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it's so funny to me that writers who use AI are like "oh most writers use AI." today I saw a new riff on this: "oh all those people who publicly shit on AI ask me for help with Claude." hacks know that if they admit to using AI in their writing they have to pretend it's normal

Agreed. Also, Leto is not even all that profitable as an actor. He's been in bomb after bomb for years. So it's not that he was worth so much money that they protected him. He just got away with it, presumably bc his behaviour has been normalized and bc powerful people in the industry don't care.

I genuinely don’t know what to write. I’ve tried multiple pithy comments but they all feel hollow. I’m just tired of obvious weirdos and arseholes having thriving careers despite clearly being awful to women & girls, having multiple allegations over decades. I’m sick of it.

It was never going to stop at trans people.

That's a really good point! She has a stake in it, even if only intellectual and emotional. Once you know that, the nature of the essay is clearer.

I've had this thought, and I guess they must have either not thought it through, or that that they figure it references the walls of Troy... which as you say, were penetrated by a horse that then shot a bunch of Greek soldiers out. My money is on, "didn't really think it through."

I don't understand why US citizens should have to consent to have their electronic devices searched to get back in the country when they already have a legal right to be here

Something that occurred to me for no particular reason: TMNT is one of the few comics that started out relatively grim and gritty and then got fun and silly and kid-focused later on, a reversal of the usual comics pattern

The podcast @fromsuperheroes.com (I think?) made the point recently that Nolan is treated like auteur artist, but what he's been making for decades is big-budget blockbusters. He made THREE Batman movies. That's his niche. (And the last half hour of ODYSSEY is a Batman short film.)

Speaking as an academic, I'd say you're an essayist. That's a fine tradition.

That sentence comes after she points out that Nolan has cited her book in interviews, thus implicating her. She's entirely within her rights to respond the way she did.

Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!

I've lost a LOT of respect for John Lithgow,among many others. "Oh, I'm not political," says the rich white man starring in a series shot through with anti-Asian and antisemitic racism and that directly enriches a bigot on an international crusade to immiserate trans people. Go fuck yourself,John.

Anyone doing any kind of Harry Potter promotion in 2026 has looked at the options and deliberately chosen evil.

I generally don’t argue with people online if I clock that they rely on attention as a business model

90% of the time, when people invoke "DNA" or "genes," they're repeating eugencist lies. And the should STOP THAT.

The pretend question is an act. The pretend offence afterwards is an act. It's all for the clicks and the liberal tears. I'm not saying we shouldn't engage with it to condemn it, but I think we need to be really clear that none of it is sincere. It's a playbook.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Aaaand there‘s the bailout www.reuters.com/business/med...

"Capitalism" means capturing and/or colluding with government to obtain public money. That's the game.