Cowards ask for permission. Queens ask for more rolls.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

One quick thought is that in recent decisions in Trump’s favor there’s a lot of talk about the government automatically facing irreparable harm when its policies are blocked but here all the talk from Roberts is the irreparable harm facing those challenging the plan.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

In fairness, there were never a lot of people using Web3 stuff... the NFT and metaverse clamor was pushed by providers and early adopters. And while the shove-it-down-our-throats strategy of Google et al is annoying, the are still legit millions of people actually using AI regularly.

Get your first glimpse of the Dungeon Masters opening credits - a thrilling blend of papercraft and CGI, brought to life by the team at blink_ink and the music of David Arkenstone.

Here ye strike but splintered hearts together—there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses!

This is not just about Joe Kent. Trump is bragging that he, the man who controls the federal bureaucracy and the U.S. military, hands out White House jobs because he “felt sorry” for someone and wanted to “make him feel good.”

My president told me Iran keeps enriching uranium so I asked what happens to the enriched uranium and he said he just makes a new treaty and pays them to give it up so I said it sounds like he’s just buying uranium from Iran and then his voters started crying.

I still haven't seen a good answer as to why there was not much of a political backlash to the ending of the CTC expansion. anyone?

Oh nooooooo that's so saaaaaaad

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

Starring cast members Mayanna Berrin, Christian Navarro, Neil Newbon, Devora Wilde, and Dungeon Master Jasmine Bhullar.

Campaign 1 of Dungeon Masters is your first look at the nightmares contained in the upcoming D&D release, Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

Classic use of rotating villains, and this should be the epitaph for Golden’s career. Pathetic and shameful work by every single R, and by Dems too. If it hadn’t been Golden it would have been MGP or someone else.

“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School pegged to the nation’s upcoming milestone birthday.

Justice Thomas has fully lost it. A Conservative executive has spent the last year in full King George mode — abducting and transporting people, imposing tariffs, obstructing justice, wielding a peacetime standing army, &c. Those who fight back inherit the Declaration of Independence.

I think this is best explained by Brad Lander’s “folder or fighter” binary. Spanberger and Mamdani are both fighters, willing to go after the GOP overtly, and most centrists are afraid of alienating even one moderate swing voter, ergo folders

Worth listening to the entire thing for a window into a worldview defined by "us versus them".

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

*swivels a chair around and sits on it backward to connect with the kids*

I think you should stop worrying about LOOKsmaxxing and start worrying about BOOKsmaxxing

Teenage me would be very surprised to hear conservatives lament a falling rate of teen pregnancy.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

Ginsberg not retiring at age 80 after 20 years on the bench was one of the great disasters of modern liberalism, and it blows my mind that so many liberals still stitch her face onto tote bags.

I used the Biden free tax filing tool bc I liked not paying a tax firm. Had initial trouble, asked for help, got a prompt and lengthy list of suggestions. Turning off my popup blocker fixed it.

Biden thought about what WE need, while Trump never has.

I think he's talking about Sotoymayor here (and indeed, she should have resigned during the Biden presidency).

But yikes.

India hits 150 GW solar milestone The country added around 44.6 GW of new PV capacity in fiscal year 2026, according to new figures released by JMK Research.

With 150GW solar, India achieved its target of having 50% of its total installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources in June 2025, reaching this milestone 5 years ahead of its original 2030 deadline set under the Paris Agreement www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/i...

I love worldbuilding*

*imagining a place where everyone is nice to me

AOC, Pritzker, and Jamelle Bouie are progressive haters. We love them and have no reason to suspect they’ll betray their principles.

Porter, Platner, and Fetterman are assholes. We can see how all that has turned out.

Unfortunately Newsom is both, which is why predicting his behavior is difficult.

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

Current events are really helpful when talking to my students about why it's important to have historical context for the present and why it's important to know geography.