"Go away, human, dis not concern you"

Skipping morning Bluesky catchup because I think my bladder diverticulum is doing something that requires me to go to urgent care and finagle an ultrasound. At least it waited until after my three-week “baseline protection mode”?

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

you forget how quiet it is out here

Well great. Now my iPhone is just claiming there is water in the Lightning port and won’t charge until it’s dry. There cannot possibly be water in the Lightning post.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

Oof. archive.org/details/3mam...

Taking my second pass at culling posts for my "best of 2025".

Today in the blogosphere, I donated $5 toward a blood transfusion for a cat in Brazil.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

well, archivists gonna archive. torrents remain undefeated www.404media.co/archivists-p...

THE CANCELLED 60 MINUTES SEGMENT DOWNLOAD BEFORE APPLE INTERFERES

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

I’m not sure why people are dunking on this piece. Is it not okay to struggle with change? (The affordances argument is valid, imho.) The author even admits that yes to live in NYC is to live with change.

O, what damned minutes

Dreamt I was at a bar where someone put a pirated, pre-release DVD of the Poppy(?) the Vampire Slayer pilot on.

My mum's old cat Zorro mostly prefers to be higher than you.

Electeds and bureaucrats will often say, "The legislature told us we have to expand I-5 through the Rose Quarter." But that's not true! HB 2017 was about doing something to make I-5 work better. The solution was never mandated as freeway expansion.

"One thing non-autistic people are prone to underestimating, in my experience, is the energy cost of just getting places and existing in those places and then getting home again, readjusting to that, and navigating all the transitions in between." At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2021/05/on-e...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

TIL that #AfterHours is on @kanopy.com.

I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today

Current me is mad at past me for thinking he wanted to have gelato earlier and not leaving current me any.

Yeah this thing will never see the light of day, else be somehow neutered into irrelevancy.

So this skeet is a lie. From the program: “cutting-edge generative image and video models to level up [marketing] campaigns”. Generative image and video models replace human creativity.

🤦🏻‍♂️

Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Your annual reminder that this is like getting to the end of a cave and saying you are halfway out of the cave. You are not. You are all the way into the cave. Today we are all the way into the dark. We will be halfway out of the dark on the vernal equinox. #DoctorWho #WinterSolstice

Is there a supercut of every time someone on #TheWestWing ended a discussion with either “yeah” or “okay”.

Reposting with alt text because I felt it too important no to share

On affordability: 52% percent of Americans say they can afford food but it's not easy. 44% say they can afford food and housing but it's not easy.

Was this Castle Rock show that’s popped up on Netflix any good? What about this Moonhaven one?

Already gone. Page was grabbed by Wayback but not the video.

My new USB-to-Lightning cables (1) previously expected today (2) are now arriving today and (3) have not yet shipped.

Anyone at CBS with the details is morally obligated to leak what happened and who did what ASAP

Affogato was closed so I had to coffee at Two Stroke where I had not been since May, yet the guy behind the counter immediately goes “decaf, almond milk latte”. I’m impressed.

Finished up #SkullIsland, now time for #BlueEyeSamurai.

This is specifically about AI use in humanities disciplines within academia, which is clear from context- this crap is extremely harmful in that setting. Inevitably, people show up to be like "AI finds cancer cells tho". NOT THE SUBJECT, and that conflation has been inflicted upon us intentionally.

This question comes just days after I went to see whether there were any new Nicole Kornher-Stace books coming, and alas it sounds like no one wants to publish any and she seems to be homesteading and trying to keep a sick goose alive.

The wishful thinking in all the people answering “Mulder and Scully” here…

Huh. Okay, I guess that’s another person to strike off my decent human list.

Reminder that ebooks are a great gift, easy to buy, instantly available to the receiver no matter the distance, and if you have someone on your list who would like a little escapism courtesy of fog-bound Holmesian mysteries set on Jupiter with slow-burn f/f romance & petty academia, here you go!

Imagine not wanting to write bios for foster kittens. Imagine giving up something that reaffirms why life matters.

Bleak. I’d have imagined this was the sort of thing people *loved* to write.

Your annual reminder that this is like getting to the end of a cave and saying you are halfway out of the cave. You are not. You are all the way into the cave. Today we are all the way into the dark. We will be halfway out of the dark on the vernal equinox. #DoctorWho #WinterSolstice

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Oh wow this is a new low, arguably more insidious and damaging to the integrity of human knowledge than creating fake sources (which at least can be exposed). Reading & judging the quality of the cited support for your claims is the difference between trustworthy research and cherry-picked bullshit