CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

The strangest place in the bay.

You really expect me to believe the New York Central built the streamlined J3a Super Hudsons before Tylenol was around to cause autism???? EXPLAIN THAT SMART GUY 🤔

Oakland built so many apartments that we created a terrible disaster: cheaper condos.

Sunday walk

My favorite shell scripting quirk is that the interpreter doesn't load the entire file before executing it, it reads it line by line and will blow up if you edit the script while it's still running.

You know media literacy is at an all time low when "Libs of TikTok" are upset about GWAR, a band that was already a punchline on Beavis & Butt-head over 30 years ago.

Do you know what technology was amazing? FTP.

Good sign for the future of Bluesky: everyone woke up and went online to post about the quake

earthquake 😬

every Pacific naval encounter from late 1943 onward is like the IJN Golden Kirin, Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn versus six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

Thank you Claude for helping me port some python code (that heavily leverages pandas) to typescript. I would not have been able to make sense of the terse, highly condensed dataframe operations without your help. You are a Good Robot.

Los Angeles Train Festival 2025

Sunday walk

Startled Rabbit

It's nice when the grocery store is basically on the beach. Someone played Modest Mouse "Float On" as I walked by, a song with a lot of memories and feelings...

What movie do you consider "perfect?"

Caltrain EMUs have on-train bathrooms but BART doesn't have on-train or even in-station bathrooms.

Also reinforces my priors that North American transit conferences are just political events where you won’t learn anything new technically - this is one of the biggest CPUC rulings in decades and I’m positive the majority of people working in transit in California don’t know about it.

The point we're missing is that they are "doing something" even if it's fuck ass wrong and made up and will be a disaster. A large block of voters wants to see action, any action, instead of hearings and study panels. This holds across for *many* topics, not just medical.

Please be us someday.

My brain flavor is cherry soda.

If I was gonna do it all over I'd ask the creator to make me a Disney Adult. They seem to actually enjoy life.

Netflix "Wednesday" season 2 is the first time I've felt fairly certain the entire screenplay was written by an LLM.

No I will not parse "1.0" as an integer.

I configured my truck to send real-time metrics to grafana so the ops team can be alerted during outages and anomalous events.

They don't need your protest signup info to target you. They can target you already.

I think after GamerGate, the next most causal event is Tumblr users migrating to Twitter.

Cost to construct a brand new house in Japan? $101k. youtu.be/jqDP2ONYYwI?...

"Planification" makes no sense to an English native speaker but makes complete sense to a non-native European speaker, for instance.

It's amazing to see English becoming the native language of people who were never colonized by English speakers.

One of the Nazi's first actions when they took power was to dissolve all labor unions and imprison or exile the former union leaders.

The novel "1984" correctly imagined that one day our televisions will spy on us, but no one imagined that our refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, ovens, and microwaves will also spy on us. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

It's remarkable how many confidential details people will include in conversations at coffee shops for everyone to hear.

Politically motivated actors already control TikTok, I don't see the difference. Don't use TikTok. Don't let your family members use TikTok. Don't let your friends use TikTok. Using TikTok will destroy your mind. This was true a year ago and will still be true in a year.

I say this with sincere love and affection and having known clinical research physicians, but if you think Doctors can be the smuggest jerks, you have not encountered the leveled up form of Doctor-Doctor.

I wish it was easier to temporarily disable CORS, telling Chrome "Yes, I know what I'm doing, this is a development environment, I am doing a quick test."

Two Thousand Mid-Century Towers is the name of my post-rock band.

Once again, Toddler Planning Brain claims another victim. bsky.app/profile/warr...

Twitter is launching an all out war against Bluesky over the mildest, dullest criticisms of Mr Debate Me Guy imaginable, meanwhile go open Threads and the posts on the algorithmic timeline alternate between open celebration of the event and brutal takedowns of the debate me guy.

My latest driving video - through Oakland and Berkeley. This time I used new stabilization software that gave excellent results. youtu.be/fUHiapyNcSM

Models of European metro stations stations.albertguillaumes.cat

TIL that Brian Cox of Succession fame also played the bad guy in the Jason Bourne movies.

Media people loved Kirk because they all wanted to be Kirk. Yes, all of them.

You can find eggs for less than $8/dozen??

Liberals and leftists commonly make the mistake of thinking the University is their friend.

Map news alert: Jake built a really nice looking vector tile set in Planetiler called Sourdough (sourdough.osm.fyi). It's unique in that it follows OSM tagging quite closely, so it's a great place to start experimenting with whats available. Then it's v easy to fork and remove data if you need speed

They actively want this because they know the state will protect them.

This newly constructed building in Midtown Manhattan features some small circular grills on the exterior near the sidewalk, which you will also see on other buildings around NYC. If you lean down and put your ear near it, you will have a hint as to the function of this device.