Weirdly my favorite thing about the new iPhone is the little part around the front camera that shows what app is running in the background

20 years ago James Cameron figured out how to use CGI, motion capture, 3D cameras, and high-frame-rate cinematography to create incredibly immersive spectacles, and today the list of directors who can do the same is...still just James Cameron.

Just sit and listen for three minutes. It'll do you good.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

It’s interesting that Connections is a very popular game played by millions of people who are consistently bad at it.

The United States government sold an innocent Venezuelan college student to a Central American torture prison and CBS News doesn't want you to know.

UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

Have reached the "JFC Getty Images are expensive" stage of book authorship

We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

I just converted my book manuscript from Google Docs to MS Word to submit to my publisher (woo hoo!) and the word count increased from 101,000 to 106,000. What even is truth / reality?

Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Instead of spending $1 trillion on talking Wikipedia can someone invent a robot to clean my kitchen and do the dishes? I would absolutely buy that.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

I enjoyed parts of Witcher Season 4 but I question the wisdom of having the titular character, played by a new actor, do nothing but stand around going "Ow, my leg"

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

I started my career as a staffer in the Indiana Senate and I’m not surprised this failed. It’s a small-c conservative state—things shouldn’t change much, or quickly—that doesn’t like being pushed around by cities or coasts.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

Some guy with a French accent and a bag full of loose jewels will be first in line

AT LAST

Trump is helping his billionaire buddies cheat on their taxes

Of all the terrible ideas... Toledo Public Schools is considering a four-day week. This is a TERRIBLE move for rural schools, but at least you can understand the argument wrt long bus rides. But an urban district? Despicable! www.toledoblade.com/local/educat...

SAVE was legally defensible and would have helped millions of people, but I also think this is, and should be, the end of "Lend people lots of money and then create incredibly complicated schemes for them not paying it back" as the primary strategy for making college affordable. wapo.st/4aGd8Fn

It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

Wait so people whose job is to know these things were surprised by "Germans good at manufacturing weapons, machines"? wapo.st/44hk5Jf

Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

I'm not quite sure where to start

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

First off, the good news: The world is a much better place than it used to be, especially for young children. And now, the bad news: After decades of progress in preventing child deaths, the world is now going in the wrong direction in the very worst way imaginable.

“What have I done!” 🤡

@stanforduniversity.bsky.social decided to essentially spend $3 million a year to keep admitting legacy students in secret.

1. This is not how anyone talks to an O-10. 2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10. 3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions. 4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."

After the "college admissions scandal" which involved parents bribing boutique sports coaches (who are often underpaid) to give their children recruiting slots for which they simply weren't qualified (as an athlete) I started explaining the easy sources for checking athlete legitimacy in Tennis.

Longtime GOP staffer Vic Klatt comes out of retirement to write: Moving K–12 programs to the Department of Labor is neither smart nor conservative fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

1/ Northwestern is the 4th university after Columbia, Brown, and Cornell to sign an agreement allowing the Trump administration to "analyze" or "audit" their admissions data--on the administration's terms. As I wrote in The Atlantic in October, this is a trap. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Corey DeAngelis says, "Low-income families benefit from school choice more than anybody else. This is a big deal for families who couldn’t afford private school before." That's a bald-faced lie based on every state's voucher data, not a "reasonable researchers disagree" issue.

This seems right. Way too many people are terrible at driving cars and always will be. Robots could prevent tens of thousands of needless deaths every year. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard