RIP Drew Struzan www.slashfilm.com/1996528/drew...

RIP Drew Struzan. 🕯️🎞

Ms.20, back from school for a few days, says “lowkey your car is almost out of gas” after borrowing it to drive around for *three days*. Fraction of a gallon left in the tank. She knows how to refill it! Sigh.

The fundamental shape of the problem is encapsulated in the way Left and Right Americans are basically in total agreement that the Constitution in its current form has failed to keep the country running well and should just be scrapped, but what they think should replace it has near-zero intersect.

Every single person who says "this is not what I voted for" goes into a mental bucket that I have labeled Too Stupid to Know What They're Voting For. (Even the ones who would be more properly labeled Too Amoral to Care What They're Voting For Until It Has Consequences to Them, Too.)

These aren't even mutually exclusive statements! It could be entirely true that the police chief of Portland is a partisan Democratic official opposed to everything the President does, who is also correctly and accurately describing how completely incorrect the President's sputtering claims are.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Looks like I need a new start word. Wordle 1,553 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There are worse UI failures, but the one that is chafing me recently is appliances that are sitting powered on but idle, or have a low battery, so they "helpfully" beep to alert you. But they do it loudly. Exactly once. About every half hour. Somewhere in the fucking house.

Ugh, nobody is willing to pay the tariffs on this stuff now that it's finally arrived. Say, how much is it insured for? You don't say. Well. WHOOPSIE! oh noze abc7.com/post/shippin...

If you're feeling blue today for any reason, just remember that the first gooner who is going to have his dick ripped off by an Optimus robot is, right this very minute, already getting his life savings ready for his pre-order.

Yes, yes, he was only banging all those underage girls to collect evidence. President Sex Detective, that's what he was.

You know what should move fast and break something very specific, maybe, is the law. www.reuters.com/business/met...

Expect to see a LOT of this as these so-called "trade agreements" firm up in writing. They're all planning to just wait the old fucker out and then they can stop pretending they were going to do any of it.

This is patently and obviously true, so much so that he couldn't even come up with some bullshit to force @matt-levine.bsky.social off vacation for an emergency newsletter. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized. The White House is just slapdash clown-car crime run by the world's demonstrably-worst hiring manager overseeing random trash goons, like a raccoon fishing from dumpsters to run the nation. www.ft.com/content/030f...

Be the Basilisk you want to see in the world.

Y'all can go ahead and use AI to create more supportive and attentive versions of your spouses and partners. We'll be over here using AI to resurrect Robert Bork from the grave so we can brutalize and harass it until it breaks down and begins to have a death-wish and begs for a return to death.

Conservatives are so eager to ban porn despite being huge gooners themselves because the porn they wanna watch is already illegal

Hopefully in the future Democrats will do this 1000%, 600%, 500%, even 1500% less.

Hanging out on a discord where there are a lot of progressive/leftist single guys and watching them work through their baggage like

Something I wish I would have said in the episode is that men need this advice far more than women! The vast majority of dating advice for men is how to trick women showing signs of disinterest into sex when it should be about not letting rejection turn you into a whiny little baby.

"...with increases coming from just three employment sectors: healthcare, data center construction, and really stupid discourse about Sydney Sweeney."

Our grandkids are going to crack wise about how they were promised a future in which superintelligences took care of everything for us all the time, the way we whine about jet packs on the moon.

Maybe sometimes when they say throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip, you say: No, not a goddamn chance. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

If you read the EU and US statements about the trade deal with Europe side by side, it's kinda like the Treaty of Kadesh between the Egyptians and Hittites, where the numbers are the same in both languages but each kingdom's copy claims they won the battle and are imposing these terms on the other.

How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it. Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album: tomlehrersongs.com

“That Was the Year That Was” feels like a more topical and relevant album now than it did through the 80s and 90s and 00s. He was a true prophet.

Heads up, Falcon/Starlink launch out of VBerg tonight, 8:55 PM Pacific so dusk-sky glow should be good. Bay Area look to the southeast, LA look to the northwest. I think this is not such a flat polar orbit launch as last time, so it might get nice and high in the sunlight.

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

The QAnon Epstein Problem in a nutshell: Either there is an elite pedo menace or there is not, and the president is either competent on the situation or he is not. But all of those combinations lead to the dawning realization that maybe he wasn't worth throwing a decade of your life away on.

i'm often accused of being uncivil for my willingness to go at people's character but it is not my fault i live in an age where some of our most prominent commentators clearly believe in nothing

You either die a villain or live long enough to become a hero.

I saw two Cybertrucks on the way home from work today. I thought it was three for a moment, but the third one turned out to be a regular truck towing a trailer full of demolished drywall panels.

I see they've announced the latest (final?) season schedule for STRANGER THINGS and I'm going to tell my kids this is Eleven now.

The great irony is that deep down they think America should be run by wealthy white Episcopalians, but those people are all super woke liberals now. So they're forced to interact with Scots-Irish baptists who they despise as peasant yokels.

It's gettin' punchy out there.

It's one thing for AI to steal the intellectual property of others and then monetize it as something original, but now they're just explicitly naming who they're stealing from. Seems actionable. Shame there are no laws anymore.

You are not allowed to find out how your tax dollars are being used to harm you. Don't even ask; that is probably prosecutable as a crime now.

[looks at today's Grok announcement] Uh, no, man, I am pretty sure xAI's contract is going to be for providing camp follower prostitutes for deployed troops.

So the self-appointed savior of Western Civilization, who decries falling birth rates on pretty much any day that ends in Y, is now actively pimping his AI into a waifu loli-girl sexbot who looks like his ex-wife but blonde, and is promising in Replies that it will integrate with Optimus hardware.

In my more perverse moments, I find myself thinking that the current President might be the only one who could actually make us a completely socialist country without anyone the wiser. "It's just good business sense for the country to own the important stuff!" www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/p...

It's wild that we actually keep working closer and closer to Murray Leinster's classic 1946 short story, "A Logic Named Joe", which posits what would happen if a global network of computers and libraries stopped inhibiting itself from actually answering every question every random person asks.

If you ask it on the Grok tab rather than the Twitter handle, it goes full Shaggy...

If you do a search of from:grok sorted by Latest on the site, you can see how much more of a tryhard its "personality" has become recently. So much awkwardly stilted faux-affability that it actually buries whatever content is being conveyed. (Also, mostly non-English interactions.)

It’s hilarious that there's a mass of people who think Musk should stop putting energy into significant things he cares about but is not good at influencing, and instead go back to putting energy into useless frauds he doesn’t care about but is great at influencing. www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-s...

Be right back, putting "I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE CUSACK WENT CRAZY" stickers on a bunch of my DVDs.

Anyway if you banged out this dumb fucking story while running out the door for the holiday weekend, in league with racist criminals, because you were worried about getting "scooped" by Chris Rufo, what you're telling the world is that you CONSIDER YOURSELVES TO BE IN THE SAME BUSINESS AS CHRIS RUFO

You know what would have been a good story, @nytimes.com, is that a member of the board of trustees of a public university was using private student data hacked and stolen from another university You could have published that! You had all the information you needed to publish that!