First they came for Screech Powers, And I did not speak out Then thye came for Dawson Creek,

I think part of what makes AI so unsatisfying is that it has no anecdotes. It can only average human experiences—it can’t relay any experiences of its own. Google was already fine at finding factual information before AI.

David Bowie, in an interview from *2002*. Spotify was still years away. I think the world really went down the crapper when he died.

From: CAP’N CRUNCH To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Milk Sea Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 —————————- Can I reach your island on the sea og milk? Can’t wait 2 CRUNCH

why are peter thiel's dietary restrictions redacted in the epstein files? what the hell is that dude not eating

I can understand why desperate people do evil. Being selfish when it’s your only option, I can imagine myself in those shoes. What I’ll never understand is powerful people doing evil. If you already have money and influence and guns, what is there to gain? Like, what personally motivates it?

Fuck ICE. I don’t have much to say lately, other than that. Oh, that’s in another country? Then how about fuck Hootsuite, the Canadian company that is helping ICE.

I wish the earth wouldn’t tilt away from the sun. Stop doin that!!

Had a dream last night that a nuclear bomb dropped nearby and my first instinct was to buy a really delicious cake because calories don’t matter if the world is ending.

Doomscrolling has more doom than ever and it’s making my mental health bad, but I feel like looking away isn’t the right thing to do either.

So this masked killer is somehow both an experienced authority figure who always knows best and should always be obeyed, AND a fragile little guy who can’t help go pew pew with his gun if he gets a little spooked?

Where are all these good guys with guns? All I see are absolute monsters shooting people for no fucking reason and nobody doing anything about it.

Here are the best albums of 2025, according to me, a random person: phronk.com/2026/01/01/t... Also movies, TV, games, books. Check it out and see if you disagree enough to yell at me.

Here’s my yearly blog post about what happened in the last 365 days. There was a very specific theme in my life in 2025. phronk.com/2025/12/29/2...

Does my mediation bottle really have to describe it as “take it by mouth”?

Merry Christmas if you’re into that sort of thing.

Artificial intelligence may exceed human intelligence, but can it exceed dog intelligence? LLMs only know language. Dogs don't have language. I don't see any AIs on track to make all the tiny nonverbal decisions needed for a dog to exist and survive in the world.

Spiders swallow at least 8 humans every year.

Yeah I eat “whole foods” Whole habmurger

Like a frog in boiling water, I am wet.

People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it

It sucks being an Xennial music fan because now all the rock stars from the 70s are dying, and we already went through all the rocks stars from the 90s dying in the 90s.

This chick rules.

Maybe Sora is just an elaborate way for Sam Altman to get away with crimes on film, because nobody will believe any footage with the first guy to offer up his face to be used in any fake video.

Would be a real shame if the first AI actor became the first AI murder when someone takes a magnet to Tilly Norwood's servers.

I keep hearing about constitutional amendments. Maybe they should do another amendment that says if a president goes to war against his own people, he’s not president any more.

Foggy morning.

You don’t really hear about people being “on the cover of a magazine” any more. Sad!!!

Google tried to autocorrect "data are" to "data is" and I got so angry I pulled a muscle in my thorax.

Jimmy Kimmel’s back, so I guess I can resubscribe and finish watching my Disney Alien show.

Did evolution really need to put a toenail on the pinky? That little sliver isn’t doing much for me.

We should build a society where people can’t use guns for murder no matter who they are, and people can’t get murdered with guns no matter who they are. The only “side” that matters is supporting the one that wants to do that (currently the left). The leanings of victims and shooters? Who cares.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I condemn all political violence, and the people who promote and enable political violence, even if they are themselves victims of political violence.

what a fucking way to find out magic is real

Me living by the sword: Swords rule Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh

Just so we’re clear, Charlie Kirk shouldn’t be shot down while talking and kids shouldn’t be shot down in classrooms. It’s that easy. However, a lot of powerful people are okay with both things, so here we are, surrounded by bullets, blood, thoughts, and prayers.

Ugh

So now that Trump has a letter saying “I am a pedophile,” maybe there’s hope for even the most brainwormed of idiots to turn on him, but, well …

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

We communicate with language, and judge “intelligence” of other humans by what they say. But maybe we’re like fish taking water for granted, missing the real intelligence that lets us function. Controlling dozens of tiny muscles to type is as complex as the sequence of keys pressed.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

I’m in the Blue Mountain Village, which is a pedestrian-only neighbourhood with plenty of places to live, eat, and shop, and plenty of parking too—just outside of where people actually do stuff. This is a tourist novelty here, but shouldn’t it just be the default for all cities? It’s way better.

Maybe he’ll just have a near death experience and set out to undo all the harm he’s caused. 💕💕💕

It’s in situations like this where as an atheist, I really do envy those of you who believe there is a solemn and fair judgment in the afterlife…

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.