Achewood stands up because every* other 00s comic that made it bigger was built itself around a hobby for a couch potato 20yo (video games, movies, indie rock, grad school). those hooks were handy insurance for "how will i know what to write next??" but was not test-of-time material.

Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯

big thanks to wan'dale robinson. i can't actually watch his game or any game right now but these numbers coming in are good all on their own.

TIL: Box jellyfish larvae have eyes but no brain to connect them to so instead the eyes also swim a bit. Source: Animal Eyes, Land & Nilsson, second edition, chapter 1

Winter Solstice On Ice (1999) VHS : 2133s

If you need an existence proof of how vindictive an engineer can be when they see colleagues Doing It Wrong, check out this guy. "Leaking to the press" has nothing on this, and it's a world with SWEs who will do this. www.wired.com/2015/02/how-...

this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.

Full strip available on request, but this one Bloom County panel was pound-for-pound the densest pop music history lesson of my childhood

Whoa. CA DMV expanded Waymo's approved operating area to cover a lot of territory. Yesterday it was just the darker area.

both our gubernatorial and senate races are crowded/uncertain so my votes are going to whoever poses with one of these

incentives matter, but disproportionately to the worst people.

ballparking live, don't know where this ends up: * this is 2,500 threads * call it 1,000 words per thread * means 2.5MM words * claude does 60 words/sec * so 12 hours to claude the words * nvidia blackwells pull 1 kW, so 12 kWh * times ten dev cycles, 120 kWh * or 1 month of running a refrigerator

this is sticking around my brain and is not leaving soon and i'm also coming up short. best i got so far, and it's only ranking at "book cover people will recognize if you make a parody/homage":

psst...hey kid...wanna see a perfect joke?

50 Classic All Star Cartoons, Volume Two : 10536s

Sen. Warren has been on this for a while. Here's the same proposal from seven years ago: www.cnbc.com/2018/08/21/e...

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I think a lot of "can't we use an LLM to do this faster" falls into the same trap as someone who hasn't painted a house before expecting to speed up house painting by getting the most advanced sprayer and realizing most of the time comes from prep (drop cloths and taping everything properly)

woohoo, i have now cleared out all the medium puzzles from the archive

I had no idea they have the fucking guy standing up there on stage the whole time when they do this. The goofball himself. Tire Man.

Local grade separation project (cars go thru an underpass to get across the train tracks) is slated to cost half a billion dollars, this seems like a lot www.mv-voice.com/transportati...

1980 "SRA John Thomas, automatic digital switching specialist, and SRA Debra Nixon, traffic analysis clerk, process incoming traffic at the Base Telecommunications Center, 1974th Communications Group, Air Force Communications Command (AFCC). …" 📷📑 picryl.com/media/sra-jo...

Looking at all those xenomorph eggs last night is making it tricky to handle these brussel sprouts today

The theme, put in the conclusion as "[u]ltimately human welfare is a matter of subjectivities," got me to plot out the General Social Survey series for "are you happy" and it's pretty stable until COVID, from which we haven't recovered. It's *not* the usual "you can see the Reagan era" graph.

Ron DeSantis being a vocal AI capex skeptic is such a funny and weird side plot in politics right now

3 hikers are in the woods when they find a lamp. one picks it up, rubs it, and out pops a genie. genie says "i'll grant each one of you 3 wishes” first guy, suspicious, says "i want a billion dollars." genie says check your bank balance. guy goes on his phone, bank app says he has $1 billion

in ALIEN, the opening seq has a drinking sippy bird bobbing up and down. later you realize it means Ash was up scheming (and bird tapping) while everyone else was hyperslept. in ALIENS, you see several stupid magnet versions spinning around while the marines are hyperslept for no reason at all. bad.

Seeing this make the rounds as a meme this week and it just goes to show you: aronofsky is one of the greats and we're lucky to have him. "I'm going to take the concept of infinity/addiction/Noah's ark/pro wrestling and make it maximally dourly unsettling to live thru" is what it's all about.

New vocab word out of this: "suzerainty"

64.3% for Yes on 50 is the second best Democratic top of the ticket result in California history, beating every gubernatorial % and every presidential % except 1936

not saying this is wrong exactly, but the charging for checked bags thing is partially regulatory arbitrage. airplanes pay taxes and fees on ticket revenue that's higher than what they pay on "ancillary revenue" like checked bags. they make more from a $100 ticket + $25 bag fee than a $125 ticket

This has gotten unbelievably worse in the last five minutes

This is the *the* big divide in the "what was 2020" rashomon. No, man, they closed the day cares and the playground and the schools, it was not Down Time over here.

Found this fun Daily Akari puzzle site yesterday, and I have now worked my way through solving all the easy/very easy puzzles: dailyakari.com/archive?diff...

This fall, the city of Antioch's new brackish desalination plant started treating water from the Delta. I wrote about the new facility along with the role brackish desalination is playing in the state's water supply strategy for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social. www.kneedeeptimes.org/antioch-desa...

Okay, I'm about to block this woman, but for people who in *good faith* don't understand this, a work email does not mean your employer is reading your communications, and in newsrooms it *very much* does not mean that for source protection and liability reasons.

One of the GOP's sweatier Epstein defenses has been "if they had good stuff they'd have used it when Biden was president." But the growing awareness that Garland spiked anything that could look political explains this!

this late-breaking paragraph has gotta be one of the mayoral fatalities of all time medium.com/3streams/zoh...

TO makecircle :numSides :perimeter pd right 90 repeat :numSides [ left 180 / :numSides forward :perimeter / :numSides left 180 / :numSides wait 120 / :numSides ] left 90 end clearscreen repeat 10 [ makecircle (2 * repcount + 1) 1200 ]

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i wrote about having long covid as a hypochondriac and why no one should ever go on reddit www.late-review.com/p/the-galler...

Watching ALIEN right now, and they're at the "ash, are you seeing this' part -- I think home video camera recorders must have been around enough to make this visceral

For Cornell’s Journal of Law and Public Policy, I wrote about an alternative to government censorship that gives platform users more choice - and how big tech uses legal threats to circumvent congressional intent and fight interoperability. 👇 publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/jlpp/2025/10...

The Ball essay I leaned on for this humaniod-robots post is all about this: iPhones are *the* reason companies want to be platforms brian.gawalt.com/blog/0003-ro...

My Gremlins 3 script is something a little different: parents across America begin injecting disobedient children with Gremlin enzyme, to punish them. This doesn't turn them into Gremlins but it does cause severe headaches and brain fog. We are now "full speed ahead!" with director Chris Columbus.

ask me about my ~seven year old idea, "the doubler," that just takes any existing `wTx + b`, randomly splits the `w` into `w1 + w2 = w`, and moves the `b`s around so that most of the time the sum `o(w1Tx + b1) + o(x2Tx + b2)` match `o(wTx + b)`

i lost touch with the ~four atmospheric chemists i palled around with twenty years ago, and im curious what they think about what deorbiting 9000 minisats means, in terms adding all those metals up there. (also this article doesn't mention where the waste heat goes) www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

spending these months becoming a rockies fan. buy the dip

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