One of the things with how localized journalism used to be is that great stories like Wilson’s exposing frauds and hucksters often didn’t make it to the national stage, and the hucksters kept going anyway.

It's 17:00:00 UTC somewhere

We've gone through round after round of layoffs at Corus... and then you expect to be able to recall an episode on *all* platforms at the last-minute on a Sunday in the middle of the holiday season?

The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

i am actually working on an article right now about how the vast majority of the world's information - and so many current events - are not at all legible to LLMs, a fact that a startling number of people never seem to think about

Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info. Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries. Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized. Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.

Welcome to 60 Minutes. Our top story tonight is Snakes: Nature’s Spaghetti

Wrote about Snoopy, who will soon no longer be 41% Canadian, thanks to a sale that says a lot about the fragile state of the Canadian animation industry: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Twitter, categorically worse than Live journal or AIM

Thread, up and down.

Whoa! The movie that predicts my next year is *checks website* Password1234

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

shout out to the guy behind me at the movies tonight who whispered "CinemaScope" to his date when the screen's aspect ratio changed. real "that's Chappie" energy

Another bad day to be a survivor on the internet.

@rianjohnson.bsky.social the things you don't notice until your tenth rewatch

Tired: Patent medicines Wired: Imagined medicines

as I've said before, a lot of the root problems with LLMs is that they're bad at the things we think computers should be good at, and good at the things we think computers should be bad at.

No reason...

If you don’t live with a disability, then it’s important to recognize that you may not have a very accurate sense of what living with a disability actually looks like.

Desolation Marine resculpt finally looking classy

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855 quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

was not aware you could do the press release version of crossing your fingers behind your back by putting parts in tiny tiny font

Adapting a deeply personal story in a way that makes the person who wrote it experience it all over again is a real kindness and a small miracle. There's been a lot of pain adjacent to this film, a lot of sad stories that touch it. But Reiner seems to have done his part with great kindness.

Remember, hit www.eff.org/age for a full set of resources about age verification: Why it doesn't (and can't) work, why it hurts everyone's privacy — including kids, and what we can all do to push back.

i deleted my facebook today. other changes are coming, i think. i read one too many "it's not just X, it's X" AI phrases in "news" and "entertainment" scrolling. and realized I'd much rather decide for myself who and what I want to see.

THE MULE (1985) Acrylic on Canvas 32” x 20” For book two of the Foundation series, there was once again a clear choice for the central subject. 1/4

oh it's the 8 year anniversary of the biggest losers online getting mad at me for enjoying a good movie

Tomorrow. youtube.com/clip/UgkxDs4...

They're just vectors for psychological warfare. Have been for at least 11 years. In some cases, you can goof on there, but community managed bulletin boards have always, always been better for that.

If you are ever assured about a "smart" device you walk a narrow road

Birdhouse in Your Soul. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgR...

Rob Reiner made and did a lot of things that mattered a lot to me and I kind of thought for a long time that he was a Type of Guy there were a bunch of and turns out, no, there are like maybe six of that Type of Guy and they just have insane work rates and they all hang out

Words, I don’t have any more tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

Beyond numb, so far beyond numb

me: if the warhammer guys had chatgpt they could easily defeat the chaos gods vampire adam sandler: a-suck-a-dee-doo! me: i can't talk to you when you're like this

Magic Mike XXL in a packed VIP-size screening

you could make a lot of people very angry with the true statement that the brothers chaps had a relatively equal effect on the evolution of language as shakespeare did

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

The study of contemporary culture without understanding online forum moderation is like trying to explain which person in this small room is poking me with their tusks and stealing peanuts with their trunk

obviously. the High Gothic for 'ultra marine' as in the color is completely different.

Never gonna measure up to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN4n...

me, in a hotel on my day off, about 90 seconds after learning there’s a game called “labyrinth of the demon king”

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

I remember this movie a little differently.

Everyone agrees. There’s just not enough stuff.

This has to be the most reckless thing Disney has ever done with their IP and I cannot wait for them to figure out what a bad idea this is.

if only there was a way to give the computer precise instructions that produce predictable results