New Burger King commercial leans into their lovable loser aesthetic. Had a boss once who was a former VP at BK. He bragged about having participated in choosing their new french fries. Every time he mentioned it, we all thought about how BK fries sucked.

So many red dots. So little rotation.

I know I'm out of touch, but did the phrase "cost of compute" thrust itself into popular usage about two weeks ago?

I used to be firmly "videogames," especially during my early-career, hard-core-game-studies period. Now I'm staunchly "video games," either because I'm a style-guide zealot now, or because the matter was decided in the direction of "nobody cares."

This is a vendor-driven cybersecurity incident affecting multiple institutions globally. At this time, please do not attempt to access Canvas until further notice. If you are currently in the system, do not click any links and close your browser immediately.

Is this anything?

Why doesn't Canvas use the incomprehensible majesty of **AI** to lock down their shit?

You can tell the mood in academia is grim when we’re all kind of cackling at the downfall of the content-theft-and-surveillance tool of our trade

Another thing about the Canvas outage is how it disables for no real reason my ability to grade this stack of bluebooks I collected after the final exam yesterday.

How many admins does it take to not email us about the hacking?

They hacked Canvas during finals week. This is why the faculty need a secure ballroom.

A stunning morning on the Boulder trails with our long awaited drought relief. It was surreal hearing hummingbirds zooming by in heavy snow conditions.

Every single thing is immediately reversed. If you ran a McDonald's like this, a strike team from corporate in Chicago would crash through the dining room window the next day.

"Strether would have reckoned his own career less futile had he been able to put into it anything so handsome as so much fine silence." -Henry James, The Ambassadors

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

Happy, Texas day to those who celebrate. 5 May 2002.

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

I may have a serial over-retweeter on my feed

Congratulations to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Brian Goldstone on the **Pulitzer Prize** for this klaxon call to acknowledge life in the American economy for so many working homeless.

Aaron Parsley just won a Pulitzer for this story, one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever read in my life: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Sterling called Atlanta games on TBS in the early 80s. Their 13-game winning streak to open 1982 was the start of my baseball consciousness. In '85, Sterling called the impossible Rick Camp homerun in the 18th inning, a game ender by the worst hitting pitcher anyone ever saw. youtu.be/HVpjWNfnHww

Slightly diminish a book: Kelvin 451

That was the pitching equivalent of watching DiCaprio fight the bear in "The Revenant."

Let the bidding recommence! Do it for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social!

It's May 3rd all over again

I'm Team Cramp

Eating two pieces of the freshly-baked, finals week lasagna sort of defeats the purpose.

Apparently I've never seen a storm worth a report on May 2. But I remember in 1999, a few friends had busted on May 2 and needed extra encouragement the next day (from me, trapped in the last week of a 3-week notice at my job in Florida) to join the seminal event for our generation of stormchasers.

Inside me, there are two wolves

ATTN: Applicants who did not find a home in the MFA market. The Kansas State English Department has some GTA positions in reserve for the fall of 2026. K-State's MA program has a long track record of sending people on to excellent MFA programs. My DMs are open or hit www.k-state.edu/english/acad...

Students & professionals: Dozens and dozens of NWS jobs have opened. Take your time w/ the application process and assessments. Despite the administration's hurdles, the good work at NWS goes on. 1.) www.usajobs.gov/job/867259300 2.) www.usajobs.gov/job/867260700 3.) www.usajobs.gov/job/867260400

"Ground ball to second base."

At Rio Vista, Texas about thirty minutes ago. And they say, "Ry-oh," y'all.

Anyone else still seeing only the 13z SWODY1 on SPC's site?

Dear University Elections Committee, I would be happy to serve on the faculty senate if we raise an army, defeat the administrative Caesar on the battlefield, and return in triumph.

Wait, the CDC is against salmonella? Or are they looking to scale it up to a national audience?

Not to make light of a serious situation. As Doswell would say, head on a swivel today.

In the old days we'd say "15% hatched." Today is more like 15% scattered and smothered (but not covered).

WOW! Ridiculous and entirely unexpected mammatus display just after sunset here in SE OK thanks to a severe thunderstorm literally over 100 miles away. I sadly didn't have my actual camera on me. #okwx

Next Director should be Kash again but in a Heisenberg hat.

I'm working on an insult. I swear I remember in O'Connor a character who "stared bovinely," but I can't find it. The wife in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" has a face as "broad and innocent as a cabbage," but she does not "stare bovinely." I want to give proper credit.

Friday April 24: "Islands" by Aleksandar Hemon. "We got up at dawn, ignored the yolky sun, loaded our navy-blue Austin with suitcases, and then drove straight to the coast, stopping only on the verge of Sarajevo, so I could pee."

The U.S. is in the right spot to discover our preposterously expensive weapons systems are better at making defense industry captains wealthy than fighting an adversary with plenty of cheap and zippy drones.

www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i... Mainstream U.S. media showed scant interest in American forces taking more damage in a shorter period than since WW2. Can't risk their invitation to the correspondents party, I guess.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

A wacky moment from yesterday's chase - as a long-lived tornado reintensifies, a satellite tornado develops, retrogrades toward me, and is absorbed into the larger tornado. 4.23.2026 - Braman, OK

In the old days they told us storms disappeared immediately when they crossed 35 into SE OK.

When the supercell-of-interest crosses east of I-35, I feel 16% less resentful that I can't chase today.