This was a huge swing, and they nailed it

My main Oscars takeaway is that I want to go see Sinners on a big screen again immediately

It was gonna be directed by Chloe Zhao and produced by the Zuckerman sisters (of Poker Face). This is a bummer.

Same energy.

Google Fiber was the one completely good thing left in Google. Of course they'd sell it to private equity. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This only works in California, but seems up the alley of former Beekeepers. walzr.com/payphone-go/ @ariock.bsky.social maybe?

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Wonder Man didn't make much of a pop culture impact, but it's extremely good and the kind of thing we're not likely to see again. If you've soured on the MCU, make an exception. The first episode is free now on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2F2...

Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other

I've been trying to make good-faith efforts to use AI in my work. Today outlook suggested asking Copilot to find priority tasks for me. I clicked that suggestion, and Copilot immediately told me it can't do that. (🧵)

Priced out a train from Raleigh to NYC: It takes 2x the time of driving, and costs 3x a flight. Time for my annual exasperation at the state of transit.

PSA: The music rights for many of Rock Band's songs are expiring, and DLC is slowly being delisted. The game is still great, has genuine therapeutic impact on my anxiety, and is about 2/3 of the reason I'll keep buying any new Xbox they come up with.

Tillis found his spine today. He's still a goober, but maybe he can do some good as his final term wraps up.

Today I used AI to write a powershell script that saved me a few hours of boring manual point & click. It probably would have taken me that same few hours to write the script on my own. Gemini did it in a couple minutes, and improved on my original request. Sitting with this.

Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app www.wired.me/story/hacked...

I'm deeply suspicious of good news, but I'll take it.

Hell yeah

Our family's 2017 Dell desktop finally died, now looking for a solid basic replacement. Not for gaming, mostly spreadsheets and word processing. Not a Mac family, don't want an all-in-one thing with its own monitor either - just a classic desktop tower. What brands should I be looking at?

Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh

Instead of the speech, you should go watch the premier of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe in a show from 30 Rock people! 12 weird jokes a minute, I love it.

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

They're exporting the slop-machines via imperialism, AND doing it all with unpaid labor

and in a couple years if supplier costs go back down, I'm sure companies will line up to pass those savings on to consumers - right? This is yet another permanent price increase to everything.

It's kind of wild that audio transcription is largely a solved problem now. One of the few genuine positives out of AI. podscripts.co

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked." Sure, Jan

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to... <taps mic> <John Facenda voice> ...Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. Do.

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

My car doesn't have a spare tire - it has a repair kit, with an air pump & can of sealant. I used it last weekend, and now I have to replace the can of sealant. It's $80+, and only available on ebay. Oh, and without the canister the air pump can't even be a pump. Why is everything dumb.

the University of Virginia Library's statement on Archives and AI is strong and clear, recognizing the utility of AI without being blind boosterism. I wish the world had more of this approach. media.licdn.com/dms/document... And with more details: library.virginia.edu/news/2026/pr...

Disaster capitalism. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”

Incoherent noises of rage

Yesterday, someone made a Dungeons & Dragons analogy for vaccines in our (Facebook) comments. I don't play or understand D&D, so I asked our Preparedness Coordinator to explain. I still don’t understand it, but he said this analogy will be understood by people who do! Anyway, please get vaccinated.

If you live in Durham please check out this post to see if you’ve been exposed to the fucking measles.

Measles exposure reported at the taco place in my neighborhood, this is fine.

the bushes were people 😂

The Genspark ad with Matthew Broderick is one step away from that old "I need to tighten up the graphics" scam ad. youtu.be/BRWvfMLl4ho

But he chose to watch it

I'd watch a very long behind the scenes series about the making and meaning of that halftime show

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

Claude's super bowl commercials make me sad. They say ads ruin the experience? How about the cloying, patronizing, and useless nature at the core of the interaction. They crap all over the whole experience, then tell us we need it.

I got more details about the wildest North Carolina story of the week. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/untold-sto...

I'm not even that much of a Carolina fan despite my employment, but diddukewin.com / @diddukewin.com is still the prime example of a single-use website and I love to see it.

I'm still getting used to the tone of Starfleet Academy, but the latest episode is a must for DS9 fans. (Article has spoilers)

something that is this funny shouldn’t be a crime

Omg, Joi Ito recommended Warren Ellis' Global Frequency with an Amazon link directly to Epstein: "A version of a "good conspiracy". Not exactly what we're looking for but something interesting." NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (Ellis himself does not appear in the archive)

Things Wegmans is out of, as we enter a 2nd winter weather weekend: -milk -bread -ham -Fritos -Ranch dressing -All shredded cheese smaller than 80 oz -all sliced cheese but muenster -Tortilla chips -strawberries -canned beans -breakfast sausage -unsalted peanuts -full fat cheezits -bean soup mix

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Despite AI's best efforts, I fixed my kid's AirPods through the collective power of human troubleshooting: aftermath.site/airpod-volume-...