Lol why is this suddenly showing up in the ads now? (Along with that year-old Charlyne Li–Seth Rogen article from like a year ago.)

To be clear—you think agreeing to write a character reference for someone with serious criminal charges is so beyond the pale that only a sociopath wouldn’t condemn it? Because it really is a very routine practice in court. It’s not like they said he was innocent or anything.

Yeah Botox etc. is completely fine if you start early and don’t overdo it. I’d be pretty surprised if, like, Cate Blanchett and Paul Rudd haven’t had work done. (I expect to do a little myself tbh.)

Damn! I loved The Spiderwick Chronicles as a kid! (Movie and books!) Hopefully it’ll be watchable someday.

Lots of wild overreactions in the comments. The blatant dumbness of this is part of the fun, people!

Creed? Also I still say The Force Awakens is great but I understand that’s not a popular opinion on the internet

I disagree that if the Thai cave rescue had happened in 2023 instead of 2018, that it would have generated substantially less press coverage. It is also empirically untrue that Americans are more pro-billionaire than they were five years ago; opinion polling shows the opposite. “People trapped in an impossible…

At this point, I really hope these people all died instantly and weren’t trapped alive this whole time... Just a horrifying scenario

Yeah, just like the only reason we had endless coverage about the rescue efforts for those Thai kids stuck in a cave, and for those Chilean miners, is because they were all billionaires.

Don’t “Nosedive” and “The Entire History of You” both end with the protagonist’s eye implants removed? But yes, while “Nosedive” is bleak (because almost every Black Mirror episode is bleak), it’s definitely one of the least bleak. Feel like “White Christmas” is missing from this list.

I’m looking forward to Lilo & Stitch, but I’m curious how they’ll handle the “everybody in town thinks this obvious alien is a dog” thing in live-action.

Yeah, I have a good feeling that four stars out of five is not going to end up being “the median”. But I hope I’m wrong

Yes, they’ve had a lot of very good AI-themed episodes, but nothing on accidentally creating an AGI that kills everyone (again, unless you count “Metalhead”), which to my mind (and many others’) is the most plausible/terrifying AI scenario.

That’s true—even longtime AI diehards/doomers did not expect the current surge to be so rapid. Easy to forget how recent it was

Surprised about the lack of AI stuff. I expect they’ll have at least one “artificial general intelligence (AGI) doomsday” episode in the next season or two, as the concept becomes more mainstream. (“Metalhead” sorta counts as AI doom, but not AGI doom.)

Fingers crossed for Felicity Jones cameo

I mean, I think it’s a safe bet that most of the people peddling this idea are diehard straight-ticket Dem voters. (As am I!)

Really sad to see so many in “the party of science” reduced to this sort of thing. (Most on the left are perfectly sane, of course)

“The renewed debate is unlikely to solve this centuries-old mystery.” Correct, because there’s not a mystery.

Kid looks a lot like Donald Sutherland