Smells like Freedom Fries microwaved 25 years later

Concept: Rare earth data.

The American Psycho business card scene but it's just people in Minnesota comparing their whistles

(literally) half my YouTube Watch Later playlist are bean recipes. It's bean season.

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

The Trump Administration Is Calling My Viral Story a Lie. Good Thing I Kept the Receipts. The administration that lies all the time is lying about me. And I can prove it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Send your neighbors holiday cards. I'm *still* getting cookies and other goodies in mid-January.

I'm making whistles and printing pamphlets in SE Portland if anyone wants to do distribution.

Neural Chameleons: Language Models Can Learn to Hide Their Thoughts from Activation Monitors arxiv.org/abs/2512.11949

Big 2026 energy

Scientists say that office-workers are calling it the scariest Sunday in months.

Ten years at Google Cloud- I've been at Google longer than 92% of its current staff. As true as this piece felt fifteen years ago, and ten, it's safe to assume we're all underestimating the future. What ever that may be. randsinrepose.com/archives/you...

A *new* year? That’s how they get you.

Every person who has just been to Japan speaks of it like no one else has ever been.

What a fantastic moment for Canada. So proud that a man who openly criticized a Prime Minister to his face is recognized to the Order of Canada. Photo: Nardwuar supporting Andrew WK at the Avenue Theatre, Edmonton Alberta June 27, 2009

Rube's Chris Goldberg Machine

Holiday tip: do not force “doing” if your body needs “being.”

Every city’s art museum: please give us money, we’ll do anything to survive! Me: could you be open past 5pm on a weekday? Them: anything but that.

"AI hallucinates," like, babe, you don't?

Merry Christmas, replace your toothbrush. You're overdue. Mental health is not guaranteed in 2026, but you can work on your dental health. 🦷🪥

Santa has a chance to do the best thing tonight

stg bro there must have been some magic in that old silk cap we found. the craziest shit happened after.

Kicked out of a D-BOX IMAX 3D screening of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), directed by James Cameron, for shouting “SHOW ME THE NA’VI!” as an homage to Jerry Maguire (1996). Some people just don’t appreciate le cinema.

extremely funny how many conversations are people who are being automated out of a job (software engineers) defending ai against people who are not (creatives)

Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers. Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles. The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.

Discogs wantlists alert emails are cruel sometimes.

Reminder: “rare earth minerals” are actually common, but rarely found in high enough concentrations to mine economically, or difficult/costly to separate from other elements. When we hear of large rare deposits, it’s not that the mineral is more abundant, just the extraction process is far cheaper.

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

Gosh, if Meta keeps up like this they can only afford to spend that amount every single year out of their net income.

Tesla drivers are already disproportionately high in car accidents compared to drivers of other car models, we do not need more reasons for them to think they can not pay attention.

Good news: you’re over-thinking it. Bad news: you’re probably also under-thinking it.

I asked “is there was a Mr Claus?” and now I’m on a terrible list. Christmas ruined.

Holiday card progress

I hear your apartment's property management conglomerate is going to announce a Black Friday deal on rent. Grocery stores and utilities are gonna drop prices, too!

If you would like a holiday card of some sort, send some form of mailing address to [email protected], or a DM/etc here, your pick. I invariably toil for hours crippling my hand to fill out cards on some weekend day in the coming fortnight, and you can add to that!

Works like this. If you ping me with an URGENT THING, I will respond promptly. I may also ask for clarification. Your incredible slow response to these questions means it’s not an URGENT THING.

You can differentiate Marty from Marty Supreme by the latter having diced tomatoes and sour cream

Been throwing this one up since 2015

Shout out to cold brew

Was not expecting THE BOONDOCK SAINTS

Wow, we've sure been on this search for meaning for a while. It's surely just around the corner.

literally rotating villain theory

One of the world's greatest stock pickers, who also found time to do some work for the public, goes out on top.

I think I may do a Halloween bounty in the neighborhood next year. Show up dressed as Beetlejuice, “Weird” Al, or some third thing TBD and you get $20.

if someone has the word “rational” in their bio or as part of their identity you know for a fact they are the most histrionic freak in the history of the world

Work update. “To better support our strategic priorities, Douglas Dollars is moving to [redacted] team. Doug is expanding his responsibilities to include the design and operations of GCP's new [redacted]. Doug will continue to lead GCP's Strategic Product Roadmap priority.” Big ~3 years ahead.

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

the danger is not of being monitored. you were already. the danger is that you cannot control your anger and you lash out and you land yourself either a stochastic or pseudo-legal sentence.

Also I realize it's completely fucking ridiculous to even suggest, but a reporter *could* write it up into a *story* that the president keeps making totally insane false accusations of paid protesters, and these are at least in part informing his illegal military deployments to US cities

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced