LinkedIn is where you find people who say “Be the change you want in the world. I think that restaurants shouldn’t rely on tips to prop up wages. That’s why I don’t tip.”

When Boston has rendering issues…

For non-NYCers here is the relevant wild generalization you need: - the Yankees are for cops - the Mets are for Queens - yeah the Nets are in Brooklyn now but we still think of them as NJ. - football is MAGA coded and played in NJ - Hockey is for Long Island & white - THE KNICKS ARE FOR EVERYONE

Grew up on Long Island in the 1980s. The whole thread tracks.

Oh. Huh. *that’s* the future tense of the verb “bangarang”. #eurovision

Assertion: Every decade gets the James Bond it deserves. Craig’s Bond was brilliant at being “the blunt-weapon-in-a-suit who is getting disillusioned with the power he represents” which was definitely of its time. Thing is, what’s this decade’s Bond?

Random travel plug adapter musings: I do find it funny how the type E plug (the Schuko plug) has this very “what if Germans engineered the living hell out of a plug/outlet?” feel to it. Similarly, the UK type G plug is “what if some Victorian engineer designed a plug/outlet” feel. 1/

אחת עשרה פגישות הסתיימו, עוד אחת נשארה. נראה שבחרתי בזה.

It’s the late nineties. I had just moved to Cambridge from NYC. The first morning I wake up as a MA resident I see some guy slowly driving by with a megaphone mounted to his roof saying “TODAY IS STREET CLEANIN’. MOVE YAH CAH AW IT’LL BE TOWED.”

I hear people say “I spent $1000 on Claude tokens” with same energy as “I spent $1000 on gems in Genshin Impact.” Different path, same high.

This is a great example of someone using Masshole in the best possible way. “Is that a question?” “Yeah, kinda, like… are we being pricks? Are we trying to do nothin’? Cause it seems like we’re doin’ nothin’.”

Things I say at work: “I’ll have a video of it for the next meeting. Live demos are always tricky, especially with dairy products.”

היו לי היום עשר פגישות. מישהו אמר לי שזה בונה אופי. אני סקפטי.

This morning’s wake-up process, summarized:

Orban? Na, bro.

A made-for-LinkedIn subject line but also actually true: “How being my EVE Online corporation’s deranged spreadsheet guy taught me how to enjoy JIRA.” #youcannotjudgemeinanywaythatmatters

My pointless take on an edit button: No, because a social media post is interacted with at a moment in time. The like/repost is for the post that existed when the reader clicked the button. An edit button breaks that implicit agreement.

Annual reiteration of a pointless hill I will defend to the end of my days: New England (with the possible exception of Fairfield County, CT) should be on Atlantic Standard Time all year.

This whole thread. There are a lot of great thoughts in this, but the one that resounds most with me is that the point of iterating on solutions to a problem is to figure out what the *problem* is.

I almost posted “Israel is a US client state entirely propped up by American military funding without which it would cease to exist while also being the all powerful mastermind pulling all the strings in the US government which it controls completely” but I realized some of you really believe that

Most Recent Block: Dude who Quote-posts with “I must be cool, I just got blocked for being <insert virtue here>.” No. You didn’t. All you did was run away while throwing antisemitic slurs out the back of a truck. Go be a shitty human being elsewhere.

Boston in a blizzard I know I know It’s serious

DOCTOR EMILIO BLIZZARDO SEZ LAFFA WHILE-A U CAN.

BIG WHITE NEMESIS A BOMBOGENSIS EVERYBODY SHOVEL WHEN THE SNOW COMES HOME

If your primary justification for AI is “Yeah, it hallucinates and is inaccurate, but so are 90% of humans.”, I politely request that you to take at least one (1) linearly-experienced, non-summarized, philosophy course at your local community college. Keywords: “Theory of Mind”

“I don’t see color.” Okay, but I know what would’ve happened if my mom told me to clean my room and I said “I don’t see messes.”

It's with great irony I note that the Kid Rock halftime alt-cast was a sterling example of how “separate but equal” has always been a farce.

Not betting on the game. (not my thing) Not betting on It Happening. (gross) But if there are over/under bets on the Nielsen rating from the TPUSA halftime show, I would at least think about it for a few seconds.

Friend in the northern NYC burbs sent me a picture of his TV, tuned to The Weather Channel. “Jim Cantore is here. We’re fucked.”

אין מספיק מעלות בחוץ. ❄️

slightly diminish a game: Mostly Satisfactory

<slaps top of set-top box> You can fit a whole Space Knight in this much ROM!

BREAKING: Vast majority of US residents about to learn that there are different kinds of crude oil. Film at 11.

Happy 2026, all. What defaults will you reconfigure in the new year?

We’re trying something new this year at Arisia - a crafter/maker barter market. :)

Today was the first day that Google came up with an utterly useless set of answers for me. Not “I could done a better search”, not “had to click a couple of pages into the results.”, just this wall of AI-slop with accompanying links to AI-slop. This is an information Kessler Event and it sucks.

The place I finally got to re: “AI imagery and video” is by asking myself “where is the craft?” ie. “What was actually created by the person, using the skills they have practiced and learned?” 1/

This is not a place of honor Fa la la la la, la la la la

“Antisemitism isn’t just prejudice. It’s a full-stack conspiracy system.” is *definitely* going into the rhetorical rotation.

My new post-interview instructions: “Thanks for taking the time to interview the candidate. Please send me two paragraphs along with a rating by EOD. Avoid using ChatGPT. You stand in judgement of another human. Respect your role, respect the candidate, and respect yourself.”

TIL that the Hebrew word “balagan” (“a mess”/“messed up”) is a direct copy from the Polish “bałagan”, with the exact same connotations.

בחוץ מינוס 11 מעלות ואני סוף סוף שותה קפה חם. אפילו לי יש גבולות.

The great thing about prediction markets is they’ll tell you the outcome the moment that it happens.

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My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Should the Arisia convention take a one-year break in 2027? Arisia Corp members will vote to decide at the 12/9 Corp meeting (7pm, Zoom) what the con will do in 2027. Anyone who has attended at least one Arisia con will be able to attend and comment. For more info visit  buff.ly/4aMUB4l.

It is so important to not just know things but know them in relation to other things AND be able to express those connections to others. It’s a toughy sometimes.

The New England regionalism “all set” exists because “nay” is no longer in common use. It’s a negative answer to an affirmative question. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

No one tell the GenAI “will replace ‘unskilled’ jobs” boosters that they’re speedrunning Taylorism. They want to find it out for themselves, and it would be rude to stand in the way.