Aaron H. Ellis

My timeline is a mix of (1) Brazilians saying to avoid amplifying trolls, fascist supporters, and bad faith actors, along with Americans praising that advice, and (2) Americans screenshotting an attention-seeking US pundit who says it's bad to care about elections in other countries.

I started listening to Michael Lewis’ book about SBF the other day - not really knowing much about him except for the general outline of the FTX scandal. And was amazed to discover how uninteresting he is…

The patriarch in Brothers & Sisters. Only really has one full episode at the start and makes you completely believe he was the moral bedrock of that family, but also the source of their downfall.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Damn they held her back in high school this whole time she really can’t read can she 😭

The Nuns of Navarone

The only thing that would tempt me to watch it is John Goodman

*Books a holiday in France* “Now, let me just check out the news today…”

Following up “I’m easy” with “…as that toilet wall says.”

He looks terrible

Seems wide of the mark given he, you know, signaled the end of the triple lock and wants to undo the Brexit settlement. Those aren’t things many people will like.

Most striking of all is that this is explicitly a very *pro-politics* speech, a direct rebuttal to the anti-politics that is so widespread. And rightly so: politics can change things, it is an admirable thing to choose to engage in and a duty for us all to step forward and pursue.

Single Market…?

I saw a headline today about OpenAI deciding not to release its latest model because of “safety concerns”. And I thought, what an absolute genius piece of marketing to cheat your investors.

I saw Michael Palin at an event several months ago and he made a pleasantly vicious joke about how “some of us had wives to pay”, which was why Monty Python did their reunion show

The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

The museum scene from Batman (1989) set to Prince’s “Partyman”, which was written for the film’s soundtrack

Poison Ivy’s entrance in Batman & Robin

I’m reading ‘Barbarians at the Gate’ - about the collapse of RJR Nabisco in the late ‘80s - and there seemed to be *so many dumb people* operating in senior positions

Very sad!

I can remember a class where we had to write jingles for some reason one day 🤔🤔🤔

I’ve always thought the idea that Burnham was “neutralizing” Miliband by putting him in the Foreign Office was wide of the mark. Whichever Cabinet job he was given, he’d make moves.

Re Bayeux Tapestry discourse: I knew Oliver Dowden was a dense ball of mass when, amid the BLM protests and the removal of statues, he complained that the “woke” Left would probably want us to return the Tapestry to France next…

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would have been the funniest thing that ever happened

Dogtanan

I saw a journalist goading Burnham yesterday on whether there’ll be an election this year. May didn’t call one a good nine months or so into her premiership.

Andy Burnham in Kyiv: "Ukraine has been Europe's protector. Not a drain on our security, but a front line of keeping Europe safe. On behalf of everyone in the United Kingdom, днем незалежності україно, Happy Independence Day]... We are with you in this struggle, all the way, heart and soul."

>imperial concubine controls national security >court eunuchs are ceaselessly fighting for internal influence >the viziers are scheming over who replaces the leader >the leader fritters away all his time repeatedly replacing the grass on the lawn >the palace debt grows greater by the day