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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Long post, no paywall: I wrote about meeting the love of my life during the worst time of my life, and the song I sent him to say I liked him: jude-doyle.ghost.io/e-bow-the-le...

I've lived long enough to watch "the center" move so far right that the GOP can now enthusiastically embrace racism, bigotry, white supremacy, dictatorship, rape, kidnapping and pedophilia and win national elections on that platform.

It probably qualifies as a new dialect, a mode of language used by people who have zero expectation of (or capacity for) honesty or accuracy. All hype all the time

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Basically every cybersec acquaintance I know currently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmW-...

Okay Dimension Fortress Macross

I have looked upon Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS in all its uncensored, sacrilegious glory. As the restoration hits theaters, here is my deep dive on the desecration and resurrection of an unholy masterpiece, for @letterboxd.social, featuring interviews with those involved. Quite proud of this feature.

The invincible airplane

Guys it’s 2026 can we please stop falling for his BS.

Fuck ya’all. I’ve got an opinion and I don’t give a flying fuck if you like it. So sit down, shut your ass up, and take what I’ve gotta say cuz I’m not sorry if it triggers you. (*six minutes, twenty seven seconds later*) I’ve turned off comments and quote tweets on this post because of the trolls

AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

Our internet, how we get all of our information, now has banned using the word "sex" without writing it like "s*x" but our kids are being inundated with people falling off rollercoasters, being mauled by Tigers, and jumping off buildings. It creates a culture afraid of people but in love with death.

Much dunking on this for the main ingredients, but the little spice I appreciate is the Ted Lasso BELIEVE sign. In the show, part of its Live Laugh Love level inspiration is that the team literally had to reach above themselves to touch it, so making sure to put it below eye level is fitting here.

Want to know more about Hundreds of Beavers on Dropout? Here’s Sam Reich to explain…

It's a good thing, perhaps, that rats are fleeing the sinking ship, but that doesn't mean you need to pick them up and cuddle 'em

Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it

like this stuff LOOKS like journalism, has the trappings of journalism, but actually telling people the truth about things pretty clearly isn't on the menu

My favorite Behind the Bastards ad spot recently is for "Skypop Protein Soda" because the script is roughly: "Wait, it's a soda AND has protein?" "Yes!" "AND it has zero sugar?!" "Yes!" "AND it tastes good?!" "...it's Skypop!" The pause is I assume flop sweat glance at legal counsel signaling them.

The real problem of artificial intelligence is that people get one-shotted by their own pareidolia and think that because an algorithm can produce coherent sentences that are occasionally also correct, it must possess a human mind and be capable of performing a variety of intellectual tasks

My favorite thing today so far, applicable in so many contexts!

I bet it rules to be a completely normal FBI field agent and having everyone on the bowling league calling you 'the goatfucker' now

The victims will staff the new department of Excellence In Exemplary Investigation Office, the E I E I O.

I want to emphasize this point (as well as a reminder I am speaking only for myself, I am not speaking for anyone else, and this is posted on personal social media and newsletter)