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I tried writing screenplays and I’m a big fan of those who do. What I actually do well is write software.

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I haven’t been there since I was a kid, but kid me loved the CN tower. I could imagine you climbing it like that building in Adventures in Babysitting.

11.03.2026 21:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#ShabbatShalom I’ve been really busy and I need a day of rest. I hope nothing terrible happens while I’m offline.

07.03.2026 01:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

… require more extreme misdirection and illusion than they ever accomplished on stage to get America, and the world, out of the biggest mess it’s ever seen.

07.03.2026 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

… a combination of protest votes and just for laughs votes and low turnout results in a surprise landslide for President Penn Gillette and Vice President Teller (who, by never talking, truly captures the essence of the job). Now, they will face a hostile Congress and global challenges that will …

07.03.2026 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

PENN AND TELLER RUN AMERICA

When the serious Democratic and Republican presidential candidates destroy each other in the primaries, both parties nominate empty suits and Penn & Teller launch a Pat Paulson-style independent campaign as a joke. But dirt comes out on both major party candidates and …

07.03.2026 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

06.03.2026 19:45 👍 16371 🔁 7379 💬 531 📌 385

Another reminder that billionaires are not billionaires because they are smart.

They are rich because they are broken in a way that allows them to completely ignore morality in order to gather more wealth in a doomed attempt to fill the unfillable hole inside them.

06.03.2026 22:45 👍 206 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 1

There’s nothing radical about separating the reporting and writing functions. That worked very well at Time Magazine. But it’s no reason to conclude that the writer should be AI.

04.03.2026 03:41 👍 38 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very interesting. I was logical — but wrong.

04.03.2026 03:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Named for the writer of Stray Cat Strut?

04.03.2026 03:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Spontaneous is a Purim movie.

03.03.2026 05:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a margarita burn.

03.03.2026 05:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw it in a Dolby Cinema at an AMC with COVID safety upgrades. Besides enjoying it very much, I was pleased that it achieved its creative goals (as stated in interviews). It was a WSS for our time that commented on the original without diminishing it in any way.

01.03.2026 05:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of BlueSky showing a post with an image of the typo “Operation Epic Furry” followed by a post of a cat showing its fluffy tummy

A screenshot of BlueSky showing a post with an image of the typo “Operation Epic Furry” followed by a post of a cat showing its fluffy tummy

The beauty of a non-algorithmic feed.

01.03.2026 05:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The ban gave the government six months to stop because it’s absolutely impossible to stop using any software vendor without a long and expensive project to extract it. Six months is aggressive. A year would be reasonable. Two years would be the low-risk option. Five for Salesforce.

01.03.2026 04:17 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Because #Purim is next Tuesday, we’re having a Persian #Shabbat sort of. The rice recipe is 100% Persian. The wine is Shiraz. But the lamb is chops. #ShabbatShalom

28.02.2026 01:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
a man is standing in front of a window and says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in Alt: Al Pacino in Godfather 3 says “Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in.”

Anderson Cooper right now.

27.02.2026 01:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

27.02.2026 00:12 👍 2847 🔁 776 💬 43 📌 22

Analysis | If the right-wing Ellisons are allowed to purchase CNN, they could order Jake Tapper to obsessively focus on Biden's age, or demand that Van Jones to say Trump truly became president today, or allow Scott Jennings to brazenly tell baldfaced lies on a nightly basis.

27.02.2026 00:15 👍 984 🔁 181 💬 34 📌 12

Reading the memo, Lisa Rubin is right, Blanche is instructing that 302s be FLAGGED. The memo does not instruct that they should be removed. So, it’s not a smoking gun. But it does show that the process made it easier for bad actors to find the documents they wanted to suppress.

26.02.2026 05:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

26.02.2026 01:11 👍 4776 🔁 2204 💬 15 📌 41

This guy has made a little industry for himself of going to Orthodox Jewish enclaves and making antisemitic videos.

26.02.2026 04:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drop someone MASKED

26.02.2026 04:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And my point is that this is where the boundary is drawn. AI may make every career like screenwriting: there’s room for about 3000 people who have voices that nobody can duplicate, but there’s no room for hacks, like there once was back in Hollywood’s Golden Age.

26.02.2026 03:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The horse analogy isn’t apt. Yes, it’s true that what most people do most of the time doesn’t require anything that only they can bring as a unique human being. Just as most driving doesn’t require the skill of Formula One. But AI doesn’t make its user special, because, “If everyone’s special…”

26.02.2026 03:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don’t see how the way statistical model-based AI works can ever generate wisdom-based judgment or lived experience-based creativity. Certainly, there’s a lot that can be accomplished by just grinding away without those, but it’s not anything that can’t be accomplished by anyone else.

26.02.2026 03:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just about one more month and my winter runny nose will turn into my summer runny nose.

25.02.2026 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it makes you feel any better, I think you may be on to a lucrative franchise.

24.02.2026 03:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If, God forbid, 2028 would be Vance vs. Newsom, it would be a win either way for the tech broligarchs. They would have succeeded in replacing the two-party system.

24.02.2026 03:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes. The name Gedde Watanabe comes to mind.

24.02.2026 03:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0