Elon’s only been in charge of Twitter for a week, and already speedrunning it into an unusable hate speech mess. I thought it be around long enough for a soft exit, but now I’ve got to cold turkey my way out of a bad habit I’ve had since my late […]
The midterms are rapidly approaching and the polls between “fascists” and “milquetoast not-fascists” are closer than they should be. The mainstream press loves a horserace, even when the consequences are life and death for millions of people. Gaffes are easier to report (and draw) than all the mechanisms Republicans are […]
Swing Voters Explain Themselves
I know there’s wildfires, heat waves and brutal droughts out west, but up here it’s time to dig out the toques and winter coats. Energy costs are expected to surge (Thanks in part to OPEC, who REALLY want to influence the midterms) and everyone in colder climates who isn’t rich […]
Energy Crisis Tips
Every announcement from Zuckerberg about his pet Metaverse project has been met with much-deserved derision. It seems like he’s been forcing hype around something that looks like a Second Life knockoff for almost then 20 years since Second Life was relevant. The idea of a virtual office at a time […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s DIY Metaverse
The Criterion Channel launched some great Halloween collections this week, the same week the Supreme Court began a new session. So I’ve been enjoying the escapism from real horrors with fictional ones. Until the court’s expanded, or ignoring their unenforceable rulings becomes commonplace, these six freaks are going to do […]
The Monster Fash
Jerome Powell is the Federal Reserve Chair and was originally appointed by Trump. Biden reappointed him to make the same capital-driven decisions no elected politician could be caught making directly. This one (Republican, by the way) unelected dude is basically the figurehead of the “free” market, but with immense power […]
The Fed Can Fix It!
I had a bivalent booster shot scheduled this week, but it was canceled the night before due to shortages. Fingers crossed that my rescheduled appointment has the booster juice next week. The rollout for this round of boosters is atrocious. It wasn’t great last fall, with only 30% of those […]
Bivalent Boosters
There’s a strike going on at a Boston Starbucks that’s the longest in that franchise’s recent wave of workers demanding to paid fairly for slinging glorified milkshakes. Every other panel is about another news thing. I had to hedge a bit with the supply chain, since there’s a tentative agreement […]