Andrew Sullivan

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

In retrospect it probably wasn’t the best idea for him to build himself a gilded ballroom no one asked for while kicking poor people off food stamps.

What I do know is that AI is not your fucking game and it's not mine. You see your slop-gobbling VP going one way, you go the other way. You hear me? The LLM-lubbers go one way, you go the other way. Hell, the hard part's done: you already know you don't want to live an AI-inflected life. A whole lot of people out there don't realize that yet, and for some of them the knowledge will only come after a great deal of pain, but you know what you must do. Write a novel, write a poem, scribble them on printer paper when your VP isn't looking if you have to. Get flowers for your desk and frames for your photos, write longhand in a diary every day. Buy a secondhand DVD player and secondhand DVDs. Smell a library, pull faces at a baby, splash cold water on your face. Call your friends on the phone even though it sucks and everyone hates it because texts and DMs suck more, just nobody realizes it yet. Pay for more things with cash and drop the change in a desperate man's paper cup. Cook enough of every meal to share with your neighbors, especially the unhoused ones. Sing Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" at karaoke because it's fun and everybody loves it. Live a life out in the real, palpable world that you can be a little proud of; refuse assaults on its dignity. You can only do what you can do, and life will feel wonderful again once you truly get that—fuck, I'm tearing up, believe me, it will shock you how wonderful life still feels. And the rest, again, is not your game.

‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’
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The "keep politics out of sports" people pulled off the greatest psyop of my lifetime because they somehow convinced people that ESPN was non-stop politics when it wasn't remotely true and the end result is that ESPN is now more political than it's ever been in its existence.

Augustin Trébuchon was the last Frenchman to die when he was shot on his way to tell fellow soldiers, who were attempting an assault across the Meuse river, that hot soup would be served after the ceasefire. He was killed at 10:45 a.m.

at roughly this time 107 years ago, this man died trying tell his buddies that it was almost soup time. if you're having soup today, remember his sacrifice

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this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

Unbelievable quote. Truly amazing stuff from the President.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

Go bolts

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

this is one of those situations where people could take a lot of their ideas from Sports Twitter. When OpenAI collapses I better see Altman's replies filled with links to job applications at T-Mobile stores like he's a Browns QB who just threw three picks

Good shit.

Fast now tho

If Philadelphia did an Omelas situation for sports success there’d be people calling WIP like “Yo we’re going too easy on that kid. Gotta torture that kid more” whenever there’s a loss

several SnailBonez™️ skeleton snails with a skull for a shell that actually look pretty sick but I mean,

several OctoBonez™️ brand octopus skeletons on a shelf along with a SpiderBonez™️ spider skeleton

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

The move to video content and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Oct 12, 2022 - Screen grab of a tweet from Jason Campbell: Still from the Charlie Kirk show Charlie speaking. Underneath the quote from Charlie reads a quote from Charlie’s broadcast that day: “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.”

Without comment:

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

never forget that pitt delivered pat mcafee one of the worst days of his life

I love when people make accounts to log on and go "Bluesky is an echo chamber! People need to admit (the most dogshit take in the world)"

Truly tragic that we never got a Kendall-at-Burning Man episode of Succession.

Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Got to see the midgame trade in person tonight.

average online discussion tbh