The Hall of Fire

?? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/24/new-lord-of-the-rings-films-in-the-works-at-warner-bros New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery Thu 23 Fe...

All versions of the app now include a toggle between "For You" and "Following" modes. In Following mode it shows you what you've chosen to see, in "For You" mode it shows you what they think you should see. And it's pretty aggressive about switching you back to "Fo...

The chaos is the point. Throw wrenches into all the gears so you can say the machine doesn’t work.

If I'm not mistaken, someone from outside of congress can be elected speaker of the house, is that correct? Is all of this turmoil intentional so that such a suggestion is put forward? If a non-elected (by the American people) person becomes speaker, are they still 3rd in line to the presidency? It...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 2:30 am2. Rep. Matt Gaetz says that it's good the House "didn't organize" today because (for reasons I don't follow) that will mean less funding for Ukraine.

I took it to be him admitting out loud that MAGA's goal is to hamstring the US government to help their Russian bros win the war

There has been a definite uptick in the number of bat-guano tweets appearing in my feed over the last day or three (antivax, zero-COVID, pro-Russia, pro-MAGA). The underlying cause seems to be that the algorithm has gotten aggressive about promoting second-order tweets; i.e. from those followed by y...

Frelga wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 7:36 pmWho in the West watches RT, anyway?

Most of the GOP, to judge by their behavior

It'll be a sweet 15 minutes, that's for sure

Seems like as good an explanation as any:
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence

It’s worse than that; he and his whole movement consider the system and its laws to be illegitimate; it’s not just that they don’t apply, they consider it positively heroic to mock and defy the rule of law.

As Garry Kasparaov put it, "Places everyone wants to go are strict about who gets in. Prisons and dictatorships are strict about who gets out!"

This is true, but the internet has always been dominated by the 4chan "internazi" type, of which Musk is merely the latest, richest incarnation. In many ways he's more dangerous than classical Nazis like Putin and Trump who've learned to speak internet adequately, but not as a first langua...

I'm having troubling deciding between a) this bill makes it less likely that O/L will be overturned since it's not worth getting people all riled up for so little practical effect, and b) this bill makes it *more* likely that O/L will be overturned since it would let the radicals throw their base a ...

The most obvious change I've seen was yesterday when a chummy autoplaying crypto ad prominently featuring Musk's face occupied position 1 in my feed

River wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:27 pm Maybe it can be dissolved after coughing up some heavy fines?

AP wrote:As punishment, the Trump Organization could be fined up to $1.6 million — a relatively small amount for a company of its size, though the conviction might make some of its future deals more complicated.

It's happening again:

The below is a (potential) future spoiler, not an S1 spoiler: That reddit thread V shared earlier that was written before E1 was released with info from someone claiming to be involved in the production wound up being too specifically correct about too many things to be lucky guesses, and it claimed...

Glass Onion looks great, but I can wait until it's on Netflix. If the sequel had Chris Evans in it, I may have been tempted. :D It is. A different sort of mystery than the first one, but a match for its quality. I saw it with B last week. The last movie we saw together before that was the first Kni...

He's probably been advised by counsel that he needs to keep his mouth shut to avoid further legal jeopardy. Of course, he's no doubt received that advice many, many times before, and it hasn't stuck yet.

And then there's this take: