Her Listening Age was 16 you sick fuck

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

You’ll Be OK

one of the reasons that the STEM-humanitiies culture war is stupid is that there's a lot of interesting stuff there at the intersection of the two. like it's very sociologically interesting the way that programming languages are maintained, propagated, and evolve.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...

Just listened to that Charli xcx/John Cale thing again on headphones and it's pretty incredible. Nine Inch Gel Nails.

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

good bit from the Guardian review of Giuffre's memoir; I have heard several people from the NGO world express the confusion and embarrassment they felt at billionaires showing up with very young women at events.

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

Great @nickfeik.bsky.social comments here on how some elements of Australian media centres the political messaging on climate and tends to downplay the science (whereas climate and environment reporters do a good job focusing on science, tech, society) 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/how...

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

remember when you were a CHILD? wasn't life BETTER then? now it's all SCARY.

Separate from my occasional tepid defense of buyouts, the EA deal doesn't make sense: it's mature company growing at like 5% with really fat margins already and it only does like $2-ish billion in cashflow. If you load it up with $20 billion of debt at 7.5% you've vaporized all your profits already.

I have a group chat in which the concept of The San Diego Ideas Festival has been a long-running inside joke, and all of us are coming to grips with how much funnier the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which actually exists, is.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

I've been waiting for clarification from Wondery, but here's what I can say about Tides of History moving forward: -Audible will be its home -Our run of new episodes will end in April 2026, after nine years -Tides will continue to be available freely through April -I will be starting a new show!

Ah, fuck.

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Annoyingly: If you want better media to succeed, pay for it. You can pirate Paramount-Skydance/Disney stuff if you are pissed but want to watch anyway. Doesn't really matter. What does matter is making outlets you want to be the model viable. Substack op-ed slurry, sure, but more so actual news.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

FISH HEIST FISH HEIST

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

Little TikTok discussing the US and its ongoing political disintegration: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S8o6jB/

"Those lofty words aged like milk this week as Albanese's government revealed its plans to water down Australia's transparency laws and make secrets easier to keep" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I asked Occam if I could borrow his razor, use it, clean it, and then give it back to him and he told me to just buy a razor

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

I do wonder if these guys only ever wrote/write to instruct and not to emote or describe. I use a lot of em dashes and always have, and have written with the second purpose in mind.

In case this is new info... You can easily write using symbols – like en and em dashes – on your phone: • iOS: Just hold the hyphen in the symbols keyboard • Android: Exactly the same. But way more options. Android Gboard keyboard has an interrobang‽ Have fun. — – • ‽ ± ‡ № « ↓ Ω ≠ ₱ ² ⅞ ★ “⅒” ∞

Alt-0151, baby!

just super stuff

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w... Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

None of this is normal www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

You'd think Elon would be familiar with the phrase "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Having a LLM decide what the correct version of the entirety of human knowledge is, deciding what's "wrong" and deleting "errors", in a recursive fashion, is a profoundly stupid idea, even for Elon.

Reading Thucydides and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the train know I disagree with invading Sicily