random opinion but Paris Geller / Liza Weil was the best part of Gilmore Girls. it should have been Melissa McCarthy but she did not have a lot to work with.

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The tiring thing about this site is that people don’t seem to grasp that two things can both be true: (1) the AI adoption mania is being driven by a lot of charlatans and executives who don’t even know what AI is (2) AI is actually an incredibly powerful, epoch changing technology

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i’m sorry if you followed me for [the cake posts] mostly i just complain about politics and whatever i’m reading

i thought today was tuesday…

all the bsky people reading papal encyclicals because it’s suddenly cool… man i’m too far ahead on every trend.

work done, now time for back day.

This seems spot on to me. When bsky dies I hope I never make another account. It’ll be like waking up after a long bad dream.

Everyone should read this.

Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “Little Exercise” #lunchpoems

i have zero background in anthropology and can’t speak to his accuracy but Levi-Strauss’s account of the symbolic structure of indigenous eagle hunting is very cool.

cardio ✅

nice thing about getting older is the ability to give a well structured hour long technical presentation with zero notes or preparation.

media market consolidation ended up serving everyone worse.

tiktok has fully pivoted on the patagonia question and it’s interesting to watch it happening

We are being governed by the biggest group of idiot conmen in history. And every day my brain melts a little from listening to them speak.

i just passed a guy with the worst case of ILS (invisible lat syndrome) i’ve seen in ages. props to you, skinny straight man. flex those ghost muscles! fill that space!

gloomy

so blah, very blah

chest ✅

i’m so irritable/gloomy lately.

we have invented edible (?) quickrete

this one is stuck in my head today

Today’s poem: Richard Wilbur, “A Summer Morning” #lunchpoems

The Obama DoD didn’t allow trans personnel to serve openly in the military till 2016. Should the admin have refrained from projecting the pride flag on the white house in summer 2015 because their policies weren’t genuinely inclusive?

I saw a reddit post complaining about how few companies are updating their social media logos for pride this year, and after years of people complaining about how corporate recognition of pride was rainbow washing, I find this exasperating.

How could you say no?

the voice of my beard is deeper than all trademarks

because of your mom

This might be the best thing I've ever seen

ok fine Jeff, your tv show ad is cool, i will circulate it.

linguistic prescriptivism is like a viral reservoir for platonism

since i’m posting cake today, here are some cakes i have made.

FYI Google was already using AI models in search in 2019.

“that’s not the definition of _____.” “whose definition?” “it’s just *the* definition. educate yourself!” “ok, but who determined that the meaning you have in mind is the right one?” “it’s the accepted definition” “accepted by whom? how do we know?”

guys should i post the video of me singing along to “No Surprises” while i walk around manhattan shirtless?

i’ve spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours using AI tools over the past 9 months. i have successfully avoided personalizing Claude, using it for therapy, or mistaking its sycophancy for a reflection of my own world historical genius.

there are three good stoic movies: Groundhog Day Palm Springs The Map of Tiny Perfect Things They are all, fittingly, the same movie.

wait does this mean sharon will be back soon?

beard is out of control

This is me: - spend weeks vaguely intending to plan a trip - spend two days optimizing hotels and flights to minimize costs - last second "oh why don't I spend 1/3 of my entire annual travel budget on 2 nights in this nice hotel at the end" - agony

Andor was somehow one of the best politics tv shows ever made?

Some examples of reactionary mainstream movies. 🧵

shoulders ✅

man language games are so much fun.

Sed contra: Forrest Gump. i don’t know what “great art” means but it is reactionary, populist, and very successful.

starting this:

I woke up at 7:30 Spent a couple hours watching engineering videos in bed Went back to sleep ~10am Slept until 1:30. I've been getting plenty of sleep but somehow I really needed that.