Depending on your mileage, the story somewhere between the last 22-79 years of American history

I thought the first episode stated off a bit dumb but have grown to really lIke the Copenhagen Test by the end of the second episode

grimmest joke I've seen today

Jazz will be replaced by Buzz

Found Slow Gods by Claire North remarkable, seemed clearly inspired by several books I love but fresh at same time.

“We are watching and you’re still not safe.”

Lock car and remove contents. This is a a rest stop on one of the busiest roads in America. Imagine if everyone took their luggage into the rest stop bathroom. I think it's corrupting to find these lies of expectation everywhere in the country.

This "Welcome to Maryland, leave no one behind" is raising a lot of questions about Maryland to me

People are gonna crazy for my sequel to Last and First Men, Middle Men.

Always fascinating to learn about hidden parts of the bill of rights

Only an hour and a half more of Warren Buffet being Berkshire Hathaway

About to take the Gotham-Metropolis ferry, almost

Key point on AGI hype. Let's say corp invents a godlike thing, or a generalized replicable Einstein, in a few years (so very very doubtful), why is corp going to own it? The thing itself, or governments, will wrest control of it or destroy the world. Also won't happen.

We start losing daylight in 176 days.

We created the Ubiquitous Stalin Historical Photo Alterer from the classic 20th century historical event Don't Create the Ubiquitous Stalin Historical Photo Alterer

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I just realized the random YouTube Christmas channel I chose was doing this, and was horrified

Hope somebody does something interesting with Last and First Men

ive never heard of this guy before so i applied my litmus test for useless talking heads by looking to see if he has a wiki (he does), if his high school has a wiki (it does), if the high school was private (it was), and whether the high school has its own separate notable alumni page (it does).

Found this gem in the Odyssey trailer comments

The Colonel Kurtz of Carroll Gardens

Granting letters of marque is explicit power of Congress. Not the executive. Why does Mike Lee hate the Constitution?

posted in a Discord I'm in: "Trump's AI agenda is (to paraphrase Matt Levine) to build God and ask it to defeat China"

"things have improved dramatically since the reign of Nap- sorry Napoleon was great, we're doing a Napoleon again"

Overheard: I watch lots of movies, I just watched both Blade Runners for the first time last week

Headlines need their own bylines

But Doctor, my job is putting turn signals on BMWs!

Even if that failed, there'd eventually be lifetime limits

And in the snow

Your beasts? Rough, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born. My beasts? Polished, upright, couldn't find Bethlehem on a map.

Seeing a lot of claims that wake up dead man is best Knives Out, certainly better than number two but no one, and personally think any random Poker Face is better

Somehow the Lost Room has returned

Dog wrote

this reminds me of the one time I went fishing in China, 20 years ago. I took a trip there to see a range of things I was having made there. One was a partnership to produce fishing lures. So, when I visited, naturally the company owner was going to take me fishing.

Legal experts say this is a law situation, not a history situation

British people watching their BBC without commercials will never understand what they are missing

Kyle Rittenhouse posted a wedding photo where his wife is carrying an AR-15. The New York Post comment section is full of readers criticizing her for her tattoos.

The unfortunate side effect of this is decades of "Harvard scientist says potential alien vessel approaching solar system" stories

Hahahaha holy shit

There's an incredible skit in here, would like to see parks and rec style hearing with the pro-artillery range commentators, ideally unaffiliated with the range.

100 years of OpenAI forcing everyone to be full time content creators

I know this isn't the main point but why does CNN have political writers who don't know who controls Congress or what a ranking member is?

There were 4,603,859 subway rides on Wednesday, which is a new post-pandemic record. Slowly, we’re approaching 4,697,122 rides from March 11, 2020 which was the last moment 4.6 million people rode the subway before things fell off a cliff

In the latest episode of Bari Weiss knows the names of some famous people

So I am rewatching Prison Break's first season, which came out 20 actual years ago on network TV. I understood then and understand now the flashbacks, even though I hated them. What is Stranger Things excuse?