Powerful speech by Justin J. Pearson You spoke truth to power until power had no choice but to listen.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

These AI prompts all sound like someone trying to make a wish with a genie that doesn’t backfire on them

dang that was fast

dang that was fast

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

I made a chart out of Github's monthly uptime for the last four years, using the unofficial GitHub status page for data: mrshu.github.io/github-statu...

One of the greatest headlines ever made

this is true and bad but part of the problem is that *the market* also seems to be treating this as "distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out" which is a deeply confusing signal that is not entirely the fault of the press in this case

Baseball in the best park

Who was the third base coach there

A group of children serenade President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani with "Soda Pop" from the movie KPop Demon Hunters

Man Torn Over Which Shirt Worthy Of Wooden Hanger https://theonion.com/man-torn-over-which-shirt-worthy-of-wooden-hanger/

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

JD Vance entering negotiations with Iran

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

good morning

One of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard. It’s just a guy in the audience and there isn’t even an improv segment after! Just watch it

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

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This is my trans agenda

I would imagine it hurts to see your wife transform into ICE Barbie when that's always been your heart's deepest desire.

PIG AT A WEDDING is a one-page TTRPG where you must sneak a pig into a wedding and release it at the most traumatic possible moment. PDF, text-only version, and a largely unrelated dev diary here: www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at...

My colleague @michellemgriff.bsky.social wrote about Republican dissonance on Operation Metro Surge:

Yay! I’ve been on tenterhooks waiting for the Paris mayoral race to finish

If Confess, Fletch had come out in 1991, it'd have made $65-70 million and at least 5 times its budget, there would be four more Fletch movies like it that people on here quote like prime Simpsons, and Comedy Central would air one of them every Saturday morning up to around 2011

This article goes kinda the way you think it would but I enjoyed the read and like so many poisons it's a reminder that no we aren't built different it's just bad for you. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

"of course people should have known, he didn't hide any of it!" is a valid complaint but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people self-evidently did not understand what they were voting for and they don't like it

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

I listened to several of these and across all of them two things are standard- the simpering nature of these calls which are always "oh I dont know theyre nice I'm sure why don't you lock them in a cage just in case" & how ENRAGED they get when they simply have their own words repeated at them

Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Wow.

watched TO SLEEP WITH ANGER yesterday and i know i'm late on this but what a picture. bona fide masterpiece of american filmmaking.

Raw numbers are that ICE arrested 340,000 people last year who have no violent criminal record.

Macbeth: SHIT

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

I never realized that "wherefore" is of a pair with "therefore" kinda cute. "Where" and "there" with a suffix become "why" and "thus"

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

As an Eagle Scout, let me say this is an opportunity for Scouting America to stop having a partnership with the U.S. Military.

This is our culture. Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions. He, and they, are a mirror. That's all.

Even in Elon Musk’s denial of his involvement with Epstein—which directly contradicts the available evidence—the world’s richest man is still claiming he knew all about “pedo island” and didn’t do anything to stop it. Even in their fantasies of innocence they’re still directly enabling child abuse