Bobby Silverman

“In fascist society, everyone is educated to be a hero.” — Umberto Eco

I'll wrestle you for 'em

IIRC Whedon took the rough outline for the next two seasons and condensed them for the movie

Also, what are they going to do about Adam Baldwin? No one's watching a show where the gruff but endearing brute is played by an fucking fascist

accountant on one side of the family and polio-ridden invalid on the other

If it’s not ravioli shaped then it’s not ravioli. What the hell. There are rules

Oh shit the Sloan conference is this weekend. Any ex basketbloggers on here remember Sloan? When it was like fun and felt important and shit? Anyone?

[is led back to my room by a nursing home attendant]

I’m hoping for a Mal Reynolds’s shitcoin, personally

Imo:

Okay he deserves it but I didn’t expect Ben Chapman to be catching strays

It doesn’t hold up. You can’t extricate Whedon’s little linguistic tics and personal bugbears from the show as a whole. It all ends up feeling very grim. I still have a crush on both Baccarin and Staite—who doesn’t—but no one needs a whole goddamn reboot to satisfy that itch

Whatever various fanbases think of Russ other players looooooove him

Rick Barry (?)

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Gambling on War Is MAGA’s Latest Gold Rush Some lawmakers want to ban the prediction-market manipulations.

NEW: Some lawmakers are considering making it illegal to gamble on government actions—like war. They should move quickly.
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BREAKING: Trump Axes His Puppy Killer Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security, partly for a very silly reason. The department will remain under the control of Stephen Miller.

by far the best, ballsiest, and most in-depth story on noem's firing so far. @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @zeteo.com open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

I feel like DJ has one sorta-bounceback year left in him--in the time-honored tradition of "problematic" WRs--before turning into waiver-wire fodder in yr fantasy league

Markwayne was let go in the aftermath of The Loni Anderson Incident, the details of which were kept under court seal following the settlement agreement

Dingus of the week: Markwayne Mullin | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon

He’s the kind of guy who gets mad when you say Taylor Swift put Travis Kelce on the map. His porn is probably just the Green M&M before she lost her high heels. www.patreon.com/posts/140388...

If that fuckplane could talk...

it is kinda wild to me how most Republicans in Congress almost got themselves lynched running their mouths about 2020, and proceeded to forget all about it roughly 3 hours later

I'd guess it's b/c rw voters themselves either are or would like to be overtly, obscenely self-serving sociopaths

AI ‘Deepfakes’ Weaponized to Spread Many False Epstein Files Claims - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

Conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein have been in circulation for what feels like ages. But advances in AI image generation tools have taken things to another level.

We looked at how AI images were used to promote fake claims on the back of the "Epstein Files"

openmeasures.io/ai-images-ep...

(Yes, the fourth season was uh not good. But goddamnit I need to know how this ends)

YouTube video by Prime Video The Boys – Final Season Trailer | Prime Video

My soul is ready. Where are my The Boys heads at? #BoysHive rise up www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQb...

Seeing the photos of Bremer strollng around the Green Zone circa 2003 in crisp blue suit and yet insisting on wearing military issue combat boots is when I realized this was going to be *bad* bad. Trump will probably insist Cain show up to Tehran in his Superman costume

Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.

Sir, I was an esteemed graduate of the Funny Voice And/Or Hat School Of Acting

the one-scene cameo he has in Smokin' Aces (godawful, do not watch) is when I realized Bateman's happiest and at his best playing total dirtbags

Ah. Carry on, then