QB Dart OUT after finding himself in his bed, transformed, into a monstrous vermin. He will be reevaluated in 4-6 weeks.

I say this as a believer in and appreciator of technology: We need to stop pretending there is a virtual substitute for IRL experiences. Every advancement (phone call -> video chat -> VR) just inches us closer to what we've always had: The ability to get out of our seats and see each other.

If your post includes "read that again" the only thing I'll be doing is regretting reading that in the first place

Everyone is juicing but no one is souping.

If someone runs a widget company and tells you "Widgets will be essential to your existence and you are in existential danger if you don't use them," I feel like we should all be able to agree that there is, to put it diplomatically, a conflict of interest at play.

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE!

I am both extremely passionate and extremely sensitive about brainstorms and how they're structured. People need to understand that constraint unlocks more creativity than runway. "Write a story" is very hard. "Write a story with a watch, a broken promise, and a sprained ankle" is easier.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

I feel like "grit" has really fallen out of favor in professional vernacular. I don't feel any sort of way about this just curious what (if anything) that signals.

Fireworks at the Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858. Available to buy as a print in our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/fireworks-at-the-ryogoku-bridge-2/ #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks

Normally I don't condone spending too much time on social media but tonight is a very fun night to keep scrolling

Left the meeting notes transcriber on during my call and my very shy cat came by for a rare visit

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

Timeline cleanse: Kodak will begin selling two famous types of film stock—Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400—directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S., another indication that the historic company is taking back control over how people buy its film.

Going to start referring to my rent as a "monthly subscription"

the bad guys win every time

Am I in the wrong circles or is Chad Buchanan not talked about nearly enough as one of the best GMs in the NBA?

Oh this is absolutely wonderful – Brian Doyle (snatched from life far too soon) on the hot shower as a form of prayer www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/09/h...

tonight’s baseball game will decide who wins the world series

I've been thinking *a lot* about social networking and feeling startled by how much it flattens existence and looks like a glitchy video game the closer you look. We've processed this as human interaction because we see faces and hear voices. But this is not remotely close to the rhythm of life.

Nothing comes even remotely close to a Friday Halloween night in New York City. The girls in the LIRR station restroom are helping everyone with their make up. A guy got on the 4 train dressed as the 4 train. The food truck in Union Square is blasting Somebody's Watching Me. Absolutely perfect

I've gotten to work with the incredible @cwandt.bsky.social recently and I've decided I'm going to do as much of my holiday shopping with them as I can. My gift theme this year is craft--unique, interesting, high-quality creations from cool people.

Pro-tip: If anyone is wondering, "Did they forget to include the Nets?" just click on the image.

yesterday at an art gallery i saw this little submersible and i think i’ll use this curatorial phrase in the future for my software projects: “functionality remains relative, or even secondary”

infoviz haunted house but inside there's just this image on a big poster

I'm finally giving myself the Leonard Cohen education I never got, starting with Death of a Ladies' Man, and I never realized his early work is this kind of Bob-Dylan-meets-Neil-Diamond thing (complimentary).

When @wired.com made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up. When @404media.co published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward. We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.

The cognitive dissonance in anti-AI articles that use AI-generated cover photos is impossible for me to process.

Slack: Your download is ready! Me: Cool! Can I see it? Slack: ....... Me: Can I see it? Slack: Hm? Me: Can I see the image I downloaded? Slack: It's ready! Me: Can I see it? Slack: ...Hm?

Has anyone written anything good about the use of opening credits or title cards as a narrative tool in films? Thinking about the late introduction of the title card in Drive My Car or Mandy, or the early animations in Lemony Snicket.

I'm sorry to be cloying and romantic but there is something intangibly beautiful about hand-crafted things that no automated, expedited, "at-scale" tool can ever achieve. You feel something wake up in you when you see work like this. It dislodges some sort of primal wonder.

Monster Pho has some of the kindest folks around. All of these establishments deserve our love and support--and the people they're helping right now even more so. Community care is essential.

Increasingly I find that what people mean when they complain about “bureaucracy” is “your system of checks and balances slows down the thing I want to do”

One of my favorite current writers is @tedgioia.bsky.social, whose paid blog is worth every cent. I’ve been telling friends that social media used to feel like entertainment, now it feels like a slot machine. I need to scroll 5-10 minutes before I see something I like. This analysis validates that.

A sampler of soundwalks:

I feel like we've quietly broken passwords and nobody is saying a word about it. Yesterday I input a password, which then triggered an email for a six-digit magic code that I input, which then took me to a OnePassword prompt where I used my fingerprint to get into a fairly low-stakes account.

TFW the NBA is back but your team is an embarrassment on every conceivable level. Sigh. Go Nets.

Does anyone know the precise origin of the Will-Smith-eating-spaghetti thing? Working on a theory about how this was actually a psyop designed to create an unofficial, digestible, and easily surpassable public benchmark for LLM video generation.

Some things I saw recently that I think are cool: — New outerwear at Husbands Paris and Auter — New knits at Buck Mason and HE Sports — Patek 2552 and Ed White Speedy at Wind Vintage; Patek 3448 at Sothebys; Vacheron 4072 at Menta Watches — Italian donkeys carrying baby lambs in a special jacket

🏀 A theory for studying how electrons buzz around could help NBA players tighten up their game. 🧵

when i was younger we had different things than the things people have now

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

I am very grossed out by the "They ask you to tip for everything now!" rhetoric. Those systems are pre-programmed. The person helping you at the register is not designing those. And you can just press skip if you don't want to tip! The button is right there!

I like how films and TV shows can make eating popcorn look cute and flirty meanwhile I’m like haauuuumumumumum

One of my all-time favorite bands, whose last album was 15 years ago, released a new record this month. Truly one of the coolest things to happen all year. Cannot recommend highly enough for emo kids of all ages.

Dictionaries are such cool tools. When you've had them all your life you take for granted how cool it is that these things exist. Maybe one of our species' most consistently underrated inventions.

For two days now I have been wrestling with an AI agent to fill database cells. It's really difficult to buy this vision of the future being sold right now when every time you give it an honest chance it fails so spectacularly. This is exactly the kind of tedious task you'd expect to be made easy!

Good morning to everyone except the sentient computer who locked me out of the space station

Got to be a part of the coolest, most inspiring thing I’ve ever done professionally this week. Not one of the coolest—the singular coolest. Feels worth documenting for myself. The scent of these moments always fade way too quickly.