James Callan

The end result of this was that the people voting remade the party into what they wanted.

Andy Warhol's Empire: The Series

The one weird trick that Republicans have successfully used for decades is always voting Republican. Even when they're imperfect and didn't go far enough.

I have an amazing cure to the "male loneliness" thing. It's bulletproof. Guys, you may not like this:

• You are not the center of the universe.
• Listen and be genuinely interested.
• Make a point of basic grooming. Smell nice.
• If she's not interested, you're done.

One thing I've learned from getting a second tattoo: Inner forearm hurts more than outer shoulder.

Both at the time (though not intolerable), but as it heals. Achier and more tender for longer.

I've Just Seen A Face (Remastered 2009) YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

It's hard to pretend any Beatles song is underrated at this point, but goddamn "I've Just Seen a Face" is amazing.

The greatest trick Gen-X ever pulled was causing most of the later generations to follow their naming convention.

Gotta change the spelling to Gen Alfa first

A few weeks ago when I asked for your help, 100+ of you kicked in. Yesterday, I heard from just one person! (Shoutout to that fine individual.)

We're connecting families to bigger orgs for more sustainable services, but it takes time. We need one more month of funds to bridge the gap. Please help!

It’s worse because at least with Linux, the settings should be documented somewhere. With an LLM, who knows? As a software developer, I should not be doing improv.

Now I'm curious about great popular songs that use "whom" fastidiously.

I thought you meant YELLA for just a second, but figured there's no way you could dislike it *that* much.

"Brilliant" is too strong, but I can see an argument for that vibe.

I’d suggest “brilliant” but I’m one whom you’d distrust.

The design team was probably trying to figure out how they could add more delight to the experience in the future.

I heard "Vulture laid off Matt" and my first thought was that they must be in worse shape than I realized if they're letting him go.

All the talk about how LLMs work really well if you just spend time engineering the right prompts reminds me of all the people touting Linux because it was fully customizable if you know all the settings to tweak.

I haven't seen the pilot for Flying Blind, with Parker and Téa Leoni, since the early '90s, but I loved it and it's maybe the most me-coded TV pilot ever made.

Made a point of going to Lauretta Jean's this weekend to pick up a slice of saltine grapefruit pie.

Very good, though I would not have minded if the grapefruit flavor had been more intense.

A+ crust, though.

Yeah, I can say "oh, no thanks" and it almost never gets any real pushback.

I know a lot of that is because I'm a white dude.

Definitely possible that I just don't care for snoots.

We've just normalized that the self-checkout lane will openly suspect you of shoplifting at least 5 or 6 times a transaction.

All while using "please" and "thank you" to gesture towards politeness.

Should be a term for people who use "whom" like this, technically accurate but in a way that immediately signals that they're not to be trusted.

Can’t people just be normal about not liking a movie?

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

I do see posts from LLM enthusiasts that boil down to “critics are just mad the computer is better than them at trivia now” and idk, I think *most* critics are just genuinely terrified they’ll never find work they don’t hate that pays a living wage again in the current batshit climate

A ★★★★ review of King Creole (1958) Watching King Creole is like standing behind a curtain and peeping out at the conception of Blue Velvet. Hard not to picture 12-year-old David munching popcorn in some Boise theater, thinking "this is...

Enjoyed King Creole.

please stop using a demographic label, originally concocted by a canadian author to describe literally just boomers, then applied by american turbocapitalist haruspices in the 90s to determine whether a middle american mall should have one knife store or two, as a load-bearing personality substitute

Pixar doesn’t have so much goodwill banked up at this point that Docter should just burn it up offhand like this.

Vic Morrow Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 - July 23, 1982) was an American actor, whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema ACTOR IN 47 FILMS TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE THE BAD NEWS Bears HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP KING CREOLE

Probably not wrong, but very dark that Vic Morrow’s most popular film on Letterboxd is the one that killed him.