I love this framing - 'yes, the deaths were almost certainly caused by remaining Adams appointees and the 'sclerotic city systems' that SIX WEEKS in office couldn't fix, but it might breed cynicism that might undermine his project - hypothetically, of course' nymag.com/intelligence...

the fact we (academics) literally cannot have this discussion in a civil way except with a few select people (like where i said the below) btw is incredibly telling. Like no joke I have had to block colleagues over this; I know some who have been severely abused for wanting to talk about this issue

People are nature, and nature is often if not usually as non-deterministic as people

They. Want. Slaves. I said earlier that Musk specifically wanted Black slaves, and I stand by that, but while I'm sure that remains the ideal for many of the others, they almost universally want to command slavery in some form

"Invisible whips directing invisible labor." This really gives the game away.The agent-orati are getting a dopamine hit from the power over automation, docile bodies. "Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.

SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.

Remember that these people make/do/produce nothing. Their productivity martyrdom, their bullshit asceticism, it’s all busywork nonsense in this empty edifice that exists to prop up a fake economy they expect you and your planet to die for haaa

I'm pretty sure that the Guardian has run this exact same story with the brand names and citations changed every month for the past three years - and given that this ran on the 13th and is still in the top ten in 'culture', why not

The trump administration and the tech oligarch Epstein class are the greatest threat to Americans' free speech rights in our nation's history

New article from me at the @trylon.org blog Perisphere: When The Wind Blows and How Nostalgia Lies To Us (I'd really love it if you'd give it a read and share it!) www.perisphere.org/2026/02/13/w...

this mark lewisohn beatles special did make me aware of this photo with stuart sutcliffe rocking this look in 1962(!), og art school kid

When I was starting stand-up, I saw the Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code and there’s a scene where a stand-up comedian is tasked to make a full subway of strangers laugh with an improvised set before they all explode to death. And I was like. Man I hope I never have to do that

For all the eye rolling that happens when Black people say we're here because you abandoned Reconstruction, positions like this make a lot more sense if you look at them as attempts to heal that political rift between white people FOR white people, the rest of us be damned.

At this point, I'm so exhausted at seeing a potential Hollywood-ending catastrophe continue to escalate that the only acceptable end result will be for any and all merger arrangements to crumble into dust.

“Coping with Senility”

As someone who's been pushing the 'McEwan is either an unconscious or closeted eugenicist' line for a while - HA www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Arguing about Gavin Newsom is just bluesky’s enrichment activity now. Just drop it in our little terrarium and watch us go.

This. Keeping the violence segregated from public view is not the answer. Fixing US immigration policy and eliminating the DHS is.

Typical Goodwill, then

New fusionism: “Citing their work, Brockman predicted in 2005 that the “dangerous idea of the next decade” would be that “groups of people differ genetically in their average talents”.” ht @libankerdc.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

There's apparently a lot of them who believe that at minimum, they're 'the good ones', and at maximum believe that their own supremacist projects could form an axis with them (a healthy amount of south Asian tech people are Modi supporters)

Why isn’t the MCU doing this? Imagine giving Todd Haynes or Richard Linklater 150 million dollars to make this

This sort of oblivious confluence is one of the funniest tics of people only familiar with the perspective of states built by homogenized settlers (like South Africa and the US) - this makes as much sense as taking about a 'Franco-Germanic origin'

He broke their brains, and they're never getting over America's first Black President, and why they're so hellbent on there never being a second. 1/ www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett...

i do think it's funny, given that scarlett johanssen played sofia coppola's unhappily married self-insert in LOST IN TRANSLATION, that she got cast as the sexy robot voice in HER

wow i don't think i was fully aware that this was his extremely funny filmography. to be fair if i could sustain myself financially by making prank vids with my buds i probably would do it

I think I was on the tail end of people to know this (growing up in the working class South in the 90s/00s) but: this isn't a joke. That is literally what the advertisement means

The fun thing is that this likely happened because at least one of the bagel truck chain's owners is the kind of right wing person who believes at least 90-95% of everyone else agrees with them, and that this might destroy their business will only encourage conspiracy theories about the other 5-10%

are you fucking kidding me, Marco

Also a half JIm Steinman musical en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutheri...

I think I was on the tail end of people to know this (growing up in the working class South in the 90s/00s) but: this isn't a joke. That is literally what the advertisement means

"Nature Boy," Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJr...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the fact that they invented a machine that lies to business guys and business guys were like “This is perfect, we love this— right up until we don’t”…. let’s just say at least one pre-existing sector of the economy is not surprised

This might be the flimsiest he has ever Steved, I think he's just pulling names out of a hat

i actually on balance like dave eggers but it's fun to think about his odd career. remember when he and spike jonze made a where the wild things are movie that dared to ask "what if the wild things had clinical depression"

do the zoomers know about dave eggers

everything is securities fraud

Kash Patel going door to door to shock people

Also it was a strong reminder of how Angela Carter (and by extension this film and its vibe) was foundational for the whole British dark fantasy project that eventually underpinned Vertigo and a ton of 90s comics

This is 100 percent true and every single person who laments the loss of the antebellum South in any way should be forced to read firsthand accounts of what planters did to enslaved people with their eyeballs pinned open until reality sets in

More than that - I think that, because of the way the Turing Test is set up, they believe that they can essentially argue their way to an acknowledgement and therefore a reality of thinking machines, because the whole point of the field is establishing arbitrary definitions and crossing them off

Just realized something about the weird transitions in Riding With Death - Ben Murphy, Jim Stafford, Heywood Floyd, and whoever played Abby would've had to go back and record the ADR almost a decade after the series itself was canceled after less than one season

According to the J-card, it probably held Band Of Gypsies at some point. Presumably accompanied a commute to a community college job in a secondhand Volvo in 1994

Someone on the Internet Archive uploaded a found cassette tape that seems to epitomize an extremely particular kind of aging hippie taste: Side A is Hot Tuna's The Phosphorescent Rat, Side B is The Harder They Come soundtrack. archive.org/details/audi...

Following up on Bad Bunny, here's an evil leading indicator for the imminent return of exaggerated shoulder pads

Literally everybody in American business wants to be a tech CEO

I always say “art-garage” rather than “proto-punk” for most pre-Ramones bands in the lineage, but Cale might be the least beholden to “garage” values of the big names. He’s really more of a singer-songwriter like Nilsson, but with an even crazier palette.