when AI companies go bankrupt

Because it’s non-ideological so pathologically “both sides” brained reporters can finally go at him without their shock collars going off

It’s pumpkin points all the way down

That’ll teach those kids to be born to a poor mom

“You have to keep the body going until the brain and the heart recover enough to go on their own.” BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) Directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader

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Some Guy in an Ape Suit: On Why the ‘76 Kong is Good, Actually - @ambersparks.bsky.social

Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/

Conservativism is a movement of bitter rubes, led by pyramid scheme swindlers: pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a... 23/

Citroën Karin (1980)

Probably my favorite television episode of all time, which I watched waaaaay too young and which informs so much of my work. Terror, futility, and failure, with evil ascendant and the hero’s self fractured. Some of your friends are here.

movie martians #filmsky

The belief that country music is not and has never been the purview of any one person is foundational to what we've tried to do for 22 years, and we strive to elevate the work of diverse artists around here every day. To recognize Juneteenth, a thread to highlight some essential black artists:

Denys Cowan

If an undergraduate at Columbia said something like this the NYPD would immediately napalm the campus

Perhaps the most prophetic sci-fi film of all time, 12 Monkeys is about a millennial who wishes it was the mid-90s again.

Tom King often eschews endings that resolve all conflicts and send the audience home satisfied. He prefers, instead, what we might simply call a ‘challenging ending,’ one that forces the reader to reflect on the story and the deeper meanings it seeks. Supergirl is a good example. #supergirl 1/17

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america is an ideal worth fighting for

Whoah! This Dietrich Bonhoeffer person sounds horrible. Was there a specific person he tried to kill or something like that?

When low-income people are exposed to propaganda about organic produce, it scares them because they can't afford it, so they just eat less fruits and vegetables. Study: share.google/82uP3o57hM24... That EWG "Dirty Dozen" is bullshit that actively hurts people. Think before you reshare it next time.

The US food system ranks 12th for sustainability, which is a nice surprise. Where we fall? We're 29th for affordability. The US has a food security problem, not safety. Healthy food is pricier than junk, and we're too overworked to cook anyway. The enemy is unregulated capitalism, not processing.

Fun fact: American ingredient labels are longer not because we allow so many scaaaaaary chemicals but because we have more stringent rules about listing every single component. A look of shocked skepticism at the vitamins from the enriched cornmeal says everything.

Embry embraces this very american idea that who you are is not really what you do, but what you feel or tell yourself about yourself inside. So wearing a hat, or voting to terrorize people, isn't really you if you say, "well that's not really me."

The idea that The Office was at the bleeding-edge punk rock vanguard of culture is possibly the funniest thing Riann Wilson has ever said

Fox Corp. has reached a deal to acquire the streaming platform Roku in an agreement worth approximately $22 billion

In case you really feel like vomiting: "At the start of 2020, Musk had a net worth of $27 billion. By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150 billion..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...

The 21st century is the Dune: Messiah of the 20th century

Now on @comicsjournal.bsky.social: A 2006 interview I did with Marjane Satrapi

oh no not todd mcfarlane, peerless icon of integrity and commitment to excellence

The official position of the government of the United States is explicitly and overtly white nationalist In domestic and foreign affairs. This is a change from being implicitly and covertly white nationalist.

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all these pejorativized floating signifiers are designed to make: 1) countercultural commitments to egalitarianism and secular ethics seem like stodgy conformism and insufferable nagging; 2) retrograde commitments to bigotry and authoritarianism seem like libertine rebelliousness and sober realism

I feel like civilization reached a junction with one road paved in psychedelic colors and the other leading to an Apple store showroom and we chose poorly

Ramona Fradon in her studio. Great pic. Started in comics in 1959. Aquaman, Metamorpho, Plastic Man etc. Died in 2024 in her home at age 97.

A proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo could be significantly larger than previously reported — and the site’s stormwater runoff could affect zoo property.

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ELEMENTS OF "MEMENTO" THAT WE ALL SUFFER THROUGH NOW: - constant series of pings that destroy our short-term memory - powerful forces using these pings to further their own agenda - a vague memory of a better life before The Incident - weaponizing therapy speak ("I have a condition")

Gil Kane, Ernie Chan, and John Romita covered Worlds Unknown 6 (1973).

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”