Friday, December 12, 2025

It's Hollywood, you knew there'd be a cliffhanger.

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What you'd expect to see if you prompted ChatGPT with the word nepo baby   Trump: "I think the people that have run CNN are a dis...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Still waiting for the episode where Don Draper pitches the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory

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Fun video for the admittedly narrow target audience of fans of classic toys, Mad Men era advertising, and the distinctive forced exuberance ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Funny how often a quote from Germany in the late Thirties seems appropriate these days.

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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context [image or embed] — Zach Everson...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Birthright citizenship

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This is Joseph. From Twitter : This was followed by these excellent questions : I see two interesting things here. We are using post-legisla...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Notes on Netflix + WB -- in retrospect, my biggest mistake was not realizing what a dumpster fire Disney+ would be under Bob Chapek

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 We’ve been on the Netflix beat for over a decade, and one of the recurring points we’ve made for most of that time is that—despite what the...
Friday, December 5, 2025

You're going to hear a lot of bad Christmas music this month.

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 Make some time for the good stuff .    
Thursday, December 4, 2025

The fallacy of equivocation

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This is Joseph. Ladies and Gentlemen, the real progressive : “For over two decades, I have implored our political elite to take seriously th...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

When it came to Elon Musk, the hyperloop was my reindeer moment.

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[I wrote most of this ages ago, but it took me so long to get the final draft done that it's now a seasonal post.]  My parents would tel...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Everybody's talking about affordability, but only Marketplace thought to bring in a linguist.

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I am generally opposed to making nouns of verbs or vice versa so I should definitely have trouble with this one but Rett, makes a persuasive...
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Monday, December 1, 2025

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents (and a lot of families are havi...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Explaining the finances of OpenAI remains a job for Patrick Boyle

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Does OpenAI expect a Government Bailout As always, the excerpts don't Boyle justice -- you need to watch the whole thing -- but here...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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    If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hu...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving Eve

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Any excuse to post McCay.    Little Nemo in Slumberland 1905-11-26 (from the good people at Wikimedia ).    
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Apologies in advance but I just have to share this one

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A less consequential but far funnier follow-up to yesterday's post.    We all knew that Elon Musk was a sad, hollow man whose craving fo...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

Elon really, really doesn't think things through

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Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan acc...