Joel Bergen
@joelbergen.bsky.social
Can’t decide if I’m going to be sincere or snarky here.
Will probably just post my most basic, boring thoughts. You've been warned.
Will probably just post my most basic, boring thoughts. You've been warned.
Out of curiosity, I searched again and got a completely different paragraph with four major factual errors. It's learning!
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Out of curiosity, I searched again and got a completely different paragraph with four major factual errors. It's learning!
I typed "black and white best picture nominees" into Google and their helpful AI Overview feature spit out this paragraph with only four major factual errors (and one minor one). Definitely worth dooming us to a Mad Max-like future.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I typed "black and white best picture nominees" into Google and their helpful AI Overview feature spit out this paragraph with only four major factual errors (and one minor one). Definitely worth dooming us to a Mad Max-like future.
I’m old enough to remember this five-alarm scandal:
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’m old enough to remember this five-alarm scandal:
He couldn’t even be bothered to use American demolition equipment.
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
He couldn’t even be bothered to use American demolition equipment.
So happy that A.I. is here to save me from making an embarrassing grammatical error.
October 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
So happy that A.I. is here to save me from making an embarrassing grammatical error.
Credit where due, the Post corrected it (the thing about Dustin Hoffman winning the Oscar, not the bogus use of Donald Trump’s full signature in a comparison to his first-name only signature).
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Credit where due, the Post corrected it (the thing about Dustin Hoffman winning the Oscar, not the bogus use of Donald Trump’s full signature in a comparison to his first-name only signature).
Guess @washingtonpost.com has just given up on fact-checking. If something as easy to disprove as Dustin Hoffman winning an Oscar for Tootsie can find its way into a pre-written obituary, what other wholly made-up “facts” are they printing these days?
September 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Guess @washingtonpost.com has just given up on fact-checking. If something as easy to disprove as Dustin Hoffman winning an Oscar for Tootsie can find its way into a pre-written obituary, what other wholly made-up “facts” are they printing these days?
Apparently the WHCA wanted her to both-sides this moment where Republicans control every lever of power, and she correctly laughed in their faces.
From a Daily Beast interview published just yesterday: www.thedailybeast.com/how-amber-ru...
From a Daily Beast interview published just yesterday: www.thedailybeast.com/how-amber-ru...
March 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Apparently the WHCA wanted her to both-sides this moment where Republicans control every lever of power, and she correctly laughed in their faces.
From a Daily Beast interview published just yesterday: www.thedailybeast.com/how-amber-ru...
From a Daily Beast interview published just yesterday: www.thedailybeast.com/how-amber-ru...
Trump administration, today: We have zero tolerance for anyone who might be antisemitic!
Trump administration, also today: Give Mel Gibson back his guns!
Trump administration, also today: Give Mel Gibson back his guns!
March 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Trump administration, today: We have zero tolerance for anyone who might be antisemitic!
Trump administration, also today: Give Mel Gibson back his guns!
Trump administration, also today: Give Mel Gibson back his guns!
Ohhhh, he meant “boom” as in “the Hindenburg had a boom”
March 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Ohhhh, he meant “boom” as in “the Hindenburg had a boom”
Give us your oligarchs, your rich, your top 1%, yearning to buy memberships at Mar-a-Lago.
February 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Give us your oligarchs, your rich, your top 1%, yearning to buy memberships at Mar-a-Lago.
He also pardoned a January 6 insurrectionist cocaine dealer, with his Justice Department now saying the broad pardon covered the rioter’s drug offenses.
www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
He also pardoned a January 6 insurrectionist cocaine dealer, with his Justice Department now saying the broad pardon covered the rioter’s drug offenses.
www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...
I answered my fourth spam call of the day. It was an A.I. robot wanting to “talk” to me about Medicare. Warn the seniors in your life about these scam calls if you haven’t already. The A.I. bots are getting better at almost sounding human. And the scammers clearly know they have free rein now.
February 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I answered my fourth spam call of the day. It was an A.I. robot wanting to “talk” to me about Medicare. Warn the seniors in your life about these scam calls if you haven’t already. The A.I. bots are getting better at almost sounding human. And the scammers clearly know they have free rein now.
Over the first 19 days of January, I received five spam calls. Starting on January 20th, I’ve received spam calls nearly every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. Anyone else experiencing this fun side effect of our new griftocracy, or is it just an annoying coincidence?
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Over the first 19 days of January, I received five spam calls. Starting on January 20th, I’ve received spam calls nearly every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. Anyone else experiencing this fun side effect of our new griftocracy, or is it just an annoying coincidence?
The way my heart leapt in that fleeting moment when I thought Target was selling LaserDiscs now.
January 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The way my heart leapt in that fleeting moment when I thought Target was selling LaserDiscs now.
Today (and every day since 2010) I’m thinking about this Carly Fiorina ad where she dismissed “the weather” as a threat to Californians.
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Today (and every day since 2010) I’m thinking about this Carly Fiorina ad where she dismissed “the weather” as a threat to Californians.
This is where my mind wandered in the middle of Babygirl.
December 28, 2024 at 11:21 AM
This is where my mind wandered in the middle of Babygirl.
Matt Gaetz brings sex workers to see Pretty Woman. Lauren Boebert goes to Beetlejuice to possess a man. Immersive theater is back, baby!
November 19, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Matt Gaetz brings sex workers to see Pretty Woman. Lauren Boebert goes to Beetlejuice to possess a man. Immersive theater is back, baby!
The guy who’s gonna be making decisions about our health care:
November 14, 2024 at 11:14 PM
The guy who’s gonna be making decisions about our health care: