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I read this @AnnieJacobsen book last month about how we could all die from a lab leak of Russian weaponized plague, and now there is this mysterious plague outbreak in Siberia that is reminiscent of the beginning of her book, and it’s making me a little paranoid.
It’s belt-to-ass every time he goes on Fox. Makes it look like he’s been steeped in debate forums for years
FOX: Does that disturb you to hear this growing movement of democratic socialists in the United States who think it is the government's job to make sure you live a dignified life?
El-Sayed: I assume you went to good public school. And you get to drive on good roadways or wish the roads are good? When you put your garbage out, someone picks it up?
Digger had to overcome two big challenges ahead of release: 1) poor marketing. The trailers did not provide an explanation about what folks should expect to see. And 2) Cruise as the main vehicle is confusing, given that all we know of him is as an action star …
Tom Cruise fails spectacularly in Digger — this is why.
The megastar flattens every scene of Alejandro G Iñárritu’s garish film with his hammy performance as an older, obnoxious oil tycoon.
It was bound to happen. After nearly two decades of being glazed by chat show hosts into believing that his brief latex-covered cameo as the obnoxious Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder was the pinnacle of 21st-century cinema, Cruise has resurrected the fat suit and the shouty theatrics for an entire film, this time as the “hilariously” obnoxious oil tycoon Digger Rockwell.
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It’s not the existential nature of the technology that is the problem. AI is not sentient, nor is it a Terminator. What matters here is how the people developing the tech see other people. It’s monstrous. The Pope & Vatican appear to recognize these folks’ vision as inhuman
I’ve heard Dems tout their belief that these midterms could be the blue-wave equivalent of the GOP’s takeover in 94. Idk. It seems this party is not prepared for that level of majoritarian rule. Party leadership is still too backward, focused on reviving a dead era
What’s broadly amusing i for said goofy bastards to be annoyed that the Pope does not dig the idea
I've been quite disillusioned by evangelicals. Not just on tech but along a host of social ills. Feels like they've been very quiet recently. Catholics on the other hand -- particularly loud, aggressive and discerning about the problem and prescriptions heading into the future
One of the vulnerabilities of our current, highly concentrated economy right now is that eventually you simply run out of wealthy people to keep the boat afloat. Then the ship sinks
The financial pain is real: Wage growth fell to 3% (y/y) in September. That's the lowest in 5 years.
Wage growth: 3%
Inflation: ~3.4%
Inflation has eaten up all wage gains for the average worker since April. Many people are having to make hard choices about what to buy and what to skimp on right now. Yes, consumption is still strong (mainly due to wealthier Americans and people dipping into savings or credit cards), but a lot of people have to think hard about every dollar they spend.
Notable: Wages only ticked up 0.1% in the month of September. That was the weakest monthly gain since December 2025.
Really starting to look like some Iranian officials see the U.S. financial market as a significant vulnerability
we're leading to population collapse right now given misallocation of resources, so ...
Today is the anniversary of the Simon-Ehrlich Bet, one of the most famous wagers in economic history.
The biologist Paul Ehrlich had long argued that population growth would push up against hard limits, leading to resource scarcity and population collapse.
The economist Julian Simon claimed the opposite: that more minds would mean more innovation and, ultimately, more abundance.
On Sept. 29, 1980, they made a bet, putting their competing views of humanity's relationship to scarcity to a 10-year test.
Metamodernism incoming
I've long maintained that satire as a film genre is dead because:
1/ Irony has become the default voice of our culture. Satire needs a sincere baseline to subvert. When everything is a joke, nothing is.
2/ Satire needs a filmmaker who is ahead of the audience. That's impossible today because the audience is already ahead through a hundred-thousand tweets, reels and hot-takes published and consumed everyday about everything that can be parodied and satirized.
his position doesn't seem that much different than President Trump's TBH. The most important thing is to be significant in the eyes of history. Whether you do evil things or cause great social harm is irrelevant
Naturally
Internet-culture reporter and influencer @TaylorLorenz, who has long advocated persistent mask wearing, is unsurprisingly not amused by the lesbian-bar exposé.
“Straight cis men are entitled assholes all the time and it's not national news bc it's not framed in an intentionally misleading and cruel way with tons of misinformation about the vulnerable group's concerns woven in in order to feed right wing hysteria,” she says.
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"In the past decade, nine of the 10 winners of the National Book Award for fiction belonged to a minority group. In the nonfiction category, 10 of 10." nytimes.com/2026/09/22/opini…
