At a post-conference dinner this evening, talking to two people who had never even heard of Taskmaster, and I *may* have gone a little overboard in talking it up.

It is my long held belief that Top Secret! is the better ZAZ movie than Airplane! even as so many people I know disagree. RE:

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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)

Tonight’s movie with the kids: TOP SECRET! https://media.tenor.com/UUd0ftEnqdkAAAAC/gif.gif?hh=289&ww=498

Final episode of Series 20 of Taskmaster is out, and there are no bad series of Taskmaster. All our enjoyable. But this was one of the best.

Also, btw, for anyone who said Mountainhead was too unrealistic... um... this is straight out of Mountainhead. RE:

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Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)

Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.

He also claims that Grok is "more objective than woke" and my goodness his brain is cooked. RE:

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."

Friend alerts me that my name appears in the Epstein docs, leading me to say "WHAT?!?" Turns out for some reason in the documents is the syllabus from a Harvard class on "Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control" which had students read something I had written... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreic2vmurcxjxsyh3mhhazcasqa3og7xzart5jdwv3taiwks7xzhbay https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiarmbnfswe6usonpjqy6q4ldnwu5pyainhu3v5icvwgh4memd22oe

"out of control judges" says the guy who a federal judge called out for violating the rights of people in Chicago. I don't think it's the judges who are out of control dude. RE:

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Bovino: "We're ratcheting operations up in Chicago. That's a very corrupt system in Chicago. Whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzker or th...

Get on airplane for a cross country flight and after they tell everyone to go into airplane mode they mention "this is a brand new plane, so new we haven't installed wifi yet so you'll have no connection." So anyway I've been offline for 6 hours. Anything happen?

They got rid of the public editor saying that social media would hold them accountable instead. So, uh, hey [@nytimes.com](

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The New York Times (@nytimes.com)

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)... 'sup? RE:

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James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social)

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the...

👀 The stunning thing all this year was how Republicans were sticking with Trump through everything. This is the first poll I've seen where he's started to lose some of their support. RE:

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Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social)

uh, holy shit? https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-approval-government-shutdown-apnorc-9daa3f130fedc9cf9b5acf3de31e93f4