wacky paki

oh boy *UEFA MEMBERS AGREE TO BOYCOTT WORLD CUP

6. Nolan tries to pack a lot of Incidents and Big Ideas into this film, but they do not seem to me to hang together coherently on the level of his own plot and the movie's constructed system of values. Instead, it's foisting a didactic point about Our Times onto the plot without integrating it.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W...

Greek translator Emily Wilson finds the release of Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey" both gratifying and unsatisfying.

📌Not news: The best adaptation of the "The Odyssey" is "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Period.

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

You could not have a more fake job that being Donald Trump’s Vice president. You are literally on a podcast right now my guy.

The Platner collapse confirms my one immutable rule of politics and running for office: Your first campaign should not be a federal one, especially a high-profile race.

Me: *Finally gets daughter to sleep. Dickheads with fireworks: 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨 Me:

Dressed to Kill 1980

I am - with great, world historical reluctance - officially handing it to Harry Kane

Robots, not chatbots, will realise AI’s potential ft.trib.al/OBATPSu

Why are you minimizing the genocide in Gaza to focus on masking?

arguing with palestinians for not wearing masks on a podcast. genuine wrecker shit

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

according to the spacex filings, their valuation is justified entirely by grok, which will be 90% of enterprise ai, and ai will be 90% of the us economy

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

I don't think its even a contest... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG...

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

Telling people, "we're going to have a green energy transition and cheap gas" is the equivalent of posting the "no take, only throw" dog-and-frisbee meme directly into your platform

We can easily do without CNN, but TCM is the greatest cable channel of all time. Rest In Peace, Ted Turner.

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

i think the gamecube has the best logo of any console. just look at it. it's a cube that's a G and the negative space in the G is a C

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” - Benjamin Graham

America is more than its blood and soil. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tuc...

It should be noted that she left Congress so she could say stuff like this but without actually having any levers of power to do so. It's all a scam, except for the millions that will die abroad.

If a mainstream outlet straightforwardly described republican views this way they’d be inundated with criticism bsky.app/profile/leba...

Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

I see your TACO and raise you STAR: Some Things Aren’t Reversible

People are like “He just did it because it pays well.” Yeah, and that’s literally the same reason all the centrist politicians you dislike did all the jobs you find disqualifying, too. Up to you whether you find “lobbying for an HMO” or “being a mercenary” a more alarming form of selling out

Remember on 24 when they would bring back villains that survived a previous season to inexplicably help out the new season's villains

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Kolanovic: Tacos aren’t on the menu this time. 🌮

Trump is already spending $1 BILLION PER DAY on his illegal regime change war of choice in Iran. Now, he's going to ask Congress to give him up to $50 BILLION MORE. My vote: hell NO.