Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Scyther was the coolest.

Durian. The smell and pulp combine to make it repugnant to me.

No tonic like Spurs when your season is on the rocks #COYG

3-on-3 gets the balance wrong. I like 4-on-4 as a means to bring some more space and danger into things but 3-on-3 just becomes formless hero-puck.

Ron,you're too old to call someone Nate Dog, brother.

Dad and I have seen this story too many times

Arsenal desperately need the sun to return to Old Blighty.

There are two brothers here in Ontario who are both doctors named Downar. One is a psychiatrist and the other is a palliative doc.

Naturally, the week the Feds announce that frontline civil servants are being forced back into the office come the summer, Metrolinx has had its worst week of service in ages.

Love every moment

I guess Mr. Rutte decided to put his sign in the window.

Folks I must again insist

This is art. It wasn't before the act of consumption.

They named a cargo ship after Putin's gym?

You deactivate the system by tossing the house's Ring camera down the chimney.

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending My popular seasonal post from last year: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Now with a couple of footnotes one year on: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Every time: youtu.be/8FYJfEHOuY0?...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

If the developers of a technology have trepidation about letting their children use it, perhaps we, as a society, should have more trepidation about developing the technology.

Remember: if a legal opinion is sound then it matters not how “great” or “distinguished“ the lawyer is. And if it is not sound, it is not saved by the lawyer being “great” or “distinguished“.

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

Saying you had a game under control until shipping four goals is like me saying I had control of my car before launching it off a cliff.

This goes for any Westminster system out there. This moment reinforces that we all rely on the durability of norms and conventions at our peril.

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

This is a lovely angle for the Martinelli goal, Eze Pass... Via Arsenal [IG] 🔴⚪

You'll never get more people out of cars when they look out their window and see the buses stuck in traffic right alongside them. Now, have dedicated transit infrastructure where buses are flying past gridlocked traffic and then you'll see change. It's pretty damn simple.

Dowman wins a penalty

Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

my dad was always saying this

A class action in every way.

The cynical words of an old law professor seem again apt, sadly. Domestic law is a matter of law. Foreign laws are a matter of expert evidence. International law is a matter of fiction.

We don't have to terrorize aspiring lawyers like this. What works in Wisconsin can work elsewhere! scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1...

Can I program the agent to be a bully? Who is to blame when it then acts like one? There's an obvious issue here around delegating your way out of existence. But this also seems like a form of delegating your way out of responsibility for anything/everything.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

The Court's comments here are concerning to say the least. Family members seeking some solace from the slop generator is one thing. Putting the slop into the record is another thing entirely.

Everyone has their mandate. Now, let's get to work.

Kurt Vonnegut man

Declan Rice and Arsenal beat Real Madrid 3-0

(firing my lawyers until I get lawyers who tell me I can do whatever I want) I am merely acting on the advice of my lawyers