My kid YELPS in terror every time a trailer or an ad for "The Other Mommy" pops up, and as terrible as that movie looks, it's fun to watch the next generation find their "Child's Play"

Like: Why can Elon Musk see AI as a real being capable of suffering, but not his own daughter? Because he already sees his kids as a form of AI. She's just a faulty AI that doesn't always obey instructions.

The drive to see AI as human derives from a certain Type Of Guy's need to believe that human experience is reducible to input & output. They don't believe anyone else has an interior life, and they wish they didn't have one, either. Of course an AI can be a person! That means they don't have to be!

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Thinking about the effort "Hellraiser"-era Clive Barker put into casting a hot Frank (a man who is on screen for 30 seconds before being dismembered) vs a hot Julia (a woman who must conduct many scenes of torrid sensuality while wearing a pantsuit and Ricardo Montalban's hair from "Wrath of Khan")

In an oft-told anecdote, my mom was friends with Sherrod Brown and I have fond memories of him taking me to Chuck E. Cheese. My email telling him to fuck off still probably got deleted by an assistant, but I hope he knows there's an actual former trans child mad at him and that it hurts his feelings

Upstate NY taking a very carceral approach to weather

It probably means something that all merchandise aimed at women presupposes the buyer will be desperately, overwhelmingly unhappy and alone

Oh my god

It's not that this country has never had state sanctioned murder for mass comsumption, it's just that at some point it became taboo to say that you wanted to actually see a lynching, but our current government is trying to get rid of that taboo and take America back to its roots.

You can't! It was a real Hannibal Buress Meme dot Gif moment for yours truly

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

Speaking as the guy who once sparked a multi-day Twitter pile-on by tweeting "I think R.E.M. might be the greatest American rock band," it's been very weird to watch people decide that R.E.M. is cool again

He signed that Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate," a couple trans women who worked at Vox (there used to be several) criticized the letter, and he was so personally offended that they would dare criticize anything he'd done that he just went off the deep end from that point forward

It's this and Jesse Singal getting yelled once over the Kenneth Zucker article and turning his whole life into a crusade against the Tran. I cannot stand that so much suffering and bigotry is driven by personal vendettas from deeply, utterly mediocre dudes.

While I'm being irritable: The Dem backlash on trans rights is, infuriatingly, heavily informed by the fact that a lot of powerful Democrats read MATT YGLESIAS, who was so fucking bad at working with trans women at Vox that he transformed his workplace bigotry into a cornerstone of Sensible Policy

It's as if no amount of shitting on marginalized women will save you from being objectified by the Patriarchy's perfect failson. Huh

Am I good in the kitchen, fellows? Well, let's just put it this way: I carefully Google "how to cook cup of rice" every single time I cook rice. (It's OFTEN.)

THE BEST VERSIONS OF "CARRIE," IN ORDER: 1) De Palma 2) The book 3) No-one cares! No-one remembers! We already have enough "Carrie!" Stop!