He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

mr nolan make this into a movie next

When my brain is shutting down and When Harry Met Sally and A League of Their Own are briefly combined into a single, perfect movie

Look, you can make your little jokes but Pantoliano Syndrome is no laughing matter.

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

“Now the clouds part and for the first time he sees the lights of the city from 40,000 feet, instilling a lifelong love of aviation, which will be both a blessing and a horrifying, unquenchable thirst…”

The story feels tailor-made for Bluesky

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

I don't think the NYT other mainstream papers literally have a hole on the front page with a label that says "INSERT NEGATIVE MAMDANI STORY HERE" and then just search for whatever is the best story they can find that fits it, but if you assume that's true you will predict a lot of their coverage.

“If people are demolishing the new WaPo videos here then what does it look like on twitter” I asked myself and the answer is “twitter doesn’t know they exist”. They’ve been making these since February and this RFK one’s the tweet with the highest engagement.

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

my favorite genre of international dialogue

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Syndergaard is such a perfect avatar for the MAHA movement – a guy who probably cost himself several hundred million dollars via his persistent belief in quack medicine, most famously the time he refused an MRI while playing with a partially torn muscle then pitched again and fully tore it

California already contributes $250B more in federal taxes per year than it receives back in federal spending, by far the largest donor state in the country. That's not enough for the GOP, they want to steal more and more. Intolerable

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fish in a barrel for Chotiner on this one but I had a good laugh at this part of the exchange www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

Every line of this poster is more baffling than the last, it stopped me dead in my tracks

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

The site is up with the first two items, take one home with you why don'tcha sam-spv-shop.fourthwall.com

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Something we don’t talk about enough is that moment in Unfrosted when Jerry Seinfeld stops the movie dead so three middle aged adults can blissfully enjoy breakfast cereal for ten seconds

and a lot of schools directed a bunch of money into their compsci departments at the expensive of other things. Less insane than the AI stuff, but still the "chasing the soccer ball" appoach to higher ed

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

So much angst when I was a kid about about our being web literate on the search engine of the day (altavista) which became obsolete the second google showed up, and meanwhile zero training for the things that actually mattered (torrenting movies and cyberbullying public figures)

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

I did not expect my Mike Nichols book to make an extended appearance on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver tonight, but it did! You'll never guess the reason...unless you follow dolphin news closely.

and I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more and I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more and I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more and I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more and I would walk 500 miles just to be the man who walked 4,500 miles

It seems they’re having a bit of a row on Downing Street…

thinking back on a classic mishap

If you entered college in 2022, one of the most popular majors, the kind of boring field that was supposed to guarantee you a lifetime of stable employment, was comp sci. Four years later anyone who enrolled in that is facing a labor market apocalypse because of AI. Students do not like this!

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Koyaanisqatsi

Just a reminder that if anyone wants to watch a full hour of Krispy Kreme donuts on a conveyor belt set to the Twin Peaks theme, I got you covered

Dartmoor is truly incredible

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

This is why the dynamic between Lucille Bluth (played by the late Jessica Walter) and Lucille Austero (played by Liza Minelli) as primary “social rivals” in Arrested Development is so good

Sesame Street is just leaving money on the table not having an account that’s just Oscar the Grouch rating ballpark food and saying “scram!” to all of them

I genuinely feel like people should be much nicer to each other than they are, but I have always, always loved the thing of professional comedians being brutally mean to each other for the sake of shock value. I would love to have a friendship this close

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Siri, why did Martha Stewart go to prison?