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Sometimes one must make difficult choices. Sometimes the choice isn’t difficult at all; in such instances it’s simply the right thing to do. Ah, sweet relief. At last, a chance for peace.

I tell you NOTHING in the world tops pouring all your energy into performing music and then people get up and dance. Even when the gig is a pizza/brewery joint out in the middle of nowhere. Everybody havin’ a good time and the music’s alive? Goodamn, nothing tops it. Now back to doomscrolling 🤪

A great conversation. Fun to watch Krugman in real time realizing the breadth of the AI economics insanity. That said, for balance, I’d still love to see Kedrosky have a debate with a CTO-level person at one of the large AI companies. Or maybe a whole panel of such technical folks.

OMG, please tell me this is Facebook AI slop. Surely no venue could describe a humble cover-song folk guitar & bass duo this way. First, it ignores Robert, the singer/guitarist, and seems centered on me. I guarantee I won't bleed the songs. I just play bass, LOL! This is a gig happening tomorrow.

I’ll never forget the conference where Gehry joked, comparing his designs to crumpled-up pieces of paper—and then did just that: crumpled a sheet of paper, tossed it on floor. Gasps from audience. You could tell some in audience were ready to kill to get it. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

*Really* nice to see here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And you don’t have to immediately roll up all the windows due to the bus’s belching toxic diesel smoke. (Except when there’s a big hulking diesel pickup truck in front of the bus and it is belching thick toxic diesel smoke. 🤷‍♂️) But not today 😎 #EV

Total tracks listened to on Slopify in 2025: 0 Total minutes listened to on Slopify in 2025: 0 Take that, Slopify

Is it SAFE?

Spock: Captain, sensors picking up a large house directly in our path up ahead. Impact in 4.6 seconds. Kirk: A large what, you say? Spock: There, Captain.

Meta’s new data center in Louisiana needs power so here comes Entergy’s doofuses performatively breaking a bed of prepared “ground” to start building a 1.5MW fossil fuel power station just for Meta. AI: the gift that keeps on giving—to oil/gas interests. 🤷‍♂️ oilandgaswatch.org/facility/rec...

It absolutely blows my MIND that a four-trillion-dollar company can’t fix the stupidest bug in their own Music app in iOS for iPhone—namely, the one that shows the wrong album covers for albums downloaded from Apple’s Music app on a Mac. Apple REALLY REALLY hates people owning their own music. 🤬🤮😱

Ok movie music people, tell me this song doesn’t sound like the precursor to one of the main themes in the DUNE films. Starts around 4:20… islandofthegods.bandcamp.com/track/standi...

Never heard of SMX stock until just now and have no idea what is. That said: compare these views. In the past two weeks the stock is up roughly 2000 percent. Woo-hoo, right? Well sure, if you bought it 2 weeks ago. If you bought it 2 years ago, it’s gone from $157,000,000/share to $61/share.🤷‍♂️

Friends don’t let friends watch movies on screens this tiny. 👀

Don’t read this. Uh-oh, you’re reading this. Ok, since you’re reading this, think of all the concerts you’ve ever been to. No, don’t list them out or share them on social media. Just … think of them. That’s it. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Not good, not good at all. Oh but you were saying what, about Nuzzi/Lizza? phys.org/news/2025-11...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen? The Who - Largo, MD The Who - Philadelphia, PA The Who - Hampton Roads, VA The Who - San Diego, CA The Who - San Jose, CA

This is the way

Good essay. AI bad. We don’t need no stinkin’ AI. Amen to that. fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i...

THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT turned out to be a fascinating documentary that starts out being about the lives of 4 women in the nation of Artsakh next to Azerbijan. Suddenly Turkey and Azerbijan invade Artsakh and within a year or so it’s all taken over by Azerbijan. A worthy film. Learned tons.

Here’s a mystery. Experienced pilot takes a small aircraft up from small Sedona AZ airport in July 2020. Loses power, altitude. Makes an emergency landing on a street. Now, in 2025, fuselage sits along a street in Santa Fe with drunken skeleton inside. 🤷‍♂️ www.kathrynsreport.com/2020/07/beec...

The corporate media are all in on this deception. It’s a complete betrayal of public trust.

There's also the Star Trek Original Cast Movie Ranking Personality Type Index, as there should be. And of course, I am a 642351, as all people should be. 😎

According to CNN, the mood of the stock market is “extreme fear.” According to Warren Buffett, “Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.” Well all those green pre-market futures numbers should give you the shivers. 🤷‍♂️

@jonchristian.net So the editor of Futurism is going to stay silent about its Tesla article?

@hcrichardson.bsky.social FYI that alleged MAGA map you reposted is misleading and wrong. Read the replies to find out what that map is actually depicting (fasten seat belt first).

These frickin‘ AI boosters pop up everywhere like weed infestations. Even #Hawaii has to deal with them. www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/hawa...

Weekend read: insane true-crime tale of guy in Honolulu in 2013 falsely accused of stealing a mailbox—a federal felony crime. The federal public defender is initially skeptical of innocent defendant’s story—which explodes into biggest police corruption scandal in Hawaii history. Great, wild read!

Anyone else getting Spanish-language ads in the middle of podcasts they’re listening to? Just seems so wrong and financially wasted from a targeting perspective, I mean the podcast itself is in English. If I were the advertiser I’d wanna know why is this showing up here? Wanna bet this is … AI?

If you use Gmail, Gmail is using you. Because AI, naturally. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Juxtaposition.

"Only 1 left in stock - order soon." Eh, I'm not sure. Kinda leaning on "pass."

Another example where the reviews are more fun than the movie.

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Saw this on the NYT homepage. I have a growing discomfort with many documentary films because of tricks they pull. For instance, I just can't watch Peter Jackson's GET BACK because I know he spliced footage, e.g. a Beatle smiling as a reaction shot to something Paul said, but that never happened.

Chotiner needs to interview Nuzzi.

Lol. You’d think by 2025 Wall Street and software companies putting out and displaying financial info would know what a ’stock split’ was. Guess not. (Look at far right of graph, then the Fast Company headline at bottom.)

Watch this. Then think about it the next time you fill up at the gas station. 🤷‍♂️

Who knew there’s a BEATLES ANTHOLOGY IV out now?

@peteramescarlin.bsky.social Thanks for doing the work on this. Just arrived today. Looking forward to devouring it!

Is it a law—if not, it should be by now—that any cold-call techbro biz email starting with “Hey” followed by your first name, followed by a one-line opener paragraph saying only “Hope this mail finds you well” might as well say “Hope this pitch is doomed from the start” because it invariably is. 🤷‍♂️

Wall Street financial media endlessly, day after day, pumping out we-really-know-nothing headlines with the word “as” in them, as Earth continues orbiting the Sun

True story: I lived in La Jolla, California for 25 years and two cars I'd see quite often down in the village, especially at the post office: the cars belonging to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), and his wife. Easy to spot: the license plates were "GRINCH" on one and "IM RICH" on the other. 🤷‍♂️

One of the perks of being a published author in the Penguin Random House empire is authors get a 50% discount to buy *any* book by any author also published within the empire. Why it took me 9 yrs to take advantage of this, no idea. But it's nice and now I am hauling in new books, Amazon-free!

Yo @support.bsky.team — what good is the Discover tab if the posts there are nearly all ones I’ve already seen in my own feed? Shouldn’t Discover be 100% posts I have never seen? I bet users would find that far more useful. I sure would.

Well, not only is it taken, but it was registered in . . . 2019 🤷‍♂️

Psst: Hey Gullible, I mean, Mashable, they (and drivers of every make and model of vehicle) have been doing it for years

Can you imagine if Silicon Valley were even 1% as motivated and fired up and excited with an aggressive, thorough, measurable, impactful global climate crisis mitigation solution, as they are with . . AI? Yeah I can’t either. Raw greed doesn’t care about a hot planet. 🤷‍♂️

Another gorgeous perfect blue-sky springlike 64°F day for the start of the second week of November in 7200ft altitude Santa Fe, New Mexico. All of November has been like this so far. It should be gloomy, cloudy, gray, cold, windy, and snowy/icy already. This is not normal. 🤷‍♂️