erin mccann

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

It’s doing a Bay Area swing right now, including a showing on Saturday at the Roxie in SF that Fiona Prine will be at.

5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off

Apropos of absolutely nothing but <gestures at it all> I muted my phone for two hours and went to see this John Prine documentary tonight and highly recommend you do the same if it shows near you www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...

I’ll never understand the success Ryan Murphy continues to have offering up live-action Madame Tussaud’s

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

yesssss that is always the answer.

on the plus side, by the end of a few years you have a nice set of pens. (I sure do!)

whoever writes the emails for the local stationary store has a target right into my soul

ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose

The most valuable outlets in the world going forward are going to be the ones that try to help people understand the world we’re all living in.

Honestly speed it up, so we can separate the slop mills from the places that slow down and let humans do real reporting and investigations again.

Like just say you don’t like the act of journalism. Just say that! It’s ok to just say that!

Kinda weird to be running one of the world’s longest-lasting and most mainstream journalism outlets if you don’t, but that’s a separate issue.

Words have value and the only way you’re going to have readers is if they understand that you also understand this how can the ASSOCIATED FREAKING PRESS OF ALL PEOLE NOT UNDERSTA [walks into sea]

Filling readers’ feeds with nonsensical slop is not the journalism time-saver that these folks think it is!

I would rather listen to Billy Corgan’s podcast than read a news story produced through some AI slop farm.

Just sitting here astounded once again as the chasm that exists — and has existed for decades — between some of the people who make journalism and some of the people who run the journalism business

Truly cannot say I know a single editor who would prefer to deal with AI-generated stories over those written by a human reporter

‘One AP reporter said in a message that the “dismissiveness and disdain some of you have shown for human writing are insulting and abhorrent.’

I was a journalist once and writing stories I didn’t feel passionate about is how I got good at it

She’d just put money in the machine!

You know this episode extremely well

Mulder and Scully in a bed

On my little screen everyone is dunking on Billy Corgan and on my big screen it is also 1997

Melissa Auf der Maur, a ’90s Rock Linchpin, Is Spilling Her Stories

Now is a great time to read this great Melissa Auf der Maur profile that published a few days ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

nutter butter crackers in the tray. no butter

and now my nutter butters don’t have any nutter butter. this could break me

My search for this place has proven particularly elusive, some might say that it’s my holy grail.

‘Testament of Ann Lee’ Will Have No Physical Media Release — World of Reel I didn’t particularly like “Ann Lee,” which does have its fair share of fervent defenders, but there’s a concerning trend with Disney and their push to phase out physical media.

I am not a person who believes that it is the Criterion Collection’s job to fix all the movie industry’s failures, but this is a very specific one I would like them to fix.

I'm reading about Bluesky discourse on X. I'm reading about X discourse on Bluesky. I'm listening to the official Television Show Podcast after I finish the Television Show. I had a brief moment of introspection and I threw up a live tadpole