He's a technology historian YouTuber known for, among other things, a six-part series on RCA's obscure vinyl video format and yet the last chapter of his latest video is by far the best speech about my country's current fascist crisis I've heard to date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

I feel like the rate at which republicans accuse their opposition of some wrong doing that ultimately ends up being the exact thing they themselves have been doing for years is shockingly high.

"What's the future like, Jack?" Well you can order tacos using your phone/pocket computer. "That's sick!" But it will result in immediately being sent two ads and a survey. "Does that happen with every restaurant?" With every *thing*. "That sounds like… a lot." Yup. The future is "a lot."

We did the Black Friday Sunday Ticket special to catch the end of the NFL season for $40. Not only did canceling involve some extra clicks, expanding "Manage membership" revealed the actual much larger price of renewal. Also, the first "manage" button before this expand didn't even work in Safari.

People blamed unions for job losses in the last century when the reality is those jobs would have been lost regardless as companies could find cheaper and unregulated labor in other countries. The only way the U.S. could have kept those jobs was to become China, a country with no labor rights.

While disappointed, I was not surprised that Belichick got snubbed by a petty minority of HOF voters given how few players from his dynasties have made it in so far. There are two HOFers who played most of their career under Belichick: Richard Seymour and Ty Law. For comparison, the Colts have five.

I always get really emotional watching my Pats, which I know is ridiculous. Those emotions are only briefly intense, like paper cuts. What's happening in Minnesota and elsewhere is more like a severe injury, the kind that makes the body go numb. These feelings are going to last.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Seems like a good way to pass the time with the kiddo during the freeze.

Billionaires: "OMG! Low birthrates are a major threat to our future." Progressives: "We should tax billionaires and make childcare free." Billionaires: "Not like that!"

Here’s one for @nytpitchbot.bsky.social.

Trotting this out again

As bad as the Times gets, and it gets really bad, at least they put Powell’s video front and center. Google News, at least when logged out on my work machine, buries it under business and only because the stock market tumbled. Editorial matters.

So after last night's collapse, is Jeff Hafley still a top head coaching candidate? Also score another one for nominative determinism. "Hire me and you'll get a solid thirty minutes of competitive football every week." "Don't you mean sixt…" "Two quarters of the best football you'll ever see!"

My awesome in-laws gave me the Return of Columbo on Blu-Ray for Xmas. The original series Blu-Rays are good, but these unfortunately crop from 4:3 to 16:9. My guess that KL Studio classics’ hands were tied on the later series since they did both. Still though, just look that they've done to my boy.

Who would have guessed Belichick's tenure at NC would outlast Pete Carroll's at the Raider's?

People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year

While I sorta get why some miss the old days of the CFB, it's fun seeing the 12 team playoff format make a mockery of the rankings for a second time.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

(Ok, having Patricia/Judge run offense is actually the first domino, but that came and went. Meyers is a continuous reminder of just how batshit Belichick got. "Oh look, that clearly good receiver we let walk for no reason is now singlehandedly turning around the Jags.")

You can feel this development if you go to any sporting events, every team is pushing luxury packages for a few thousand fans and trying to make the other 50,000 people in the stadium feel left out

Me: As a rational adult with sophisticated taste, I won't be swayed by your transparent attempts to appeal to my nostalgia. Nintendo/Shapefarm: Orbitals Me: Ffff…..

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Two disparate thoughts: First, one area Anil is cautioning against is using AI in place of thought. This will not only lead to deleterious outcomes with your projects, it will play into a narrative that you are merely an expensive factory worker who can be replaced by a much cheaper machine.

I guess my question is, is this "whoops, we gave you the originals and not the ones with VFX" or "oh crap, quick! fix the VFX"

My brain keeps coming back to this and it ties to a point I've made before, that nerds who were ostracized in school either deeply empathize with marginalized groups or seek out groups where they can ostracize others. It's why white cis nerds in particular are susceptible to right wing ideology.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

While I am not sure about the exact $140k figure, I agree with Michael's core argument and have long made similar arguments. Specifically that many “middle class” households are actually working class, in that they cannot afford leisure or unexpected costs without taking on debt.

So did the EC just resuscitate Do Not Track via regulation?

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

I am going to be annoyed by overscan being inexplicably enabled on hotel TVs for the rest of my life, aren't I?

I remember when he was just a humble plumber.

I had this take three years ago, including the comparison of VR headsets to PDAs and the “stepping stones” idiom. wormsandviruses.com/2022/06/step...

Just for laughs...

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Given all the ads for sports betting during football games these days, one for NFL-themed slot machines shouldn't be all that surprising. It's doesn't make it any less gross though.

Hey y'all. I made an Apple Messages sticker pack. apps.apple.com/us/app/macmo...

The Jets 2025 offseason leadership meeting.

I'm so fucking sick of this god damn, mother fucking run by assholes Biff timeline.

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

Just thinking about how there would be non-stop stream headlines about federal spending if a Democratic administration deployed social workers to help communities at the scale Trump has deployed ICE and other agencies to destroy them.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

I am in this photo and I don't like it.

"Biden is not in the Whitehouse so why do Democrats still have a Hunter Biden problem?" @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

I've hypothesized that post WWII America pivoted so hard toward fearing communism that we all got a huge dose of anti-communism propaganda and zero anti-fascist propaganda. That said, imagine if the tattoo in these reports was a hammer and sickle.

Testosterone being doled out by the bucketful as gender affirming care for cis-folk is the cherry on top of the shit sundae of our current political climate.

I once made the horrible revelation that the U.S. is uniquely unequipped when technology makes abundance possible without labor because Americans equate human value to the ability to work and make money. If the Vulcans came with a replicator tomorrow, our society would collapse.

It's worth noting how things that were just assumed for middle class boomers got increasingly harder to obtain for their children, making xennials and millennials even more susceptible to fascist propaganda. E.g. "DEI is why you can't afford a house like your parents could."

While maybe not everyone had an edgelord libertarian phase specifically, I think going through a shitty person phase is not that uncommon and especially among those still searching for confidence and identity. That's a lot of teenagers and twenty-somethings, myself included.