Brendan C. Byrne

Hi! I'm Ari Aster, and I'd like to tell you a bit about my upcoming film, which explores the age-old question: what if a mother figure yelled at you?

A sign paperclipped to a Rough Draft tote bag (washable-brown-paper, looks kinda like leather but isn't, with festive tissue paper sticking out) The sign says HOLIDAY BOOK BAGS A personally curated bag of books from Drew and the books team! Perfect for the reader(s) in your life this holiday season! 3 hardcover books - $120 3 paperback books - $75 kids bag (3-5 books) - $75 ask the books desk for more details! in-person curation takes ~30mins and is subject to availability orders can be placed online with survey for in-store pick-up ONLY (but as I said, if you want something and you aren't local, reach out and we'll see what we can do)

Do you or does someone you love live in the mid-Hudson Valley and want books for the holidays? I'm doing a limited run of curated book bags for folks — 3 titles, either hc or pb, in a Rough Draft tote with a little swag on the side. roughdraftny.square.site/shop/holiday...

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system' Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...

The judge who authorised the ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is now shut out from modern life as a result of US sanctions.

He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)

Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

i bet this place smells *great*

Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

Donald Trump raving about his new friend Zorro Montana

Cru vs Cru, by Cru the Dynamic, Cru Drums 11 track album

my good friend Steve has a sick new album out, art-damaged jazz/rap drumming cruthedynamic.bandcamp.com/album/cru-vs...

that's a novel

damn good book imo

no

Vibes Out: Is Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Really a Mystery? Is Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, in fact, a mystery? It certainly presents as one at its beginning, when a group of unlikely friends, whom we will come to know as “the shitheads,”…

since KNIVES OUT is back, reupping my piece on GLASS ONION & "detective vibes" filmmakermagazine.com/119967-glass...

WAKE UP PIP AND GLENN
6 days till we’re in theaters
#wakeupdeadman

seeing the must smile order come down from Target b/c the customer service issue with the shopping experience is not staff, but the feeling that you're in a fulfillment center

Elsewhere everyone’s laughing about Grok’s sycophantic answers about Musk’s intelligence and physical prowess, but the project is to make the truth too expensive (in terms of time and resources) for ordinary people to find. Most users will accept the ‘truth’ provided by the model owners.

found NIN's tour bus

Gary Indiana's first novel, HORSE CRAZY (1989), features, for some reason, a half-page description of the opening of John Carpenter's THE THING (1982)

this is so many of these presses lol

Vox Day's vanity press Castalia is now putting out a series of ostentatious leather-bound books and, hilariously, the titles run like this: Aristotle, Thucydides, Vox Day's self-published book, Tolstoy, Dante, Vox Day's friend's book, Machiavelli, etc.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Telescopic view looking southwest onto the Holland pierheads jutting into Lake Michigan off Holland State Park. // Image captured at: 2025-11-19 21:58:46 UTC (about 8 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Holland: 42.09 F | 5.61 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: WNW at 1.006 mph | 1.62 kph // Humidity: 71%

Current* conditions near Holland, MI:

Orality and Literacy is the new Culture of Narcissism which was the new Entertaining Ourselves to Death

make sure to read in public, fellow men

Wendy Sample

Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts

"being a conservative is about thinking for yourself, standing alone in the crowd, being heterodox" *immediately joins a church named orthodox* www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

They're updating the Hamburger Helper glove to fit with the modern kitchen's warrior ethos

The more wealth a ruling class accumulates and the further it gets from that wealth's actual sources of production, the more mentally fragile it becomes and the more it shapes its impressions of the world to its delusions and manias.

that was me, i guess, just missed me

Standing on the corner [or, you know, posting] screaming "White House Scandal!" has always worked

Rich ‘sniper tourists’ allegedly paid $90K to shoot civilians — including kids — during ‘human safari’ trips to Sarajevo, wild claims allege More than 10,000 were killed in Sarajevo by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996 during the Balkan Wars.

there's a whole dark world out there that exists among the rich and the ruling class and it's slowly unraveling into public view. something about wealth makes people sick, antisocial. they have to be dealt with