Anyway, I don’t have a coup de grace to finish this off, I started laughing at COAT BATH and then spent too long thinking about it for real in relation to my actual work and so bla bla bla long thread. GenAI will never and fundamentally *can* never design buildings or landscapes or anything 8/FIN

My President told me Jim Comey keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to Mar-A-Lago and gets a new prosecutor afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prosecutors to Jim Comey and then his Attorney General started crying.

three years ago today ChatGPT launched. so i wrote about its legacy (for now). (turns out a whole hell of a lot happened in just 3 years) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

We should Glonzo this

Honestly, the entire thing strikes me as an example of terminal lawyer-brain. The truth is that the point at which a civilian authority is issuing manifestly unlawful orders, you've entered a state of exception and the truth is a soldier can end up being shot for obeying or refusing.

i think Gilligan is good at how he draws a continuity between Carol's exhaustion at needing to put up with an absurd situation pre-Event and an infinitely worse one post-Event. And there is a kind of gaslighting too in how the Others are infinitely "friendly" in a creepy way

Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

@profanity.accountant hit me

What is this Scooby Doo shit

The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.

every day logging on is a race to get a dumb joke off before you read the most terrifying news you’ve ever heard

"public figure whose schtick has created a fandom full of people he finds offputting" is a phenomenon that explains quite a bit of elite dysfunction in the 21st century

The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians. As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office. At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune. At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.

damned if the last sequence in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles doesn’t get me every time

bash is a fully featured programming language and if you use it as one you deserve everything that ensues

Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

NEW: The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.

currently in my “stable high performance” era

i think everyone should eat the food that makes them happy :)

unfortunately this is probably not the day to die on the hill of "you are using 'parameter' when you mean 'argument'" but I will still be Mad About It

On Bluesky, thanksgiving is the time of year when all the best people on this site roll out their worst takes.

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

I feel like 30 percent support for going to war with Venezuela—a terrible idea that nobody has bothered to justify through reason or propaganda—is a pretty good proxy for Trump’s floor of support.

You might not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

why is “bicycle” shortened to “bike” and not “bice”

ryan lizza is asking you to decide if you’re normal sick or willing to pay for this shit sick

hard launch. on truth social. mamdani broke his brain.

I love the way if you turn off AI in Gmail, it removes your tabs along the top and dumps everything into the main inbox instead, even though those predated AI by years. Talk about spiteful little fucks.

Press: "Do you think the President is a fascist?" Mamdani: "All right. Years of prep. Months of training. This is the moment where I straddle the line between saying the correct thing, while not compromising my position within the system trying to destroy me. I must---" Trump: "bro just say yes"

this kind of thinking is why tumblr will never be successful in politics

honestly biggest sign that this is personalist authoritarianism with a New Right wing attached versus the other way around

the number of routes to a particular point on a manifold scales witih its dimension

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

It's on apt. It's literally on Cargo. It's on DockerHub with ads. It's literally on nuget. You can probably find it on snap. Dude it's on portage. It's a Homebrew original. It's on pacman. You can download it on nixpkgs. You can go to pkgsrc and watch it. Log onto the Windows Store right now.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Very important for people to read this portion of the Epstein Files Transparency Act so you understand 1) why Mike Johnson was so upset today, and 2) what is NOT permitted to be redacted by the DOJ.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith