Some say its too early to say but I think "Baby Shark" is the canonical gen alpha song

Similar effect on apparent proportions as

I was wondering why the singular of "pet peeves" wasn't "peef" like "leaf" but discovered this

This isn't the "most millennial song" by any stretch of the imagination, but when I try to imagine the 00s presented the way I see the 60s in movies, the needle-drop equivalent to "For What It's Worth" is MGMT's "Time to Pretend"

Say what you will about Salacious Crumb, but his underground comix do provide a glimpse into the id of the American male even if you don’t share his obsession with giant muscular women and so on

Guy who dislikes term "AI" because this is a simulation, all intelligence is artificial

Blue morphos' wings have a big range of unrepresentable cyans. It's structural color, so pure frequencies, and all squarely in the blue green region screens can't show you. They look nothing like this.

Give me your favorite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. Kate Mulgrew from THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN. Billy Crystal wanted her dead. Danny DeVito wanted his momma dead.

Modern Day I Love Lucy but Ricky has a podcast and Lucy keeps trying to be a guest

Sources close to the President say he is "out of spoons" and "can't even" today

Just watched THE PAWNBROKER, which is powerful and tragic and boy is it a curveball when you hit the scene with “Soul Bossa Nova” aka “The Austin Powers theme.”

this absolute king has been goofing off on the Internet for longer than most of you have been alive 🫡🫡🫡

Making another attempt at playing tabletop RPGs. In my last game, our DM wanted us to "organically discover" the game and people had a miserable time because they didn't understand what was going on and we only played once a month; we made it four sessions

Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts

maybe it's finally time to break the plastic on this baby

The Cantina Band song is better with lyrics m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6K6...

"The events of the Passover story are literally true but unimpressive" is fascinating from a theological perspective

SCTV Was A Documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZ2...

I hope young people today have a vector for the images of early cinema to burrow into their brains, in the way that Dayton/Farris or Fincher's music videos did for me

You've been sent back in time to 1995. What evil baby do you kill?

Chopping Mall, this time the robots actually do some chopping

Whether it's fighting the male loneliness epidemic or providing third places for leftists: consider starting a woke JavaScript meetup

Sex workers have been successfully gathering intelligence from occupying armies for 6000 years until Stancil blew it by telling everyone

Exciting effort in the tech worker organizing. I promise you, we’re gonna look back on worker organizing like this around AI and layoffs and be really happy if we did all we could to support it. Huge shout out to these workers, What We Will & @techworkerscoalition.org. time.com/article/2026...

Every time I see that photo of three celebs at a basketball game I just think "sick, Le Tigre reunion"

I saw the trailer for the baby yoda movie a few times and even though I was *in a movie theater* I could not shake the sense I was watching an ad for a TV show

Fyi if you go to San Francisco don't worry about looking at the bridge or cable cars just go look at these guys at pier 39 (they're wild sea lions that just like to hang out there, and the pier knew when they had a good thing and put bleachers there). Also eat some crab

Tech Bros reinventing the Kevin Smith "p0wns my dick" tweet

every young man has the experience of deciding to check out Salinger's "Catcher In The Rye" to see what it's all about, reading a bit, and going "what the fuck, 'sexy' used to mean not 'sexually appealing' but 'horned up'???"

I increasingly believe that most replies in big-room social spaces are really semantic tagging: "this post is that kind of thing!" "this post has a keyword I don't like!" Sometimes you get canned responses that people deliver in response to the tagging/sorting they've done. "I have a meme!"

Need to stop spending so much of my morning reading posts. Plenty of time for that at work

My hottest LLM take is if you rely on an LLM being "facts and statistics" about the training corpus rather than the corpus to argue it's not copyright infringement this necessarily implies that the result of this process is itself not a copyrightable work and therefore all weights are public domain.

this is going to sound crazy but i think it was a reddit anti-woke explosion. this does not make bacon *bad* - it is great - but the proliferation of All Bacon Everything felt like a full-throated pushback on health scolds and vegetarians but masked in enthusiasm instead of vitriol.

something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things

Thinking again about my all-time fave software bug, where Android accidentally started rendering the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "dorkq" github.com/gruntjs/grun...

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

I need more people to see Mother Mary. I want to see if anyone else has landed on my interpretation but when I google "Mother Mary fan theory" its stuff like "she was actually impregnated by the Roman legionaire Tiberius Pantera"

Brooklyn Web Workers is tonight! Still have some tickets left pools.events/event/8USOZ0...

FRIDAY: Workers, students, and families will be calling out of work, walking out of school, and refusing to shop as part of the nationwide day of economic disruption. There are many ways you can help make a difference on May Day: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

L'Inferno (Dante's Inferno) (Francesco Bertolini, 1911) is well known among silent film folks, but maybe less so among horror fans? It's wonderful and worth checking out. Many of the images are so wildly gruesome and inventive. They still have the power to disturb, even now over 100 years later.

I just find it hard to believe that, of all people, someone would want to hurt Donald J Trump

Inspired to a violent act by insouciant pocket squares

Somehow managed to watch three movies in a row where people get stabbed with a pair of scissors

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

only screenshotting cuz QTs are disabled (which is fine). you don't have to be nostalgic for this. a lot about this era sucked but most of the good parts of this era of the computer are still around, if you ditch mainstream big tech. this is how it feels to have a linux desktop in the 2020s.

Keep dumping on a movie called MICHAEL and I will keep picturing John Travolta with wings

Is there a reason that basically nobody uses a third-party Bluesky client? In Ancient Times (2011) lots of people were using Tweetie or Twitteriffic or Tweetbot