Mike Drucker

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Mario paint picture of a sea monster attacking a small boat and diver and in the corner it says “mom cut me off financially”

A Mario paint landscape with enemies and a cat walking on hills with the words “after you die there is nothing” written above it

A hollow face with Google eyes and the words “it turns out blood makes for terrible ink”

A Mario paint picture of a purple man, looking troubled, with the words “they know” on his forehead

God I love Mario Paint on the Switch 2

Sounds like someone isn’t friends with any lions

LIONS SHOULDN’T BE IN THE CIRCUS, DANIEL

"Well what if I'm a fucking talentless moron, huh? What if I suck and have nothing to say and no ability to say it? What if I follow the neighborhood dogs around and eat their succulent poops, does that make me some kind of doodoo-eater? Check and mate."

Kansas stays winning. Love you Kansas

there should be an official Applebee's game about having a complete 60 minute Applebee's dining experience but you gotta get up and leave if you spot an Anomaly

“No legacy. No future.” Okay calm down Sarah Connor

Loved that game but hoo boy those platforming sections

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

It was so great

Finally, tedious nostalgic witchslop (The Wizard of Oz) has been upgraded with Google AI to look more like true cinema (Return to Zork)

It’s just like his approach to COVID — the problem is never that people are suffering, the problem is that the government is bothering to keep track of how many people are suffering.

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

right?

I saw this last night. I never go on opening nights. My theater was pretty full and we all laughed like jackals for the entire runtime. People cheered at the end when "Directed by Akiva Shaffer" appeared on screen. It completely changed the day I was having. Go see this movie.

Happy anniversary yesterday to this shining light of headline writing and rest in peace to the man for whom everything was wrong.

Not a bad question! I'd say a health amount maybe 15%? Two extended sequences at least. But one's great and another is an all-timer.

Please go see movies like this so there are more movies like this. It's such a good theater experience in a way that we don't always get to have these days. It's a crowd movie. Everyone was going nuts. And it's short, if that helps. In and out, best hour and a half of your life.

Speaking of spaghetti, keep that word in mind for one of the dumbest gags in the movie. I mean that as a compliment.

No, but I'll say this - one of the best things about it is they don't try to repeat any bits or remake any bits! So, it pages homage to the original and there are small references, but it never feels like it's trying to re-do or out-do a joke from the old movies. There are some really creative gags.

It earns its keep pretty fast. I was hopeful going in and genuinely, like, broken down by how good it was when I was leaving. Absolute silliness. As dumb as you can get.

Poster for the movie I enjoyed, "The Naked Gun." The star of the picture, a mister Liam Neeson is in the foreground of the poster doing a split (in a suit; he's wearing a suit with a red or brown tie) with both legs splayed out to the edges of the poster. Behind him are the words - in big pink letters - THE NAKED GUN. Beneath it says, "The Law's Reach Never Streched This Far. Coming Soon" and underneath that is the skyline for Los Angeles, the city of dreams! Anyway, you have a good night.

They did it. They pulled it off. The Naked Gun is easily one of my favorite films of the year. It just machine-guns jokes in a way that I missed so much. It is stupid. It is nonsense. It broke me and remade me. I'm a better man for having witnessed this movie. Go see it in a theater with a crowd.

the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

Hey, ya'll, I'm writing an article about something I love very much, which should be out this weekend!

if you like my writing, I need to pay for a new glasses prescription for some special lenses to protect my gorgeous baby blues and also the optic nerve

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It’s wild that face scanning for age verification is not only a common practice but it’s basically legally required for platforms to comply.

The danger of applying this universally is ☠️, seeing the Tea breach doxxing everybody who verified with ID & face scans further eroding access to anonymity.

Fascinating that coding isn’t on this list! When so many people are already using LLMs to “vibe code.” Huh! I wonder why! 🤪

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.