Thanks Jeff!

I am breaking my year-long social media hiatus to remind you that DARK WINDS returns for season 3 TOMORROW! It’s good! Zahn is incredible! Alan Sepinwall thinks you should watch it too!

There will definitely not be days off in the Confederation of Terraformed Planets.

It’s remarkably dystopian to me that Clear has managed to make itself part of the TSA infrastructure. We should at least be pretending the security protocols are class-neutral!

Happy last night of Hanukkah to everyone but especially parents because christ it's finally over

Should have pulled a Zaslav and rebranded to “Show”

I have become fascinated with a plumbing subreddit where plumbers post pictures of their work and other plumbers comment to tell them what a great job they did. Always delightful.

A New Trump Administration Will ‘Come After’ the Media, Says Kash Patel Donald Trump, who has already promised to use the Justice Department to “go after” his political adversaries, is expected to install Mr. Patel in a senior role if he returns to power.

The thing I’m always struck by is how shitty of a society these guys really want. No art, no culture, no books or games or entertainment. No imports, no exports, no economy at all. Just war boys in red hats shootin’ guns and rolling coal while the country implodes.

Fuck trees, man

I also distinctly remember the variant as “delteated” so this is actually a bit of a shock.

*deep, resigned sigh*

A screenshot of a news story about a Spanish agency that decided being agents was too hard so they created an AI model with pink hair

I would suggest these agents perhaps choose a different business then.

Clarity Or Confusion: New SAG-AFTRA Advance Residual Payment Procedure Rattles Talent Reps The new SAG-AFTRA agreement with the studios is threatening to open a rift between actors and their representatives over residual advance payments.

Hold on, talent agents have been collecting commission on residuals for years? Decades? Absolutely fuck that, good on SAG for wresting that away.

lol I just noticed she labeled the whole state “Seattle,” I’m upgrading to an A+

Space Needle’s on the wrong side of Washington but overall I still give this an A.

More than 200 mobsters convicted in Italian mafia ‘maxi trial’ Specially built courtroom in Calabria heard evidence of ruthless tactics of ’Ndrangheta crime syndicate

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Neuralink: Elon Musk's brain chip firm wins US approval for human study The billionaire's Neuralink implant company wants to help restore people's vision and mobility.

I don't think it'll be long

The formula for running a successful video game or movie empire is actually really simple and time-tested. It's to just hire talented people to produce a bunch of different titles across a variety of budgets and genres, and some will flop but some will randomly become franchise-spawning hits.

You’re forgetting about compound interest. If you took that $5 and put it in a savings account instead, it would only take 269 years.

As Shakespeare intended

SAG-AFTRA Evaluating Studios’ “Last, Best and Final Offer” An expanded group of studio leaders met with the union on Saturday in Los Angeles as the actors' strike hit its 114th day.

lol they’re trying the “best and final” thing again, huh? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I regret to inform you this problem is not constrained to Marvel, though they’re arguably the worst offender. Us dummy writers have been bleating about this for years and it took 148 days of strike for them to finally look inward and *think* about maybe adjusting some things.

Here I am spending another evening pondering the metaphysical implications of Numberblocks

Instead of negotiating in good faith, it seems studios, and their anti-union allies are using scare tactics and outright lies to try to trick SAG-AFTRA members into pressing their leaders to take a bad deal.

Don’t confuse their fiction with facts:🧵

Definitely don’t love this.

I'm going to use this every day.

Washing a porcelain cat food bowl in the sink. It slipped out of my hand and I tried to catch it, but it hit the basin and shattered just as I was bringing my hand down. Four stitches. I saw my finger bone!

At some point the unions are going to have to do something about the “it’s not another season, it’s a SPINOFF!” thing that’s so pervasive right now.

You get some really perverse incentives when school funding is tied to student attendance.