GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (dir. Gore Verbinski, 2026)

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

All politics aside, your child being on their phone all day is annihilating their literacy. Social media algorithms and ai chatbots are together decimating their critical thinking abilities.

Though one has to wonder what data tells you to get rid of sports coverage

It obviously can never be the main thrust of the story, but Braavos and much of Essos is significantly advanced over Westeros in basically every way and there is a sort of noblesse oblige chauvinist condescension from them that goes over Westerosi heads

Obviously