Jacob Wolman

tfw you're not mad, in fact you think it's funny, so don't put it in the newspaper that you're mad www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

I hope smooth operations at the police academy’s gymnasium are able to recover from the scrambling imposed by the mayor playing basketball.

@scottaukerman.bsky.social sue Vulture

I'm hearing Ritchson dropped out because he is our new James Bond.

lol. I had no idea that Fatboy Slim sampled The Bloodhound Gang's "Why is Everybody Always Picking On Me?" on "Right Here, Right Now".

This is pretty funny. What did these defense contractor employees think defense contractors do? Sell lollipops? bostondynamics.com/blog/how-n...

Respectfully, and without getting into any spoilers (which of course this piece is filled with), my experience watching the film was quite different than this author's, and I think the ambiguity at the heart of the film is not "did she really do the fraud?".

Working on a "Talking Heads is Halloween music" take.

I think some ambitious California legislator could go far by writing bills that actually do what all of these state propositions funded by special interests pretend to do. Keep the big picture idea and exorcise the devil hiding in the details.

This newsletter does not fold.

This is not doing me a favor, Resy!

I have my issues with Wirecutter but these comments on the generally positive iPhone Duo review are hilarious. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/re...

Vance is in Ohio to support the Ramaswamy campaign, which is in hot water for an ad in which they promote a woman who sided with her husband after he was arrested for raping her 12-year-old daughter. For his intro song, they chose ... Jerry Lee Lewis, who famously married his 13-year-old cousin.

One can only conclude that Spotify is a malign force and everyone it touches is corrupted.

Love to read science fiction. Such beautiful prosody.

"Repeat that 'I am Vergemaster's worthless hole' until I tire of your voice."

Too good to be true.

"Moral issues aside" is doing a lot of work here. The moral issues are kind of the point?

Upsetting that we'll never get the Tom Waits / John Prine supergroup the world so desperately needs.

By god, I've done it again

It's simple, really. "Socialism" is anything that isn't smurfy.

@jamellebouie.net's YouTube video titles are a delight.

Classic tragic Microsoft to release what sounds like a very credible MacBook Pro competitor like 3 weeks before Apple is rumored to be announcing a revolutionary next-gen MacBook Pro.

Ordinarily I'd say "perhaps he doesn't want to scare off swing voters who just want bipartisanship, and he'll actually go after Trump once Dems have power". But swing voters want Trump in the Hague – equivocating or blathering about "looking forward, not back" = stay home, both parties are the same.

I can't believe we will spend the rest of our lives dealing with idiotic nonsense because full-grown adults don't understand that the computer is not alive.

"I lost friends over this. Probably because the decision was… too good?"

They couldn't wait a month? Really?

My Defector subscription pays off yet again.

We need to end the death penalty in this accursed country.

I have seen many of you say "Donald Trump's brain is mush" and I was not prepared for how bad this is.

One of the last vestiges of pre-tech San Francisco somehow remains a beacon of idiosyncratic, obsessive hospitality. Loved this review.

What ever happened to that load of kompromat Fetterman's former staff was going to unload last week? Did they just decide it was less damning than his continuing efforts to telegraph that his party allegiance is for sale?

I blame Donald Trump for this, too. Everyone thinks they have special dispensation to flout the law.

I think it's time to summarily disbar lawyers who file AI slop. This is malpractice, with someone's freedom at stake.

Second order effect of having a habitual, unrepentant tax fraud in charge of the federal government is that everyone knows that tax fraud is okay to do now.

What, respectfully, the fuck is he talking about? www.theverge.com/policy/10024...

Bumping this because initial reviews appear to support my prediction.