With any word like this, I think the right response to “I can’t believe I’m not allowed to say this anymore” is to ask “Why would you want to?”

I guess the takeaway from the Bari Weiss thing is that it’s hard to censor for the fascists when you’re in way over your head to begin with and the people who work for you have made it clear that they don’t respect you.

I’ve started exercising a good deal more and drinking a lot less, and not to be that guy, but the difference is notable.

Gonna go ahead and mute “TPUSA”. If I felt like I had any obligation to stay on top of the likes of these people, I’d still be on Twitter.

Headlines like this annoy me. The show in question is “Lost”. Everyone’s heard of it. Just say “Lost” is leaving Netflix soon. www.howtogeek.com/lost-leaving...

Say, who’s got a good lead on where to donate old skates in Toronto? I see the city has and/or had a program, but the web page for it hasn’t been updated since last year’s season ended. We’ve got some old pairs that I’d love to hand off to some kids.

Randomly thought of my favorite ever typo

It’s helpful here to understand how both of the systems involved are programmed. LLMs are programmed to fake the answers to our questions, and we are programmed to be more accepting and less critical of information that’s in tune with our existing beliefs.

More like AI Jazeera, am I right? Wait, that… That doesn’t work.

I’m grateful today for a Saturday afternoon out with my daughter, grateful to have the bulk of the gifts wrapped, and grateful for good health. #3Gratitudes

“All big tasks are really comprised of smaller ones and, taken individually, those smaller tasks aren't as daunting… Every time you get one of the small parts done, you feel good about having done it. You get a boost of confidence, and you're ready to do it again.” lifehacker.com/work/use-the...

Canada was their top customer! And thanks to President Deals, we stopped buying bourbon months ago. Billions and billions of dollars in sales, gone www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

It’s currently impossible to tell a kid the old “Why was six afraid of seven?” joke.

I hope it’s not a spoiler to say that I feel like the “Knives Out” movies picked up where the “of the Dead” movies left off in terms of really being out the worst of humanity at the given moment.

i don't think "people will make fun of my bad art" is a good reason to use "ai". we will make fun of that also

Again, though, if you really want to sell the bit, it does help to be visibly dying.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

“You’re watching the CBC.”

By law, they can’t change the name, which is why they left “Memorial” (and “The”) in there. They just think they’ve found a loophole where they can tack names onto the front.

I mean, why go to all the trouble of renaming the Kennedy Center if you’re just going to have to change the name again in a few months?

this is like some old man posting but i’m feeling a little under the weather today and so my exercise this morning is just a long walk and you know what activity rocks? taking a walk.

“Hey, you guys. Sorry I’m late.”

If you don’t live with a disability, then it’s important to recognize that you may not have a very accurate sense of what living with a disability actually looks like.

There’s this persistent idea that the Democrats would lose vital support if they stood up for trans people, and I just don’t think that’s true. If anything, I think that Americans everywhere are eager to support a version of the Democratic Party that actually stands up for people.

I’m grateful today for quiet days at the office, grateful for time after work to do some Christmas shopping, and grateful for good evening walking weather. #3Gratitudes

The next time you’re tempted to beat yourself up over a silly mistake at work, think of the poor guy who pulled a real-life “Sorry, I’m sorry, I’m trying to remove it” after publicly hearting a photo of Jeffrey Epstein.

When people long for the “good old days,” they tend to be longing for some imagined time that never actually existed. In many ways, what they want is to return to a time when they were too young and naive to know about the facts and truths that they don’t want to have to deal with.

Let’s not jump to conclusions. They could be Klansmen.

I can’t be the only one thinking that the more time they spend propping this exhausted old heap in front of the cameras, the more likely it is that it’ll happen on live television.

There were some action items and links from this briefing that I didn’t get around to sharing yesterday, so I will later on. Thanks in the meantime to @phirephoenix.com for sharing this event (and many others) on @showuptoronto.ca, where I spotted it just in time.

The winter concert at school this year had a fun and inclusive bit in which the Grinch stole all the holidays, not just Christmas. It was neat, and because they made it very clear that what bothered the Grinch was holidays specifically, there was zero risk of it, say, coming off as antisemitic.

Aside from a cameo in “Doctor Sleep” and a TV movie about G. Gordon Liddy, Danny Lloyd’s only professional acting role was Danny Torrance in “The Shining.” Not a bad way to make one’s mark.

I’m frankly finding it tough to picture anything more humiliating than filing a claim with the government because you’re a white guy who believes the system is discriminating against him.

I'm grateful today for the school winter concert, grateful for terrific running weather, and grateful for some quiet time to read at the end of the day. #3Gratitudes

And now, a message from young handsome Trump.

I do find it odd when the self-checkout machine says “Please tell us how we did today.”

I’m not happy that this joke was more coherent than the actual address.

Plus, and I hope I’m not blowing any minds here, but we’ve already got a lot of skiing here at home.

“What if Spud had done a bunch of tranquilizers instead of speed before his job interview in ‘Trainspotting’?”

Anyway, I think I called it

“We need you to come out of retirement, ALF. Just for one last hog.”

Well, that’s $2.6 billion in spending within the next seven days that Congress hasn’t authorized, so no.

“We’re gonna ensure the return of that big, beautiful organism for analysis, folks. It’s coming back! We’re gonna analyze it. That’s priority one! So pure. All the other considerations are secondary. And the crew - I probably shouldn’t say this, they’re not going to like it - they’re expandable.”

Yeah, I think an outline of his agenda is probably the most we can hope for before his mind wanders and he spends the rest of the speech rambling on about how Victoria Principal was rude to him at a party in 1983 or whatever.

20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:

Vance in particular looks like he was trying to take a photo of somebody else but ended up taking a selfie instead because he didn’t realize he had the front-facing camera on.

If Count Dracula taught us anything, it’s that a vampire can transform into a sexy young hottie when it counts.

Tired: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is divisive and outdated. Wired: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is exactly the sort of pro-DEI parable that we need now more than ever.