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In English, the claim they have not mistreated any of the flotilla crew. In Hebrew, they admit to brutalising them. Australian citizens are telling DFAT they are being tortured, DFAT and the government have said nothing. Makes you wonder, does Albo put Israel head of Australians?

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

Chinese Hacker Army: your moment is here.

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

“He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him […] But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came.” Well, that’s JD Vance, then.

With the AI image and everything. This is the thing that's made me angriest about the wimpy Dem/elite response to this round of Trump shit: these people are absolute donkeys, they don't know how to DO anything. Jam them, challenge them, mock them, all they can do is fucking cry, sue, and post.

We know fascists are lazy. They skip leg day.

None of these American authoritarian types think leg workouts are important.

Those first four tracks on “Nite Flights” are without peer. My Christ, the middle eight abstract expressionist sax skronk in “Fat Mama Kick” that’s barely anchored by all the keys on the accompanying Hammond being mashed together? *chefs kiss*

Some people are framing this whole Cornell cancellation as a ‘MAGA’/right wing thing, how quickly and conveniently they have forgotten the many Democrats and journalists and pundits who wanted to punish, expel, fire, deport and arrest anti-genocide students and professors.

David Cross folks.

this is basically the aim of every AI company

durbin underrated as one of the worst mcclellan democrats in the senate

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer
computer was the only thing i liked

here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu

A good pairing with Talking Heads’ “Don’t Worry About The Government”

“Eddington” as a text for our times, Example 4,212

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

Increasingly, the difference between the United States and China lies in the fact that China makes more reliable things.

Five to ten years ago, it was all “Oooh, China assign you a social credit score. Isn’t that nefarious?”. Now, the world’s most onerous tech douchebag is pushing this.

Goes without saying that I’ll watch it again today.

Said this last night, but a big shoutout to Jim Downey’s delivery of the line “semen demon”. Absolute genius.

The way Jim Downey delivers the like “Semen Demon” in “One Battle After Another” should win him an Oscar.

Been ‘me mantra since Jan.

INFORMATION IS NOT POWER. INFORMATION IS PACIFICATION. I sympathize because I’m one of them. For them — for us — the lifting of the curse isn’t liberation…it’s an attack.

More and more, as a firehose of
information is jammed down our gullet, much like a goose being force fed, I’m beginning to come around to this Yasha Levine piece being on the money.

If monopoly was invented today the tokens would be like a labubu, a nice pair of crocs, a cybertruck, 150mg of Wellbutrin, a Stanley cup, and a mini goldendoodle, and the players would just go around the board paying rent until everybody loses

nobody knows about files and folders anymore

It all smells of decay this week. It just isn’t good at all.

…it feels total too: chemo back on for loved ones; work friends losing their kids to suicide; roommates relatives in fractious, unedifying probate disputes.