Though on further reflection, I'll agree that starting off with "he's made a bunch of blog posts that show a concerning lack of understanding about consent" and working up to the more serious stuff is probably not a good choice of format. And I've been complaining for five years that peopl...

I clicked around in there and I frankly do not find the quotes on e.g. https://stallman-report.org/on-sexual-assault/ "The following primary sources are illustrative of Stallman’s political campaign to erode the legal and social norms around sexual assault." I haven't gone through the who...

Evidently this is the thread where we were talking about Stallman back in 2019 so I'll follow up here. So uh Richard Stallman said a bunch of stupid shit about Epstein following the revelations of Epstein's continued support of MIT, and, following a backlash, he's resigned from both the Free Softwar...

If you happen to run across anyone from Arizona who wants to know more about the judges on the ballot than the obvious "dump Bolick and King", point them to Gavel Watch ; it's as thorough a resource as I've found. I think I'm gonna go ahead and vote "No" on all their "Yes, w...

Simone can do dialogue like nobody else. At the beginning of Uncanny #3, Charles finds out that the villain is one of his exes. She says, in scary-monster font, "Do you miss my womb, Charles?" which I gotta say is a uniquely horrifying way of saying "we used to fuck." I think thi...

I love Robert Patrick in everything, but his performance in Peacemaker is fearless as a character who starts with no redeeming qualities and then, with each episode, somehow turns out to be even worse. And he's a huge part of what makes Peacemaker sympathetic. He seemed like a character with no rede...

Firefly is the remaining Whedon show that we have yet to discuss. The thing about hating Whedon (or anyone else who was a shitbag who worked on these shows) is that I feel that hating the work is a disservice to the other, non-shitbag people who worked on them. Whedon didn't write all of Buffy or A...

I don't think I ever got into Whedon's self-justification because well, I didn't like him or watch his shit so I wouldn't watch interviews with him, so I'm not familiar with those flimsy self-justifications in the first place. I wish I could tell you what it was that always put me off his shit - ye...

Adding: I took a closer look at the state polling and I think that's probably enough to explain how the forecast has tightened even as the national popular vote's remained about the same. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have all tightened pretty significantly in the last week or two; Harris is...

It's a bad poll but a tenth of a point may as well be statistical noise. Bad polls happen, and the point of an aggregate is to minimize the impact of outliers like that. I'd say that in this instance it seems to be doing a pretty good job of that. What's weirder to me is how their forecast model has...

Frank Conniff once said that the two best TV dramas of the past 20 years (er, it was still "the past 20 years" at that point) were The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the only reason Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't get the same respect as The Sopranos is that it was called Buffy...

I have a nephew who's into westerns (because of RDR2) and I keep trying to talk him into coming over and watching Shane or Stagecoach or the Dollars Trilogy. And then maybe branch out into samurai and sword-and-sandal and post-apocalyptic wasteland movies and talk about how they're all basically the...

Matthew Ingram: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?  Mullenweg has also posted about the situation on a public Hacker News forum , which seems, er.... unwise at best (at one point, a poster who says he is a lawyer actually advises Mullenweg to stop talking so he doesn't further ...

Büge wrote:Oh hey, it's the guy who banned a trans woman from tumblr

On the excuse that "I hope photomatt dies forever a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere" was a threat of violence, yeah.

Hilariously, the best Harris interview might end up being the upcoming one with Howard Stern . Yes, you read that right. Apparently he dropped the shock jock thing years ago and he probably has more hours of interviewing people under his belt than just about anyone. Remember how the FCC didn't star...

I picked up The Art of the Box , a brobdingnagian ol' doorstop coffee table book of video game box art, after seeing Stuart Gipp's review on Retronauts . I'm really enjoying it! I'm on the Marc Ericksen section right now. Picture airbrushed NES box art and there's a good chance it's him: POW, Gueril...

Noah Berlatsky: Kamala Harris doesn’t owe the mainstream press anything Collins (like Politico) insists that while Harris may be doing interviews, she’s not doing the right interviews — that is, “serious interviews with national reporters.” The implication is that local reporters, Spanish-language o...

Niku wrote:now go watch the righteous gemstones

It's in the queue too.

https://www.apologize.lol/ Never change, CAH. Even better: Is there some way I can force Elon Musk to pay $47 to Cards Against Humanity PAC? Funny you should ask! If you’re a registered voter in PA, GA, NV, AZ, NC, WI, or MI, just type your name into this dumb website for his PAC, put “MuskIsDumb@c...