So much gold, so indifferently released

So glad to see that live version of Dark on here … and that you included the full scandalous sex suite!

LOL

Artificial intelligence Jesus chatbot sparks debate over future of faith For some evangelical Christians, a personal relationship with Jesus is central to their faith. Now, a tech company called Just Like Me is offering to take that concept to an unprecedented level, allowing users to engage in video calls with an artificial intelligence-generated avatar of Jesus for $1....

When you see one set of footprints, that’s because a chatbot is non-corporeal.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS BED, SHE CAN’T GET TO SLEEP SO SHE IS COUNTING SHEEP. SHE IS IMAGINING THE SHEEP JUMPING OVER A FENCE P2- NANCY CONTINUES TO IMAGINE THE SHEEP ARE JUMPING OVER THE FENCE P3- SUDDENLY NANCY REMEMBERS ITS BE KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK P4- NANCY IS HAPPILY COUNTING THE SHEEP, BUT INSTEAD OF JUMPING OVER THE FENCE, NANCY IS IMAGINING THE SHEEP ARE RIDING AN ESCALATOR UP AND OVER THE FENCE

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 10,1947

The Merle Haggard Songbook Ten years after his death, David shares some of his favorite 20th century covers of Merle Haggard songs

Today is both Merle Haggard's birthdate and the 10th anniversary of his death... I honor one of America's great songwriters by picking 10 of my favorite cover versions of his songs, by Charley Pride, Johnny Cash, JD Crowe, Johnny Rodriguez, Bettye Swann and more. At No Fences Review

nancy sluggo olivia jaimes and caroline cash holding hands and skipping in front of a banner that reads "how life is when you don't read the comments"

newest Nancy ends with one of the most important panels ever, what a gift from @cashbrowns.bsky.social

With the letter columns!

James Urbaniak @JamesUrbaniak We're just three MCs and our beats are sick (Screenshot of twitter trends) Nate Silver Matt Walsh Barbara Stanwyck

Screencap of Netflix newsroom website featuring an announcement of a four-year deal with Clarkesworld to create a new science fiction anthology series.

I'm speechless.

Early 20th c political cartoon depicting suffragettes as dowdy middle-aged women

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

In honor of Jessie Buckley's Best Actress win--richly deserved, even if I didn't love Hamnet the movie--I'm recirculating this piece about Shakespeare biography onscreen & on the page, the fruit of over a year spent reading versions of the Bard's life.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I screamed at this bit

We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥

One big problem with the world is how few people in power I can imagine sitting down and reading a book

(Spoiler: he does eventually dare to fly close to the sun that is Neil diamond songs)

At one point in Song Sung Blue Hugh Jackman is like “no, I can’t possibly sing Neil diamond songs, my regard for the man is too great” and Kate Hudson is nominated for acting like that is not just explicable but kinda sexy

Wonderful work, here! I was too snobbish to read GI Joe as a kid when the run started, but I’ve been enjoying the hell out of the recent omnibuses … and like you I’ve bought the recent continuation out of respect for the man and his project!

Epigraph in Ali Smith’s “Glyph”

i genuinely cannot process how debased our ruling class is. these guys will walk around all day in shoes that don't fit rather than tell their boss he's wrong. this whole thing where they pretend a stupid evil guy with brain damage is qualified to run every aspect of everyone's life is unacceptable

create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives

RIP Willie Colón: a 30+ song primer Notes on the pan-American salsa innovator + New York City legend (e.g. Bad Bunny's shout-out in "NUEVAYol"), and a streaming playlist primer for folks who think they don't like salsa.

Gift post, no paywall.

The playlist was SO fun to make, brought me back to my NYC days in the '70s / '80s. Willie was a mixed bag for sure, like a lot of family. But goddamn his jams are hot.

it's molting season for RFK Jr

Going tomorrow! Can’t wait!

Oh man this review has me hyped

I've said it before: the defining characteristic of white supremacists is that you wouldn't want to fuck them.

"In late 2024, his company donated $100,000 to President Trump’s second inaugural committee. A few months later, the prosecutor on his case was fired by a White House official, and a few months after that, the government dropped the criminal case entirely."

It’s a wildly idiosyncratic movie about being the only person who knows that something crazy/impossible is actually wonderful/important, so of course it has proud champions