Scary Mr. Olmec Man

The best part is that it's not the image so much as the sound

Been thinking since I saw it that Panahi knows how to end films with a straight dagger to the heart

Oh but don't worry, "Let them send their kids to Ramaz," Bret Stephens tells us

I am curious if there is any limit to the business model of paying people for garbage

You Don’t Have To Have An Opinion About Timothée Chalamet’s Opinion

Wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social headline

It's such a weasely way of dodging the substance of the allegation especially when you know Powell would not give a shit if the ICJ *did* rule against Israel

Tired of pretending that the reactionary self-proclaimed leaders of my community have any real issue with Trumpism beyond "optics"

I think those leaflets were awful, but there's no evidence Khalil had anything to do with them, and even if he had, it would not be a reason to jail him

I think the people who persist in smearing Mahmoud Khalil should at least have the courage to say it with their whole chest. Say you think it was good he was thrown in jail for his beliefs. Enough pussyfooting around it.

Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!

Does this necessarily indirect way of speaking ever embarrass them? "He was a spokesperson for a group, some of whom" did a bad thing. Genuinely embarrassing to have so little evidence.

oh no

Really want to emphasize that universities are often the worst of all possible worlds in terms of administrator ideology: "run like a business" by people who have no idea what that actually means

Oh, are they fighting a quixotic quasi-war for reasons they themselves are confused about? Yep, feels about 1969.

I will keep tapping that sign: for all that our worst pundits love to make awful Cultural Revolution analogies, Trump II has a lot more similarities to the CR than anything we've ever seen in the US.

Netflix

Why are you in Lebanon again trying to do the same things you have unsuccessfully been trying to do in Lebanon for half a century? Just the way it goes, I guess. They Always Just Hate Us.

The "neat trick" of Likudnik ideology is that if the basic assumption is you're always going to be at war with an inherently hostile world, no strategy is really better than any other

A picture of Zohran and FIFA crook/enemy of all mankind Gianni Infantino at City Hall. Zohran is not smiling.

Really a fan of Zohran's unsmiling "look, I gotta deal with this asshole" photos

God, the timing

Which is why it is so frustrating that many who speak in our name do

Yes, I hate this dumb trend of corporate Dems swearing to "show they are serious"

Yeah, I think what gives it away is that Zohran is simultaneously too religious/not religious enough in a lot of their posts

I think this conversation would be better if we ever had honest conversations about academic labor and its organizations beyond the context of LLMs, but I don't know if it would matter to this kind of booster, who is determined to be ignorant about every field they foist their tech on.

Oh boy, just what we needed, more papers produced more quickly!

There's an irony also to how AI boosters like to rhetorically pose as if they're reimagining knowledge production and then you read their concrete interventions and they're usually about boosting the most meaningless metrics in academia

Predictable and illustrative that Trump's shock win made the NYT think that they had to put in a surfeit of effort to understand Trump voters but Zohran's shock win has prompted the NYT to change...nothing.

lol oh God thinking about the old heads who like nothing better than tearing apart someone who they can tell doesn't really know what they're talking about

Like many settler-colonialists who are accustomed to having other people fight their battles, they are very arrogant