Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth wearing a bandolier of Fireball shot bottles cracks me up.

Just FYI Jacobin's Larry McMurtry / "MEN reading novels about MEN" article that you're all hate-trafficking was written by Ross Barkan aka the guy who got fired by nymag for at least 67 instances of plagiarism, mere weeks ago:

Had to mute the thread about twitter. If any of my actual regular conversation partners posted a reply there that you want me to see and respond to, post it here.

worked before that. Maybe only one person every couple of centuries was getting into the Good Place even before the 1490s, bc human life was always complicated and interconnected. The big fix was a really complete rethinking of everything, not just a reweighting of the points.

The way the point system is broken gets clearly linked to the world of interconnected commerce with the tomato stuff, and I assume the date of the last person getting in actually was chosen to line up with Columbus' time. But we never really learn whether/ how well/ how badly the point system...

True! I'd forgotten that story.

Any time I snark about Jacobin I get a dozen or two blocks immediately.

ah, guillotine.

Also just in general, almost 20 years later, 30 Rock remains startlingly, roaringly, literally, LOL. Where else are you going to find satirical comedy about big media corp mergers these days?

s5e7 of 30 Rock is one of those episodes that becomes even funnier and more meta over time, in this case because a) everyone eventually comes to understand that HFPA and the Golden Globes were absolutely for sale and b) Tina Fey nonetheless goes on to host the Golden Globes ceremony multiple times.

From time to time someone still asks me: really, you haven't gone back? FFS, I don't change my mind about *much* harder ethical decisions that *actually cost me a lot that matters.* Why would I change my mind about this thing?

right: "brought in his wake" is the very easiest of truth-claims! Even if one were [wrongly] determined to [wrongly] hold Columbus himself innocent, there's no reason to deny that "in his wake" clause! So why distance and bracket it?

Brian Kilmeade is not putting up with Rachel Campos-Duffy’s propaganda. “It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation.”

I distinguish "login and check" from "generate content for."

If you're not one of the people whose contributions are advancing [what I am accepting purely arguendo to be] this critically important conversation about that giant big fact... then "the AI conversation is happening there" doesn't seem like any kind of override to the "Nazi megaphone" problem. //