this piece has everything (1) passionate creative team going balls to the wall on a fun concept (2) hockey players going with it (3) funniest journalistic disclosure i've ever read

The Wave

my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

has anyone encountered AI wallpaper yet?

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

The first completed home on an Altadena lot burned in the Eaton Fire is here. It's an ADU built by a retired construction worker who wanted to replace his son's lost home. Read more about what County leaders are calling "an important milestone" in my @laist.com story:

BIBLICALLY ACCURATE WREATH

just found out there was a 1990 Japanese Top Gun ripoff called BEST GUY

By the way for those doing holiday shopping, there is all kinds of nice stuff at www.shoppalestine.org and you can support artisans and farmers in the West Bank. Lots of nice soap and olive oil and things so it’s good for people for whom you should get *something* but don’t know quite what.

these are also good for drinks, completely dishwasher and microwave safe, they are on the heavy side so they will keep your beverage COLD please buy one (DM me) before I inflict them on my friends for the holidays

If you need cute and unique gifts this holiday, consider a zine! And hey look, I have several right here (plus they're interactive and for all-ages)! Billionaires don't need your money but small shops do, even if you don't buy from me, I hope you'll support other artists. 🫶 shop.breelundberg.com

just made my first crossword

new vase! super tall column shaped with cloud patterned carvings (DM me if you are interested!)

Shared with me on LinkedIn: Lorena Soriano at Harvard is conducting a survey about public views on conducting sustainable and ethical exploration of space. All voices and perspectives welcome! bit.ly/spacesurveyh... harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The entire Bread and Puppet performance was right on time but this is the skit that I keep thinking about the most. I was slow to start recording - others have posted more complete recordings - but I did manage to catch the Spanish chorus:

Choosing to go to LPSC now that they've doubled down on banning any content about making the field a better place for underrepresented scientists? That would be rewarding this behavior and make the field even more unsafe! Just a thought!

I just realized the thing that set back social democracy in America a hundred years was Hunter Biden not inviting media elites on his cocaine benders and sharing his hookers and I will spend the next 48 hours staring at the wall.

After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity

Ground floor hater. Series A hater. Angel investment hater. I read the napkin the initial pitch for hating Ronaldo was written on and got out my checkbook on the spot. Ten-x moment for the lads here. We’re going to Ibiza on this one.

After the apocalypse I'm going to loot so many gallons of paint. Enjoy your canned goods, I've got 3 varieties of eggshell white

They make *me* do my job right AND act normal the whole time.

'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870) Kawanabe Kyōsai

I feel like I’m being non consensually pulled in to other people’s kink universe. Oh you sat on your hands and knees and arranged all her majesty’s shoes? And she still cheated on you with men she found in a peat bog? Should we throw a key party? Should we invite Keith Olbermann

math textbook covers for some reason:

I was listening to @simonerzim.bsky.social on the latest A Bit Fruity ep and this happened to sync up too well

Hello BlueSky! This is the Christmas Tree Cluster. I color-mapped the heart of the nebula to tree-green to bring out the effect. Would you like this as a wallpaper? I'm happy to share for free: photos.app.goo.gl/e9LNThCC97NZ... Image credit: my tiny telescope. #science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here

saw a photo of myself from the side and now I want to crawl into a sunless hole forever also I have to cut my own bangs immediately

Go up > you cannot enter Nirvana with Desires in your inventory >drop Desires you now have 2 Desires

People don’t get that Hollywood is incredibly conservative. There’s no industry that’s more risk-averse. They’re the people who will only laugh at a joke if everyone else laughs first.

He also etched poems into his pots. On one jar, he asked, "Where is all my relations?" [descendant]: And so we're here. The world heard you, Dave.

being unemployed gave me lots of time to get pretty good at stuff that AI can't do (which also means corporate overlords won't pay me to do it)

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Alice Wong, writer and disability activist, has died. She was an educator and a communicator and a warrior who lit the way. I’m grateful to have crossed paths with her. Rest in peace.

@crickwooder.bsky.social !

Making camouflage nets for the War Department, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, Calif. Dorothea Lange, 1942 In 1942, Lange was commissioned to photograph the U.S. Government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Her negatives were impounded by the Army; she did not see them until 1964.

Them: nice to meet you Me: [trying to hide my most annoying character flaws] thanks

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

ONE YEAR TODAY YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

a “Space Force”, if you will

do you need an amphora? 🏺

do you need some things to hold stuff but also look kinda interesting on a shelf ?

My shitposts have more craft and intentionality than rich people emails???

me and whomst

cow humours

this week ya girl will have been unemployed for ONE YEAR !!!! please consider buying some THINGS to HOLD STUFF

[Ed Harris in Apollo 13 voice] alright. What do we have on this spacecraft that isnt gender.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...