Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

My favorite chapter of The Art of War is “Plans?? who are you, death cab for cutie??”

Teaching the almost 15 year old cat to give high fives.

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

Macbeth: SHIT

Looks like the word on the general strike is getting out IRL. This was outside the Rockridge Safeway.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands

Stealworkers

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Baseball

My lunch companion

The chatbots aren't hallucinating when they "get things wrong," WE are hallucinating when they "get things right" People think LLMs are "smart" for the same reason they think the moon has a face.

Jamelle prompted me to buy this and wow, I really hope a lot of young people read and internalize this shit!!!! I kinda can't believe this got published lol

I’m putting together a directory of activist and leftist groups in (almost) every city in the US: organize.directory Are you wanting to involved in dismantling fascism but don’t know where to get started or who to reach out to? Reach out to one of the groups listed here and start chipping away~

I think we’re due up for an update of California Über Alles that replaces the Jerry Brown reference for Newsom.

AS PROMISED:

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Maps are very political. When I worked on the Facebook live video map, we were told by legal we had to make sure we showed disputed borders correctly for each country’s version of things. This was because it was actually illegal in some countries to do otherwise.

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Mister Rogers never misses

there is water at the bottom of the ocean

Me at the start of an epoch-changing revolution in human communication: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me in the middle of an epoch-changing revolution in human communication: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE EATING OUR CATS

Y'all aren't ready for the mascots of the 2024 Paralympics sports. (Pictured here are wheelchair rugby, archery, and goalball—a game played by the blind, in which the ball is rigged for sound.)

This scene came to mind given the news m.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdq...

I got a recruiter email for an AI startup around professional services where they called out the legal field specifically. I can’t wait to hear about them becoming the next DoNotPay, lol.

Is this a good time to remind people that the word "clue" derives from "clew," as in "ball of thread," as in how Ariadne helps Theseus get out of the Labyrinth?

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Remember kids: Human Resources is there to protect the company, not you! If you're serious about workplace protections for you and your pals, you've gotta unionize - fast. Working as a team to make your workplace better is way past cool!

How long until the Steamboat Willie tune becomes an ice cream truck staple?

My next newsletter (Th or Fr): effective accelerationists and their king Marc Andreessen are responsible for directly hampering tech innovation for the last decade. It's time to reform venture capital toward sustainable growth and focus funding on actual startups again. Wheresyoured.at

Putting my career on the line to make a run at Goliath: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... Please share.

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

You don't lay a Young Gun on the table in the first act if you're not going to fire him in the third

try it.

A croissant is a pervert's bread. Only a sex maniac could have thought up folding so much butter into an innocent dough. One fold for each leaf of the fruit tree by which Adam and Eve offended God

For all the fun and opportunities it afforded for a minute I think the move from social networks to mass social media was a mistake and we're all going to be much better-adjusted if and when we start getting back into more intentional communities where you can't really be online microfamous

if i was a billionaire i wouldn’t want to fight other billionaires. i wouldn’t want to fight anyone. i would never interact with another human again. i would simply talk to the things in my house. a teapot, a french candlestick perhaps

Being a silly goose? Oh you mean delusions of gander?

Never moving from the area (unless it's out of the country)

Feels like we’re at that part in Goodfellas where Layla plays except instead of bodies it’s websites that used to be good. Reddit frozen in the back of a meat truck, Twitter thrown in a dumpster, Google walking into a house with A.I. thinking it’s about to get made