THE POWER FANTASY is the first comic I've read in a long time that genuinely takes my breath away. It feels the way comics felt when I was eighteen and anything was possible, when they were written by wizards and drawn by magicians, when my favorite story could be past the next page. It's real good.

Every financial hype cycle gets the Long Island Blockchain Corp it deserves.

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Reading Plato's Cratylus: rip Socrates, you would have loved Kiki and Bouba.

During the middle of Gil Shaham playing Korngold's violin concerto, a man in the $$$ orchestra seats stood up, projectile vomited an Exorcist amount of red wine across the people for three rows in front of him, buttoned his jacket, and walked out of the Kennedy Center.

A sitcom about Thomas Pynchon winning a $600,000 literary prize and then gradually going insane as the prize committee forces him to create a series of short-form Instagram videos promoting the award and showing off his morning routine.

Is "A Prayer for Owen Meany" the best book where someone gets killed by a baseball?

Everyone in Hungary singing “Yub Nub”

The only good part of knowing that Rod Dreher exists is knowing when Rod Dreher is sad.

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) remains a perfect little film. We need a Linklater-industrial complex to manufacture 1-2 of these a year.

These Royals uniforms are the greatest city connects in history.

Artemis II kicked so much ass. We should get back to government by the competent bureaucracy and their long standing, loyal industry partners

men are so stupid bc "entire team of women plus their one special little guy" is a top tier coworker situation to be in

Dems in 2029: "sorry bud, that pardon's no good here."

It's time

RFK Jr worships death. He is looking at a chart that says "living people" and asking his team "what can we do to bring that number down?"

Just in time to replace Jim Belushi in the reboot of Wag the Dog.

oh, you like pompeii? yeah, i guess that's fine. bigger fan of herculaneum. it's a little more underground.

Finally, science has found a way to keep my nieces and nephews from making me sick every time I take them to the zoo.

*sigh* guess I gotta buy more air filters before smoke season

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

Raya must be struggling because I've met several people recently who say they're active on it, and... oof.

Happy Shattering the Delusions of the Enemies of All Mankind Day 🫡 ☸️

And this is *heavy sigh* good.

It's cool that every Claude model brings us closer to "so Platonism is just true, huh?"

"Hague harmonies"

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

On the balance, I think two decades of text-based social media has probably made me stupid.

Carreyrou from the top rope

[wearily]

oman is paying him

claude --model mythos -p "Hi, Claude. I'm going to need you to create the Blackwall as quickly as possible?"

The contractor who wins the bid to build a new pipeline the bypasses the strait of hormuz is going to get to overcharge by *so much.*

As Trump plots civilization-ending destruction, JD Vance is in Hungary fawning over a fellow autocrat. It is a genuinely terrifying moment for those who love democracy, freedom, and peace. (1/2)

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Every single person from miami I know their story is either "I was super broke and eventually got lucky and got the fuck out" or "I love it, I love doing scams, I love how there are no rules and you can manifest whatever reality you want independent of the rest of the world"

Inside you, there are two wolves.

Can't wait for SharkNinja to steal plump rat's IP and release a cheaper knockoff plump rat.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

"never" usually tends to be the best-case scenario for when you ideally employ the bombs in your arsenal.

Pittsburgh is lovely. The keys to a good used bookstore city are (1) big state school nearby, (2) strong philosophy and/or classics program nearby, and (3) low enough humidity that the books can age reasonably well.

Vollmann, PKD, Alan Moore... Many bangers in the "this is great but I'm worried the author is serious" canon.

David Brin (yes, the space dolphins guy) has a 1998 book called "The Transparent Society" about this sort of thing that has held up really well.

Hey Siri, search "bowen yang Seth MacFarlane same father?"

Did not realize this Michigan team was capable of thumping like this. Rip zona

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."