Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting

Maybe if we got more of film twitter over here Wait, no, not like that

"I'm gonna make a killing doing some insider trading on our upcoming invasion. But first I gotta trade some fartcoin." An oligarchy of dipshits

“I’m not the dog you kill. I’m the dog you give treats…I’m Shiva the dog of death!”

If I had to sum up my posting style in 2 skeets

If we’re really rushing headlong back into a Sphere of Influence–dominated world, then the brutal corollary will be a renewed “scramble for Africa.” The deportation fights, the incoherence of the international response to the RSF, the strikes in Nigeria, etc. all part of the ramp-up.

Help me, Kevin Hart, I lost $62,000 on this game and am being evicted

🎶Hiiigh-way to the lameass zone🎶

Perfect continuity from screen to world

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to tha old me *pulls American Idiot CD out of cold storage*

The statue and the bomb, or, the Hall of Fame and the kinetic strike, or hosting a television show and carrying out a coup “literally like I was watching a television show”

Here's a bit I wrote back in July about Trump, war, and Benjamin. It's supposed to be part of a forthcoming roundtable on Trumpian Aesthetics, but between the writing the publishing, all the predictions have come true or worse.

When will the Million Dollar Band disavow Hamas?

The everything app, and they do mean everything

feeding One trader joe's horseradish & chive potato chip to my Corner Spider because he's a pretty cool dude

Maybe if I follow them both and wish real hard they'll get back together 🤞

We’re hiring two postdocs at CARGC this year! We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in Latin American or South Asian media cultures whose research engages media and creative industries, popular culture, and emerging forms of belonging and citizenship. Deadline in two weeks:

My haters: Hey, J.D., that unverifiable hobbyhorse of yours where media objects allegorize their social conditions of production, that's all gonna go away with GenAI, right? *me, from the top rope*:

Just get the calipers, George

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1754

267,000 tickets but only 15,600 buckets of popcorn? If I was there, it wouldn't have went down like it did.

great moments in sports gambling history: safety as time expires!

Sports but make it cinema (Ivan the Terrible Part I, SM Eisenstein, 1944)

My County Commissioner told me hikers keep dying on Mt. Baldy so I asked how many hikers and she said she just goes to the Forest Service office and gets a new hiker afterwards so I said it sounds like she’s just feeding hikers to the Devil's Backbone and then her daughter started crying.

Wholesome AF

So preoccupied with whether or not they could etc etc

Went for a walks. Saw a fox.

and for those who don’t like clicking links/reading: 10. Peter Hujar’s Day 9. Sinners 8. Marty Supreme 7. Henry Fonda for President 6. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 5. Castration Movie Anthology ii. 4. Eephus 3. Caught by the Tides 2. One Battle After Another 1. 28 Years Later

Television is a visual medium. We should get a downmarket Fonzie impersonator and that guy who always looks like he doesn't understand what the vet means when he says it's time to think about putting the dog down.

This is great reporting. Behind it, the fuse that leads to this story is that the Supreme Court's pro-corruption rollback of what counts as bribery meant that the FBI had to wait to see if Homan fulfilled the quid pro quo before they could move.

OBAA awards campaign breaking new ground

Not to steal @annakornbluh.bsky.social's thing but: tolerably accurate versions of academia on screen, a syllabus Erin Brockovich And?

Repo Man aesthetics, 2025

“If they raise my taxes, I’m leaving California”—billionaires lying to us and themselves

Cafe. Midday playlist is "urban aor"—Anita, Sade, Luther—and so it is time to bet: what will be the first Hall and Oates?

Some family friends recently went to a kids party at Comet Pizza, which is absolutely wild thing to hear for a non-local. But the Comet Pizza story should be a reminder that one of these lunatic daycare fraud hunters is gonna try to shoot his way in somewhere before this is over.

I am photographer Peter Hujar, which is pretty great and then awful.

Niners/Bears shaping up to be a real WAC classic

Next fall's grad seminar will fall under "Narrative Theory" (we haven't taught it in forever; if we don't, we lose the number). Two wolves: an idiomatic triad of choice, control, and violence or a Back to the Roots of cultural expressionism: Leo Marx, Kracauer (Nietzsche!), Moten, etc. Thoughts?

Zohran: Hasta Luego Liam my constituent Liam: Bye Mamdani

Next fall's grad seminar will fall under "Narrative Theory" (we haven't taught it in forever; if we don't, we lose the number). Two wolves: an idiomatic triad of choice, control, and violence or a Back to the Roots of cultural expressionism: Leo Marx, Kracauer (Nietzsche!), Moten, etc. Thoughts?

The Copenhagen Test is a test to see how long you can cope with hagen to watch the show.

Visited Folha de São Paulo to see how they covered it, and I love the decision to make Bolsonaro look mad at his hiccups. Me and you both, buddy!

The question is, as everyone notes, tired. But my answer from 2022? Oh, you better believe that's tired, too. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Pair of influencers down at the LA River yesterday.

Many people are saying this about @flaminghydra.com's Moby Dick Week

Absofuckinlutely cooked

Also, her donor? That's right: Hamnet from the movie Hamnet. Get thee to a Mickey D's! etc etc