Tired of the Kobayashi Maru

The lyrics to Embraceable You are so deeply dogshit that one can only conclude Ira wrote them to satisfy a bet. I mean, come on: "I love all / the many charms about you Above all / I want my arms about you"

literal lol at the ending there

By the way, while I was very pleased they announced the names of the sign language interpreters for the pre-game performances, it was annoying that they then didn’t actually televise their interpretation

One thing I love about microblogging is the way the character limit, the thread feature, and quote/repost combine to encourage composing longer thoughts built of discrete blocks that are each capable of standing on their own.

It’s very funny that the viral post whose lesson is “do not trust LLM output, always double check it” is itself an LLM output engineered to confirm our priors

Fact is, even though I watched the first 3 episodes on their original broadcast, I kind of noped out after Naked Now bc it seemed like they were just going to retread. Four years later @brianjayjones.com came home with a VHS of Best of Both Worlds and was like “you HAVE to give this another chance”

I watched this episode for the very first time today, and enjoyed it every bit as much as everyone has assured me I would

“my right to swing my fist ends at your nose” “reasonable enough” “i believe in the healing power of drinking urine and i’ve been pooping in the ground water” “hey that last part actually affects me so you need to stop” “incorrect, i have already determined you have not been negatively affected”

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The algorithm just coughed up Sweet singing “AC-DC” but I mistook the title for the artist and was VERY confused

Essay tee you are dee eh why Night

“How is this different than a right winger punching a leftist counter protestor?” Well you see this one is right and good

You can rely on the old man's monkey

Hi and welcome! A lot of you found me because of my crazy @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social quarterfinal game Wednesday. To clarify; @ibhirsch.bsky.social and @joshtigerhill.bsky.social are GREAT Jeopardy players and made the exact right wagers for the game. I only won BECAUSE they wagered correctly.

Me hearing that Pete Townshend was inspired to use suspended chords by listening to the Baroque records lent to him by Kit Lambert

I hate to admit this but Pat Boone is a good singer

When you’re as long as the human’s legs

doctor doctor gimme the news ive got an unworn pair of baby shoes

Horton Hears The Who

Yes YES The STP guy is here

Men won't even close the toilet lid to snort coke

Blessed notification!

All my deedees fiddled

Testament and Threads are the emotional devastation double feature

This is making me think a lot of the most popular war films are actually adventure films, because they focus on single operations and the efforts of individuals. My favorite war film is The Longest Day, which is about logistics

THREADS is a Christmas movie

When your post gets in the discover feed

One of my favorite Nietzsche bits is about how knowing an author tempts us to read biographical details into their work, to reduce their point to personal trivia. And I think in the age of fandom, we get to know too much about all our favorite authors and risk becoming that kind of reader.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, at the drive-in

So the sticky toffee pudding guy has previously done his reviews as Instagram posts, but he only just started doing videos this month, which was a smart decision and he deserves to be a star www.instagram.com/stp.review

A while ago I wrote about the music in Harold & Maude in @crooked-marquee.bsky.social If you want to reread it in light of today’s news:

Xavier Riddle just started on the tv, reminding me of how much I love how openly @chriseliopoulos.com wears his Schulz influence.

it tells users what they want to hear, and they stop wanting to hear anything else. they promise us unleashed creativity, and give us only diminished possibilities, the history of human creation fed into itself over and over. a rancid tech culture demanded a way to make more rot, that’s all

This concrete, algorithmic, mechanical math that a kid is exposed to, is one without any real abstractions. It's math in the same sense that someone playing a single note on a trumpet is music.

This is wonderful. It's fascinating to put yourself in that time, thinking of how you would visualize these people and places if you hadn't seen it before; and – if, hypothetically, you're someone who knows every moment of the film front to back – to compare and Foster's descriptions with the film.

"Oh," the emperor of the galaxy said, "what happened to that monkey world?" "Our agents infiltrated them some eight thousand years ago." "Have they taken over the world?" "Not yet." The emperor licked a paw and started washing his ears. "I'll still count it as one of mine," he purred.

This remains a huge problem in all live-action Star Wars media that isn't ANDOR archive.is/6Edpr

I'm not a Christian but there's a certain strain of Christianity that I really love

I recently had a light-bulb moment that is extremely niche, but was so helpful to me that I'm going to post about it anyway. It's about transposing from tenor clef to e-flat

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

Good morning to people just waking up in California who have already missed an entire news cycle from start to finish

Good morning

When you win the staring contest

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