Jake

Jake

@jakesalterego.bsky.social

Hip to it, man. In the groove.

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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social

“Flávio has given up,” a Bolsonaro family adviser told The Washington Post. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week, and that he may have a long prison term ahead”

It's so weird that we get this and the Emily Wilson response to the Odyssey that has misidentified tropes, a blatant disregard for visual storytelling, and a desire for a plot that would be, frankly, dumb as shit Maybe this is the year that people realize talking critically about movies is hard?

STAT@statnews.com

“'You Can See Everything' is a hilarious, thrilling, fascinating, beautiful piece of art. What it certainly is not is a documentary, and it’s dangerous to pretend that it is,” writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz. https://bit.ly/4Bk2nDJ

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RIP, Walter Koenig.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Well well well, looks like Kevin Roose needs critics after all when it comes time to shill his fucking book. I don't understand, why can't I just ask Claude about how bad his writing is?

The Verge@theverge.com

The author of The AGI Chronicles and co-host of Machine Gods on going all-in on YouTube and the AI race. www.theverge.com/podcast/1018...

The way you can prove that Facebook actively interfered in the election is that their actions failed spectacularly

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Lula has taken the overall, countrywide lead back. With 62% of precincts counted, he is ahead 50.6% to 49.4%, which is an edge of roughly 900,000 votes. He is also getting the shift he needs (compared to the first round) in virtually every state that has reported most of the vote.

Jake reposted

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

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Uhhh, so in like, summer 2022 I went to a Chinese restaurant in Chicago and me and all of my friends got fortune cookies that had ads for FTX in them. This was like... 4 months before FTX collapsed?

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social

For fuck’s sake

Oh my god

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

"They didn't virtue signal they simply [did good things in an attempt to bring attention to the plight of others and foment a change in society for the better]" There are no words that provide faster evidence that you should treat the speaker with the utmost contempt than "virtue signal".

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

Within the first fifteen seconds of the new street fighter movie which begins with a flashback to 1986, a character starts singing What's Up, a song released in 1992.

He's gotta be the single person that the most countries have a plan to..... *cough*, right?

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

Jake reposted

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

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🎶Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls🎶

It's Christmastown@itschristmastown.bsky.social

This will be coming up in the queue in about 1.5 episodes, with @veryimportant.lawyer providing important local representation, even though we feel confident we have done abundant research in the field of Chicago sandwich wetness.

This is indistinguishable from a Stephen king villain. Big fish in a small town that would rather everyone die than admit they were wrong

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

how do you write this?! how do you not realize you are the fucking problem here?! you are the one doing things worse! they are better at this than you!

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Strong thread.

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social

Re the last repost, one of the things that has stuck from my time in the behavioural science snake oil mines was an experiment where if people planned a week of movie viewing they would pick a mix of genres, some 'highbrow' etc but if they picked day to day it was all the same stuff

Damn. It's wild how all of those automated tripwires that are never deliberate have never made the world better. Facebook never "accidentally" fomented a utopia, but they sure as shit have a few genocides to their name

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Yes, it sucks that the No Kings insta was suspended (though I still think it was likely an automated tripwire, rather than deliberate). But falling back into "well we have to politically punish media execs to get better results" doesn't fix anything.

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Replying to @milesklee.bsky.social

I did the wordle at a restaurant last week and when I got it right I heard a young kid behind me say "he got it!" And then he and his buddy cracked up

Oh hey. I wonder if this means Stanley Tucci is going to wind up blurbing and promoting her eventual reputation-washing book, too

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump says he told Katie Zacharia, 'you don't have to do this if you don't want.' He says he told her, 'honestly, if I were you I'd reconsider.'

Say what you will about Cecil Rhodes, but diamonds are fucking rad

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist