Fryda Wolff

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

A “Muppet Show” scene featuring two pigs in a police station. (Just to get ahead of this: Yes, it is technically from “Bear on Patrol” and there is a tiny bit of Fozzie at the edge of frame.)

HAMNET.

the homepage of CBS News, containing an entire section for "A Town Hall with Erika Kirk" followed by a "Go Deeper With The Free Press Section," all of which are focused on advancing right-wing takes

CBS News, December 12, 2025

The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR SANDWICH THROWING GUY

all i'm saying is that there were better options

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

In June of this year, DHS Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin forcefully proclaimed on social media that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will never go free on American soil”

Today he was released by a federal judge

He spent this evening with his family

In Maryland

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”

Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

a crowd of devs standing near geoff’s weird promotional obelisk

developers in grim reaper outfits, one with a wanted sign featuring take-two ceo strauss zelnick

a tombstone-shaped sign that says “RIP future class”

a “the industry is dead” pamphlet

around 40 game developers affiliated with @videogameworkers.bsky.social have gathered outside the peacock theater, where the game awards will take place in a few hours, for a “the industry is dead” demonstration

Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.

Yet another unforced error

www.semafor.com/article/12/11/2025/washington-posts-ai-generated-podcasts-rife-with-errors-fictional-quotes

"I had the privilege of working with Jim Ward during the voice recording sessions for many Ratchet & Clank games. He would often arrive at the studio low-key, with a gentle presence — yet the moment we started recording, his energy transformed the room. His commanding delivery and expert comic timing frequently sent gales of laughter throughout the recording space. Jim was an incredible performer who gave 115% every session. He would often nail a line on the very first take — so perfectly that we’d exchange looks like, ‘That’s it.’ Jim was a pleasure to work with, and I’m deeply saddened by his passing. But I’m also profoundly grateful for the joy he brought to Insomniacs and to the millions of fans who love Captain Qwark. His talent, warmth, and humor will always stay with me." Brian Allgeier, Creative Director, Ratchet & Clank Future series

Words from Brian Allgeier, the Creative Director on the Ratchet & Clank Future series.

"Ward died Wednesday at a memory care facility in Los Angeles after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease" ☹️ Awful.

Jim Ward, Voice Actor on ‘Fairly OddParents,’ ‘Ratchet & Clank’ and Lots More, Dies at 66 The Daytime Emmy winner also worked on ‘Ben 10,’ Disney films and ‘Star Wars’ projects and did a great Jack Nicholson impression.

Eesh, if voice actor deaths come in threes, I hope y'all's affairs are in order. 😬

My hero of 2025

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Okay I'll allow it.

This MTV recording I found from an extremely golden age of 1994 is a time capsule of exactly specifically the last time the world existed before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” as shown by this ominous trailer. Make of that what you will.

Monkfish

Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 533; Bestiary; 13th century, middle; England; f.26r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Things are dipping towards shit again so if you missed this last night it's a nice reset.

I got to sit in front of Lillard for a screening of Serial Mom at the Academy Museum, my millennial ass felt very blessed.

We just saw him in Twin Peaks: The Return and Life of Chuck, still a scene-stealer.

A standard do not enter sign with the words 'let ICE' positioned between 'Do not' and 'enter.' This creates the effect that the sign reads: Do not let ICE enter.

I like my neighbors

There's no way he needs the money.

Between the Time Magazine cover and Sam Altman's embarrassing Tonight Show appearance this week, I really feel like the hype cycle is at its end. 2025 was THE YEAR OF AI and we're gonna wake up in the hangover that is 2026 and everyone will start to ask "Yeah, but when will it actually, like, work?"

This Disney thing, while grotesque in concept, is also a signal of where it starts to end - just like Napster collapsing and iTunes showing up after: Corporations owning gated-for-IP versions of the "trick" and paying for play at the actual machinery.

New York Governor Signs AI Protection Bills As SAG-AFTRA Executives Tout Gains for Performers “If we want the public to trust what they see, we must have guardrails on digital replicas and synthetic creations,” said SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.

Stuff is possible when your leaders aren't in bed with tech.

I really believe that if people knew how cheap it is to verify thousands of fake accounts for a platform like X or TikTok and properly absorbed that knowledge, they would treat the online information environment very differently...

post from Balaji Srinivasan: Balaji @balajis · 15h INDIA, INTERNET, INTERNATIONAL If you're Indian, don't move to America. Because the US left hates technocapitalists. And the US right wants no more immigrants. Moreover, as the sovereign debt crisis worsens... It only gets worse. Possibly murderously worse. So: Indian immigrant technocapitalists need alternatives. And there are three options: India, Internet, and International. 1. India India itself is the world's fastest growing economy, with the #1 growth rate in the world over the last 10 years. Every major company is investing in India. So you can do well in the Indian economy: 2. Internet The Internet is taking over from a fading NYSE/NASDAQ as the world's largest capital market. The decline of Delaware and NYC accelerate this; everyone from Elon to Elad Gil to a16z to Dropbox have moved out of Delaware for incorporation, and Mamdani is catalyzing a capital exodus to Miami. So: the US is no longer a stable place for capital formation. And Solana and Ethereum already put Indians on a level playing field with the entire world, with digital rule-of-law. No one can discriminate against you in a smart contract simply for being Indian, so you can do well in the Internet economy.

As the Network State cult gets more scrutiny, founder Balaji Srinivasan has full meltdown. Just wait until my book comes out!

This guy was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and CTO at Coinbase. He is close with Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Not sure about the "architects of AI" being the TIME person of the year, but Indie booksellers, librarians, & library workers are def our winners.

They continue to fight book bans and support their communities by creating safe spaces, mutual aid drives, and opportunities for curiosity and escape 🩵

"In fact, the opposite. I think it honors them and respects them, in part because there’s a license fee associated with it." Y'all will tell us when you start getting monthly checks for a few cents each month from OpenAI?