Chris Betts

Oh my god is the bag company called Hermes because they carry things around?!

me: you know what, i feel kinda better now that the ja rumors have died down. whatever happens will happen!

pablo torre: your team’s owner is a war criminal

I've seen it compared to Birnam Wood a couple times now. I haven't read either book, I'll check'em out

I disagree about suspense, there were definitely moments for me. Stakes felt low but that felt on purpose too because they were low to Sadie not because Kushner can't write stakes. I think she's a very good writer, she'd have to be to get me to read that many emails about caves.

It felt to me like she picked thriller as the genre almost mischieviously. Thrillers are basically all plot and this book is everything but. All the planning and research and characters and time for it to end how it did has to be on purpose.

It felt like Kushner gave us a cast of unlikeable characters and juxtaposed them with them Bruno's emails about Thals as a noble species and the book is saying, to quote Dewey Cox' dad, "The wrong kid died"

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

I do not believe in the death penalty for humans.

I do support the death penalty for corporations.

When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I just finished Creation Lake and I'm trying to decide how I feel about it. Any good essays or reviews anyone can point me to? A cursory search gave me two reviews that were basically plot summaries.
#booksky

I'd watch every episode. Denny could still be in the office to keep his mind active and occasionally get one thing right but mostly just cause mischief

This is while they try cases of the death penalty and teen abortion. What a wild, strange show

I'm watching the final season and they're openly referring to the fact that it's the last season! But only to each other and no one looks at the camera. Like they know it's a show but are unaware that they're being filmed.

Boston Legal should have run for 20 seasons. This show is bananas. Liberal politics with regressive protagonists, goofy ass side plots/recurring characters and calming legal drama structure. Literally everyone could love this.

Vici means I conquered, Vichy was the government of a conquered nation, something something something I don't know you write it

I don't have a safety net so much as a hole I can fall deeper into

I have a grand vision for the future of Hollywood and it starts with a Maltese Falcon remake starring McGruff the Crime Dog played by the Daft Punk dog-man and voiced by Jeff Bridges #cinema

I want to be productive for free and lazy for money. Someone give me 80k to phone it in so I can give 110% to writing the dumbest shit ever and show it to no one

*Me putting on my coat and walking towards the door* "Sorry boss, my Mom said I have to go home when the street lights come on."

Trying to sleep but can't stop thinking about midnight to one am when the clocks go back. For one hour every year today is simultaneously, today, yesterday and tomorrow

It's so funny to me to call a 38 year old man my little brother

We need to start thinking of billionaires as money addicts

"I don't work again until Thursday so I can be as crazy as I want! But I'm kinda tired so I'll probably stay in." - my friend accidentally summing up being over 30

Love a lurker, a viewer after my own heart.

Woo! I can't tell who you are from your mysterious name and picture which I respect but for context are you one of the wonderful people who helped coin Piss Betts on @questingtime.bsky.social ?

Guys will make fun of the WNBA for being about fundamentals then say Hoosiers is a perfect sports movie

It's the SuckCut! it sucks, as it cuts!

Positive Reinforcement cover art!!! I’m wearing a cardigan with another cardigan draped over my shoulders. My name and the title are kind of styled like the Big Lebowski opening titles!

My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...

The truest personality test is what DnD character are you drawn to. I'm a dwarf rogue in my heart and there's nothing I can do about it

Every episode of Bridgerton

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish “Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.

When you ask us Jews to inform the government of our status, it tends not to end well… if true, this is beyond disturbing. Again, never forget, Trump is NOT a friend of the Jews. He is using us as pawns in his game of authoritarian chess.