do performative thing. "Hey, we're doing something!" Meanwhile actual harmful accounts (e.g. transphobes) can post their tripe freely because Jay thinks those are valuable ideas.

Twitter became real life to them when it got more Nazi which does prompt some questions I think

my ideal future is gonna need strong guardrails so that 25 to 50 people miffed about their spicy reply guys can't drive the entire federal government off a cliff

It’s been wild to see how willing some people immediately were to fritter away their credibility and ultimately their influence by assuming that the posts they see on Twitter are reflective of the broadly and deeply held personal beliefs of the American public

In an interview with a Palestinian asylum-seeker he told me he turned off his phone & wrapped it to avoid cyber surveillance tech, which was developed by Israel & tested on him & which has just been bought by ICE to use on Americans. "None of us are free until all are free" is not a slogan.

appearing in my 2011 dorm to tell my collegiate self that “the syrian revolution ends with an al-qaeda operative currently in american custody letting the guy from the apprentice build an airbase outside damascus because they’re the presidents now”

The only sour note here for me is Hamrah's affront at Gen X's sincerity being mocked while causally painting the ex-hippie asshole who created Cops (as an 'avant-garde comedy', supposedly) and got rich enough to kill himself in a freak accident as a quintessential Boomer

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

i cant speak to every show but the game shows are typically the most legit and least scripted of the reality shows. the kardashian-style docusoap shows are usually the most scripted

i admit to being genuinely shocked when i learned that the people in every episode of house hunters (and its endless variants) have already bought a house before a single scene has been filmed

As someone who's worked on a lot of reality shows, I think even pretty sophisticated audience members would be surprised to learn how much of many shows are basically scripted - or even compile footage out of context in post-production to build stories that never happened bsky.app/profile/thew...

I talked to a TV exec once regarding a show I was running and he said "There are A, B, C, and D counties. A is cities, B is close suburbs, C is outer suburbs, D is everything else." He wanted C/D content, and was also a colossal moron

I think way fewer people think pro wrestling is real than think reality tv is (in some sense) real, but ya pro wrestling has a similar thing where the sophisticated people who write about it and discuss it on the internet are not representative of the bulk of the audience for it

It's also why all of those smug european countries are pulling back on their welfare programs. They were happy to have them when they were relatively homogenous but now that they're afraid of immigrants having them - esp POC - they're scaling back

Most Europeans do not understand that African Americans have been in the US longer than most white Americans. I kind of low key wonder where they think Beyonce is from.

I think specifically with reality TV there is a very over-represented-in-the-culture audience of sophisticated, highly educated people who consume it basically as a self-consciously trashy or even ironic guilty pleasure and I can't emphasize enough that this is NOT the typical reality tv audience.

He is skilled, through practice alone if not talent - at performing on camera. It was his part time job for 40 year and full time job for 15. This has faded as he aged into senility, but was extremely evident in 2015 during tv appearances but especially during the GOP debates.

The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.

Skimmed through the sole example available via the Internet Archive for a lark, and it was surprisingly boring, but also - in a far off interplanetary-set book published in the year 2015 - contained a 'watchoo talking about Willis' joke, which is more shocking than the nine-foot multi-pronged aliens

Hear the white man dancing youtu.be/LYzPVKg3wyo

Optimus robots will just kinda follow criminals around and make sure they don't commit crimes again, so we can eliminate prisons. These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.

One way to scare these creeps would be if the -Democrats- were the ones saying they’d be imprisoning them. It’s only the Republicans saying “they’re gonna put me in jail” and it would totally change the equation if someone in the Dems said “You’re goddamn right we are”

My family makes fun of me for watching so much basic cable, but if I ever need a Medicare supplement plan or have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, who'll be laughing?