That this story keeps cropping up again and again speaks to how interconnected and credulous the right wing disinformation sphere is.

With “Anybody able to buy a blue checkmark for $8 a month” there’s actually going to be an inversion in what the blue checkmark means, what with it being difficult to tell the difference between “I am actually who I say I am” and “I’m not who I say I am, but I paid Twitter $8.”

It’s remarkable how much better this would be going if the man could just stop tweeting.  It’s like he can’t see the world beyond “look at how many likes I’m getting.”  Turns out putting a twitter addict in charge of twitter is the absolute worst choice.

These feel like movies that I’m very interested in reading about, but will never actually bother to watch.  Since “what other people are putting into or getting out of the film” is much more interesting me than I what I would get out of it (roughly 2 hours of averting my eyes.)

Nothing’s going to make advertisers more comfortable than “lots of people are going to see your ad for the new $6.99 Pizza Hut Melt right between a whole bunch of porn.”

The correct way to end it would be to go halfsies. Set the clock back 30 minutes this November and leave it that way forever.

This is testament to how badly Musk misunderstands twitter.  The product Twitter produces is not tech (there’s relatively little of that) or content (users do that) the product Twitter provides is moderation.

It’s not surprising that Gamergate was the inciting incident for much of the young radicalized right on the internet, what with when it happened right wing figures that weren’t even into video games were some of its thought leaders (Peterson, Sommers, Cernovich, Yiannopolis, etc.)  The fact that so many institutions…

I’m a fan of the books and I don’t see anything about the adaptation that doesn’t fall into the standard “this is the sort of thing you do when you adapt something” bin. Like they could not possibly keep the “why exactly is Nilfgaard invading” mystery a secret for as long as they did in the books.  I think a lot of…

This is a standard feint by the right wing disonformation sphere, whenever anything at all goes badly they rush to blame it on some outsider. Jan 6 was Antifa, the shooter was a muslim, the bomb threats were a false flag by the left, etc.

I can’t say I won’t miss twitter, but watching this noxious buffoon set $44b on fire as he speedruns burning the site to the ground does have some entertainment value.

I can’t say I’m not disappointed. Geralt was a role that better matched Cavill’s talents of an actor than Kal-El, but Superhero movies sometimes make a whole lot of money and it’s not inconceivable that a good Superman movie would be a true blockbuster.

Geralt seemed like a character that plays much more to Cavill’s strengths than Kal El does, but superhero movies sometimes make a billion dollars and it’s not hard to see a good Superman movie doing those numbers (we haven’t had one of those in like 40 years).

I would assume that in a skills based multiplayer mode if you get matched with players who are much better than you, and thus lose you would then get ranked down and end up in a match with people who are closer to your skill level. So at most you’re going to have to play a few matches against players who are…

I mean, Iowa gas stations make pretty decent pizza so there’s no reason that 7-11 couldn’t also have some decent food made in house.

As someone born in the early 80s, I’m going to start calling myself a Gummy Worms Early Adopter.

I watched that video and I could not understand what the problem the person thought they saw. Like, that is obviously how you make a McRib. The yellow trays are kind of weird, but I think that’s how McDonalds avoids cross-contamination.

Like I get why Disney doesn’t want to release something like “Anomalisa” because parents who show that to their children would be confused and upset. But doesn’t Disney own a bunch of brands that they can release movies under where people won’t think “this is for kids”? Like they’ve released R-rated movies under…

I buy that the reason that “Arby’s” is the butt of jokes is that “Arby’s” sounds funnier inserted into those jokes than similar franchises with different names.

I genuinely do not understand why “having a pizza shaped like a Jack-o-Lantern” is a selling point for some people.  For over a decade my go-to halloween dinner has been squid ink pasta with vodka sauce (because it’s orange.)