I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

I talked to @dhm.bsky.social and @papapishu.bsky.social about the principles and practice of preserving both important and less-important video, and one of my favorite weird American performers, Ricky Jay. defector.com/someone-has-...

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I don’t want to play video games against strangers online. I want to play against The Computer or, occasionally, another human being in the same room as me

Tom Brady is the only NFL broadcaster I've ever heard who doesn't sound absolutely out of his mind with delight at getting to call a play involving a stiff-arm. He was reaching for it, he knows he's supposed to do it, but he just lacks the buccal fat at this point.

Most embarrassing thing I've enjoyed recently: The "In Search of Darkness" movies, extremely long pseudo-docs in which 80s horror movie creators/stars (and eventually fans) talk about their work. That's it. Like 6-hour convention panels. And I loved it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oTK...

dr. stephen maturin: indeed, it is a very puissant decoction
tony soprano: the fuckchoo just say to me???

This is a wild story about a truly wild individual. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

It amuses me no end that some of the most devalued and underpaid human roles are those that robots will continue to struggle with for a long time to come

If I had to capture the essence of “rightwing populism” I think I would cite the time in 1774 Virginia slaveowner Richard Henry Lee wanted to protest new taxes levied by the British so he forced his slaves to protest the tax hike on his behalf with banners denouncing the taxes as "chains of slavery"

Walking into the sex party manse from Eyes Wide Shut and asking the first officious masked attendant I encounter "where's the john?"

guy next to me on the plane in a Mac Jones Patriots jersey watched Red One immediately followed by It Ends With Us. the sense of alienation I felt was overwhelming

I mistakenly identified Glen Powell (actor) as Glen Perkins (retired Minnesota Twins closer) and can see the entire rest of my life from here. It's nothing but this, in increasing intensity and frequency, all the way to the end of the line. Honestly it feels amazing.

A funny thing that happens this time of year is my wife gets genuinely salty that Santa gets the credit for the big presents. I think she sees it as a sort of stolen valour.

One very drunken night in Shanghai, a Chinese friend - a director - asked my friend and me to explain what “typical Hollywood story structure” meant. This placemat was the best we could do.

I wrote about The Drone Issue and the classic American pastime of driving yourself insane and posting about it because you are uneasy or just bored. defector.com/its-time-for...

"What do you mean the sign about looking upon my works and despairing is still standing??? No! That's the worst possible - if the *works* are gone but the sign is still up then I'm gonna look like a fucken dickhead! Why didn't you make the works out of the same shit you made the sign out of?!"

On a celebratory Distraction: Christmas stories, college football, and lots more! defector.com/one-hundred-...

Years Of Inbreeding Causes Dog To Birth British Man
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blogged about how it is publisher's job to protect their own industry from AI and how they aren't doing it defector.com/theres-no-sh...

this was actually a really important lesson something awful taught: you gotta just toss out the pricks who were smart enough to always play within the rules. forums don't benefit from having Moriartys

I dunno David, showing sympathy for a group usually includes opposing state efforts to ban the healthcare that they need.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...