Whenever someone uses the food making machine on Star Trek you notice they don’t high five each other and yell I AM A PROFESSIONAL CHEF

Hollywood is far too cowardly to give us the remastered we actually need: Jurassic Park, but remastered so the appropriate dinosaurs have feathers. Imagine terrifying giant chickens instead of inaccurate scaly raptors. Instantly makes the film 3x as scary for kids.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

That's right

The atmosphere layers of central Ontario in pop culture

oh now SUDDENLY he hates it when you tax international trade

Fun fact: More people voted in the 2024 Alberta NDP leadership race than in the 2026 federal NDP race.

Good thread from Jared here. Worth your time regardless of your priors.

True, however the bar on Tatooine and the local ganster family do enjoy live Jizz performances. (That's what it's called, I'm not making this up.)

$10 bucks says it was AI vibe coding, Wait, sorry, -$0.0500000000001137 bucks.

Something has gone spectacularly wrong with the back-end of the movie theater rewards points website 🙃

The community note.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Shared with Williamson, but I'm supportive of any opportunity to praise Ostrom.

AP News shows her treating it like a catwalk. Queen shit.

Gonna come in handy

Fact check: due to the rotation and revolution of the Earth, Canada is changing directions constantly

When!? What Deadline?

Part of the joy of doing philosophy of science is that most people think they already know the answers to the central questions and refuse to be dissuaded from their answers….

Hoping this will deal with the Tom Bombadil erasure.

This use of AI is criminally irresponsible.

The consumer welfare standard for US merger enforcement has been replaced by the "Does Trump think this is good for him personally" standard.

It weighs as much as a 3/4 tonne truck, the reviews say it doesn't handle well in the corners and is too long and too wide, and it's way too expensive. But I still kind of want one.

"If you need to pause and press buttons to get into Donut mode before you light the tires up in your neighbor's cul-de-sac, well, that's enough time to realize that it's a dumb idea to light up the tires up in your neighbor's cul-de-sac." www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a644...

If you're organizing a session at the upcoming CEA meetings and looking for a session chair or moderator, hit me up. I haven't registered yet, but I'm not presenting a paper and having something to do there would be a useful commitment mechanism.

Resident Evil Game plots: -Your Brother is missing. -Your Colleague is missing. -The President's Daughter is missing. -Your (different) Colleague is missing. -Your Wife is missing. Then, when you think you've got it figured out: -Your Daughter is missing and SURPISE, YOU'RE MADE OF MUSHROOMS.

An oppourtunty to remind people: "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" is a WAY better movie than you might think. In an era where films are often (correctly) derided as having a bland "Netflix" feel, "Weird" is beautifully shot with excellent cinematography and exquisit mise en scene. 1/2

What could classics, middle eastern studies, Latin American studies, or Russian teach us about the world we live in today???!

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what’s in the public interest is not what the public is interested in.”

We were crucified nearby… how often can you say that?

Shamed that I didn't think of this one. We played.

My anecdote I heard this week is that Anhydrous Ammonia shortages are looking so severe that power plants that use it for NOx emission control are scrambling for supply. This use is one of the "first in line" customers who pay a significant premium for binding contracts. It's not good!

Trump started this war despite Hollywood releasing two whole movies about why it's a bad idea for even very wealthy and powerful empires to start a fight with desert religious fanatics who can hold vital transportation inputs hostage. Though I suppose we're also building like 5 Skynets so... 🤷‍♂️

According to the rules conservatives established after Charlie Kirk, Trump can be fired for this, right?

I completly agree with the senitment here, but if you're searching for an explanation, consider maslow's hierarchy of needs combined with a narrow self-centered world view. Their intollarance for people different from them and disinterest in the rest of the world overcame a lot. But maybe not this.

The oil price shock seems like a very positive shift in our terms of trade. Why hasn't that affected CAN$ very much (yet)? - are there offsetting shifts? - is it just a delayed reaction thing? - should I think of the 2005-2012 high C$ era more about the capital account than the current account?

This is interesting from @financialtimes.com and IISS: the attack on Diego Garcia, even if unsuccessful, is signalling to Europe that if they get involved in the war, Iran has ballistic missiles with range of at least 4000km -- enough to reach most European countries (except, ironically, Spain).

This was the only game Rod and Todd Flanders were allowed to have in the house

Any bets on how long it takes modders to mod in Thomas the Tank Engine?

I spoke to my calculator, what it said will shock you.

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones

Remembering the ancient ways

See also: Will Arnett