DTF St Louis Is an Utterly Original Drama of Male Loneliness Steven Conrad’s miniseries on HBO begins like a murder mystery, but turns into something weirder and more beautiful.

DTF ST. LOUIS is about how the cure for male loneliness can be fatal if taken in too high a dose.

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It took some convincing to get me to watch DTF. Credit to my editor @lauramarsh.bsky.social for being a fan and to @seantcollins.com for *incredible* episodic coverage and criticism.

I usually hate shows like this, but, it turns out, there aren't other shows like this.

This is why I suspect all-male sports leagues will never catch on: because they're organizing them primarily around heterosexual men hate-fuckimg each other, and who wants to watch that

Thanks very much!

DTF St Louis Is An Utterly Original Drama of Male Loneliness Steven Conrad’s miniseries on HBO begins like a murder mystery, but turns into something weirder and more beautiful.

Does DTF ST. LOUIS have anything new to say about the stir-crazy horniness of middle-aged middle-class white people? Maybe.

But the *way* DTF ST. LOUIS says what it has to say is pretty special.

You should watch this show — I wrote about why for @newrepublic.com

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I drove my car to work this morning at a speed no human has ever reached on foot.

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“I’m quitting the Church over their rank corruption.”
“I mean, I get it. Decades of covering up one of the most entrenched child abuse systems in the wo-“
“What? No, the pope is woke now.”

I agree, obviously, but this also feels like a shot at Joel Embiid from noted Knicks fan Zohran Mamdani. Not cool, man.

Bow To The Machine

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Dua Lipa would never do this shit. Pick a new book club.

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I mean, if that gift bag's got Kirkland brand Zyrtec, everything bagel chips, and a rotisserie chicken then the Fever dropped off some elite items at excellent value. Keeping the money on the court!

The return to Cleveland announcement video directed by Christopher Nolan in which LeBron murders James Harden and Donovan Mitchell with a bow and arrow so that he can return to the Cavs is going to hit so hard.

brown wiener dog that looks like it's wearing a vest made by Vera Bradley

Look, I don't have a firm opinion on the new season of BEEF yet, but there is absolutely no way to avoid the fact that it features a wiener dog wearing a series of incredible little puffer vests that look like they were made by Vera Bradley.

We all have days like this

You Do Not Need an AI Policy — Sonja Drimmer You do not need an AI policy. Forget the crisis in plagiarism and cheating; that’s yesterday’s news. It is becoming increasingly common for my colleagues, both within my own university and elsewhere,...

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Watching “The Pitt” at the End of an Era for HBO An overstretched emergency department and TV network have a surprising amount in common.

The second season of THE PITT came to an end last night, and I wrote about the systems failure within the ER and the systems failure unfolding within this show's parent company.

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Archie newspaper strip dated January 31, 1973. Betty: People get more electric things than they need! Jughead: My uncle got ONE and only used it once! Betty: What was it? Jughead: The electric chair!

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There's an old Paul Thomas Anderson interview where he talks about a childhood friend who would cluck like a chicken in the theater whenever a character said the name of the film they were in.

Does anybody remember where that's from? What interview/pod?

Where did the notion of an "infinitely patient" AI tutor being a good thing come from? Sal Khan uses this. I've seen Marc Andreessen use it. It makes no sense. Some of the most important moments in my learning life was a teacher losing patience with me.

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Yeah, so this is why many astronomers are less than completely excited about the Artemis missions.

(Which is not to detract from the courage and hard work of everyone who made Artemis II so successful! But we have to understand there are other motives involved than science and inspiration.)

Playoff Preview Mega Pod Part 1: THE WEST YouTube video by Defector

For the first two minutes of this pod, Isaac Chotiner just totally Isaac Chotiners Alperen Sengun. It's maybe the best basketball content of the entire season. Stunning.

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Watching “The Pitt” at the End of an Era for HBO An overstretched emergency department and TV network have a surprising amount in common.

THE PITT's ripped-from-the-headlines style can seem eerily prophetic. There's no subplot this season about a right-wing millionaire drinking up HBO's milkshake. But it's still, somehow, in there — along with life, death, and other things.

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There's not enough Schnucksmaxxing on DTF ST. LOUIS.

wrote this literally earlier today

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