It always amazes me when the big brain business boys don't factor in economic forces. "Creators should love AI!" he says. "So much easier!" "Cool," says creator who spent 3 months making a genuinely awesome YouTube video, watching as said video is dropped into a churning sea of AI slop.

My new favorite genre of MAGA celebrity is all these folks acting like Trump's Rob Reiner "eulogy" was unforeseeable or out of character.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I can't wait to watch Law & Order reruns with my grandkids and explain how probable cause used to be a thing.

it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

I think somehow we’re not supposed to notice that the bandages are on like the only part of the hand completely untouched by handshakes

Alternatives to "Reporters need to defend each other." 1) Trump berates reporter for asking question: Next reporter asks same question. Repeat as needed, including starting the next presser with that question if the coward flees.

Hey! Everybody who keeps wishing for a left-wing Joe Rogan or Alex Jones! KNOCK IT OFF. There is only one way to make one of those things without engaging in constant disinformation: It's a thing that we used to call "Journalism," and it's not coming back any time soon.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

“I might be second in line to take over the presidency from the oldest POTUS in history — but I have no idea what the laws of war are, nor do I read laws or the news, who has time — there’s all these tunnels here, I just wander the tunnels looking for empty cubbies to hide in”

AI slop on TikTok is completely out of control. Listicles badly superimposed (rarely matches either the visuals or the dialogue) over the AI-filtered video clips (nonsensically edited). Days old accounts with gibberish usernames but tens of thousands of followers and hundreds of thousands of views.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Our love grew quickly, like bamboo. But distrust quickly spread underneath it, like the roots of bamboo. Looking back, I was naive. Green. The color of, you guessed it, more bamboo.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.

This sounds like the MST3K guys riffing that Reb Brown movie by just chanting goofy masculine names. Biff Meatstick! Ram Hammerfist! Clint Chaingun! Buck Clenchjaw!

What a terrible day to know how to read

“Hi, I’m professor LeClerc, French 101, and I’m just calling to make sure I can teach grammatical gender to my impressionable-minded freshmen. You know, ‘le cheval’, ‘la vache’… Yes, I know I asked yesterday, but today we’re doing animals, and… yes, I’ll hold.”

Right now, Karoline Leavitt is being coached on how to say “ephebophilia” in the least creepy way possible.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Dear NYT:

Assault with a deli weapon.

Sometimes you get high and start waxing idiotic about how The Simpsons is about the journey from Judaism ("Abraham" Simpson) to Hellenism ("Homer" Simpson) and then finally to Christianity ("Bartholomew" Simpson) and then someone tells you to shut the fuck up, and they’re right to do so.

ooh well done

#NoKings Miami!

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

We finally canceled Disney+, I was starting to feel like the star of an Onion headline. “Man Watching Andor on Disney+ Feels Increasingly Uncomfortable with Having Disney+”

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

Liberal commentators are being fired for saying mean things about "free speech icon" Charlie Kirk. To clarify "mean things": the commentator is often doing nothing more than simply accurately quoting him. Looks like conservatives have forgotten how to pretend to believe that Voltaire quote, huh?

Be Charlie Kirk, call for the death of people you disagree with: Get a thorough ball-washing from The New York Times. Make wild accusations and call for civil war, explicitly calling for the killing of fellow Americans: You're a patriot! Simply accurately describe Kirk's statements: Fired!

In case you ever needed proof about what conservatives really think about "cancel culture." You won't see hardly any of their leaders protest these firings.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

So we're all in agreement that Ezra Klein is out of his fucking gourd, right?

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Savage.

We're not paying enough attention to how the rise of sovereign citizen crap is connected to some core MAGA beliefs. Key similarity: Your laws don't apply to me, but I demand the protections of the law. You can't do anything to me without my consent, but I don't need to get consent from anyone else.

Folks don't seem to understand that screwing the farmers isn't a bug; it's a feature. When a family farm goes bust, it isn't being bought by another family; they're being bought up and consolidated by corporations.

"You can't change your name!" hollered Ted (born Rafael) Cruz. "Yeah, it's too difficult annoying!" agreed JD Vance (born Bowman), as they flew over the Gulf of Mexico (which they insisted on calling the Gulf of America). "Too right, bros," chimed in Pete Hegseth, the soon-to-be Secretary of War.

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

I was saying this crap was going to happen! I warned people in March! AhhhhhhHHHH www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompe...

That time when the Declaration of Independence grievances became relevant in 2025. “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures".

Conservatives love this Reagan quote: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” It apparently becomes soothing and patriotic with a simple change: "I’m from the government and I’m here to help WITH MY MASK AND GUN.”