Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family's Intimate Conversations Prego, the pasta sauce brand, announced a new lid-shaped device designed to record and preserve family dinner conversations.

a never-finished philip k dick short story titled "Eat Your Bugs, Kids" futurism.com/future-socie...

i knew with absolute certainty that i was gonna marry steve when we entered a party and he immediately plopped onto the floor to play with a friend's twin toddlers, even though we'd already talked about how neither of us wanted kids of our own

also helps i guess that uhhhh i do not have a complete manuscript of anything, having almost exclusively worked in script format the last 5 years or so

got one of those "thanks for your query letter, we're interested in your manuscript!" scam emails and honestly i had to ask steve if he remembered me ever talking about submitting a query letter to anyone because i was doubting my own memory. there really is a scam for everyone!

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fans inventing a whole secret fourth good episode because surely SURELY the finale could not have been it

every single one of these tech baron tolkien company names is bad ("Mithril Capital" oh waking the balrog by delving too deep and greedily huh; "Palantir" obvious; "Anduril Industries" it's just as important in the text that Aragorn is a healer) but this one might be the worst

sauron's security guards allow themselves to be distracted by a very obvious decoy group and the One Ring is such a critical security flaw that its destruction ends Sauron himself along with his entire realm

sauron's security infamously cannot account for three tiny guys, one of whom is literally carrying his most prized possession and who is able to do so fully into the heart of his realm where it is destroyed

Rod Serling stands in a glowing doorway, surrounded by the title Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, by Alan Sepinwall

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

cursed to live in a DUMBO loft like a Poor

"grew up a child of the Manhattan elite" except gossip girl did not mention mira nair or zohran even once

sarah.... we need to make this movie

i cannot emphasize enough how corrosive this technology has been in every part of this industry and pushing back against this "it's here to stay, we have to figure out how to work with it" narrative is important

this sort of statement has downstream effects. SAG-AFTRA is going back to negotiating with the studios right now and having prominent members say shit like this gives the studios ammunition to try to roll back protections won in 2023

having been in that exact position... yeah

wouldn't want to imply that their use of this technology puts them in the same category as teen boys "nudifying" classmates who won't sleep with them, heaven forbid

i am encouraging every reporter who interviews these people to ask them questions like "are you saying you personally want to embrace the technology that encourages children to kill themselves and is being used to generate CSAM?"

Giving 50 indie filmmakers $2 million each would yield some good shit.

for a guy who didn't believe in divorce tolkien sure wrote a lot of stories about couples who should have gotten divorced

"the silmarillion is boring" fëanor's immortal mom chooses to die because he's is exhausting, then his dad gets remarried to a friend's daughter. his own wife chooses not to go into exile with him. his dad finwë gets murdered and when his spirit sees his 1st wife he forgets all about his 2nd family

it's nice of the taco truck in this photo to prove FDNY is being intentionally obtuse and obstructive when they claim the bike lane prevents them from using their ladders

(they know damn well they're allowed to use the bike lane when responding to emergencies!!!)

Thursday’s Headlines: The Last Gasp of the Bikelash Edition - Streetsblog New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Department of Transportation is launching an ambitious slate of street redesigns. Plus other news.

This is how it’s supposed to work. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/16/t...

script came in with "over 200 locations" that's why god created vancouver

"fully generated" and yet there's still a credited director, actors, and screenwriter who presumably got paid some of that $70 million?

i feel so powerful!!!

powering the fan in the living room with a battery we charged using a solar panel we put out on the fire escape when it's sunny out

tired: AI "hallucinating"
wired: AI "puking out an error"

me: i am currently making less money than i did in 2009, but my housing costs have doubled

economist: actually you'll find wages are up

i don't understand what stake these guys have in "proving" that my actual finances and feelings about them are not reflective of, like... GDP?