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Also: I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...

But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Agreed. It's heartbreaking when I see teachers telling kids to "just use AI for the art part" because it can do it "better" or "faster". It can't. Please don't do this to kids. You have no idea whose artistic spirit you're crushing. Same with writing. Help them figure out how to do it THEMSELVES.
I'm a comics creator. Every time I lead a workshop with kids, I see their absolute joy in drawing with their OWN HANDS. If you deny kids that joy by forcing them to type prompts into a computer, you're failing as an educator.

Shame on you for this.
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The real harsh truth is those covid revisionist authors and the book critics cheering them on all support eugenics. They think that the suffering of Long Covid will never happen to them because they have better genes.
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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The thing is, AI is chronically unreliable as a purveyor of facts. So in claims such as the one made below, replace "AI" with "Cliff from Cheers" and see how good or sensible the idea subsequently sounds.
What about this is controversial? Beginning an inquiry by using AI to survey material is a very normal and appropriate use.
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I thought having a personal breakthrough was supposed bring clarity to my personal life, not raise more questions.
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Absolutely right.

AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.

Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Why wasn't Johnny Knoxville *always* the host of Fear Factor?
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Adventures of Pete and Pete is the closest we'll ever get to a life-action Wayside School series.
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Charles Lindbergh was the first Person of the Year. Why do we have the same discourse nearly every year when a huge piece of shit wins this, it's literally baked in from the start
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Tarantino is entitled to his opinion about which actors he doesn't like, but his being so weirdly mean-spirited about it says more about him than anyone he's criticizing.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It's a crime they made a Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game but did not include Lefty as a playable character nor Texas Battleland as a level.
arrow presents a video of a car driving through a foggy forest
Alt: Lefty Enright arrives in the Sawyer lair.
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I want a new version of Sweeney Todd starring Clancy Brown and Kristen Schaal.
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Trump is not the only freak the mainstream media whitewashes.
He's not challenging "orthodoxy", he's ignoring data. Stop dancing around his disinformation campaign and call it what it is -- an all out attack on Science and America's place in the scientific world.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Me, digging through my bag that is full of pens and pencils, until I find the one pen I want to use for this particular piece of writing.
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Two nights in a row, I have dreamed I was in a Tim Curry movie: Rocky Horror Picture Show and Muppet Treasure Island.

In other words, I've been sleeping much better lately.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The thing I remember most about Cats is what a friend said:

"This movie has made Idris Elba unsexy."
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Clearly the players who play the sports we love to watch hate gambling; think it's ruining the game. The only people who want it are networks and the league. I think it's important to remember that. Whenever you fire up the gambling app, you're fucking with the people you love to watch every week
Jesus Christ.
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM