Imagining Homer doing his performance of the epic while Ancient Greek Hans Zimmer stands next to him and yells BWAHHHHHHH every few minutes.

Top-tier Divorced Guy behavior: thinking your ex-wife is willing to cover and lie for you and not being right about that.

England had 44% of possession. Then they scored. For the next 30 minutes, that plummeted to 12%. On the psychology of protecting a lead and playing not to lose: www.stevemagness.org/p/the-only-t...

Obviously some of it is just aging, but whatever they’re doing to gravitas-max Ossoff’s look is really excellent work.

Trials would be ideal, but if they for some reason fail at that, Democrats must at least commit to making the names of people who made each of these specific decisions public, so they can’t escape them the rest of their lives.

Evil. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Why don’t the pro-natalists try to ban vasectomies? Pretty low lift way to increase the number of children.

You guys might not know this but obscure historical fact: Argentina and England once fought a war against each other that's now pertinent due to current events.

Given your standard American diet you have to imagine that most people are having pretty regular diarrhea so imagine how bad it must be to generate news stories and medical alerts.

Little trick DOCTORS WONT TELL YOU but the best way to boost your testosterone is to lose weight, stop drinking, and sleep more. Perhaps they could try that over at DoD.

If you’re going to do this, we should go all the way and give all the soldiers deca and tren. Might as well have super soldiers.

I want to be upfront: there's something genuinely fascinating here, and also something I should flag. That said — and I want to sit with this rather than rush past it — the "is said to" is doing a lot of work. This isn't a filing; it's sourcing. Let me pull apart what's load-bearing.

"The variance you're asking about has been searched for under a streetlight that was never over the keys." Surely someone at Anthropic is like "I don't know if our special creature should be talking this way?"

Overheard in the office: "Everyone I know who is rooting for Argentina, it's because their wife is from Argentina."

Listening and learning

It’s so funny to visit New York and be having The Most Exciting Night You’ve Had In Months while everyone you interact with is Having Tuesday Night.

Person is eaten in Dahmer-involved gastronomy

'Why is Pedro Porro standing THERE?" is a question I find myself asking a lot—either before something really good or really bad happens.

Maybe I'm just noticing it more but it does feel almost like Claude is in this recursive loop where Claudeisms are multiplying. Some paragraphs are basically unreadable right now due to multiple laughable half-sensical aphorisms. "The gap between those two answers is the whole story."

Good essay from @bcmerchant.bsky.social about the horrors of VAR during this World Cup, which notes some numbers about how much fans hate its implementation. But it's important to remember that fans were demanding it! This is from a 2013 YouGov Poll. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-var-t...

Always have to wonder when photographers shoot a building lit from the bottom from this specific angle if they are making an intentional winking reference or not: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An odd allegation in the Apple/OpenAI lawsuit involved OpenAI executives tricking an Apple supplier into revealing a proprietary "metal finishing process." Why is that so important to Apple: www.fastcompany.com/91572830/why...

I wonder if other cities should consider copying New York and getting a lot of cool, good looking people to live there.

Waymo’s July 4 chaos in San Francisco raises new questions about how robotaxis can work at scale f-st.co/cboYUDQ

Airbnb CEO posting an aggressively AI-y sounding thread. Really something that this is just how we're communicating now.

Goes beyond Woke 1! Huge amounts of what’s wrong with how we communicate now is people taking concepts that should have remained contained to their original use case and applying them outward without any care or understanding of their context or origin.

I’m going to crush some trivia in a decade by remembering the name “Darline Nardone”

I don’t find the airplane exit row assurance program very reassuring and think there obviously should be a mock-up of the exit door at the gate and everyone in the exit row should have to demonstrate they can lift it?

Listening to The Bends today and having a vision of an aging Radiohead coming back around to realizing that verse/chorus/verse in 4/4 with some sick guitar is actually awesome and putting out a killer late-period rock album.

“Darline Graham Nordone”

Basically putting everything I read into Pangram at this point, fascinating what you find!

Mindblowingly weird and disturbing AI slop ad I was just served for some supplement. Cannot describe how weird both the song and the animation gets. I watched the whole thing twice youtu.be/Ez447l_jQUc?...

Mindblowingly weird and disturbing AI slop ad I was just served for some supplement. Cannot describe how weird both the song and the animation gets. I watched the whole thing twice youtu.be/Ez447l_jQUc?...

Perhaps we could just have some system where people could indicate that they deserve credit for knowing about the existence and general outline of the Falklands War and then everyone could skip doing the same version of one general joke.

This headline is a lot like an LLM in that each word is the most likely word to follow the one before it. nypost.com/2026/07/09/u...

People don’t know how funny these have gotten

People are really memory holing how strong the demand for VAR was before it was introduced.

Imagine every meeting and memo and argument about AI use at your work but it’s happening in a Boko Haram cell.

Perhaps I need to update my diarrhea taxonomy but it feels like explosive diarrhea is somewhat redundant.

When I was a kid, a guide in the rainforest showed me a wild fig and told me about the fig wasps and it grossed me out so much I’ve never eaten one since and can, in fact, barely be in the room when someone else eats one. I wonder if this fact will be able to overcome my phobia.

When ordering at a restaurant, politely ask the server "could this food or beverage be contaminated with feces?" If they say yes, consider ordering another item.

You people making me do this again. Any thoughts about Doctor Oz, his own fitness, or anything else aside, this is a actually a very reasonable and correct first cue to give to an inactive person who cannot currently squat below parallel as they’re learning the movement.

I think Anthropic is in a real danger zone with how rapidly Claude-isms are becoming both their own meme and making actually working with it like getting stabbed in the eye over and over.

A lot of time you’d just have written notes from your phone call with the person where they explained how to get there.

Also they just gave everyone As before AI, also? Grade inflation was already a "crisis" before AI! It's both very funny that kids think they need to cheat to get good grades but also funny that the professors are like "every kid got an A on the test because of AI." They were all getting As before!

This is a very silly story but if you work in digital media you can see the exact sequence of data and meetings that would lead to its publication.

In a way, anything can be The News