Scott Ryfun

Hot take: I think it’s okay for normie fans to call out LucasFilm/Disney/Star Wars when they call it in on their offerings, especially the movie ones. We deserve the best this franchise can offer.

A ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ drone show takes over the Los Angeles night sky.

Crystal Skull is a literal Oscar masterpiece compared to this Atleast the villain was a hot Soviet Ukrainian chick with a sword

No wait to meet Mickey in Paris! 🇫🇷

I'm Hunter Biden. You've never actually heard from me.

THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU is now tracking for Disney’s biggest opening weekend of 2026 to date. The new STAR WARS spinoff is heading for an $85M-$100M haul by Monday.

Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies. The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.

Let me speak about the data center discourse, because most of the conversation is maddening and this wholesale framing of opposition frustrates me. I am the mayor of a rural community who has a Google data center being constructed about 15 miles outside of town. I have actual personal experience on the matter, rather than just posting about it. Our community has mixed feelings. We are cautiously hopeful about growth opportunities in a place that has been starved of such for decades. Our local sales tax revenues are up 30 to 40%, thanks to the influx of construction workers. Multiple new homes are under construction at the same time for the first time in 40 years. New retail businesses are inquiring. Our city has contracted to sell water to Google for non-cooling purposes. It will result in about a 20% increase in city revenues. It also doesn’t jeopardize our citizens’ supply, because we’ll sell them less water than we sold to some large wholesale/industrial accounts that we held for 50 years until losing them in the early 2000s. They’re also paying for all the infrastructure. Our people want to see progress, but we want to retain the character of our community that made our place special to begin with. We are also not naïve. We realize we had very little say in this project. The project came here. We did not attract it. We did not give local tax incentives, nor will we. Some were given on the county level, but we didn’t have a say in that. It’s jarring to our people to go (practically overnight) from a growth-starved rural place, struggling on the whims of the global ag economy, to an epicenter of the tech universe. We’re trying to use what power we have to make sure that our people benefit from this project as much as possible, rather than it becoming yet another case of economic colonialism, mining a rural community’s resources to benefit other people and places. When people do have questions and concerns about the sudden data center rush, many of them are well intentioned. Why so many? Why so fast? Why everywhere all at once? Is this prudent? Have we thought through all the consequences? Can we afford it? Do we have the resources for it? None of those are unfair questions, but many of the answers are vague and nebulous at best. Much of the justification is “uhh, reasons I guess. And China.” People would feel better if we had some sort of actual policy discourse about a moment that’s being billed as the most important since the Industrial Revolution. But instead, many of our elected officials are fighting about the stupid and meaningless topic of the moment, because that requires less brainpower and it gets you on tv. People with fair questions get lumped in with the weirdos and billed as a “loon” with “fringe beliefs.” Data centers may well be the next great moment in American innovation and they may revolutionize many things in many good ways. But the conversation is not meeting the moment.

THere’s a track on the Mando/Grogu soundtrack called “Grogu’s World.” Does this mean his head space, like “Dave’s World,” or will we actually be visiting the planet of the Yodas?