I just watched a review of "I Love Boosters", and I just don't understand how criticism is supposed to work for a work of art this bold and fun.

I *think* we saw a pair of juvenile peregrine falcons along the Potomac today. Definitely falcon beak, but the plumage was all wrong for an adult peregrine.

U.S. sanctions on other countries are indefensible and it’s actually good if they win concessions to undo them.

I am watching one of the academics I follow freak out at some rando for basically no reason. And to the degree that there is a substantive disagreement, the rando is right. ☠☠☠☠

It never occurred to me to discourage our cockatiel. I just tried to give him some privacy.

1901 CE. Good morning! It's Monday.

Think like Graeber. Write like Asimov. That is the dream.

"Why does the well-off centrist governor allow police to beat up protestors?" is a question that answers itself IMO.

Music yourself, and music everyone around you.

I'm not dying on the Graham Platner hill because I'm not dying on the electoralism hill more generally.

TFW she questions your commitment to Team Sparkle Capitalism

"It's ok I wrote I strongly worded letter and made a speech in the senate" are you twelve?

Women are my favorite guy.

We've hit the point where just doing your job well and ethically can be a highly political act.

It is "unionize or die" time in American higher ed. Yes, that means you and your special work. I don't care if you're "not political," because our enemies are very political.

We had a week like this at NASA back in 08 or 09 after some Congressperson pitched a fit about some completely reasonable catering for a conference event.

I think I will have an easier time figuring out cold fusion than all of us together would have convincing the Democrats to do anything remotely useful.

This is a "male gaze" turducken.

To be clear: It's good. Boots Riley has made bold colorful art out of old-timey farce. The politics have all the subtlety of a brick to the landlord's face, but you wouldn't want it any other way.

Hot Take, re: The Baby Yoda Movie It's delightful. Also, it took 20 lb testicles to commit THAT hard to tiny puppets, and I am here for it.

We will *never* have a "real president" again. We'll have Gavin Newsom for a few years, and that is where this system will end. Liberals are adorable.

Ruining another casual conversation by saying that generative AI is incredibly unreliable even for that one little thing you like to use it for

So when I said "arm the homeless" 5 years ago I wasn't kidding. Y'all just didn't wanna hear me.

Gavin Newsom is nearly as bad as Abigail Spanberger. He just tweets better

Mediocre live music is better than pristine recorded music. I will die on this hill.

Fellas, is it bourgeois decadence to love your wife?

1420 CE

Are you telling me that he wasn't ten feet tall? ARE YOU TELLING ME HE DIDN'T WEIGH A FUCKING TON?

It's frog time here in Raytheon Acres.

TFW the AC works

Casting AI as a "culture war" issue is just one more way of trying to cover up the fact that IT DOESN'T WORK.

I Love Boosters (2026)

I predict that next week's Iran deal will also fall through. And the one after that. And the one after that.

This has probably been done by now

"Bad thing are bad" is an all-time banger and truly the song of our era.

We did not get home in time to get our pool passes, but looking at the weather, that is irrelevant.

It was Thiokol's desire to not alienate their one customer (the US gov't) by being the reason a launch attended by the Vice President got scrubbed. In other words: Same difference, man.

Just saw a little hawk hovering outside our hotel balcony, gliding in the wind. Great way to wrap up our vacation.

The idea that it's so valuable and so urgent that it's worth burning the planet is both (1) something these idiots believe and (2) part of the hype.

Not literally because of an IPO, but that is essentially what caused the Challenger Disaster.

No. The funniest part is that Gavin Newsom 100% would do that shit.

Still not as bad as what I initially thought a "groomfluencer" would be, after seeing the term.

Can I get a FUCK ICE in the chat?

No, actually, I am a little damaged by having voted for the CIA governor. And trying to rationalize that decision would damage me further. That is how consent-manufacturing works.

It's still a viable strategy, but only if you have a lot of friends do it with you.

Fuck off!

Overheard today in an AI testing/evaluation conversation: “the Turing test turns out to be a measure of gullibility”