I suspect he didn't remember what it was and took a gamble on the reporter's qualification that Johnson had voted against it and Trump opposed it, rather than sounding uninformed. Otherwise it's just an extraordinarily stupid thing to admit in this situation.

Video clip of the comment and aftermath during discussion (via twitter): https://x.com/Acyn/status/1851085909435039789

"Are you a supporter of Hamas?"

"Are you a racist, violent person inciting violence against me?"

Personally overjoyed that it's scoring so well. Incredible success for PlayStation and Team Asobi - I hope they're celebrating well today/tomorrow.

Same, though interested is an understatement. Prey is one of the greatest games I've ever played. I enjoyed Weird West, but it left me feeling more like a POC of what the studio wants to do than anything up to the actual standards of Arkane's best.

If WolfEye fills the void of Arkane's deplorable closure, they'll get all the support I can give.

Deadline is a film industry trade paper, so success metrics like Box Office are of interest to it, especially insofar as those metrics guide the trajectory of industry trends.

Best theater experience I've had by far was seeing The Descent on release. In that crucial mid-movie moment, the whole theater freaked out, and after things settled down I saw someone climbing back over the seat they'd apparently jumped over when it happened.

There is some absolutely hilarious material in here, were it instead fictional.

First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.

"I keep trying to give them lunch breaks but they insist on doing what's in the best interest my pocket lining!"

And my favorite, also from Roger Wilder:

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

Could you imagine the delivery of this line, with just the right amount of pause after "give me a break" and the right expression to the camera if this were said on something like Parks and Rec?

I'm not convinced that cameras and Nextdoor are having a material impact on the vague idea of "trust between neighbors," but I admit it's hard to gauge because I only have my own experience, which exists on a potentially wide spectrum.

I'm barely on Nextdoor and was surprised to hear there's apparently a pretty common use of it for public shaming. The potential for petty community conflict does seem heightened by some of these technologies.

Did they publish the poll itself? Curious how they defined "iconic." These results are baffling. I'm most surprised by Shadowheart, who is a great character but...functions as part of an ensemble and is arguably not even the most "iconic" character within her own game. And BG3 itself, despite being one of the most culturally impactful video games in recent memory, still is just too young to qualify for iconic status.

Some of us buy printers because we have abuse and humiliation fetishes. My OfficeJet is the kinkiest product I own.

For too long have Americans been a victim of its political parties putting party loyalty over governance. Together let’s send the message to Washington and say, ‘You will represent or be replaced.’

"I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts wtih 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving." --Walkaway (by Cory Doctorow)

I think I'll be saying this a lot in the near future, but please don't throw away your vote. As revolutions go, "not voting" is the 0 value on a scale of impotent to effective. If you care about change, do it at the local level. There are candidates in your city and county with radical ideas and plans for your communities. You can make a massive impact all on your own in those elections. You can change things. You have real power there.

And that power grows when it joins with other communities across the country. That's when your voice is loud enough to catch the ear of establishment power.

It's idealistic I know, but no less so than trying to catch the ear of power through abstainment. "Do nothing" does not stoke the fires of discontent to organize collective power. Please do something, and start with voting. Please.

I read today on wikipedia that the co-creators of the comics have both praised the film, with Kevin Eastman saying it will always be the best Turtles film adaptation. I don't know anything about it's development, but it strikes me that the production team must have been making a deliberate effort to incorporate some of the source comic's DNA beneath the more family-friendly, commercial surface.