Malik Willis, I love you

The only source for this is a tweet that said “how funny would it be if [this] happened” and I feel like maybe we should have just a tiny bit more skepticism about believing everything we read on the internet

Maybe it’s just because I’ve changed over 10 years, but Stranger Things is just not good anymore. The dialogue is so cringe and it disappoints me.

Malik Willis, I love you

I feel like we’re losing the plot here because “is featured in photos that Epstein had saved” seems so tangential from what we’re actually talking about. It’s like finding a “Yoshi’s Island” ROM on Osama Bin Laden’s computer.

It’s an example of my unflinching pedantry, but I think Minecraft has ruined the definition of “strip mining” for a generation. Strip mining is when you strip away the entirety of material down to the stuff you want, not when you mine in “strips”

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

This is talking about the entire NDAA, which does contain some dumb culture war provisions, one that double super secret further bans trans athletes from the military academies they're already banned from Agree or not on the NDAA vote, framing it as a standalone anti-trans bill is outrage farming

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I just learned about this and I think it would be better if we started treating these dogwhistles as genuine expressions. “Murray, why are you advocating to overthrow the government?”

Sometimes you want to do an experiment but you need an objective with less spherical aberration. It goes to show you that you can’t Plan Fluor everything

It’s very on-brand by our terrible president to make his own allies look this bad

Someone on the field just congratulated Chris Godwin by saying “Octopus”, which means I haven’t been giving that term the respect it deserves (I never thought anyone offline would say it)

I’m proud of my home state for sticking with its regular, biased maps

“Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal??” permanently lives in my head rent-free

Starting a “totally not for oil” war war with Venezuela by stealing an oil tanker is something I thought would be too stupid for even this administration

VS Code is a super piece of software and I have to give Microsoft credit for it. They’ll add like 2 good features and some stupid copilot shit to it every month, but they still let you turn any of it on or off.

I simply cannot believe this. Literal “does not compute” moment for me

Edging is an NSFW topic, but it’s really a fantastic analogy to a lot of situations that can be described as “do as much as you can without doing [final thing]”. What a shame.

When I was driving home for Thanksgiving, I listened to an audiobook that was part 1 of a trilogy. It was a good experience but book 2 has a different reader and I genuinely can’t handle the change of voices from one book to the next. I was so close to being cool with audiobooks

the exact argument playing out in rural areas right now is that solar, wind, and data centers are bad. There’s no distinction, just a mythical belief that “farmland = good; other things =bad”

Chemists in 2100 remembering synthesis after it’s replaced by the chem-bot or whatever: youtu.be/9R_LtZRwIEQ

约翰亨利是成利键男主主* (John Henry was a bond-making man, Lord, Lord) *中国朋友, 对不起 - 我的中文很差。

Born to Run… straight into the lab. 🎶

I’d like to dedicate this to my time spent aligning optics. I couldn’t have done it without that dark, windowless room.

Yeah sure why not

I like that Thorlabs doesn’t mess around with Black Friday or Cyber Monday sales. Edmund Optics always has something going on and it seems kinda silly

Scots is my absolute favorite language. It’s been treated like a dialect of English but it’s really more like a cousin; it’s derived from Germanic but often in different ways than English is.

Re: “chatbots can teach you how to build a nuke” This is a good point and “how to build a nuke” is a stupid litmus test for anything. The only information that exists is either public or so confidential that Wired would never be able to report on it. It’s a silly example!

Tony Romo calling Chiefs-Cowboys is the perfect excuse to take a nap

TeSlaa is just unable to catch a ball normally. Everything he does is flashy, whether or not it’s necessary.

I think the “you gotta respect it” era of Dan Campbell trying on 4th downs has come to an end.

Matt Lafleur is letting Jordan Love cook and this is what I’ve been wanting all season. The rust is finally coming off.

I’m still holding out hope that eventually someone is going to find a way to use THz radiation as some kind of neat therapeutic

I watched Pluribus last night and let me say: Vince Gilligan has done it again. You can feel the X-Files vibes (sci-fi, not-quite-absurdist humor, a permeating feeling of “what is happening?”) as well as the Better Call Saul or Breaking Bad tension (much less violence than the latter so far)

I love how pudgy the birds are this time of year

The Boss song of the moment is “Trapped”, which was originally written and recorded as a reggae song by Jimmy Cliff (produced by Cat Stevens) Springsteen re-produced it as a rock song and it made its way onto the We Are The World album open.spotify.com/track/5xYCSE...

Jameis Winston should be playing every week

I think the Mamdani-Trump meeting is a good sign because it unequivocally confirms that Mamdani can “play the game” as required to succeed in politics. It’s a low bar with Trump, but it’s good nonetheless.

Happy birthday to Springsteen’s ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’, released on this day in 1995

This is big for Joe Buck’s ratings

It annoys me to no end that Jordan Love can throw a beautiful deep ball but Matt LaFleur keeps it bottled up until the game is on the line in the 4th quarter

Todd Snider died???

The other quote sounds a lot better: “We don’t need to water down our commitment to racial and economic justice as a party […] We need to remember that all this ties into what it’s like to be an American […] we’re a country that developed based on this commitment to democratic equality.”

Oh. It turns out that the Petticoat Affair is one of those things you have to see in real-time to get.

Yeah people like this now, but I suspect that many of these people also hate things like solar panels

This is so, so cool.

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein seemed to have dinner together at Eva and Glenn Durbin’s place in Palm Beach, Florida… IN 2017

It seems like Al Seckel was trying to help Epstein suppress bad search results on google using SEO in 2010. It’s hard to not feel like a conspiracy theorist looking at these emails.