I do not care that I don’t have a Wikipedia article my point here is to reflect on the artifice of celebrity

Same

very small flex but thank you for making this my most viewed solo video essay yet. i love doing this and i'm excited to keep pushing next year. youtu.be/oACxYkBYw6Y

Me, seeing the 5th terminally online fashwave edit video that DHS has posted in like a month:

Casey is spot on here. I accept that some people are fully squeamish of blood and injury on a psychological level, that's fine, but talking about the people who are always like 'oh gore is just cheap and tacky in horror' and they usually mean Hostel, and what they've heard about the Saw movies.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

This man was subliterate. But I’m ngl I find the true friendship between these two to be kind of charming. They really were tight. Like Team Rocket or something

Ha, I've been thinking a lot lately about why (white) Gen Xers turned out to have such terrible politics, and 90s culture really does keep returning to my mind. The last era when a lot of words considered slurs today were in common parlance, and one for which the Elons of the world openly pine.

You'll notice this attitude is fungible with the most insufferable users of this site, who are also people who were kids or came of age in the 90's. This is not a coincidence!

Everything's miserable, evil won and will keep winning forever, you can't even burn the system down because they'll sell you the matches and gas to do it and make even more money rebuilding what you burnt down. The best you can do is consume products while making it clear you're resentful about it.

It wasn't the optimistic flower-power love-will-win vibe of the 60's-70's, it wasn't even the fuck-the-man burn-it-down rebellion of the punks in the 70's-80's. It agreed with punk that life sucked, the government sucked, the world sucked, but disagreed that change was possible.

90's pop-culture was so notably vacuous that 90's nostalgia barely has a specific property to it, it's all just vague misty vibes, and its youth culture and counterculture were *overwhelmingly* defined by a sense of apathy, cynicism, and nihilistic resignment.

The 1990's was an era, and this is not me blowing smoke out of my ass, this is the broad historico-sociological consensus that will become history in a couple of decades, defined in America by a feeling that the country had gotten everything it could ever want and none of it meant anything.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, there is this belief that the malaise took ahold after 9/11, and- no! No it didn't! If anything, 9/11 provided people a brief respite from the malaise because it gave the US an existential enemy for a few years!

Every bit of 90s nostalgia that I’ve seen is just nostalgia for the consumerism of the era and that cynicism and nihilism that defined much of that era’s culture was what worked its way into sites like 4chan as kids who grew up in that era reached adolescence and young adulthood.

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

One of the pleasures of reading old comics is the movie ads

RIP Lee Tamahori, directed the undeniable banger THE EDGE youtu.be/vp-1TbDZTfQ

Tonight the flesh comes off and we get to see what modern horrors have been masquerading as fantastical ghouls Resident Evil is so good at illustrating the carryover from Gothic Horror into the Contemporary, the perfect companion to Jackson's work.

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Space guys.

More Mazes n Monsters toniiiiight Back half of REmake here we come

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Hey, happy 30th birthday GameFAQs! Launched on November 5th, 1995! The earliest scrape I can find on Wayback is December 1996, but I doubt the site changed much. But yes, here it is in its earliest days as the Video Game FAQ Archive!

Happy #godzilla day!

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

good news! trumps narcissism will not allow them to learn anything from this lol

BING BONG

If Mamdani wins, then there will be no Christmas. Everyone will be converted and forced to pray to the Time Cube.

Last day. If you want it, heads up. If you don’t. Cool, that’s fine.

You gotta check it out! And don't forget to be The Man Who Sold Votes To The Polls!

kissinger died during the -1 premiere and cheney died right after they announce G00 they are feeding old ass american rightwing politicians to godzilla like squeezing lemon onto fried chicken to get that perfect spielbergian taste

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Anchors and Broadcasters still mispronounce Mamdani because they really believe their audiences are that stupid. They hate the American ppl.

I had this piece in the pipeline at Teen Vogue when the news dropped; I'm publishing it to my Substack because I think it's important and I don't want an interview with Adam Hochschild to go to waste. sufficienttotheday.substack.com/p/the-federa...

My new apt is right across the street from my polling station hell yes

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Reminder to those reading along with us over at @technopoverty.bsky.social that tomorrow we'll be talking about these two shorts. And tonight is Shirley Jackson's WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE.

I don't think the (heterogenous) working class is an army of secret socialists, but a political cadre that hyperindexes on an imagined version of the white working class will generate campaigns that mostly activate... the white working class. It's self-fulfilling and, critically, it's not working.

I just don't understand the US obsession* with debating. It's useful in school and fun at uni but in no context ever is it some sort of path to truth or source of knowledge because it's adversarial and zero sum. open.spotify.com/episode/3uwU...

The whole Daylight Savings thing really gives away the game, doesn't it? We collectively decided to make a day in November 25 hours long but you're telling me we can't have a functioning healthcare system?

the "working class" is more likely to be a black woman working as a home health aide for $11/hour than whatever Leonhardt &c imagine. The concept only ever contains a particular kind of usually-white always-man. It's as absurd as Schumer's imaginary Bailey constituency.

Everyone should be on welfare.