Despair, Repair

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

With these pictures showing the bond we shared, I almost felt I could get away with saying nothing about you leaving. It’s been an honour to be your teammate and your friend. You’ve won it all and you leave as a legend. I’m sure we will meet again.

JACKSON: this just isn’t right, to me. in my era, when a player died, he stayed dead. VAN GUNDY: i once died in a chili’s parking lot. came to three days later, but no one’s calling me the messiah. BREEN: timeout from kerr

Timothée Chalamet stuns as Kevin from the Backstreet Boys

How it feels to send an email with no exclamation marks

@_bubblxs [random footballing action occurs] [ball somehow falls to Ekitike’s feet] [quick instinctive finish for a goal]

I couldn’t tell you what a “Liverpool goal” looks like in 2025/26… that’s how I sum it up

Al Swearengen: Christ. The Mania impends. Dan: What is it Al? The coach on the ridge? Them four mop tops? Al: It’s the Beatles, Dan. Quartet of cunts, borne by wind and wagon from darkest Liverpool to blow their jugs here, in our fucking camp. Johnny: Ringo’s my favorite.

Someone made a 2025 College Football season montage to One Shining Moment and it’s amazing 😭

It's worth asking why the most successful movie studio of the year feels the need to put itself up for sale. Why isn't making a profit and putting out great movies (and television) enough? Why does everything also need to be a billionaire-backed tech platform?

We used to celebrate this bowl game with Tostitos, like a real country.

Sewing with Ali, an emotional trip to Anfield and meeting the Reds at the AXA Training Centre 🥹 Start your Christmas with a wonderful surprise for @LFCFoundation participant, Reagan ❤️ #RedTogether

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

@ralphDrussoATH Man, JMU really had you flustered in this episode. What did we ever do to get people so upset? P4 teams pillage our roster each year and yet we still find a way to win our conference when other teams couldn’t handle their own mess. And yet we still get picked on. Let us live!

We talked CFP, the G5's place and why you can't make me have a hot take about the Vandy QB acting a fool on social media.

WE'RE IN. #GoDukes

this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter

I wrote about the late, great Todd Snider. tinyurl.com/dvprxnp8

RIP Todd Snider. One of the greats, an unheralded songwriters' songwriter and a genuine character. Loved and proselytized for almost as long as I've been a music critic. A guy not only influenced by Prine/Kristofferson/Jerry Jeff but he seemed to come out of the same world.