This is very cool. A shame they didn't use it.

What could possibly go wrong?

“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”

For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open, and people are having a wonderful time.”

Bogdanovich: Is that what you meant when you said, “If you get your head above the mob, they try to knock it off. If you stay down, you last forever”? Dwan: Yes. Let the other fellow get the kudos if he wants it. You have the pleasure of doing your job and making it last a long time, until you’re ready to stop. That’s why I say, don’t get too big. They wanted to control [D.W.] Griffith, and when he became too independent, they just let him go. They didn’t sell him anymore. Francis X. Bushman had his head chopped off. And there are two kinds of stars, I think. One is the public’s star —the one they made. The other is the producer, or a company’s, star—built up by sheer publicity, by constant repetition of the name. When the public made a star, they were pretty loyal. But sometimes the stars were forced to make pictures they didn’t want to make, which they knew were bad for them—and when a star does several bad pictures in a row he’ll lose his following: they begin to think it’s his fault. So your life at the top is very brief. It can last forever at the bottom—or in the middle—but you get to the top and you’re doomed.

Allan Dwan

Reading Peter Bogdanovich’s Who The Devil Made It, and this is from his interview with director Allan Dwan:

This looks pretty great.

WTF.

Just getting up.

Are we destroying a civilization this fine morning or negotiating the same treaty we tore up? is the waterway open or closed? Or all of that in the same gibbering sentence?

I normally don’t care for it either, but because season 3 was designed to be a valentine to TNG and finally give them a proper send off I really didn’t mind.

Sinatra despised Trump and didn’t particularly like the song, either.

bugs bunny and daffy duck are standing next to a sign that says duck rabbit on it ALT: bugs bunny and daffy duck are standing next to a sign that says duck rabbit on it

strait of hormuz update

Schrödinger's Strait

“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”

Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed.

'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...

This is going to do very well, methinks.

Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

George H.W. Bush was impressed by a supermarket checkout scanner and being that out of touch in 1992 ended his political career. This guy pulls three of these howlers a week and it's forgotten within four hours when he tweets that he wants to drop a nuke down a tornado.

Tony built it from nothing and it became the go-to Trek site almost immediately.

It will arrive at roughly the same time as Trump’s health care plan.

Man, this site is really shitting the bed today.

That tracks.

Last month in The Onion:

That made my day, Mark. Thank you.

It would be nice if someone would ask him and others in the administration for a list of these groundbreakings.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to blame that service station down the road for high gas prices rather than blaming the guy who started an illegal war that caused oil prices to skyrocket.
Joe at the local gas station didn't start any war.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

He’s everything good parents teach their children not to be.

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Good morning.

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The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING