Josh

Absolute banger.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Andrew shhhhhhhhh. Bring on the darkness.

If not fascist, why fascist shaped?

not enough people are talking about this show. And Oly is always on.

That’s pretty good all things considered.

Holy shit what.

James Dobson rot in piss

Today is a good reminder to live in such a way that people don’t openly rejoice your death and dance on your fucking grave.
Good-goddamn-riddance Dobson.

Sometimes you just gotta get a coffee cup made.

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Chatbots, Addiction, and Withdrawal "Fostering dependence is a normal business practice in Silicon Valley."

My latest list of must-read articles and some thoughts on the GPT-5 freakout. Here, I go off about why chatbot dependence isn't "parasocial," but rather, an engineered dependence. It's a behavioral addiction, not admiration run amok, and we should be clear-eyed about who's responsible.

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Damn…

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Tiny Desk Concert The duo's music leans into small moments in order to make the outsized ones seem surmountable.

The duo's music leans into small moments in order to make the outsized ones seem surmountable.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Syril Karn on Andor holds a suitcase and strolls up the street confidently

Live shot of the respectability police joining the protest discourse

People ride motorbikes next to a car burning in flames during a standoff between police and protesters following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in the Los Angeles County city of Paramount, California, U.S., June 7, 2025 (REUTERS)

What a photo. Paramount, California, U.S., June 7, 2025 @reuters.com

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Really hoping Jesus doesn’t see his shadow tomorrow so we can have six more weeks of sin.

Three glasses of wine and I’m binge reading Diderot quotes.
Let’s just call it a good set up for the week ahead.

“If criminalization is all it takes to void our solidarity, then we have already lost, because the enemy holds the power to criminalize whoever they want, whenever they choose. “

Image from Gremlins 2 where the smart one says: Well, it's rather brutal here, we're advising our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.

What a journey. Bravo.

Attn: @davebazan.bsky.social

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

And lastly, if you want to better understand how to act and move through the world right now. My best suggestions would be @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
And @tedleo.bsky.social

I’ll end with the best part of the week: business cat showing everyone who tf is boss around here.

This week in Illinois it was 100% archers of loaf weather. And I could go another 7-8 weeks honestly.