Well, it’s happening right now, to a worse and stupider degree, in US politics, with guess who.

I thought (having also rewatched DS9, or at least part of it, recently— I’m nearing the end of season 6) that that Klingon War was secretly orchestrated by the Founders as a sort of table-setting for the Dominion War (as in, getting the Dominion’s opponents to weaken themselves by slapping each other around for a…

That header picture-- yeah, they look like they’re enjoying what they’re doing.

What’s with the mannequin? Is there an HOV lane he’s trying to sneak into?

Yeah, that sentence about how ‘perfect’ grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI use jumped out at me. It’s like being penalized for knowing where the commas and semicolons are supposed to go.

Speaking of brains and mouths (and wind).... You know how when you turn a fan off, and the motor cuts out but the blades keep spinning until friction brings them a stop— that’s Trump. I mean, read both of those transcripts and tell me his brain has anything to do with the words.

There’s also still the IFC theater and Film Forum. And Angelika too I think. (In terms of independent theaters that’ll show weird shit, not necessarily sit-down-and-eat theaters)

If there were a surprise, though, it would be a big franchise like Loki, Ahsoka, or Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Does this make Glen Powell all the more charming and relatable to you?

A group of good comedians could probably do something non-shitty with something an AI-generated script.

Not just that, but also a sitting D Senator (Menendez in NJ) and a sitting D Congressman (Cuellar in TX) both on trial at this very moment.

See all the recent articles about Humane, for instance.

This is why all these wild ideas should be tested out on the C-Suite bros first.

Even the goatee looks phony.

I still have, and use (just did earlier today!), an Ipod Touch. It is apparently the 3rd Gen version, from 2009, and that may be when I got it. I haven’t been able to add anything to it since 2020 (when I got a new computer without iTunes), but so what. It plays mp3s, has a couple of dumb games on it, and the battery…

Pick pretty much any movie in the 70s, into the early 80s, for examples of characters (or actors, really) who look 70 but are in their mid-30s. Smoking and terrible haircuts are a bad combo.

You joke (or at least someone on Xwitter jokes) but I have no doubt that some studio executive pitched something like that at some point.

Andy Daly improves pretty much anything, though.

Five words in before he made the Memorial Day post about himself. Well, at least he acknowledged the holiday’s existence. Still though, ye gods he is such an asshole.

Also, 80 papers coauthored in 2 years is.... way the heck more than nothing.