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.

Announcers talking about the 2006 WVU Sugar Bowl team and pepperoni rolls. Pure weapons-grade nostalgia.

I'm going to use this to pitch my pet solution to ideological balance in academia: only way to get more conservatives is to pay grad students, adjuncts, and professors better.

So is Marco Rubio Brian Schottenheimer in this scenario?

Random thought: A reason for the continued liberal freakout over cancel culture, college campus stuff is that the people freaking out were, by and large, the winners/survivors of the last culture war and so couldn't imagine being considered anything other than the vanguard of liberal thought.

Looking for a new place to rent and dropping copies of this in every apartment.

Watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Do non-verbal toons lack civil rights? The judge killed one in the dip while everyone watched without saying anything.

"Will Pope Leo grant JD Vance an annulment so he can marry Erica Kirk?" is the question that kicked off the American Schism and Ohio Papacy.

Only upside of our increasingly post-literate society is that no one will publish these and no one will care to read them.

Been slacking with interesting cocktails so I decided to make a Sazerac with apple cider syrup and a frozen cider cube. It's good but I think I could change the ratio to include some apple brandy or applejack.

Y’all should definitely give the song a listen, because it definitely sparks joy. And I love seeing @skatunenetwork.bsky.social clearly having fun while playing. youtu.be/LnYfIIdKT5k

This too is Protestantism.

Chris Pratt in a Sam's Club Commercial is giving off uncanny valley Paul Rudd replacement.

Getting a PhD in History really only prepared me for a job in academia or being a kept man to a wealthy woman and both positions are surprisingly hard to break into.

Just thinking of presidential architectural choices: When I was in Romania I toured Ceaușescu's presidential palace and I gotta say it was a good choice by the army to not let anyone in to see it after the revolution. A lot more heads would have rolled.

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll continue. Hercules: This is a family affair. I thought we all agreed that wives and children would be left out of our political peccadilloes?

Good thread. A little worrying and depressing in some ways.

Taking time out today to record myself explaining memes to the older people in my family chat.

Random observation: are paperback books and Steam games more or less the same price now? Seems like a dramatic shift from my younger days.

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Good thread. Another point, you can't say breakdancing is a serious sport and then make fun of people for studying it seriously.

Going to start telling students that the Utility Monster has a name and it's George.

Load-Bearing Inefficiencies should be the next trend in organizing.

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Further "The Natural" thoughts: This must be what it would be like if the made a movie about Jesus playing baseball.

Watching The Natural and wow did the early Simpsons just rip off movies in their entirety. They might still do that too but perhaps their source material is declining in quality.

As an aside, I was kind of hoping the Yankees would miss the playoffs just to have a bunch of old random people complain about the lack of discipline and the "Curse of the Beard" on sports radio and the internet.

My tepid college football take is that Lane Kiffin is a good coach and probably would have looked more impressive if sanctions hadn't hit USC.

"Home" gets a lot of crap for the evils of Stomp-Clap-Hey music but the real villain was obviously Hugo's weird cover of "99 Problems"

Why would someone be sexually attracted to a person who is proudly misinformed and wrong? Well, I'm told heterosexual women exist. *Canned sitcom laughter*

Watching Bladerunner 2049: Why is Ryan Gosling so sad, he has a cool jacket?

I think Will Stancil has the opportunity to unite his fight with people about registering for a protest with his fight about Uber eats by saying that burrito taxi drivers face a greater threat from this administration than people signing up for an Indivisible event.

Bluesky needs private message groups for events like this and to protect posters from their worst instincts.

This is Bluesky so it's hard to tell if this is riffing on the Eagles or the poster is an Ornithologist.

dropping Jared Lorenzen on the skyline, for vibes purposes

Tourism hot take: I don't think you should be allowed to take pictures of active churches/pilgrimage sites.