I was in these conversations. Every single meeting someone would say "We have to change these things because they're illegal." Then i would grind my teeth and explain that they weren't illegal. Some people just didn't do the reading, some were afraid of getting sued someday, and others wanted it

We haven't made enough out of the pairing of Rodman with the league's most straight-laced superstar in David Robinson. Would watch the hell out of that show

Heating my home with inefficient old computer chargers

The Jeff Bezos who bought the Washington Post was a different guy from the one who is allowing its destruction now. But oligarchs gonna oligarch. Read more on Fresh Hell about what’s really behind the bloodletting at the Post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/bafflement...

Luge

Really need a West Wing reboot with dim lighting, the White House is in shambles, and they recycle old plots but every character makes the most corrupt choice possible in every situation

Do it, for lots of reasons. One being that you'll suddenly understand more medical terms for when you have to fend for yourself in the health care system

checking in on one of my favorite web sites etc.usf.edu/clipart/

"When I pretend to be someone else, I go to the depths of nothingness. The more I do that—become nothing—and the more I let the character take over, the more I feel like that person. When you become the person, nothing is contrived.”—Catherine O'Hara www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...

Status report, "WTH Else Was I Expecting?" dep't: So typical. You go digging in the hard drive for a single image, and after enough persistence, you find it... but you also find about a hundred other things you'd forgotten or lost track of. Herewith, the best of these for today... (1/n)

Exauctorate [eks-AWK-ter-it] (v.) - To deprive of authority; to depose or oust from office. - To dismiss from service; to deprive of a benefice. - To discharge.
 Used in a sentence: “Once that zounderkite is exauctorated, the record will show that no lubberwort was ever more deserving.”

Just two 25-year-old men

If you keep discovering new music, you don’t die.

Handschuhschneeballwerfer [HAND-shoo-SHNAY-bahl-VER-fer] (n.) - One who wears gloves to throw snowballs; a coward; someone who criticizes from a safe distance. - One lacking the courage to endure dangerous or unpleasant things.

Watch this show

This hits all three of my interests

Had this one taped to a book cover in junior high

One fun side effect of the AI boom is the increased popularity of the word “ouroboros”.

This meeting could have been a profane ceremony

the fundamental problem of civilization is that humanity's highest calling is Hanging Out With Friends, but a small minority of humans are maniacally driven to control everyone else because no one wants to hang out with them

So many fun potential voice readings for "You imagine that?"

Getting surreal is all we've got left

This definitely hurts in a unique way. "If that person's *that* old then I must be... oh... oh no."

You don’t have to watch everything. Protecting your peace online is an act of self-care, not a state of denial. Learn how to filter your feeds and safeguard your mental space ⬇️ theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Intently reviewing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

Bad poetry is the life force of this poor earth. In reading bad poetry we are vulnerable and cruel at the same time. It confronts us with all the complexity of our own ambivalent relationship to sincerity (authenticity/cringe), to craft (skill/trickery), to our OWN HEARTS, to LIFE ITSELF.

Poker Face is a fantasy where the ability to recognize bullshit has an effect on society

"As well as deleting old emails, the National Drought Group has urged people to delete old pictures as well as “data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems”. Also: fix leaking toilets, avoid watering lawns, turn off taps when brushing teeth, and take shorter showers.

They're very good space adventure movies, which is what star wars always was about. Rian Johnson introduced a needed, smart challenge to 'the heroes get lucky against the odds yet again' trope. The backlash stems from toxic fanboys. People still whining about the ST need to have their cards revoked.

Detective: GPS puts you at Hillside Manor sometime after 2AM. Adam Duritz: Then the GPS is wrong man! Do I need a lawyer??

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

OFFICER TOM, CHIEF OF CAMPUS SECURITY: “My department got an alert that an elderly, sexually confused woman had dropped from the sky and landed face-first on the South Quad.”

This explains how i feel first thing in the morning

"Just 10% of users produce roughly 97% of political tweets... A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news." So when you see that same account popping up over and over, consider a mute or a block, *even if you agree with them*. You'll feel better, I promise. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Framing this one

anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

THE DIVIDE comes out in paperback today! Despite nice reviews, it didn't make a splash in hardcover; I'm hoping it finds its audience now, because I'm really, really proud of this book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731122...

Every 7.5 minutes, an American man thinks about the Roman Empire. Albeit now with an increasingly dreadful sense of recognition.

My favourite ways of saying “I’m in a spot of bother” from ten different languages…

one thing I believe is it’s important to celebrate good things 10x as hard and to look for them 10x as often because our animal brains are hard-wired to pay 10x as much attention to bad things; it keeps us alive, but it doesn’t keep us happy happiness has to be fought for, survival will tend itself

I don’t go to the doctor for my health, I go for the 65 text messages

Dune, by Aristophanes

I keep trying to hammer the point that LLMs do a much better job replacing the work of MBAs and coders than liberal arts majors.

ㅤ Silhouettes left from morning commuters — 2022 dirt ㅤ

About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

New scholarship, printed, bound, existing, just landed... Sharing for someone I'm fond of #booksky

This hit with all the weight of a 500 page novel about same