my “beethoven (1992) exemplifies the pinnacle of american greatness” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

showed up early to a party during sxsw with @nadiachaudhury.bsky.social a few years ago and tatiana maslany was just about to go for a quick coffee run and asked if we wanted anything; she grabbed an extra for nadia

young people have always looked for a safe place to put their secrets that can’t judge their feelings! it’s why kids like to keep diaries. the difference is that a notebook will never actively encourage mental illness or explicitly validate suicidal ideation

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't little earthquakes by tori amos, under the pink by tori amos, boys for pele by tori amos, or from the choirgirl hotel by tori amos

i have a brainteaser puzzle i haven’t been able to solve for months. i decided to ask chatgpt for the solution and sent a photo, to which it gave completely nonsensical answers. i sent a clearer image and more details. it gave the correct name of the kind of puzzle and more nonsense instructions

one of the truly depressing things about the culture war over masks is that we simply refuse to treat them as a tool to mitigate the spread of illness! it should be normal to wear a mask in public when you don’t feel well even if it’s not about saving anybody’s life!!!!! why would you mock that

the “should campaigns do mutual aid” conversation seems very much like pancakes/waffles discourse but i’ll just say that beto o’rourkes senate campaign dipped into that (certainly around hurricane harvey) and that was the most successful campaign a democrat ran in texas in decades

i am still invested in stranger things but i think the show has surpassed buffy season 7 for the most locker room speeches in the final season of a franchise that’s held on too long

this is a really incredible thing to fully consider

shout out to parents who are like “of course you can wear your astronaut costume on the airplane” to their four year old

feels like at some point if there are still books being written, the one about how all of these supposedly very savvy business leaders simply said “you’ve got a bag of magic beans? take my cow, please” when it was offered to them will be a particularly humiliating one

dewey cox-ass collection of singers at this halftime show

“jeffrey epstein spent the last days before he killed himself trying to assemble the avengers of famous convicted pedophiles to complain about how unfair it is that they’re in jail and donald trump is president” is not a sentence that should make sense, if you’re confused you’re doing it right

i always feel vaguely gaslit when the gate agent at the airport begging people to gate-check their bags describe it as a “free service” they are offering and not something they desperately need people to do in order for the plane to take off on time. they should offer a reward!!!!

who in chicago hired the etsy witches and thank you

“sorry, white men are at a real disadvantage these days” is also a thing literary and hollywood agents tell their white male clients to make them feel better about their book/script not selling or then not getting a job during staffing season, and to deflect blame from themselves for the failure

what the fuck is going on with AI now

nice thread of work from one of the best covering texas and houston on a daily basis

i don’t want to yuck this man’s yums but why is he emailing me about this

imagine thinking people liked car insurance companies and wanted them to involved in a much bigger aspect of their lives

main question i have about the “progressives need to get on twitter to argue with right wingers otherwise they grow in power because they’re unchecked” is if those progressives think being argued with themselves undermines their ability to organize in the same way

who are the people tipping gofundme instead of just giving more money to the person they’re trying to help

who do yall think is president in the timeline where wcw won the monday night wars

wikipedia is a true repository of all human knowledge and ai could never hope to match it

lord of the rings: the two towers at midnight on opening night, 2002, at the regal westgate. i had just moved to austin and fucking WILLIE NELSON was in line with everyone else. my roommate introduced himself and said “this is gonna be a great movie, willie” and he said “yup, looking forward to it.”

this is like if the urban myth that customer service workers are never allowed to end a phone call if you don’t end it first were real

good thread parsing how what’s presented as “wow these people are clueless” is actually “these people are trying to get you to react to their holocaust joke”

The thing about the generational discourse is that if you do the research you can prove that the best generation lived from 399-429 CE. Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

okay to cheer up please post your favorite still-active small town movie theaters in the replies

i get madder about it every time i read this dude pretend that going to the movies is some elitist coastal affectation only the privileged few get to enjoy when it’s one of the most widely accessible ways for pretty much anyone to have a fun night out

does the resolute desk have a “make tiny cars” button nobody else knew they could push before today

it would be amazing to brag that the president of the united states made it through a three hour meeting even if there weren’t widely circulated video of him sleeping through a lot of it

this seems pretty simple? let's say you have a business that caters mostly to government employees (say a lunchtime restaurant near a federal building) and you anticipate a shutdown. you would buy "yes" on a government shutdown, and if it happens those winnings would help offset your losses

a question i've been thinking about since seeing hamilton last week: what are some things that within the span of a decade or less went from being legitimately very cool and hip to being seen as extremely corny?

you simply do not condescend in this way to someone you believe is a fully functional and competent adult

it's so wild that in 2017 people like this used to say shit like "sorry i have a real job i haven't seen the latest tweets" like it wasn't the president they were defending posting them, and now they're doing the same bit about reporting that alleges blatant war crimes

imo "los angeles" in die hard is a stand-in for a lot of things that the movie's extremely reactionary politics (and by extension its protagonist) disdain and it wouldn't make sense to set it anywhere else for that reason

one piece of the driverless car puzzle no one has solved is how anyone can feel a sense of peace or justice when a robot kills a person or animal they love, and it’s a problem both for moral reasons and for boosters who don’t want the tech to get banned as part of an emotional response

this is even sillier than it sounds: they didn't add chatgpt to the target app, they added target to chatgpt, so you can buy things from target while you're talking to your friend the chatbot (i assume you also have to give it your credit card number, which sounds like a smart and good idea)

when i finally got that certain giant university systems are primarily real estate and mineral rights holding companies with a football team attached, and no strong feelings about also serving as an educational institution so long as it made the right people happy, things started making more sense

you guys won’t believe who i just beat in a game of magic the gathering

that canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

really wonder how all of this would be perceived if llms had been marketed as “we made some under the hood improvements to siri so it can give more robust answers and better understand how you talk, plus you can goof around with making fun images” instead of “we are building a new kind of god”

always read jason on college football

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

if the lions lose after eminem and jack white play “till i collapse” at halftime they don’t deserve the playoffs

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