Brian

i'm tired of pretending Lincoln isn't a top 5 Spielberg

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

All I want to know about the Musk doc is if it includes the part where he paid people to play video games for him

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Also, in 2026 if you dont know how to scrub your social media before taking a public facing job, you lack critical technical skills necessary for your career.

5pts, 2reb average in the league player telling you how to fix your jumper

I miss Coke Spiced

99% of the time you say "font" you actually mean typeface

My job is to sit down and enter "Now?" into a computer terminal, which randomly responds "No" or "Yes". I repeat this task for nine hours a day, and twice a month they pay me for the number of Yeses I got. I am quite skilled at this and often speak at professional seminars. Lately I've been very sad

if you're a moderately competent desktop computer user with the means to buy a few hard drives i think you have a duty to your iphone friends to become "the plex guy"

As Simmons has reached unprecedented levels of washed, it’s time for Fennessy and CR to move on and make their own independent media company.

he's saying the quiet part loud here, ai allows white filmmakers to control racial and ethnic minorities in an attempt to make them appear complicit in their own racist slander. paul schrader likes ai because it allows him to have a black actor that he owns.

What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.

Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:

it's funny how in political terms this feels like when steph tries one almost at half court but in moral terms it's like a layup on a hoop lowered and widened to 5 feet

when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people

Furthermore, React must be destroyed

All "Dems should..." posts are hopeless. You gotta take the power from them just like the DSA is doing.

Semi-related, the reason the AI ads that are like "just ask AI" are so offensive is there are people -- your neighbors -- who are often waiting to answer your question and often know a lot, if we'd just ask. The robot isn't a corpus of mom's recipes & dad's tool knowledge.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

The NBA Finals have been pretty great so far, and have given fans basically everything they could have hoped for, with one exception—the chance to think more about President Donald Trump. That ends now.

I don't think there's any question that AI has made all of our lives tangibly worse. Even if you believe this tech is part of our daily lives in the future, you have to concede this is all terrible and needs to be reigned in.

this really stuck out to me, too.

Important to stress that: a) Pelley isn't some resistance hero, he's a reactionary centrist; b) Even this wasn't enough for Bari

There are an infinity number of actual historians Obama could’ve done this with instead

Sometimes I like a poster but they post way too much and I can't follow anymore

Guy who fervently defends capitalism: I hate what capitalism has created

hello i am an absolute dipshit. i will ask google gemini why the step back is so hard to guard

I figured out what my retirement hobby is gonna be. In about 20 years, I'm gonna start a quaint YouTube channel where I teach people how to build websites "by hand" like Bob Ross.

Students complain about a white conservative guy set to give a commencement speech, the university doesn't cancel him, it gets an article in the NYT. Students complain about a brown anti-genocide guy set to give a commencement speech, he is canceled, and no one on the campus culture cares. Huh.

If Blake Griffin wants to be a ball knower in a halftime show he can't be taking these roles in commercials where he's a dumb jock

Ted Turner: now that I am wealthy beyond all measure I can finally devote myself to mankind's most ancient endeavor, making a full length film about the battle of Gettysburg with a runtime that will require it be sold as two VHS cassettes

fyi, I'm using lined paper and a pen to take notes. It transcribes the meeting but doesn't record it

i don't understand how Old Spice's marketing team landed on this ad for their Super Mario Galaxy Movie tie-in where an astronaut smells a stick of deodorant, thinks about Mario, and then kills himself. i don't understand how that's not a joke, it's exactly what happens in the ad

I am going to share an observation about this website and then not engage with any replies to it: The chances that any particular person on Bluesky is your mortal enemy worthy of you getting mad about in any prolonged way are very low. Microblogging makes you think you have to fight, but you don't!

I'm not really interested in Star Wars these days, but I *am* fascinated by Disney's mismanagement of Star Wars. Not even in a schadenfreude way, but as a grotesquerie. The stripping down of this cultural artifact into saleable bits, the turning the nob back and forth and looking at the crowd stuff.

Bulls should sign Ayo Dosunmu this summer

if i was dating megan thee stallion i would simply not cheat on her

yes! and otherwise well-meaning people are parroting “ai is here to stay” and not seeing how unnecessarily threatening that pattern of speaking is