listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

EM Forster watching Jimi Hendrix on TV.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Let It Be was the 12th Beatles released, but the 11th recorded. The actual 12th Beatles album gives us the most obvious answer to “who had the best 12th album?”

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Can’t hear this without imagining Albert Brooks about to get hit by a bus.

“Man, it was worth sneaking into town. That was some goooood corn.”

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

If there isn't a rapid and vast rejection of this by every level of civil society, the consequences will be counted in dead neighbors.

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

The ghost of Jean-Luc Godard snuck into the control room.

He explicitly endorsed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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Oof. I’m not so sure about the “well-meaning” part.

this is a really good time to s t f u

I think some men want to watch the world burn, but some other men just don’t mind if that’s a consequence of their competition to have the most money ever.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

One of the best pieces I’ve read in ages about where we are now. Does that brilliant and impossibly difficult thing of articulating core truths that you know and have even shouted across tables at people but reframing them so you see them with a different clarity & can redefine your own argument.

Laura Loomer as the Rasputin figure in a decaying American empire really does make total sense. An attention-addicted College Republicans washout who looks like she told her plastic surgeon "just keep going until I say stop" is our rough equivalent of a Siberian sex wizard.