[at gettysburg] Confederate soldier: wooo! Slavery forever!! yeah!!! [he runs up little round top & gets bayoneted] Union soldier: pretty weird hill to die on ngl

oh no they let Kirby take communion

It hasn't been online for many years, so for today's newsletter I reposted my Big Bang Theory "spec." Tell your friends. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-end-resu...

Magnificent. i just wish Melville had been around to see it

I’ve been demolishing stuff with crowbar this weekend and I now really grok what Archimedes was talking about with that “give me a lever long enough” quote

On occasion folks ask us how to get somewhere in this business of show. Here is an early bit of promo from a press kit we handed out all over New York City to somehow break through. In retrospect, it is hard to imagine a more misguided effort, but that was us... For your amusement...

I genuinely thought this was a picture of Marc Andreessen until I scrolled down all the way

incredible to think that the two TV shows from the 2000s that have had BY FAR the greatest cultural ramifications were The Apprentice and The Man Show

you pretend to sort your trash so that people think you’re a composter, but you actually put it all in the same bin which makes you a composter (rhymes with “imposter”)

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I am grieving him. RIP Maru

something that's funny to think about is that 99% of people who talk about being "redpilled" would DEFINITELY have been cypher in the Matrix

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

this is my life

another episode of A Life Well Wasted just dropped!!

I gotta shake things up. Like Wario

alright, this one's going to ruffle some feathers. i wrote about how we're in the midst of a crisis of movies that don't actually say anything, with Alex Garland's Civil War standing in as the key example: goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-shit-h...

love helplessly. drive with the windows down, wind moves your hair. the joy you feel is large and brave. there's some other stuff too

me helping my daughter build a lego set

Dabe took this picture at #PAXWest and I think it deserves a Pulitzer

this is a joke about how suspects in murder mysteries are very bad at talking to the police

Detective: I’ll have the burger with— Waiter: I didn’t kill him, but I WISH I did! Detective: what? Neighboring diner (leaning over): I couldn’t help but overhear… you know, I desperately wanted him dead Cook (bursting in): I hated his guts, I dreamed about killing him constantly!!

You can check in any time you like, and (as per Cal. Penal Code § 236) also check out any time you like

Several thoughtful comments on how the methodology is overly oriented around reading books in particular. I don't think that's wrong, but let me confess my snooty view that quite simply there is nothing better under the sun than a book.

Old man at the bar: Son, can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure how it goes. But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes. Me: stop wearing younger men’s clothes, you creep

Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for y— Neo: It’s a brain in a vat situation? Morpheus: yeah it’s a brain in a vat situation

this is a big moment for me. alea iacta est

- Old Macdonald - New Macdonald - Macdonald: The Next Generation - M4cdonald - Donald: Origins

Do three-eyed species have different words for winking, blinking and thrinking

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I love a good Wikipedia table of contents

trivia for ya kids (my phone autocompleted “tankies” to “ya kids”)

We should ban cars on Halloween every year and expand from there

I know it’s the oldest news in the world, but the fake president names that AI invented still crack me up languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=70401

Siri fails even the most trivial version of the Turing Test! So does ChatGPT, for that matter!! Proof: Try asking either of them “Are you a real person or a computer?”

tfw u fall deeper in2 the insatiate maw

I'm trying to migrate from Substack to Ghost, and so far it has been a pretty OK experience except that I'm unable to actually send out my newsletter ("email sending is temporarily disabled because your account is currently in review") and it has been more than day with no response from support 🫠

if it doesn’t happen in Prague, then technically it’s only sparkling getting-chucked-out-a-window

that’s not what passive voice is i know no one cares, i know people use “passive voice” to mean “vague about agency” but it’s kind of like if someone said “the factorial function grows exponentially fast” like, i get what you’re saying … but that’s not what those words mean!!

if you think substack is icky, I have great news for you: you are now legally obligated to subscribe to my friend’s trivia newsletter!!

an 8.7 earthquake is like the tenth strongest earthquake since we started using the magnitude scale this is gonna be bad

a really solid album, I dunno why I never hear anyone talking about Sunny Day Service sunnydayservice.bandcamp.com/album/sunny-...

the existence of earthworks, fireworks, and waterworks suggests there’s a semantic hole that must be filled

It’s July 22, which means IT’S TACO CHRISTMAS!!!! 🌮🎄 🌮🎄🌮🎄🌮🎄

by my estimate: today is the day. it has now been one Duke Nukem Forever dev cycle since the release of Duke Nukem Forever.

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no, that was my father. you should call me Thomas Bahamas

"The Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense" encapsulates so much American history