David Cho

It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

My Name Is Gregor Samsa, and This Time I Woke Up as a Grad Student at Cal State San Bernardino You’ve probably heard about the first time this happened to me. You know: guy goes to sleep, wakes up as a giant bug, freaks out his family, worrie...

I stumbled out of my bedroom to discover that I shared this tiny, squalid apartment with a person named Thad who claimed to be a part-time barista and a full-time experimental sound artist. He offered me a sip from his can of Red Bull and played some of his latest sound art for me.

Tony Gilroy on his approach if he were President of Lucasfilm

“If I did that job, I would rather go down swinging. I’d rather go down in flames. As low-risk as my life is, my creative life is pretty high-risk, so I’d like to swing away. Safety has never been one of my navigational principles"

This is despicable

They're having trouble getting jurors in one of the cases against Elon Musk because "so many people hate him so much"

www.law360.com/articles/244...

i want video of him patrolling hotspur way calmly telling certain members of the squad that they’re cruising for a bruising

Feeling Supersonic

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

Actually, Spurs Are Really Good! | The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast) Get more from The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast) on Patreon

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Actually, Spurs Are Really Good!

I am joined by @n17women.bsky.social's @abbierosemeow.bsky.social to analyse Martin Ho's brilliant Spurs Women team.
www.patreon.com/posts/151201...

matt’s the absolute best—one of the sharpest tv/film/media critics in the business; thanks for writing this!

cc: @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

The Life of the Mind | Elias Isquith | Substack Remember blogs? They're back — in stack form. (By Elias Isquith.). Click to read The Life of the Mind, by Elias Isquith, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

During my spare time, I am working on a post about "Deadwood" and how it reflects the fundamental tension between community (democracy) and solipsism (tyranny). I worry that this will appeal to like 5 people, but if you're one of those 5 people, please be sure to subscribe here to read it.

Libero: Libero 098 | Juventus, Benfica And The Plight of Europe's Forgotten Clubs It’s Champions League punishment round week, which means clubs who were among the biggest and best in Europe 10 years ago are slogging it out to make it through to the last-16.The question on tod...

The story of European football in the last 15 years is the decline of the Juventus, Dortmund, Benfica, Porto class. @liberopodcast.com with @jameshorncastle.bsky.social and @tariqpanja.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic Badlands (Live at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ - November 1980)

His legendary performance of Badlands was the day after Reagan won. Right before the song:
"I don't know what you guys think about what happened last night, but I think it's pretty frightening.

You guys are young; there's gonna be a lot of people depending on you coming up, so this is for you."

cc: @mikeryan.bsky.social

An archival photo of the Museum’s Blue Whale suspended above the Hall of Ocean Life. The whale is blue in color with a speckled underbelly.

🐋 Throwback Thursday! On Wednesday, February 26, 1969, the Museum's Hall of Ocean Life and Biology of Fishes opened. The next Sunday, more than 35,000 people came to see the newly unveiled Blue Whale—setting a new attendance record.

For a multitude of reasons, an AI love story plays *very* different in 2026 than it did in 2013.

ICYMI: @pmiscove.bsky.social (@podcastlikeits.bsky.social) joins us to talk all things Spike Jonze's Her.

🎧: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/h...

We Take John Turturro for Granted He’s a ubiquitous face but rarely gets the chance to carry a feature, as he does in the modest, lovely drama The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.

THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK is a lovely little movie that gives John Turturro a great leading role. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

to really get inside the mind of one of these athletes, you need to imagine the most infuriatingly catchy earworm song chorus looping endlessly as they stomp endlessly upward

<<<long-distance runners have entered the chat>>>

Mentally adding audio of all the Ski Mountaineering competitors going "hup hup hup" as they ski up their mountain.

Why Is the Right So Obsessed With the Apocalypse? In a new book, Chris Jennings tells the story of the Ruby Ridge siege and how the threat of the Rapture shaped American politics.

wrote about an excellent new book on the afterlife of Ruby Ridge and the pernicious influence of apocalyptic theology on American life nymag.com/intelligence...

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir.

The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers.

Here's how it was announced internally:
www.wired.com/story/depart...

THE POSTAL SERVICE - GIVE UP (VINYL BOX SET)

album artwork for we will become silhouettes

album artwork for such great heights

happy 23rd to this wonderful album. this box set is so beautiful

Your man may have broken his own organisation’s rules on political neutrality. But these things only matter when others seem to do it. So nothing to see here.

i genuinely believe it’s the cruelest month

The idea that we can have a functioning mass-democracy when people are cooking their brains to this extent remains extremely TBD imho.

Terribly sad about Tom Noonan passing. In casting Manhunter I auditioned about 10-15 actors in New York when Tom walked in the door and said, "I don't want to talk. I just want to read." He read and it was magical. We worked closely. I based Dollarhyde less on the novel's character and more on a convicted killer whom I met and with whom I corresponded who was doing life in Vacaville. I took Tom into that world and he made it his own. It was an automatic to cast Tom in a wheelchair as Kelso in Heat. He did so much more fine work, but it was as the battered child become a killer adult - both alive in the same bottle - that projected the range and deep soul of this so acute and committed artist. Rest in peace, Tom.

Michael Mann’s tribute to the late Tom Noonan (watch What Happened Was …)

Welp, never using a hotel room coffee machine again