in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is described as an "investor" and "developer" in this project into which more than $91 bn in US taxpayer funds are to be channeled. This is a straightforward violation of US anti-corruption legislation, as the NYC bar has noted in a report.

Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

The late journalist Bill Moyers warned about the rising influence of greed and financial incentive on media in the United States. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/26/remembering_bill_moyers_pbs_icon_on

this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls

From @snmrrw.bsky.social at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social: We're in an AI bubble. But who inflated it and who gets hurt when it pops? OpenAI wants your electricity, water, data, writing, art, plus acceptance of job loss and deepfakes for a future promise. Watch the full video: youtu.be/-aT9ceVbt8Q

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]

I have no problem with the ‘die hard is a Christmas movie’ take-it’s true-but if you say it proudly like it’s a new or unique or interesting take in 2025, then I hate you deeply

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin

Right, an Uber gift card. Left, the ISIS flag. Coincidence? I mean, yeah, probably.

like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”

Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

for privacy 404 media is blurring videos shared to the story but there was a clip we had of a flock condor camera following a man so closely we could see exactly what he was looking at on his phone a must read scoop:

Not only is this tech expensive and invasive, it's also not very competently built! Awesome.

Very proud to be working at a joint where my boss would even be asked to give a speech at this

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What’s crazy is to become the head of CBS without enough experience to understand this super basic fact because your white grievance substack did unusually well with boomers

What the 60 Minutes piece really needed was to have a reporter actually spend time living at CECOT! We need first hand accounts. Why not the person that CBS seems to be pushing as their new star reporter? Seems like a great candidate!

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

This is very much a bullshit excuse: big newsrooms follow each others' stories *all the time.* Just last week we watched Vanity Fair publish an interview, followed by every big newsroom in the country running a "Vanity Fair published an interview" story

This is Bari’s kill switch. If Stephen Miller doesn’t feel like getting interviewed on camera, he can basically kill the story.

Such obvious bullshit. If that was the problem, why wasnt this decision made way sooner?

Someone has the original cut of this. Put it online. It’s worth the risk even beyond doing the right thing-it’d be good for their career

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

you're telling me this guy, "pictured, with models in 2009" was an Epstein crony? I dont buy it. No way. That's crazy.

Gross: Koss is doing a branding partnership with Anduril–Palmer Luckey's AI warfare and policing company–to make Anduril-branded Porta Pros for Luckey's Gameboy emulator. I love my PortaPros but never gonna buy another pair if they're doing business with technofascist defense contractors....

Genuine LOL at this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Two batches of grand jury testimony from the case of US v. Jeffrey Epstein were released late last night. It includes a message for Jeffrey Epstein to return Donald Trump's phone call. (Data Set 6 / EFTA00008599.pdf / page 10)

This is why THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE holds up 50 years later. It's NYC: everyone hates the cowardly mayor, city services are underfunded, the subway is a trash fire and people who ride it are literally being held hostage and victimized. And you see it all onscreen

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

"Today's News" on Twitter, lol

This reminds me of an article from last year about Zionists claiming it's impossible for them to date, where one guy said: "the more creative personalities I normally go for tend to be more anti-Israel," and that when he put an Israel flag in his bio, his matches were "less interesting," lol.

Palantir wants to be the operating system for the entire government but they can't even handle the supply chain or customer issues for their own merch:

YouTube Wrapped of a guy who got almost every achievement in Elden Ring and did weeks of research producing the second most viewed video about Palantir on the entire site:

not to victim blame, but I can't believe anyone got conned by this guy?!? he's dressed like a cartoon conman and his name is literally Ponzi?!

What does an AI marketing firm need a van for? Is ‘Groylabs’ a groyper reference?

I've written about this before, but the usefulness of cars as transportation is predicated on breaking the law, even laws that are appropriate and directly implicated in safety. This is something we should maybe grapple with, societally!

Kash Patel googling "where is shooter site:reddit dot com" www.thedailybeast.com/bungled-brow...

Importantly, the famous "Hot Lincoln" statue was created by an artist who won a grant from the WPA's Federal Art Project.

"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Anyone who doesn't immediately understand this has as little value as the slop machines they're pushing.

"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"