BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇

Time Machine Conversation xkcd.com/3251/

They're lost! All of them, lost! I am the only one with clarity of purpose!

This is one of my favorite tweets

I'm reminded of this quote by Samantha Hancox-Li, "On the one hand, everybody wants what modern prosperity offers—power, comfort, security, wealth. On the other hand, illiberals reject what makes modern prosperity possible—freedom, diversity, the continual churn of change."

Just a really fun and interesting book.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

Fascinated as to whether the ice cream van man who invariably leaves the foot of the block too early, leaving disappointed families behind, a) doesn’t know what he’s doing or b) knows exactly what he’s doing and dislikes kids.

“Giving everything away for practically nothing via limitless, filterless pipes owned by distributor tech companies made art seem less special or worth spending money on.” I don’t think any of these crises come down to much more than that.

*cracks knuckles* *reaches for 30-year old six pack of Jolt Cola* Finally, my moment has arrived.

I'm just getting the sense the winding gyre is getting to where the center cannot hold you feel me

Whether you’re a denialist or a booster or just someone trying to be objective, Salesforce is going to give us some pretty clear answers as to whether radically shifting resources from human coders to AI will work.

These guys are all free-market Capitalists until the market decides their product sucks.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

I guess in my mind I theoretically knew that the guy from the small domino meme probably toppled the dominoes at some point but I'm still a little shocked to see the GIF of it actually happening

LET. THEM. COOK.

Your friendly reminder that a nuclear deal with Iran was made in 2015 but we pulled out of in 2018 in favor of a “maximum pressure campaign” because the people currently in power only know how to play Sid Meier’s Civilization one way.

I hand-rolled my first site in 1994 via HTML uploaded via UNIX commands, that's how we did it in those days, uphill both ways in the snow, wearing an onion on our belt as was the custom at the time

TIL that Sade is not a female solo artist. Sade is a band, with the same four members since 1982, one of whom is the lead singer, Sade Adu. I don't know how I could have not known this. It's as though I'd thought Jon Bon Jovi had been a solo artist his entire career, backed by session musicians.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”

it is your god given right as a 22 year old to seethe about having to cook for yourself and do your laundry and fight with your roommate about cleaning duties, just as it is mine as a 40-something year old to cackle hysterically at your complaints

Real question: the fuck do you guys think the word meant before

Don't let anyone tell you how to live your life.

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

Me to prominent Democratic politicians while we're facing an existential threat of a fascist takeover

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

we got a president more crooked than nixon and a vice president more unpleasant than agnew, what a world

You 🫵 are not immune to a scheming grand vizier

another beautiful day of looking at screens ahead of us

We’re officially on HOT MUSTARD DORITO WATCH. The FRITO-LAY SNACK CONGLOMERATE, despite inventing the GREATEST DORITO FLAVOR SINCE “COOL RANCH,” seems intent on QUIETLY BURYING THE PRODUCT despite an ENGAGED AND RAVENOUS PUBLIC LOUDLY CLAMORING for their IMMEDIATE RETURN!

This honestly bugs me a bunch re: Odyssey critique. A lot of the Iliad and the Odyssey is Goofy Fun. People turn into pigs! Nestor gives long speeches about how he doesn't give long speeches! Trying to treat them with reverence is itself a desecration.

The thing to remind yourself whenever there is Antiquities Discourse is that the audience of the Odyssey or Beowulf or the Mahabharata or any other classical epic cycle you can think of would probably think a Marvel film or big budget JRPG is the coolest shit that they could imagine.

It's incredibly funny watching Millennials demonstrating that Douglas Adams's technology adoption rules remain valid decades later

Reminds of what Lincoln said during his debates with Douglas in 1858 about an eternal struggle between the common right of humanity and the divine right of kings. www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

Most "science fiction" is actually "engineering fiction"

took some convincing because i think that a plain collection is a bit boring. but i am synthesizing the columns into an extended argument about the state of the american political system. a lot of new material, a lot of remixing old material in a new form plus making new connections btwn pieces.

I think the best way to enjoy this list, which contains lots of predictable choices (made as it was by committee), is to find a book you like, click to see who voted for it, and then look at the voters' other top 10 choices. You might find something else you like that you haven't read.

Incredible

It begins

Spotted on Tumblr…

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

I kind of just realized what the real complaint is: Haidt et al dont want college kids boycotting their talks or protesting them b/c that's their speaker fees at risk. This is all self-serving. None of these pundits is really interesting in free speech, liberalism, 'conversation.'

It’s so funny that there are two future governors in the original predator movie

give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag