Charles PM

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush? Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

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There isn't much to say about Iron: Ares, a movie that for some reason decides to frame Jared Leto as its star when Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Gillian Anderson are right there just waiting for something to do. My review:

just going to speak this into the world: I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for her first meeting with standards and practices. if you know anything, I'm very easy to reach xo

Really wanted this to be a new Geist 😔

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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“finish adding a feature” we literally all thought was there from the get go. “finish adding a feature” when jay yelled at all of us to shut the fuck up and federate if we wanted change.

unbelievable

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

There isn't much to say about Iron: Ares, a movie that for some reason decides to frame Jared Leto as its star when Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Gillian Anderson are right there just waiting for something to do. My review:

The Newsroom (2012) was a mistake

A photo of Bari Weiss over a headline: "Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed"

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/business/793...

Sending strength to everyone who is about to have to explain to all the elders in their lives who Bari is

A screenshot from Super Mario Galaxy depicting Mario running with his arms stretched out to the side

Weapons (2025)

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods

Wrote about the entertainment industry trades trying to will this nonsense into existence

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

A screenshot from Super Mario Galaxy depicting Mario running with his arms stretched out to the side

Weapons (2025)

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

Wrote about the entertainment industry trades trying to will this nonsense into existence

“I want my beefiest boys on this”

I'm sure Frank Castle will be very happy to see you in Valhalla lmfao

New levels of loserdom being established before our very eyes

Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden. Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Law enforcement and experts have long emphasized that antifa is a decentralized movement. The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) said in 2021 that its “data do indicate a recent increase in violent activity by Antifa extremists, anarchists, and related far-left extremists,” but that this is “likely connected to the concurrent increase in violent far-right activity, particularly from white supremacists and others whose ideology anti-fascists actively oppose.” If there is a notable rise in anti-fascism, it may be because there is suddenly a whole lot of fascism. At a meeting with military leaders, Trump emphasized that his ambitions for anti-anti-fascism encompassed more than just Portland. “We’re gonna straighten them out one by one,” he said. “This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That’s a war, too. It’s war from within.” If “war from within” feels familiar, well, “the enemy within” is a classic of authoritarianism.

Antifa, as described in the NSPM, is both everything and nothing.

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

with @sarahjeong.bsky.social, wrote about an executive order and a presidential memo that add up to an announcement that Trump intends to purge his perceived enemies... www.theverge.com/policy/79051...