The city of LA has spent over $150,000 on outside counsel (so far!) due to this alleged rapist cop. That’s your park that doesn’t get repaired. That’s your streetlight that is out. Everyone pays for this lack of accountability.

To Live and Die in LA only having a $6M budget, looking like this every frame, and having one of the greatest car chases ever filmed, gotta be one the greatest dollars-to-absolute-cinema ratios of all time, Friedkin and Müller were such gods

People are upset about this, but they already established a precedent by leaving their war correspondents stuck in Ukraine. Can’t be evacuating Will Lewis from the Tenderloin.

Starting a Amazon wishlist and it's all pot pies

Discussing Film

If you do this you don’t deserve the bounty of Indian buffet

Say what you will about the Barstool Bros currently invading SF but they wouldn’t do this

It’s easy to sneer at legacy media being gutted but 25 years ago we’d already know not only everything about who the guy who brutally frame mogged Clavicular was but also why, where, when, and how. Journalism matters.

true cinephilia starts at unlearning tarantino

It’s also near where the holes are

No! My schemes!!

These are among the best tacos in Los Angeles. The beating culinary and cultural heart of this country is in blue cities in blue states.

The Mini-Man In The Cupboard

If Dave Portnoy kills himself it will have been worth it

🚨 Holy shit… Stanford just published the most uncomfortable paper on LLM reasoning I’ve read in a long time. This isn’t a flashy new model or a leaderboard win. It’s a systematic teardown of how and why large language models keep failing at reasoning even when benchmarks say

if you’re not ripping your ‘Ring’ camera off your house right now and dropping the whole thing into a pot of boiling water what are you doing?

I can’t think of a sadder or more damning confession of how low you truly feel about yourself than facetuning yourself into a Bethesda character

I don’t know what any of that means

The revelation that he’s saying this to Adam Carolla is so fucking funny