An awful lot of companies in tech seem to be gutting project managers...which is weird when they say it's to double-down on AI - the use of which generally requires a person to use more project management skills. It's almost like the AI isn't the reason....

There was a time when I knew how to calculate the function for this curve.

FREEEEEE BASKETBALL!!!!!

Me: Did you know you're my favorite son? Only Son: Yes. You tell me that all the time. Me: Is it ok if I keep telling you that? Only Son: Yes. And you're my favorite Daddy. Me: Oh thank you! Only Son: My top two daddies. Me: Wait, what? Former Son: Top three at least. This kid is SIX

I was Alex Caruso's biggest booster when he was on the Lakers - and when the let him walk I was LIVID. I was happy for him last year, until he said that "I got a REAL one" about the ring. So very happy for him that his team has lost home court advantage. Fuck him.

Best of 21 for the title. Tell the Knicks and Cavs no thanks

imo white collar crime in general deserves extremely harsh punishment. other crime, no, we know that stuff doesn't work anyway, but getting popped for public corruption (which this is) or financial crime SHOULD ruin your life.

If the Virginia constitution literally says the People are sovereign, shouldn't that mean the court *can't* overturn a Virginia election?

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.

The "return on investment" with tenured faculty is having accomplished experts who are experienced teachers there to teach the students. It's sort of a basic point about colleges, you'd think the people on a board of trustees would get that.

One weird thing is that it turns out I like a lot of movies that were flops but I didn't really ever pay attention to how the movies did so I had no clue. Like, I didn't know Dungeons & Dragons flopped until like a month ago.

I'm willing to test this theory

also you should straight up be ashamed to lend your name and face too “poor parents with infants have it too good”

Peak AI agents is using Claude to help me diagnose a hardware issue on my work laptop and having it suggest I ask IT if our drivers are centrally managed. Post to slack and IT slack bot powered by Claude responds with instructions to check with IT if drivers are centrally managed.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Remember when people who drove Teslas felt bad about owning Teslas because Elon Musk was openly a fascist racist and everyone told the Tesla owners that they were right to feel bad and then Elon left the government? He's still a fascist racist and Tesla owners should still feel bad.

My new one @slate.com: Why is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden? slate.com/news-and-pol...

My wife has developed the habit of walking into the kitchen as I start dishing up dinner on nights that I cook with the explicit goal of making sure I turned off the burners and this has paid off way more times than I'd like to be the case.

one theme running through toby's essay that i think deserves more emphasis is this: reactionary centrists like starmer are simultaneously bullying towards their own supporters and grovelling towards their opponents. it is this abject lack of self-respect that makes them seem so weak

“Gerrymander the fuck out of every state you can. Put 50 judges on the Supreme Court. Hold tribunals. Toss traitors who supported the insurrection out of the House and Senate on day one. If one path is blocked, find another. And everyone start demanding all of this right now, while it might matter.”

This is the correct take. Students think it's the easy button. Some because they're lazy and don't want to do the work and some because they have it in their head they need to do 3 semesters' worth of credits in one semester to get ahead and it looks like a way to make that work...

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Moderates for Guillotines

They hacked Canvas during finals week. This is why the faculty need a secure ballroom.

We aspire to be a nation of laws, so I must follow the law and repost The Video

I feel like the most obvious is Severance and Shrinking. I mean, the central protagonists even start with the same core incitement to their state at the open of the series.

Some free advice: Live your life in a way that you don’t have to worry if hell is real or not

I hold this truth to be self-evident.

Wayne Curtis wrote up my ice shenanigans for the 20th anniversary of Imbibe Magazine. imbibemagazine.com/how-cocktail...

The falloff on the Anthropic models in the latest versions should be studied for decades. I'm sure it's better than things were in the second half of 2025, but after the previous models were so good, it feels like we reverted 6 months.

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

If you see this, post a concert photo you took I'll raise Humu one Elton John from his 2019 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour.

In terms of "all the time"... Wing Commander Project: Iceman X-Wing: TIE Fighter The Holy Trinity of Sid Meier's Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

For one day a year everyone pretends that horse racing isn’t an interest reserved for society’s scuzziest lowlifes

A great find from Barry Popik on the history of the Tequila Sunrise.

For me it was the white supremacy.

Apologies to @mikeyface.bsky.social but there is no way "sluice the juice" doesn't become an integral part of my everyday lexicon. Actually, no. Congrats to Mikey but apologies to literally every person I talk to for the next 75 years.

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

Watching the AI agent that makes me more efficient spin in circles trying to figure out why the edits it made to a file that has not yet been committed do not show up as a separate diff in git. I should probably stop it. Probably.

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

I am torn between being astonished at how dumb people are willing to admit they are and thinking that they aren't that dumb but feel ashamed enough to want to pretend that they lack the intelligence of a plastic goldfish rather than take responsibility for being racist/mysoginistic

Man, I was apparently going about things all wrong when 86ing people from the bar.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

My kids: *playing video games downstairs* Me: *goes upstairs to get a little uke playing time* 6yo: *comes upstairs within 30 seconds* 6yo: Daddy, can you stop that please? I want you to play with me. Me: *heavy sigh* OK. What do you want to play. 6yo: I dunno, I just don't want you to play ukelele

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”