it does drive me a little crazy that an indie game from an established, well liked studio can get good press coverage and also literally get revealed at a big event like summer game fest and people will still be like "wow i didn't even know this existed. you guys didn't advertise this enough"
Here's @oliverdarcy.bsky.social with a point I should have given more thought to.
David Ellison keeps saying that the “editorial independence” of CBS News must be “maintained." Sounds good, right? But think about it. If you really wanted an independent newsroom would you choose a newbie to run it?
The drum that really need to get beaten is that the single biggest blocking point for Iran breaking out was that the supreme leader was sincerely religiously opposed to nuclear weapons, which is why we, very smartly (/s) blew him up
Emilie Tronche ("Samuel") directed "Ça pik un peu quand même", a music video for French-Korean singer Miki.
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The Trump admin AGAIN claims that it's an "emergency" that they can't immediately strip 350,000 people (most who entered legally and have never undocumented) of their ability to legally remain in the United States, even though conditions in Haiti have only been getting worse.
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
AI is increasing the intensity of work rather than reducing it, according to one of the biggest studies of AI’s effects on work habits to date.
Not the point here but I hate this use of 'diverse' to mean 'minority'. An individual by themself by definition cannot be diverse
General announcement to literally everyone: you enjoyed being in your 20s not because the world was better, but because you were at your most attractive, physically capable, and at a peak of both personal freedom and lack of responsibility for others.
Yay. $100k is bankruptcy for pretty much everyone. But it’s ok cos they made steam $30k before they folded.
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
There was a pundit class determined to insist that Trump had presided over a durable political realignment, because realignments are sexy.
Unsurprisingly, it turns out to have been the normal political pendulum, which pundits hate.
it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too
In assessing the nyt, I looked at publisher AG Sulzberger’s own words in an interview w David Remnick in ‘23. He defended its trans coverage while acknowledging there are “bad faith actors who are trying to undermine trans people and attack trans rights”
What kind of actor has the nyt been?🧵
Smartmatic — the voting machine company at the heart of Trump's 2020 election lies — just accused the Trump Justice Department of vindictive and selective prosecution, saying that DOJ is now bringing a criminal case against them to further the Trump admin's baseless lies about that vote.
You will never have as much imposter syndrome as this guy should but doesn't.
Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.
This has been pointed out many times (including by Evan!), but it bears repeating that this is the same playbook used to sow suspicion on vaccinations and the existence of climate change.
Skepticism about vaccines was once a fringe view, held by a small group of Americans. But the Covid-19 pandemic, with its mandates and rapid rollout of vaccines, breathed new vigor into the anti-vaccine movement and bred hostility toward the medical establishment.
“The pandemic” didn’t “breathe” the hesitance, @apoorvanyt.bsky.social. The anti-vaccine movement leaders made a conscious decision to exploit it to undermine trust. They literally made videos about how they would do exactly that, before the vaccines existed. Show your readers those videos!
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keep in mind that, for years, orban has been waging war on 'foreign influence', shutting down NGOs & universities & taking over state & private media.
this is hypocrisy on steroids & highly telling abt orban's version of 'sovereignty' (which is simply code for personal power)
Gavin Newsom seems to do well in Dem primary polls in a time period when polls are largely driven by name ID. But it seems like almost no political elites or major party factions on either the center or the left in the Dem Party (i.e., those not going on name ID) actually support him.
One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes
In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.
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I'm disappointed that many journalists writing about Prasad's demise at the FDA treat him as a reasonable, good faith actor with communication problems, when in reality, he was a COVID disinformation doctor and pro-MAHA propagandist.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
"One question asked during the Q&A involved CNN, with Ellison responding that it was essential that new divisions maintain editorial independence. He also referred to CBS News having editorial independence as it is being restructured under Free Press editor Bari Weiss and TV veteran Tom Cibrowski."
I still think it's funny (and telling) that they think it assuages anybody's fear about CNN's editorial independence to tell them to look at what's happening under Bari Weiss at CBS News
this is *particularly* fucking stupid when republicans are all saying that gas prices rising isn’t a big deal and it’ll all be over any day now. unbelievably bad political instincts from kelly and blumenthal here.
