By the transitive property of biopic parents, Anthony Bourdain and Priscilla Presley are brother and sister

I don’t like that we broke our reality into its component parts and now have it spit back in freakish reassembly

They're HERE

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

Massive AI infrastructure is being built out across the US, and it’s probably coming for your state. There’s one place where the data center occupation already arrived – 20 years ago. So if you want to know what it will look like... www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

I just finished Jury Duty season 2 and I kind of think the casting department should be in charge of finding our elected officials

I fucking hate being Samuel

Meredith Haggerty@meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My phone number is on some very normie Dem donor text list where they think my name is Samuel and it’s so much more annoying?? Having James Carville and Haley Stevens text me and call me “Samuel” makes me feel specifically powerless

I used Just Salad’s “Salad AI” feature to break out of my same-same lunch rut and while assuming it was just cutesy branding recommending me a normal-ass salad, ended up with a lettuce-free bowl of cabbage and lentils wtf it’s so purple

I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.

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One Night Only should maybe be illegal as a film but it is my only interest so I wrote this hoping to force more people to talk to me about it. (Gift link) bit.ly/4wQ6sgg

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

‘The one night a year single people are legally allowed to have sex.’ Huh??

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I barely caught what "the Purge but for sex" movie was actually about even though I've been forced to watch the trailer several times. @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social:

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

‘The one night a year single people are legally allowed to have sex.’ Huh??

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Getting a little too into Greek mythology post-The Odyssey and I’d like to point out two more strong female characters: canonically Scylla and Charybdis are both girls

It’s so upsetting that I have no way to reply to this unnaturally aggressive message to tell Mark Kelly that Samuel has been sidelined by cyclosporia that he only GOT because his WORK WIFE absolutely BULLIED him into gorditas supreme

Meredith Haggerty@meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve started writing fan fiction for Samuel in my head when these texts come in (6 since I sent this): he’s not donating because he spent all his money on custom Zazzle shirts celebrating his favorite show, 9-1-1: Lone Star.

I’ve started writing fan fiction for Samuel in my head when these texts come in (6 since I sent this): he’s not donating because he spent all his money on custom Zazzle shirts celebrating his favorite show, 9-1-1: Lone Star.

Meredith Haggerty@meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My phone number is on some very normie Dem donor text list where they think my name is Samuel and it’s so much more annoying?? Having James Carville and Haley Stevens text me and call me “Samuel” makes me feel specifically powerless

My phone number is on some very normie Dem donor text list where they think my name is Samuel and it’s so much more annoying?? Having James Carville and Haley Stevens text me and call me “Samuel” makes me feel specifically powerless

The Five Star Weekend REALLY hits

EVERYONE CELEBRATE DAVE'S BDAY. SUBSCRIBE TO FINGERS.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2mo ago

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Starting a rumor that the smoke is Odyssey viral marketing, turning everything sepia and invoking burning cities in ancient war

Eating no vegetables and breathing in smoke; I’m a Dickensian child

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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Drew Starr@thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you follow me for beer stuff, you probably already follow Dave. But if you don't, you should. And if you do follow him but don't subscribe to Fingers, you should. The state of alcohol industry coverage in mass media is dreadful these days. Support indies like Dave who know what they're doing.

I enjoyed being a bandwagon fan and reveling in New York’s glory but I’m really SUITED to being furious at James Dolan for the Trump curse and watch party lies.

I’m genuinely so tired of knowing what other people think

My mayor is Muslim My bagel is Jewish My guitar teacher is Dan Smith Knicks in the fifth

Why does every brand tell me my order is “winging its way” to me? You just shipped it, it’s not Hermes, calm down.

pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol

All sports posts are like vague posts to me, especially when they have proper nouns. Logging into social media, seeing the same word a bunch of times in a row, and realizing, “guess gotta find out who, what, or where a Wemby is.”

I would literally carry Grogu inside my body if they’d let me but I will not see that movie; this marketing anomaly should be studied

I blame Substack. The single worst development for the literary world in the last few decades.

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 4mo ago

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

I just don’t think it’s fair that the only way to get me to stop watching TikToks in bed is for ME to stop watching TikToks and also get up out of bed? Like we’re putting an awful lot of this problem on me, on my plate.

Running Point is charming and honestly I have enjoyed every one of Mindy Kaling’s shows except Velma which she notably did not write (I thought she had?)