Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: * Metallica (w/ Avenged Sevenfold) * Hamid el-Saadi (w/ Amir Saffir) * Blackpink * Bonobo * Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett GY!BE should be here as of a month ago but I got the flu instead :(

Not really the Lions' year, it would seem

2-player Thanksgiving feast this year, and it was great! Better than expected!

Well, that was the most incredible three game tournament run I’ve seen Michigan make… yet

Zags getting a very "protected home seed" whistle out here

Can we save this weather for Saturday's game, please?

Michigan is winning by 30 and I’m kind of mad about it

wow, this Michigan team finishes through contact well

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

"Lint this you linting linter"

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Jahmyr Gibbs, holy smokes

the Loins getting beat by the ol' heave ho and a prayer play

This is a _better_ proposal than the one offered by Russia via the United States, but still pretty far off of a _good_ proposal. Russia would emerge largely victorious; a damaging blow for stability. Ukraine _already had_ "robust legally binding security guarantees" under the Budapest accord.

As usual, a terrific thread

Whoa, what!?

How is there still basically a whole quarter left?

Man, what the heck is the deal with injuries this year

I wanted to see this (via cbscfb)

November Maryland, man

This was a battle of optics which Mamdani won resoundingly. If you think this was some kind of victory for "normalising fascism" or whatever, it's worth noting that MAGA influencers are crashing out about this. *They* don't think it's a Trump victory. Don't pretend it is on their behalf.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Any compsci paper that opens with "In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse" has my full attention, as a philosophy degree person working in compsci :)

It’s not gonna go the way they think it will

Alex Padilla lays it plain.

If anyone needs me, I'll be breathing into a paper bag for a bit

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

my main issue with this among others is that 2028 is going to require major, major political reforms. And Bazelon is too much of an idiot to realize that his brand of politics isn't a magic wand to winning over voters as much as he rails against pure economic populism

XG Jurin has a solo track with Rhapsody and it's real good, yo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXA... classic NY underground hiphop minimalism. #xg #jurin

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Someone here put "Road to Empress" into my feed, and I am having a blast with this one—it's a modern take on that 90's FMV adventure game genre, updated with insane CDrama production values, a neat historical context, and a bit of a "dating sim" aesthetic.

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

Either/Or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fs... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:No...

Just finished _The Seance of Blake Manor_ — what a great gothic horror / investigative adventure game! Truly top-notch storytelling, excellent use of historical framing, and some quite interesting mechanics married to a confident visual style I quite like. store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

No order: Arkham Horror LCG Terra Mystica Le Havre Ora et Labora Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Android: Netrunner Mage Knight Pandemic: Legacy Race for the Galaxy …and then lots and lots of things clamoring for spot #10

Well that's a good read

None Shall Pass

Sheesh

Gangsters of Capitalism

Why is this Michigan basketball team excruciating to watch, dangit! Individual moments are like: wow, fun! But the collective whole is: OMG, why!? Alas.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

This is why Dems should run on creating mechanisms of accountability especially on corruption.

Post the last 4 games you played!

There is nothing that captures the user-hostility of enterprise software quite so neatly as this prompt. As far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing. Clicking Yes does not reduce the number of times one has to sign in. I tick the "Never again" box every time, yet it always appears again.

Mind Masters: Brain Battalion

What, uh, what happened to Nate Silver? I mean I knew he'd fallen off but I hadn't realized he'd gone full... whatever this mode of contempt-driven-pettiness is?

Wait, I got a notification that a (non-food!) order I placed just shipped... via doordash? Doordash is doing last-mile logistics now?

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

All I'll say is that I told you Chuck's offer to take a bad deal was real. To say that those in charge in that insufferable party "got played" is an insult to people who bother to try. They have never been interested in the type of active, engaged politics necessary for the health of the republic.