Justin.

Real life is kind of a reverse Metroidvania if you think about it, you start out being able to climb and wiggle into places and fall from great heights without a scratch, and then one day you're ability gated by such as waking up wrong

“Restoring trust to CBS (which we destroyed when the C suite started interfering with our news people on behalf of Trump and our most well-regarded reporters were forced out)”

This is part of the reason for the right wing’s unending screeching noise. Their golden goose is on the way out.

Soup weather is great weather

Just interrupt her and say “A simple yes or no will suffice. Can you answer that?”

This is his constant pattern. Everyone, including other conservatives, call him out on his rampant corruption and profiteering. He makes some huge loud proclamation to do some crazy maga thing that gets swatted down as unconstitutional but it garners support from the dumbest voters in Texas.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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“Men these days” and “women these days” has apparently existed as long as “kids these days.”

Making a long “ooooo” noise while he threatens to shoot unarmed citizens.

That’s the big thing. No one wants to actually be in a war. No one with kids wants it. No actual soldiers want it. Maybe ICE does. Maybe Miller wants to do it. Maybe we can throw them all in an octagon and they can fight.

I see they checked in on half my classes when I was studying psychology and math

It would make the perfect New Yorker joke article. I’m guessing it’s depressingly not.

The key to making great music is to not care about lyrics. Lyrics as vibes. I could not tell you what the lyrics to any of the songs on Odelay mean or what half of them are and I’ve listened to the album approximately 18 thousand times.

We can certainly all depend on the new CBS to accurately cover this and speak truth to power.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

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This has been rattling around my brain. I think Ellison and the tech right know Trump has an expiration date and Trumpism is dying with him but they want to keep everything about it around. Hollowing out liberal orgs and replacing them with their “acceptable left boundary” seems right.

It makes a sort of sense based on 8 year old discourse. Opinion writers running a news room in the Post-Truth Age.

I read that memo and the striking thing was that any serious journalist would call out AI as a major challenge for reporting. She doesn’t even directly mention it.

comic from webcomicname.com, "different" panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different" panel 2: creature smashes everything panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

The fact that it’s Jake “we need to talk more about Biden’s age” Tapper is what makes it so strikingly ridiculous. I’d call it performance art if Tapper seemed to show any semblance of self-reflection.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I guess I can tag @nytimes.com for whatever that’s worth. Do better. I get that you’re trying to appear objective. That doesn’t mean you have to avoid mentioning that birthright citizenship is an explicit constitutional guarantee.

“A hundred years of precedent” is the exact kind of thing Trump and his allies love messing with. Violating constitutional amendments, on the other hand, looks plainly bad. It really looks like they’re framing things to look like “trampling norms” and not “trampling the constitution.”

From the Times morning newsletter. I hate this kind of framing. The key reason for birthright citizenship isn’t precedent. It’s the 13th amendment. The Times knows this. They could’ve noted that was the constitutional argument at the center of the case. Instead, we’re told it’s just about precedent.

He’s built a huge network of low orbit satellites that need to be constantly replaced through non-trivially expensive rocket launches to bring internet to a world where giant wire bundles, fiber optic cables, and hundreds of millions of wireless networks are already doing the job. Blugh.

You have to be steeped in the conservative extended universe lore to understand what the hell they’re talking about.

And Hitler suffered through the trenches of WW1, but we don’t forgive his crimes against humanity because he went through some tough stuff.

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”

I think they just like him because he’s a Nazi and writes what they think but feel they can’t publicly say. The fact that his analysis is stupid and naive is just more evidence for that point.

He wants Miller to load trains with people and send them to gas chambers and he’s really really upset that’s not happening. He is possibly the most morally and ethically abhorrent person I have ever seen in the wild. One of those guys that makes you think “I guess elemental evil is real.”