Kip Mooney

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting Notice Jimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue

deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

it’s a real “oops all nazis” situation with every random person in this administration

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

in anything even remotely approaching meritocracy nobody would have any idea who this person is.

if you really think trans folks, homeless people, and their allies should be supporting gavin, you shouldn’t be pressuring them to support a guy who doesn’t want them. pressure him to court their vote!

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

Trump perceives basically all independent institutions as a threat to himself, including economic institutions like the BLS and the Fed, he won't stop trying to wreck them until he's out of office, and it's everyday Americans who are going to feel the consequences

PSA: Strange Days is on Hulu/Disney+ right now in the US

Joker (2019)

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Newsflash, Joy Boy!

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of?

The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

I think Philip Baker Hall might be giving the single greatest acting performance of all time in SECRET HONOR.

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

AI is not a magic wand and so many people are going to die in the next 10 years because companies and agencies believe it will make them more money.

That ship has sailed, bro.

Bill Fosters Facebook post to Bush’s Beans on July 23 saying he’s thinking about thos beans

Happy beans day to those who celebrate

Perfect quote. No notes.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.

The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.

The site is a textbook concentration camp.

(That said, I'd love to see them do all this a lot more.)

I'm often critical of Senate Democrats for not doing more, but in this instance they did everything we could've asked for.

I cannot stress enough: you cannot give an inch on this issue.

The moment you start accepting media using genAI for "small" things or just tiny aspects of production, they will only start outsourcing more of the process to AI

This is how the smallest end of the wedge is driven in against laborers

Remember how all the rich people and politicians said that people should learn stem and work in technology? Well human product, the needs of capital have shifted and we need you to learn the exciting field of Chimney Sweep

This is scandalous. Our broadcast media is probably beyond redemption given the limited runway of relevance they have remaining. Disgraceful of them to go out like this though.

shame on you, @ericswalwell.bsky.social. this is both a moral and a strategic miss

Become a jamón expert at our Ham School

TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:

and a merry christmas to us all