Expect to hear a lot of chatbot references to “tears in rain”

wow, we've got a real one

There are so many languages I need to learn, for personal and professional reasons, but I think doubling down on my OK, formerly-good Spanish and aiming for near-fluency (or actual) feels like the only politically justifiable decision right now. Esp. after seeing how things have gone down in Chicago

my monitor is dying in a beautiful way, a stack of vertical lines of diminishing size & variable color creeping in from the left. I can't screen capture it because it doesn't show up when I do so — it is a thing we can only perceive on the outside, not something the machine perceives about itself.

People are going to call for Daboll to be fired, and he probably should be, but the Giants look an awful lot like a rebuilding team that is starting two rookies at premiere positions and just lost their best offensive player

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close. They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say. Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

part of putting us back on a less insane footing, society-wide, is massively increasing the social penalty business owners thinks they’ll incur if they sanction products like this. people should treat someone who creates a chat bot like this as they would any run of the mill pornographer.

love when it’s the radical left, not private equity, to blame

Given how often those people talk about how scary the NYC subway is *now*, Sliwa — the 1970s vigilante subway guy, among other things — is strangely the perfect Republican to tell them what whining cowards they all are Not that they'll listen to him, but still

Politicans like Schatz and Schumer who talk about "lines in sand" and "forks in roads" want us to believe that there is no accumulative quality to their past decisions, only moments of abrupt change that determine if the country functions one way or another. Their goal is to maintain the status quo.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Finally watching Sinners tonight

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post better designed to bait the jazz community than this one

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

I said what I said.

Heard Kat Abughazaleh decry Free Speech Zones and it brought me back 20+ years to the post-9/11, Iraq War protests, where those really got going....so much of what we're seeing now has its roots in that era. I wrote a piece back then called Free Speech Zone, maybe I'll bring it back too.

but what do you think about the Riyadh *Opera* Festival

do it, big orgs

Curtis Sliwa should obviously not be in charge of anything but there is no questioning that he is part of the old, weird New York I grew up in and for that alone I respect him

Adding to the incomprehensibility of our times: I had a really good honey cake this high holiday season.

How many people had to say "ok" for this to happen? How many people had to not say anything? This is the kind of sick shit that can only emerge as policy when moral depravity has become an incentive game, a contest to see who can bring the most repugnant plans to the table, amidst a culture of fear

Some day we’ll learn the true secret to a successful social media platform: never letting the CEO have an account

My only musical theater regret, besides wishing that quite a few works were never created in the first place, is that the song about Herbert Hoover from “Annie” didn’t make it into the film adaptation Not surprising, since it helps frame the story in class consciousness terms

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

lol (paragraph 3)

Every single DC journalist should be spending this afternoon/evening finding Speaker Johnson & John Thune & asking them why the impeachment/removal has not happened yet, & continuing to hammer them with the same question over & over & over & over again & not accepting the boilerplate non-answers.

Is Schumer going to pull a Sandy Koufax tomorrow night

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Have been thinking about this song, and Jara, a lot, for obvious reasons. Also, it’s just one of the best songs. youtu.be/XkXise2bHE0?...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

David Cross folks.

The Democrats should be yelling this everywhere they can. “Trump blew up a boat of fishermen, leaving their children without fathers.” Make them say they were drug dealers, then hope someone in the press asks “how do you know that?”

The addition of Stellan Skarsgård to approximately 35% of all US screen programming has been a surprisingly welcome development of the 2020s

This is like an 80s movie

If you haven’t seen this, I could not recommend it more, especially now that he’s heading out

this, to me, is art

I’d watch this movie though

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

i made a helpful reference

I promise that spending 5 minutes reading this is a better use of your time than 5 minutes of doomscrolling. We have to listen to those reporting on the things large media isn’t. We have to share and be loud about it. We have to learn from and take courage from each other.

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

not true

I’m sorry, there were simply not enough professions listed on this page in my kid’s book about medieval times for me to believe this inclusion was necessary for non-problematic reasons

I prefer Tartakovsky's 2D looks but this is still pretty great

Who watches the fucking watchmen

There is a way of criticizing or questioning a boycott of Israeli art that is reasonable and worth real consideration. As soon as you drop the a-word, though, you lose all credibility and are clearly not making a good faith argument.

So many people are trying to just live their lives in the most basic ways, and so-called conservative people are hellbent on fucking it up because those folks are immigrants, queer, or people of color You aren't conservatives, you're fundamentalists, and we will fight you to the end of days

Update, I forgot that I had the post-seed-straining liquid on the stove and burned the shit out of it, ruining the entire batch and rendering the entire process a waste

I feel that the xenomorphs would also stomp out pimps with diamond rings and slay all suckers who perpetrate