Joel

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

golden brown egg rolls on a rack

egg rolls and a salad on a white plate

tiny bite of egg roll in the foreground and a tricolor blue-eyed Australian shepherd staring at it

same dog and same egg roll now dangerously close to each other

made chicken parm egg rolls for humans and a tiny one for dog

Chappelle: Y’all are more free than we are

Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo

Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me

Riyadh crowd: booo

Chappelle: but you guys clap

Riyadh: [applause]

Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech

A secret room in the basement of my grandparents’ house

YouTube video by merc0 Tony Leung • Hard Boiled (1992) [4K]

If it’s October that means there are about 40 Hong Kong bangers to watch on the Criterion Channel

youtu.be/oywu8vgSxKo

The endpoint of plenary and unilateral impoundment, like the *immediate* endpoint, is that whoever is exercising the powers of the presidency gets to use federal funding coercively to compel outcomes he doesn’t otherwise have the legal right to compel.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Is he on bluesky? I miss his posts

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

hell yes, brother

a big hamburger

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.

It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.

This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

hey, I learn a lot of new things about politics!

One of the many things that this era’s postmortem will have to account for is that this kind of criticism is coming from sports websites (the Ringer, Defector, etc) and fashion magazines (Teen Vogue) than from the mainstream media outlets of record.

watched a few weeks ago, what a film!

ah, well

anyone need their horse rotated?

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Undertaker

Hey bro I don't wanna sound like I don't trust you but I can't help but notice that you're acting as a friend and guide to our party yet you aren't in the box art

Actually kind of cool that they got the Wealthy Capitalist Ogre from all those 1930s editorial cartoons to run the IRS

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"

for those unfamiliar, this is a bit like if someone stated an AI takeover for the film industry is imminent and backed it up with "jurassic park included a fully cgi t-rex in 1993"

This article is from May, is there something more recent?

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

oh

Colbert. Legend.