the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats

what child doesn't want a father who is almost 80 years old when they're in high school

i do think it's sort of a symptom of his influence waning that i didn't even know this happened.

it's also extremely weird to have worked in tech most of my career, sometimes kind of cutting edge stuff, but watching this all blow up everywhere else while working for an employer who has a hard anti-AI stance (for good reasons) and whose tech is all from the obama administration or earlier

it's sort of a wild thing to watch play out, because the speed of adoption is make or break for the companies working on these tools, which the news-savvy user is aware of *while they are being pushed by employers to use them*

a thing i've been thinking about for the last couple hours is how quickly AI/LLM use has blown up (along with pressure to use the tools), and the way in which it's blown up across both personal and professional lines in ways that i'm not sure you can compare to anything else.

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The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

Well this is kind of neat. Our album made destroy//exist’s top 40 albums of the year. Nice to see they recommend listening to it all in one go, since that’s how we intended it to work.

DISTRIBUTED INSURRECTION would be a great hardcore band name, tbh

apologies to the big jim stans, but this is an excellent analogy

these movies are fascinating to me, none of the people i hang around with in real life have ever seen them, i've never heard any of those people talk about them, and my friend group includes a lot of people who see and talk about movies often, but i *know* that tons of people go see and enjoy them

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we are watching the quintessential christmas movie: twink anthony hopkins vs twink timothy dalton overseen by scheming peter o’toole and katherine hepburn

christmas day at the local

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨ Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!

got a gift of a record i should have always had, but didn’t

as a person who hosts gatherings and parties often, there’s something really lovely about the quiet when the last guests leave before you start cleaning up

i have BODY OF AN AMERICAN literally tattooed across my chest, lol

@dansinker.com playing the song

Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.

this is a really lovely piece about a song that, for all the grumbles about it, is still one of my favorites. it’s in the record stack for tonight.

The Wet Food Bowl Is Empty, oil on canvas 1885

yes, prof. dr. robert j. catman, esq., P.I., the dinner table, that’s definitely where you are supposed to be

i “have a few screws loose”, i am a “terrible person”

no, i refuse, we're not doing another round of smoking discourse, absolutely not, no.

why can't technology do something useful like mop my floors, COMPUTER: CLEAN HOUSE

worthwhile to note that stephen miller now lives on a military base

man, what an unbelievably poor leader. no "thanks for all of the work that you do", no "i wish you and your loved ones well", no "i look forward to what we'll do together in the coming year", just "i must have the last word on this, i was right, and you can't stop me, merry christmas, pissants"

man, same, there’s gotta be one of you who can do this

holy shit the bolognese is great

making the bolognese and prepping all the vegetables tonight since it looks like we may be without power for portions of the day tomorrow, by god, if we have to host christmas eve by (battery powered) candlelight, i will not be stopped

but seriously if you want to know how the Trump Kennedy Center Honors went here’s my report from the night-of

cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era

when i moved here from denver, i drove through a blizzard from boise (it was a huge storm system), didn't spin out once until five blocks away from my new apartment in portland

OK, regular hours today and 12-5pm on Christmas Eve. Also anyone who buys a pie from now until 5pm tomorrow gets a free tshirt with their pie. We’ve still got some of the festive holiday pints left and if you need a last minute online gift order a custom haiku written by yours truly.

oh, goddammit, SNW, i had given up on star trek and now you cast thomas jane as bones, which means i have to watch at least an episode

reading the transcript, i think this summary of it does citarella a little bit of disservice, because i think his framing is more nuanced than a fb or twitter or whatever here; it's more akin to a universal login to interact with fed services that might have some social media elements

a couple of contributing factors here, one being that it's a government by and for a certain kind of poster, and the other being that from the white house on down, there's no coherent messaging or communications strategy at all, everyone's freelancing except for when they get the occasional order

no love lost for ben sasse, but i think the alternate universe where he decided to actually try to be a good leader is a little depressing compared to the one where he chose the path of least resistance and greatest perks, because he had the chops to be a much better and smarter leader than he was

the thing is, serwer and chait both have good pieces taking weiss to the woodshed, the atlantic's just doing their "every side should be given valid consideration regardless of their merits" horseshit that seems primarily intended to irritate readers who pay attention.

that graeme wood piece on bari weiss might be the worst thing i have read coming out of the atlantic in years

reminder, folks! get your questions - serious, troll-y, whatever - in!

wondering how my dipshit fellow anarchist who used to email chomsky when we got into an argument, then wave his printed response email in my face has been doing the last few weeks.

Also: real or not, it means anyone who said there was nothing implicating Trump in the Epstein Files was lying. You can decide this was fake, you can decide Epstein was embittered and deranged and lying, but it implicates Trump (accurately or not) and it's in the Files.

actually puzzling through it, your sequence of events is like: - prankster decides to write a letter to larry nassar purporting to be epstein within a day or two of epstein’s death - prankster uses epstein’s return address - prankster sends to nassar using an outdated address, triggering RTS

do i think epstein would have written an abuser out of the blue with whom he sympathized, bemoaning that trump was just as bad and lamenting how unfair it was? have you read any of his emails? of course i think that. guy was *constantly* writing to other notable people, and was *always* unsubtle.

one thing i will say is that i am no longer surprised by things that seem “too on the nose” when it comes to either trump or epstein. neither of these men have ever, in their entire lives, been subtle about anything.

this is a responsible way to approach this (not that ashton’s isn’t)

that’s… uh, i think that’s a suicide note.