i reacted to this like a toddler playing peekaboo

my review of ghost of yotei is that it’s an improvement over tsushima, which was pretty but overrated. stellar performances, good writing, rather shallow world interactions. my most damning criticism is that the romantic plot stayed subtext when it ABSOLUTELY could and should have been maintext.

y’all are about to make me mute “Star Wars.” and this, on the verge of the holiday season!

maybe i am going insane

i’m struck by how hard rogan is working to steelman him. he’s not really jumping on the “lmao a vulgar robot” schtick; he keeps saying “and it’s going to get better, right?” i think rogan can anticipate his own audience’s ick with musk in this moment and is trying to keep them on side.

The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.

How To Have a Good Tiime or Like Really Make People Laugh at a Party --by An Expert at Having a Good Time or Like Really Making People Laugh at Parties

My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot

A fine little article, like a modern-day Book of Isaiah. Or maybe Jeremiah. Look, I'm saying that it's angry, and apocalyptic, and is intensely immanentizing the eschaton.

genuinely the world would be a better place right now if journalists did this.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

“look, i don’t know who this ‘sue’ broad is, but whatever she said, i didn’t do it.” - andrew cuomo in the exact same situation

”AI has been done to us these last three years, and when it collapses, its architects can’t be allowed to cheerfully walk away from the rubble. There must be a reckoning.”

wicked for good does not measure up to the first one but i did have the joyous experience of sitting next to two teenage girls who i can confidently say are jonathan bailey’s BIGGEST FANS. when he said “you’re beautiful” they collapsed into ecstatic giggles for like 30 full seconds. bless them.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

Elon Musk > Shakespeare

well then.

i am not surprised that NVIDIA has managed to keep the party going for one more quarter—their financial machinations were designed to do just that. but i will be *hugely surprised* if i have to wait more than three months for this essay to change from the future to the present tense.

not the point but it is telling that cotton is talking on fox but still says that if there were actually atrocities, *cnn* would be covering them. because he knows fox news absolutely does not give a fuck.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

When "I won't vote for somebody who doesn't support trans people" is considered a hostage taking purity test but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage

this should be obvious to anyone who has ever tried to drink more than one thimbleful of mead in a sitting. it is a drink that lends itself to moderation, for which the vikings were not known.

dread is thick in the air in north carolina this morning. the old couple selling breakfast burritos are gone. the taco truck is shuttered. i was driving behind a school bus and watched it stop at three trailer parks, waiting for kids who never came. #fuckice

at this point, most people are familiar with the “paperclip problem” of AI, but something about it always bothered me, and it’s the main thing i hope people take away from this essay. www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"Environmental, ethical, and aesthetic issues aside: the damn thing doesn’t work."

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

i’ve read a lot of smart predictions about what happens when the AI bubble bursts, but they all left me dissatisfied. i wanted something that captured what *could* happen, if we use this crisis as an opportunity. www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...

i don’t know if today is the day the AI bubble bursts—NVIDIA might be able to play the shell game for one more quarter. but when it does happen, we need to *seize the moment* and make it a referendum on the whole rotten edifice of late stage, tech-driven capitalism. the crash will be an opportunity.

wat

the emerging schism in the GOP is between the “observable phenomenon/passage of time” wing of the party and the “trump is an immortal being whose very name makes elections irrelevant” faction. and if you think that sounds silly, you have forgotten how stupid, craven, and myopic these people are.

i’ve received an advance copy of part 2 of the olivia nuzzi exposé and let’s just say they will NOT be letting her back in the Hall of Presidents anytime soon.

my ADHD generally resists hacks and gamification, because my ADHD is a sugar high toddler who can tell when she’s being tricked. but something about the gentleness of this app has made a difference for me, and bought me many hours of peaceful focus.

this is the vibe of every white house press conference lately

i know “quiet, piggy” is just one raindrop in the flood of vile, shocking statements from trump, but it’s SO cruel, so threatening, such a violation of our most basic interpersonal norms. i would really like to see it get some actual coverage.

you gotta hand it to him - another remarkable bit of statesmanship from our Nazi pedophile billionaire president

i must insist on reading all excerpts of olivia nuzzi’s book in her voice.

ok I’m sorry to ever say anything but what the fuck does she think a canto is

choosing to believe this is about Nuzzi

the magic bullet theory read this metaphor and was like “now hold up, not even i can do all that.”

It's very interesting how the media pushed the line that arresting politicians 'makes you a banana republic' when the reverse is absolutely true.

“our hemisphere?” oh we’re going whole-ass monroe doctrine now, huh?

not knowing how to write but taking the Big Writing Job because your parents are famous writers means writing this instead of “she put the Bible and the Divine Comedy on the table for me to see”

As always

venture capitalists

at no point while reading this did i have any idea what the next word would be

they do say it’s hardest to take your own advice