Nails it. “Protects but does not bind.”

Trump, Musk & and co. are peddling a false version of free speech. It’s more like they want to be free of slander while being free to slander. Free to impose speech in the form of orders onto others, and have them unconditionally obeyed. Free to ignore all opposing voices. Free to punish those who don't follow their words, or clap at their speeches.

Damn. Netflix officially cancelled Ezra Edelman's Prince documentary.

I'm a Prince fan, but I have no time for puff pieces. This one sounded excellent, and amazingly expansive in scope, from the NY Times write-up a year or so back (Netflix has been sitting on it for years, trying to reach agreement with Prince’s estate). It’s hard to believe Edelman made an unfair or slanderous hit-piece. Much more likely he was being a Good Fucking Documentarian. And likely, the estate is thinking about one thing: protecting its financial interests, since they have a metric shitload of material from Prince’s vault they can release long into the future. The idea of the “replacement documentary” Netflix is going to release instead—which the estate will be producing themselves? Urgh. No fan of Prince's music doesn't know the man had rough edges and flaws. They can take it.

You know, in this crazy world chock-full of hyper technology, a bit of setup and you can really have it made for taking quick thought breaks. Armed Police Batrider, Mighty! Pang, Super Puzzle Bobble, and you’re set.

Just occurred to me that Donald Trump is literally looking at the world map, seeing how big Russia looks on it, and thinking "how can we make the USA even bigger than big old Russia?" So Canada, Greenland, rebrand the Gulf of Mexico as an extension of “US territory.” Idiocracy ✅

Watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for the umteenth time. It's simply superb, to the point it might end being known as his best film. Part of me thinks Tarantino has some kind of duty to make, in full, every movie referenced in that movie. They wouldn’t count against his “ten and done” rule, naturally. The Fourteen Fists of McClusky; Tanner; Kill Me Quick, Ringo, Said the Gringo… They’d just be 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and so on. I think there's ten such movies referenced in OUATIH. Backstories.