I can't afford to be alive actually
13.03.2026 22:01
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I can't afford to be alive actually
Okay this might actually kill me
Please share Jaafar. He is trying to support his family and they need more help than they are getting. chuffed.org/project/jaafar
One of my earliest memories is that our Mississippi church had a "crying room," where mothers with babies and toddlers could go, so the babies could scream and throw fits and not disturb Mass. I have come to think of social media as the world's dedicated Adult Crying Room.
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Evil, evil shit
That's functionally an audio play at that point.
If what is semi-accurately described as American democracy roughly survives it will be because of Trump’s incompetence and the subsequent decision to mend the flaws that Trump has exposed. Any platform that isn’t “pack the court, abolish the filibuster, and engage in radical reform” is unserious.
I wonder how much of the "I only want to read novels written in first person" thing is that first person novels lend themselves much more easily to audiobooks
There needs to be a Character Actor's Day. They deserve celebrating.
I did not know this! Very cool!
Pretty significant shift over my life has been companies treating stockholders as their customers and consumers are just part of the product package
One of the main things making art worse nowadays is the weird entitlement of the audience. "The book is there to serve me," is a truly absurd thing to say about reading but also is reinforced by modern marketing of books as a menu of tropes.
If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.
*through gritted teeth* we stay silly :3
like it costs nothing to do nothing to a trans person. it's so fucking free and easy to let trans people go about our lives.
we are being positioned as an incredible evil but WHAT are we doing, materially? nothing
the issue is that by existing we refute the entire cisheteropatriarchal framework.
every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”
I feel like people also don't talk about the fact that vice presidents basically never win presidential elections and when they do they're almost always drafting off of massively popular twice elected presidents
I could actually see Wes running away with this even more than Scorsese because his filmography arguably looms larger in the consciousness of anyone under the age of 40 than Scorsese's does
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Like it's actually a pretty realistic response to going through all the shit that Captain Picard goes through (Best of Both Worlds, Inner Light, Chain of Command) and Stewart plays it really well. It's just interesting how it's never really been acknowledged, as best as I can tell.
To the degree that when "Tapestry" airs (three weeks before the episode that this clip comes from), it almost feels like a commentary on the shift. It only works because the nebbishy alternate Picard doesn't actually feel that different, performance-wise, from the regular one.
I feel like we don't really talk about the weird arc of Jean-Luc Picard from stoic philosopher diplomat in the early seasons to anxious comedy boss in the later seasons
my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:
1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden
2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough
3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes
Matt has been a mentor and a friend to half the critics coming up in the past few decades. He helped me get my very first gig. His bookstore is a treasure trove of gorgeous art and behind the scenes knowledge. I can't recommend it enough.
This is a really great explainer for why the Times is Like That now and it drills down on an underdiscussed aspect of our modem hellscape: it's all about squashing labor rights
Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.
Was she not running for the job of being responsible for other people?
