I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

One of my favorites.

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

update: have been mentally reading this in a Charlie Behrens deep-Wisconsin accent and it’s delightful

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

Absolutely the case. It's a mass media phenomenon, just a different mass media from what everyone else likes (which angers them to no end). The titanic chintz of the megachurch is replicated in books, movies, tv, MLMs, camps, etc. The Bible is more a source of authority than a piece of the program.

People assigned female at birth be shopping

congratulations to nobel prize in literature winner László Krasznahorkai

Being able to reason over things has *so* much value. www.anildash.com/2023/06/08/a...

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

To expand on this, I’ve come to the belief that it’s impossible to spend any time driving without taking moderate-to-severe psychic damage from the accumulation of interactions with other drivers that make clear how selfish everyone has become. I *never* feel better after driving.

A “Music for 18 Musicians”-type piece, but made up of interlocking recordings of players in handshake lines saying “good game, good game, good game, good game…”

today's earworm: 🎶if you're proud of what you're doing, show your face🎶

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

When the Yankees get eliminated

god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...

boy is this a relevant observation

"the majority of teams have a bad sense of direction" leads to a clunker of an Amazing Race episode, it turns out

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TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

The frog suit completely neuters the lie the admin wants to tell of violent resistance. Want to see so much more of it.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

between hearing his new book was set in Milwaukee and deeply enjoying ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, I am toying around with getting into Pynchon again after reading Lot 49 in college

trusted the process on this baked pasta by ali slagle that has you build the sauce in a sheet pan and was rewarded with oops! all edge pieces

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

BREAKING In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

"decentralized" means that you no longer have to rely on a large, complex system run by a few unreachable elites! instead, you get to rely on one guy who has to leave his computer on all day, and will never abuse his tiny amount of power

I'll bet he does

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

I say this with love, some of you are going to lose your life savings to a man who says you have parking tickets that can only be paid in Target gift cards

I've been thinking about this video/poem by Hayley DeRoche for 4 days and I'm going to keep thinking about it a LOT www.tiktok.com/@sadbeige/vi...

YES! FINALLY!

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

this was a balm for what’s been a slightly frustrating week. deeply energizing, can’t wait to dig in to the book based on the conversation

oh! oh! here's the crucial bit that'll really sell it: TEAMS stick them in the most convoluted tournament format imaginable. never show the chart.

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

hear me out: what if instead of this, we turned NYT _Connections_ into a US gameshow. you could even make it so that a few of the rounds expanded the way things could be connected - what comes fourth in a sequence, that sort of thing. Add a buzzer round at the end to keep things exciting.

we already have this gameshow! it's called LINGO! A version hosted by RUPAUL AIRED FROM 2023 to 2024 ON CBS

Vibes and Process just got greenlit on TNT as a mid-season replacement for Rizzoli and Isles, wish us luck!

Not an expert on this stuff but I have the sense that no one backing Weiss understands that what she has done her whole career, opinion-based news-flavored content, is distinct from news reporting.

this week on the podcast: Choose! Your! ̶P̶o̶k̶é̶m̶o̶n̶ Weird Little Dude! presenting my initial dissertation in Weird Little Dude Studies, a field I think holds a rich well of future research.

thanks to @rusty.todayintabs.com, I'm already up to date with the latest trends in Berlin!

I refuse to read any further www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢ DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

This week on the podcast: POP QUIZ! Are these Eurovision artists Weird Little Dudes? This is an opinion poll, so there are no wrong answers! (there ARE wrong answers and this WILL count towards your final grade in Eurowhat this semester)