Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
But you don’t need to be an expert on the recent history of military conflict to be skeptical of calls for war. This is what war is like. This is what war does. It kills dads and rapes moms and maims kids and is much, much more effective at making widows and orphans than it is at delivering justice. When you call for war, no matter how necessary that war may be, this is what you call for. This is what you ask for. This is what you get.
In this Specks of Time, I wrote about Harriet Jacobs, resistance, hypocrisy, civilization, and why we need to constantly show that we care in opposition to evils that want to prove nobody does.
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Every single one of them is risking their lives against death squads to prove that the fascist vision of America, a country where we hate everyone different than ourselves, is a fucking lie
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
In this Specks of Time, I talked about the Silent Hill 2 Remake, the nature of video game remakes as a concept, and the contradictory relationship human beings have with the past.
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Have barely been able to get anything done this week, so I wrote this instead.
In this entry of Specks of Time, I talked about Willow Nightingale's recent TBS title win, the inherently messy nature of storytelling in wrestling, and why it's good to believe that things have meaning.
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
Here’s to 2026
In this edition of my newsletter, "Specks of Time," I wrote about the pursuit of graduate school that has defined my year and the way that effort has helped give me hope in an increasingly hopeless time.
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this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.
‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: What it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its artists and developers:
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Just crazy to me how many of these people seem to think that the creative process can be boiled down to "initial idea" and "final product" with all the effort, skill, communication, and attention to detail in between being needless busy work they can't be bothered with.
Genuinely disheartening to hear CEOs and studio heads devaluing their own art forms and submitting to the bullshit narrative that AI is some kind of inevitable force we need to embrace because so much of their games are apparently "unimportant" and can be easily outsourced to a robot.
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
I'm on the cusp of being finished with graduate school stuff. Once I'm done with that, I'm going to take like a week for myself, because I need a break.
But after that, I'm going to completely throw myself into the project I've been sitting on since like April.
Man, I haven't made a video in months, and this really makes me want to make one for some reason.
I've been so focused on applying to graduate school that I've had barely any time or energy to work on videos this year. But I'm occasionally reminded that I really like making videos!
Disney was worried you forgot it was evil
I think “speak to your fake dead relative” might be the most evil application of “AI” i’ve seen so far
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
