in the store just now and there was a couple looking at those prepped toddler meals and he was saying “everything’s better if you just cook from scratch” and she goes “they don’t look bad and they’d save me so much time” and he just kept repeating “it’s better if you cook”
I did not commit a crime
little hesitant here bc I don’t want to downplay how much safer you are if you’re white, but folks this woman was Norwegian. her whiteness didn’t save her. if you think you are completely safe from this regime due to who you are, you’re wrong.
That's awful! Mr. Seitz, you are one of three writers at NY Mag I always read, no matter the subject! I do hope you continue to write in some form, when you want to.
Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.
Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.
Oh yeah, you loved AI before everyone else? Name three of the people it’s killed.
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Margot and Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen as a typhus epidemic killed 17,000 people
She agreed to comply with transphobes' dehumanizing demands, but they still stripped her of her driver's license. The whistle-blowers were right, the transphobes' end goal really is to fully eliminate transgender people from social life.
the democratic party in one quote
Can't remember the last time someone went from "Who?" to hosting SNL as quickly--and successfully!--as Connor Storrie.
staying offline today, but all I'll say is:
Gaza was the test. Gaza was the precedent. Everyone that failed to speak out or condemn it is now seeing the cost of their silence.
The people outside of a country that they left for whatever reasons should not be listened to over the people who still live in said country. *Exile* politics is always fraught. Exiles have self-interests like everyone else.
May everyone involved burn in hell
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
if you think polymarket bets on war are bad, wait til you find out how many in Congress are invested in defense contractors
It is unfathomable that this is still apparently happening. Our family planned to travel to the US for it, and cancelled those plans February '25. The writing has been on the wall.
Taking a moment of silence for the fallen legacy of the fifa peace prize
congrats to those who worked hard these last months to manufacture consent for the us-zionist attack against Iran in the name of “feminism” and “the people”
Now is the test for all of your so-called socialist heroes running for office to unequivocally condemn the attacks on Iran without any qualification. Let’s see how many of them are actually committed to justice.
At least 40 children were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran — Israel is now the expert at this
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.
there is not a strong enough 'death to america' vibe on this website if we're being quite honest
What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.
It's superfluous to say it, one feels stupid saying obvious things, but the most-of-the-Democratic-party that said yes to doing a genocide of the Palestinians is saying and will say and has said yes to starting a ludicrous and obscene and criminal and existentially dangerous war with Iran.
There are no ethical AI companies. Anthropic has a history of having the most AI doomers on staff, and had a lot of safety talk in its mission, but it hasn't really stood by those supposed convictions bc business is business. You don't have to hand it to them, you just have to believe them on this.
When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.
i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services
(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed.
(2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind.
(3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.
