“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...

When people say that the economy being good feels completely disconnected from their lives, this is what they mean. Okay, shoes are AI now, and they get $50 million for that. Reading that sentence doesn't feel like getting bonked on the head with a bowling pin at all.

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

😘

It's everywhere! And I don't know anyone who likes it. I wonder if it's all the clippy comparisons (derogatory) that finally got to through to Microsoft

This week copilot repeatedly shamed me for messaging my coworker outside of her working hours even though she initiated the conversation

Okay now do the rest. Copilot is relentlessly aggressive in every app and at least where I work there is no way to turn it off

New rule: Democrats are not allowed to use the word "distraction" anymore.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social the guys walking around in shoes that don't fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment 3:01 PM • Apr 7, 2026 & Some people can reply 521 reposts 2.4K likes 7 saves

I can't interact with this post, but this attitude is why I wrote my piece. This is letting them off. "I expect nothing of them, so I'm moving on." I don't do that. I wanted to lay out very clearly that they do have power, and that they have a responsibility to act. www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...

Nope, absolutely not, we are not calling war crimes a distraction. Do better

let's fuckin go!

Gatorland, where we saw good old fashioned alligator wrestling (now I'm like 😬 those poor gators). Somewhere there is a photo of me hugging a tooth at the entrance

The comedian's name is Ben Palmer and the videos are incredible. He just calmy repeats their words and explains the consequences and the person unravels

they think they're sneaky

"'We lost all trust,' a current ICE official added. 'I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.'"

FROM YOUR LIPS TO GOD'S EARS

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Them, turning on the hose and spraying Benjamins into the fire: COME ON YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OR WE'RE GOING TO GO BROKE

I watched it, that actually makes it much worse. He never should have been in front of the SUV. We are trained do not get in front of a vehicle like that, there’s only bad outcomes. Also, his video clearly shows she was not surreptitiously reaching for any objects within the vehicles drivers compartment, so the only defense for the agent would be that she was trying to run him over, which clearly isn’t the case, as emphasized by the fact that his legs were out of the way. The video also shows the SUV was moving so slowly that even in icy conditions he should’ve just moved out of the way. In the department of justice we are prohibited from using deadly force purely to prevent escape. Bad shoot all around

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

World news María Corina Machado says she presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal The Venezuelan opposition leader did not confirm whether the US president accepted the award

breathtakingly embarrassing for absolutely everyone involved lol

I bet "internal bleeding" was a mild bruise

this is how every outlet should refer to X

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You can get a dekalb library card for the year for $50. We get 10 hoopla checkouts a month

A cute mackerel tabby cat sitting on a towel

The cutest little tabby cat with her stuffed toast

Our sweet little Trixie the tabby cat is still in the wild here in the Ormewood Park/Glenwood Park neighborhood of #Atlanta… last seen Sunday morning.

Please be on the lookout or RT, and contact me if you think you may have seen her. 🙏😿 She is a chipped, indoor cat with no collar.

Wait, that was real? I assumed it was a gag.

@briannov.bsky.social is on a work call and I heard him say "On that dumpster note" and I was like this ought to be good 👀 and he was talking about a literal dumpster. To safely dispose of chemicals.

If you need me I will be clickity clacking away in my little portal to unreality

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Not me crying about Izuku Midoriya