Alan Grofield

It does so much with the biopic format, one of the tiny handful that actually tries to say something interesting(cf. Deliver Me from Nowhere which was just “you people remember Bruce Springsteen? Check it out we got a guy who kinda looks like him”)

Absolutely bonkers I had to scroll this far. A genuinely great movie!

Splendor is a great movie

This is how Vanity Fair described hiring her as AN EDITOR in a press release less than 3 months ago.

An undercovered part of the NYT Cotton op-ed scandal is that Rubenstein has subsequently admitted he rewrote parts of it to be less controversial. I think it’s pretty clear what the parts he removed said

I still get irrationally angry at the Ricardo Rincon scene in moneyball because of this

I really thought one silver lining of AI would be giving these guys a busy box but alas

if you think that’s what we do you’re telling on yourself that you don’t actually litigate.

The law isn’t real, you write for your audience.

Have you ever actually practiced real law

Standing up for the constitutional right to credulously repeat insane racist lies lol. Go assign another beat sweetener profile of a Nazi, Eric

PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN: He’ll probably be out cold for a while; this last episode of diarrhea was quite painful for him.
STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm?
PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.

The breakthrough of “blaming an anarchist” can likely be blamed on Netflix greenlighting more fiction set in the late 19th century

If you tried to explain to these people that like regular liberal rank and file white collar suburban Democrats either 1) don’t know who Bari Weiss is or 2) think she’s a dumb racist would make them feedback loop like a Westworld robot.

Instead of rotting your brain in TikTok why aren’t youths eagerly reading Nellie Bowles’ delightful newsletter? Or chatting with David Brooks?

Why can’t any of these people just
go away forever?

What is the source of them constantly constantly finding a landing spot?

Yeah I’m not really blaming anyone here, because people like you do cover Elon doing weird Nazi shit or AI waifu shit and then the regular tech and business press just cover his next announcement about FSD like he’s a regular CEO. It is maddening

“Elon Musk is a drug addict and a Nazi” went from being something you couldn’t print because it’s libelous bro something reporters see as too well known to be newsworthy, but I really don’t think the general public would agree

Flynn, Weir, Maas, Sanderson, French

Jesus Christ

Like the phrase is “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here” but for Chris they were like “actually no, for you, just go directly home”

“This Is What Republicans Actually Believe” chyron under footage from CPAC would be very effective advertising imo but the media works very hard to sane wash

I wonder where Glenn Kessler is on the Pinocchios with this one

That the government can’t immediately locate the people it has detained is a scandal before we even get to who they are or why they are being detained!

She supported the Iraq War lol

“Again”

The parenthetical where he’s like “but not trans” is the racism dial tweet come to life

Big talk from a guy who put Eli Roth in his best movie

Also Derek… it’s you. You’re Rollo Tomosi here.

“Slop” is a great word on that front

you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.