This is all so gorgeous, but that little wave at the end is perfection.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Looking forward to Looksmaxxing 2.0 in which a robot lifts the weights for you.

Love the Google ad where the guy asks Gemini whether his houseplant grows away from him cos it dislikes him and the AI helpfully explains that it stretches toward sunlight. ‘Gemini! Very helpful if you’re a dimwitted science-illiterate narcissist!’

not coincidentally, right wing uncles and university leaders are the two groups most likely to ask why the hell you’re doing a humanities degree

This exactly. MUCH harder to objectively measure than, say, median income. And still a pretty damn important economic metric, I'd say, since it shapes behavior extensively.

Depressingly ironic given that the most valuable element she added to all her movies was relatability, charm and unstudied idiosyncracy despite being a gorgeous movie star.

Much as I love the second one, the first is better.

Odds on his next venture being AI-focused...?

I was in a locksmith shop today and they had no screens. The cash register wasn't smart. They wrote my order by hand. I asked if I could stay there. They said no.

He's even somewhat ashamed of himself in the process of recognizing that and decides to try living a better way!

The infinite growth model is one of the worst things to happen to journalism/media. At some point you reach the ceiling of people who want to read your magazine! You can just make enough money to pay people well and publish things and not grow forever!

Re: shuttering Self Magazine: "Condé Nast’s overall business was profitable and ended 2025 with revenue growth, Mr. Lynch said. The new changes, he said, were aimed at positioning “the company for continued growth.”"

It really is laid off if you do, laid off if you don't with corporate media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

And now he needs to set some of that new revenue toward that NYPL budget.

Sleeper classic of the year. Just crushing. And everyone should watch PATRIOT, Conrad’s last under the radar knockout of a show.

Well, I've decided to learn how to play a dozen instruments and replicate the entire E-Street Band myself in my living room.

Can't get over the fact that it costs 70 million. So it doesn't even work as a streamlining/costcutting feature like they want it to?!! You can pay for a bona fide large scale human-driven movie with that!

"Cringe" is one of the more counterproductive and destructive concepts to emerge crawling out of 21st century online discourse. And it's a high bar.

Hooper's remake really had nothing on this.

You should dress like an adult when you leave the house and genuinely dress up for occasions and venues that encourage or even just allow for it. Enough with the pajamas and flip flops!

I once saw a guy on the MTA very performatively give up his seat to a young woman who didn't even need/want it then stalk up and down the car yelling at and threatening every man who was sitting down because they weren't 'real men' for failing to do the same. Some real characters out there.

Wondering whether the 'it's all a vibecession' people's charts take into account that literally *everything* is a shakedown and a scam now.

I have that problem with so many movies released these days, particularly streaming originals. Big budgets that somehow don't translate into even baseline aesthetic standards. *Everything* looks green screened even if it's not!

Need to start bringing words like 'heretic' and 'schismatic' back into the popular lexicon!

The Catholic Church political?!? Never before in history!

AND after all that he can outshine an entire cast of stars in a five minute cameo in an Apple TV movie.

Not being mean but to any historian this is blatantly obvious and it has been a blind spot of economics since before the dismal science even carried that name (it used to be called political arithmetic, then political economy). The massive holes in every EcHR review I ever did...

The T-shirt they put on her to HIGHLIGHT this like it's a thing Doordash (let alone the country) should be proud of is the finishing touch on all this.

I initially misread this as "we're training an ape on Zuckerberg's mannerisms" and was delighted, curious and excited to see the result (which would undoubtedly represent an improvement in Meta's C-suite).

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.