Somebody needs to set the newsroom opening credits to the office’s music and have Bari replace Jeff Daniels

NEW from me: Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

There's one more: "Using aggressive gamified marketing tactics to get people to throw their money away on long shot parlay bets"

Just got the part in this where a dude doing a skit called an ai “George Droid”. THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS!!!!

At one point this guy is like “I’m not arguing the merits of it, but the politics” and why the fuck not dude?! Maybe the problem with the media is that you’re NOT ARGUING THE MERITS OF IF SOMETHING IS TRUE OR NOT

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

The Odyssey is one of the world’s most inspiring and enduring stories of a man voyaging for years powered solely by the indomitable spirit of human will and a deep suspicion that his wife is getting railed by those guys in town

I’d also like to point out that this is an escalation and not an innovation. www.texastribune.org/2021/11/10/c...

S/o to being a nerd 🤓

things really started to go downhill after the scifi channel rebranded as syfy

Hayley Williams reveals she was referring to Morgan Wallen as the “racist country singer” in “Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party.”

We should’ve stopped fucking with techbros when the one we consider the best bc he fucked off with his money and left us alone forced everyone on the app to be his friend. The signs that “these dudes are fucked up” were there from the beginning

‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Adding this to “reverse Black Friday” as things I’m willing to pay extra for

Dan Quayle told a 12 yo at a spelling bee that he had misspelled the word potato and that the correct spelling was potatoe. P-o-t-a-t-o-e His political career never recovered. I miss those days when stupidity was a black mark and not a badge of honor.

Like, there's nowhere else for this shit to go. Using the magic beans to fuel a plagiarism machine that gets shit wrong, tells people to kill themselves, and seduces kids, is their last best hope for the magic beans they've literally bet all the money on.

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse. Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

I’m concerned our understanding of the “mark” in cons, grift, fraud, is inadequate. Do most marks even feel upset when the con is revealed? Do they hold anything against their con artist or has a bond of complicity been created?

It’s crazy to me how much open disdain Trump and those in his administration have for the very people that support them yet those folks stay supporting them. Trump hates republicans in Congress. Yet they support him. He hates rural, poor white voters. They support him

No, they voted for a male pop culture/tv celebrity who made them feel comfortable in their racism and ignorance. Hillary Clinton IS a rich New Yorker in a suit, too!

Seabirds, such as sooty terns, white terns and red-footed boobies, have returned in force, a year after rats were eradicated. https://cnn.it/4pSz7OH

Ban Israel from global sport. www.newarab.com/analysis/gro...

As Papa Doc ramps up efforts to send Tontons Macoutes and army into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Is the president-for-life doing this in a smart way?

It has never been a level playing field for us.

The number of people committed to this reactionary project we’re told is culturally hegemonic could all probably fit into one high school auditorium.

Not advocating violence and all the caveats, but this is what’s going to have to happen on almost every campus. There’s a reason these people must turn to the internet and elected officials to run these school intimidation campaigns.

When they can decide anyone is a criminal you really can’t limit your advocacy and concern for the “good” non-criminals who may suffer.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

acab

It’s like a Reese’s cup of awful shit

this will not end well

Really torn on this bc fuck AI but “clanker” really hits my ears wrong. White people and slurs ending in a hard ‘r’ historically hasn’t gone well

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Oh so gifting the president a gold bar did not protect your company who could have seen this coming

I don’t know the first thing about Resident Evil, but that big woman…🥵🥵🥵🥵

It’s wild that “selling child size coffins” and “being a modern day slave catcher” are the only two growth industries in America rn

This is why you shouldn’t be chickenshit. You’re not saving anything. You’re dooming everything you claim to love. bsky.app/profile/thef...

in their view it's like getting mad at your dog for peeing on your carpet (he does it anyway) vs getting mad at your brother for peeing on your carpet

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

This absolutely has been my experience and it’s so hard to express that you’re all in without scaring them and ultimately pushing them away.

Bc they can’t actually read. They just be looking at words waiting to find a scary sounding one they can’t pronounce

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Me and my dad had beef bc I had the relationship with my granddad that he wanted but didn’t get bc granddad was always deployed when dad was young

Occasionally we’ll get a gem like “maybe the kid had bad vibes?” or “I wish we could choose our baby mamas” but the cost is too great

The amount of static that has been stirred up from dudes feeling like they gotta defend some shit nobody asked them to defend could power a city

I never really got what my grandma meant by “a hit dog gon holler” until I saw my first internet argument caused by someone getting mad at some shit that that wasn’t meant for them

Especially for men