I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Hours after it emerged that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed by an air strike, Mehdi Mahmoudian, the activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident,” spoke about his fears for Iran. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/I1__h8

Caught the BBC news on the radio tonight, and Europe is (rightly) NOT happy about Carney’s support of the Iran situation. “How is the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran any different than Russia’s on Ukraine? Because they’re both breaking all the same international laws and conventions.”

… NO BUT HOW DO YOU THINK WE GOT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE??

“For decades, festivals have operated on the assumption that artists need them more than they need artists.” Sound familiar?

Pikachu turned 30

Trump’s attack on Iran violates UN rules Canada has agreed to uphold. It contradicts numerous values PM Carney claimed he supported in Davos. Endorsing illegality, violence, & destruction over dialogue and peaceful resolution is not what Canadians were promised, or support.

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer. Nope.

I mean, you’re not wrong! Shows my friends worked on for years were canceled and then used as tax write-offs.

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes. Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time. What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Fucking hell when I pointed out this morning Ellison had a history of hiring (untalented) men who faced allegations of sexual harassment, had no idea a new one would drop in hours www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Oh oh

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

"Do you have any ideas that are set in a luxury department store?" Two People Exchanging Saliva was prompted into existence by producers who understood that their job is to: 1) find creative funding opportunities, then 2) let filmmakers bring their creative vision to that opportunity.

Joy is an act of resistance. And this is that:

I had a law class last year where the teacher literally just said "there are calls to be rid of the gender marker as it has become deprecated now that men and women are legally equal" and like. Yeah we should!

Sometimes I worry about going to bed too early and missing It

She fucking nailed it. 😆

OpenAI’s planned cash burn is insane... Tesla burned $9.3B before turning profitable. Netflix burned $11.1B before turning profitable. Uber burned $11.2B before turning profitable. OpenAI plans to burn $218B. I’m sure everything is fine.

When you start poking around the draft you’ve been keeping hidden away in a (metaphorical) drawer and neglecting for years… and YOU CRACK IT.

“Becoming a character — becoming someone else — is a myth. In acting, ‘character’ comes from what each individual (or collectively, the audience) projects onto the person playing a role.

So proud to have Don as my MP! 👏

I'd never seen this one before! Student film from the man who would go on to make the classic "Neighbours" only 16 years later... 🌼 Absolutely mind blowing that Norman McLaren and Helen Biggar made this in 1936, before WWII even truly started.

This guy gets it.

Share a TV show that raised you!

It's been a while since I wrote about the Camino... I fixed it!

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

BC relies on workers in creative industry. But right now, governments are putting them at risk, legitimizing AI billionaires’ narratives that these workers are replaceable. /1 #bcpoli

A pearl in George Saunder's Story Club this week: "A piece of fiction is made up of thousands of tiny decisions which, in turn, reflect a complex (and transient) system of belief about aesthetics, a system that, once the story is finished, may dissolve and then reform."

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

god this kid rules (the one who punched spud)

he’s so close to getting it

Guys being Dudes

I used to be scared of cryptics, but Adam and I have added the daily Minute Cryptic to our daily puzzles for almost a month now? Consider me converted.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body but am so on board with Pope Leo XIV. Leo knows: human beings have brains, souls, and consciences (whether or not they pay attention to them).

“L’homme est périssable. Il se peut; mais périssons en résistant, et si le néant nous est réservé, ne faisons pas que ce soit une justice!” – Albert Camus

Working-class Americans are paying for the data center and AI boom with higher electric bills and even food costs, according to Goldman Sachs.

England: (arrests the brother of the King today for corruption) America:

“I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power.” aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

ON HIS BIRTHDAY 💅

Flower Family V by Paul Klee, 1922 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137739

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

Shoutout to my fellow lapsed catholics who never could’ve imagined that the Vatican would hold so much political power in 2026… and that you’d be rooting for them.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

Let’s play Concentration Camp or Data Center™! No cheating, vibes only. Human guesses only. First up: