Learning that Dana White (UFC CEO) is on the board of directors at META and many things make more sense now.

Trying to convince my girlfriend that Sabrina Carpenter is making a David Lee Roth reference with her Grammy performance but also unwilling to pour over the latter's work to find visual evidence.

Gen Z Girlfriend: What's Wrong? Millennial Boyfriend: My podcast changed its format!

Cannot stress how much I dislike the practice of making every law or bill an acronym. It's not clever. Congress people should hate it for aalnonymizing their work.

Randomly: Doubt President Trump has ever fired a gun. Could be wrong.

Great thread on contingency.

Where were you when Phil Hartman got thrust upward to Heaven by hundreds of bowls of cereal in the colon blow commercial.

Horses are the English of the animal kingdom.

We joke but I think we could get Trump mad enough to die on the toilet if a future Congress gave the Congressional Gold Medal to the Danish king.

Weird to see the number of people running flea flickers in the NFL. If they had spent their childhood playing Tecmo Super Bowl they'd know they were doomed to fail.

Eric Adams rug pull is just him creating a carveout for a bribe, right? Like, we've moved beyond the need for Al Smith type no-show chairmen gigs and just do the bag of cash, right?

Shareholders mentioned in Da Pitt!!!

Discovering that the guy who directed Margin Call aldo directed Kraven the Hunter. This is what everyone upset about Chloe Zhao directing The Eternals must have felt like.

Telling my girlfriend that Orson Welles's "The Lady From Shanghai" is my Below Deck.

More thoughts on this new show they call The Pitt.

Many people are asking, what if there were a woman Dr. House?

Santos!!!!

I should donate blood

Girlfriend trying to get me into some new show with Noah Wyle from Librarian: Quest for the Spear, something about hospitals. Could be good?

Thread. My own brief experience interviewing for a non-tenure job left me without the position because it seemed obvious to them that I didn't want to stay there long term and the last hire also left after a year. Depts. hate the hiring process and they're just as scared of making the wrong choice.

Every time George Bailey yells at a kid I nod in respect.

Even further thought: Has anyone written anything about how effective altruists went from celebrating agricultural production advancements to being all in on AI?

I don't think leftists should do praxis. I think when they do it they're reinforcing organized crime.

Random thought: Fallout 4 would be dramatically improved if they gave the player character the Dark Urge treatment from BG3.

Love the idea of using a single piece of media to use and revisit to see how your understanding changes in light of new information.

Why did all these guys settle on pull ups? They're genuinely hard! Pro athletes struggle with them. There are other show-off exercises that are more manageable.

ACAB includes Mr Rogo in the Poseidon Adventure

Talk of worst song ever is a fun distraction but it's also worth keeping in mind that for it to really count the song has to be at least somewhat enjoyable. It's not really fun to talk about otherwise. Which is why I think Starship's "We Built this City" works.

Randomly fired up Dragon Age Ultimate Edition and I had forgotten how that game featured way more fiddly character and tactical bits than the later ones. I can see why people feel dismayed at how the later games got stripped down even though I mostly appreciated the changes.

Wrapped up replaying the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time in 5 years and I had forgotten how much that ending kills all the narrative and gameplay momentum. I liked the exposition of the 1st game and those kinds of expository moments fit there, but by the 3rd it just sucks. /1

youtu.be/PHt5Y5-6Xe4?... Between this and the Seven Up video, I've got a lot of ideas I need to try out.

Seeing people talk about non-profits and I think this is another great moment to recommend Paul Sabin's Public Citizens. 🗃️

My College AI take is that its proposed use case is really about how upper management detests large swaths of their human employees and want them to be replaced and that's why we're getting AI for admissions and instructions but not coaching or administration.

I feel like I'm not bringing anything new but how frustrating is it that Wicked's colors look so dull?

My hotter take about Lane Kiffin is that he should absolutely chase the bag at bigger and richer schools without facing opprobrium. None of the donors, boosters, and administrators care; and with NIL and transfer portal, it's not like the players are confined the way they once were.

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein review: The voice overs were dumb. The action, dialogue, and acting were expressive enough that anyone could pick up what was happening.

Honestly, an article on inexplicable and ritualistic violence is the perfect morning read for Thanksgiving. (More seriously, fascinating article). www.science.org/content/arti...

I just want what Billy Zane and Kate Winslet had in Titanic.

The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food

This is unrelated to the Lizza revelations, but one of my minor takeaways from reading "Going Infinite" was that the psychiatrist SBF used and later employed should probably lose his license. Anyways, rich people are always seeing therapists and maybe we should stop that.

Do you think Christopher Moltisanti would have liked vaporwave?

Between AI, Effective Altruism, and Crypto, it feels like a large swath of people thought Nozick's thought experiment on the utility monster was aspirational rather than cautionary.

Dealing with Verizon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrP-...

This is a much better summary/review of "Going Infinite" than I could ever intentionally write.

A lot of people have been asking what music we should be listening to in between Halloween and Thanksgiving to fight off Christmas Creep and I think the answer, given today's anniversary, is the music of Gordon Lightfoot.

If you could do the Ludovico technique to make Elon Musk watch one movie, which would you choose? I would pick The Magnificent Ambersons.

This turned out to be wrong. Oh well.

Further thoughts: I'm a little surprised at how credulous Michael Lewis is towards SBF's defense when the story Lewis tells is about a guy who takes a lot of risks, only focuses on his interests, plays loose with the rules, and has a record of losing a lot of money based on faulty reasoning.

Just finished "Going Infinite" and it's a good read. Pairs well with Zeke Faux's" Number Go Up." You can really tell Michael Lewis did not update any of his conceptions about SBF once the company went under and he went to jail.

Seeing a lot of ads for the canned meat Spam. Depression incoming.