okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go

Number one with a bullet

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

I have no regrets or shame in so saying. This is me.

[P] quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Journalists: "Are streamers like Hasan Piker a liability?" Leftists: "The shitlibs are out to smear Hasan Piker! It's an op! IT'S AN OP!" Literally every American who leaves their home more than three times a week:

i feel like rodney dangerfield would have a lot to work with these days. "guy sold me one of these self driving cars and it left without me. then he said he'd set me up with a model, turned out to be a computer! then my wife and the computer left me in the car"

girl take us with you

My AI work wife keeps hallucinating incorrect facts, like the idea that we aren’t meant for each other

I basically have a PhD in the history of UT women’s basketball (I’m not kidding even a little) so it was a real thrill to get to write about this particular team just weeks before the 40th anniversary of their championship.

I'm ready

I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/josh...

Karl Marx did not spend ten years living in the British Library for the modern Left to negatively polarize itself against the concept of graphs.

This is a wonderful concept and post, but I think we need some ways of distinguishing format from genre. What was so critical about The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity was that they represented a huge shift toward found footage as a technical shift in the genre of horror.

Love seeing accounts here trying to talk knowledgeably about American politics and they’re like “I am a membre of the Demoucratic Party!”

It's no coincidence that perhaps the worst era in discontinued food history lines up perfectly with the exact window in time when "She's So High" by Tal Bachman was popular...really makes you think

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

South Side. 1820 East Carson - Burger King. Yes, that one. Caller says a woman wearing cat ears is threatening to beat up and scratch employees. She has supposedly been kicked out once before.

I cannot explain properly how much sense this makes to me and how breathtaking I find it.

THEY GOT IT FROM THEIR MAMA!

"Albuquerque" is unironically an incredible song musically and lyrically

"Cognitive decline" should be a term for when your credit card protects you from a Roblox purchase

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Before you're allowed to be a billionaire you should have to fill out a form explaining what you will do with your money. If the answer involves launching some new product or service or getting into politics, they say no. Guy who says "make the worlds biggest popsicle" gets the green light

Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

measuring a clown’s funny bone with calipers

THE spiders???

ChatGPT is NOT alive and yet it IS stupid? God’s mysteries confound us all!

This is a keen and valuable insight that interacts well with the Pope noting that algorithmic media is profoundly closed, giving you what the past determines is safe rather than opening up to a possible future. Intellectual friction is good and seducing people into a life without it is harming them

Josie and the Pussycats (2001) is better than actually good media too

When I teach Science Fiction, I always insistently start with /Utopia/ because it cannot be stressed enough that the earliest technologies we are studying and most study are governmental, the structures that are invented to organize people larger than a family unit. Du Bois was big on this too

It's funny that baseball cards and such are accidental flash cards. I don't like star wars much, but I loved the Decipher card game, so I can tell you the species of every alien that was in half a frame in the mos eisley cantina scene or the imperial officers at the death star conference

This is what you say when it’s obvious that something is real and there’s productivity coming out of it

Esther ... Number one ....For me... "oh Esther mean" Oh no my brother in Christ spice comes with heat... Write that down

One time the gate next to ours was going to Fort Myers and the guy on the PA was just dripping venom about people not holding their own boarding passes. A dad in the last family to get on told his teenagers "if you're not holding your own boarding pass, you're going to have your ass handed to you"

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

A theory - a portion of Platner's relatability isn't that he's working class, it's that he's a downwardly mobile failson in a way that resonates with his online supporters

vulgar freudianism has a higher hit rate and way less dangerous failure mode than vulgar marxism, and you can get WAY more vulgar doing freudianism than marxism

Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.