The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Posts by Ryan Lee
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.
The allotted runtime checks out pretty perfectly too. They'll just be confirming what you already knew, I guess.
Rural whites when Democrats try to help them in literally anyway
Grabbing the average left wing content creator by the shoulders and shaking them screaming “CinemaSins are liberals who live in Tennessee! They probably voted for Warren in the 2020 primary if she was still running at that point!”
Special edition of NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE where the boys travel to 2008 to stop Ella McCay from becoming the governor of the state where she was born and raised
I strongly suggest showing this to people whose ask chatbots for facts.
I'm still going to kill baby yoda
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
“So go back to the state you were born and raised in, bare it all…”
Key and Peele American college football player ass name
that would be…*Ctrl + F*…#14??? that can’t be right
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
I think a big part of what’s different here is their ability to just put this shit on things we already own. I could ignore them telling me to buy crypto. But it’s different when my phone or computer updates and suddenly there’s AI trying to write my emails.
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https://civilrightsusa.gov
Action taken by the nan (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) at or around 2026-04-07 06:42:11.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
we know
Y'know, if they had polls here, Bluesky wouldn't have outages.
JD Vance telling Scorsese how to do a needle drop
the best dinosaur is clearly Iguanodon, because of all the dinosaurs it most resembled a middle-aged Sicilian-American dock-worker with a switchblade
libs listen to rage against the machine and think “wow we gotta do something about the filibuster”
I am very sorry for sharing anything involving this child but you really owe it to yourself to see one of the best reverse shots in ages.
There’s a new Hershey biopic from the director of MEAN GIRLS, which means an executive said “I like Waters for chocolate.”