did they even have a sorcerer class in 1987? i thought that came way after AD&D.

"who's the director?" "maya rudolph's husband!"

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

On the left, NYT today on Trump’s gold in the Oval Office. And mine from July (sherwood.news/power/the-ov...). Their 3D model is great though: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a optimistic tale about how the arachnids of Klendathu could be defeated Dutch filmaker: At long last, we have parodied the Torment Nexus from terrible sci-fi novel Please Create The Torment Nexus

wait. huh? is this true? www.bbc.com/news/article...

me and @stephenfollows.com are trying something out. let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cygf...

the elsas and minotaurs essay in this is really really interesting

stay woke, read the British financial newspaper owned by a Japanese stock market index and media conglomerate

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

this game is an escort mission for the colts. they have to gain yardage in small chunks and wait for philip rivers to walk up to the line. every couple minutes he spits out some dialogue like "hurry – we have to reach the satellite uplink so we can deliver evidence of the ambassador's wrongdoing"

sneaking suspicion my husband is catching up on Avatar

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

man did like someone running the Seuss estate die and that sucker got flipped to PE because the grinch is goddamn everywhere this year

My latest for @sherwood.news on the weirdest tie-up of the year: Truth Social and the holy grail of clean energy.

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

If you're looking for a last-minute gift idea, I'd co-sign @walthickey.bsky.social's recommendation in Numlock News today: You can't go wrong with @susanapolo.bsky.social's The Year of the Ring!

plan is to really snap the X usage by using uBlock Origin to just straight up block tweets. intrigued to see if it works.

My latest for @sherwood.news:

@themountaingoats.bsky.social played @colbertlateshow.bsky.social with Tommy Stinson in tow

Chuffed to be asked by @niemanlab.org for a 2026 prediction. I wrote about how someone will claim to have achieved AGI this year, and how the news media will not be ready for it. Thank you @joshuabenton.com for the invitation! www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/a-te...

the Oscars are a great fit for YouTube in the sense that YouTube is already where most people watch the show — in clips the next day

the Oscars are a great fit for film youtube in the sense that they’re amazing but ultimately good for at most one four-hour video once per year.

prolly good for the Oscars short term (they really need the damn money to build up the kind of endowment that permanently sustains itself, until/if museum takes off) but probably bad for the Oscars long term (movies? on youtube? what are they gonna do, move to Nebula in 5 years?)

holy shit, the Oscars are going to YouTube x.com/TheAcademy/s...

this @alexckaufman.bsky.social story is super cool Inside Oklo’s audacious plan to turn leftover weapons-grade plutonium into a nuclear bridge fuel sherwood.news/tech/inside-...

To the haters who cried foul after I said bitcoin is behaving like a leveraged unprofitable tech stock: The three-month correlation between daily changes in $IBIT (bitcoin ETF) and Goldman Sachs’ non-profitable tech index is at a record high, so

“Fabric-folding robots are still science fiction, but new advances in training robotic arms are really attempting to overcome this infamously difficult-to-automate household chore of machine laundry folding.” Thanks for the shoutout, Numlock News!

one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable

Some images from the latest article I did illustrations for. So cool getting to homage the amazing Richard Scarry! This article sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/ is close to home for me as I am critical of the AI boom that has taken over in the last few years. Please read and share. Thank you.

Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide. www.eenews.net/articles/bus...

Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion: Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B” Equal to: -33 new high schools -public teacher salaries for > 1Y -more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

BONUS: I have published all of the docs I received from my public records request from the Louisiana Dept. of Revenue. Included are the agreements for tax rebates, PILOT lease docs, terms and conditions, and various maps and diagrams. You can find them here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/?q...

I took a deep dive into Meta’s “Hyperion” data center in Richland Parish, LA. The story of a tech behemoth coming bearing billions to a poor community like Richland Parish is complex and worthy of scrutiny. 🧵 1/7 sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

amazing amazing piece from @jonkeegan.com about how tech giants stack the deck in their favor when building out data centers with art from the one and only @joshadams.bsky.social sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

oh gee whose attractive illustrated lyrics book has been named a vanity fair best book of the year? hmm? Could it be the man with the gentle curls and the highlights? The prince of posting? The demon of the discover tab? Yes I am that dude www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

if you want benefits of a cosmopolitan, industrious, economically and culturally dynamic megalopolis you have to actually pay for the associated costs of that. if you want cheap, that’s what Florida is for.

Does media attention correlate with Oscar nominations and wins? A new study from @stephenfollows.com offers compelling evidence. ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/can-media-co...

I know not everyone is down for free trade and open immigration, but separate from the particulars, it's both sad and scary to me that every day Earth's countries seem to be closing the doors. There's plenty to complain about with the post-WWII order, but also so many good things taken for granted.

The most outlandish tech CEO quotes from 2025 sherwood.news/tech/the-mos...

The Falcons might be the only team in North American professional sports whose old logo is more fascist than their current one.

Not sure what to make of Domee Shi claiming "No theme is taboo" in modern studio animation when, uh, it's pretty clear there's ONE theme being censored at Pixar a lot this year (including in the film Shi co-directed!) www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

new yorkers are reliably good for paying $8-$9 in tips and fees, but the apps jacking up fees are crushing the tip rate. sherwood.news/markets/door...

what's funny about this photo is the implied demolition of Billionaire's Row — which by all rights would be right behind them in the modern skyline — makes thematic sense given the billions they've wiped out in capex

Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?

Uhh it kind of sounds like the key is to become a grifty money coach www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ho...

It's time for Da7e and Neil to relive 2025, whether they like it or not. This past week, they assembled their list of the essential TV shows of the year...

this single was released August 16, 2024 www.billboard.com/lists/lady-g...

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar