canceling disney plus for the kimmel stuff and for supporting the 1998 copyright term extension act

steeplechase pier entrance, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

In just a few minutes i'll be doing a short open projector talk on fillharmonics.com! I believe it is streaming at www.twitch.tv/wondervillenyc, tune in if you can

The death of Robert Redford (RIP) means the window to rewatch Hackers in honor of the 30th anniversary has officially closed and it is now time to re-watch Sneakers. (Time to rewatch Sneakers will continue indefinitely.)

maybe my favorite redford film, the absolutely delightful SNEAKERS (1992) is playing at Metrograph next month as part of a Hack The Planet series 👀 metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

in hindsight i needn't have worried that i'd run into a bunch of other electric horsemen from THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN (1979)

years ago my mom met robert redford at a charity fundraiser event. she's an angeleno and knows how to be cool around celebrities. she leaned in and earnestly said "great to meet you. i love your lemonade"

📝 Interested in applying to RC? Join us to learn & ask questions about what attending is like: spending 6 or 12 weeks sharpening your programming skills and following what excites you in a collaborative community! We’re hosting an info session Mon, Oct 6th from 12:30-1pm ET RSVP: luma.com/mn3kjnkj

Groundhog day

what in your mind is the best movie with no real antagonist? for me it is star trek iv (the one with the whales)

Well this book starts with two quotes, and the first one is from a scholarly work of classic literature. Surely the second one will be equally high-brow

but if paolo is here, who's that on jeopardy?!?

I have spent a few hours reading about the latest in ghost kitchens and virtual restaurants and I'm now much further away from being able to tell you what a restaurant "is"

Internet Archive and the record labels suing over its digitized 78 records project have just filed that they've reached a settlement, no details yet www.courtlistener.com/docket/68101...

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I forgot to schedule the bot for tonight (because it's a festival and the set times weren't posted earlier) but it's running now!!

celebrity sighting at penn station: (good, non-local) us senator walking through the crowd unremarked upon

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coffee pot restaurant, lexington, virginia, 1982

"Parker Higgins created a sea shanty generator which plays without end in your browser—at least so long as you don't close the tab. It's not produced with AI, but with a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age: procedural generation." boingboing.net/2025/06/27/i...

Fill Harmonics: Parker Higgins made a crossword puzzle-inspired drum machine for 10k Drum Machines https://parkerhiggins.net/2025...

defector staff universally referring to "blog posts" as "blogs" may be the final nail in the coffin of my insistence on that issue

Do you love public transit and science fiction? Of course you do! Now you can have them at the same time! Next Tues, 9/16, at 6pm, an astonishing panel of activists and creators are coming together to talk about the future of transit. Seriously do not miss this one-of-a-kind event. luma.com/0olo6szj

channeling my inner employability

🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill... and play around with it: fillharmonics.com

it's $40 at erewhon

Playful and so much arising complexity, love it.

"thermostatic opinion" is one of those buzz-phrases that got driven into the ground immediately upon discovery but this is very good proof that polling is flaky, capricious, and entirely shapeable. Popularists in shambles!

Just a reminder that Hochul tried to stop this from happening. She busted in like the Kool-aid person to try to stop the policy. The North remembers.

this is the best thing i’ve ever seen

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill... and play around with it: fillharmonics.com

absolute geniuses @natanlast.bsky.social and @xor.blue made "fill harmonics" a CROSSWORD EDITOR DRUM MACHINE for the 10,000 Drum Machines project!!!! fillharmonics.com

entering the trapezium

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this is very cool! pomological.art is a new site by developer (and cider-maker!) andrew haupt, with a beautiful search interface for the @pomological.xor.blue collection

new sabrina carpenter record sounds like the music in a tv show about a fictitious pop star

I haven't spent a bunch of time with LLM coding tools but more than once i've seen them desperately try to round corners and add drop shadows while doing something unrelated for a web app, and that's funny

trump 👏 dying 👏 is 👏 a 👏 distraction

technically speaking, failing to secure an indictment against the sandwich guy is lowering the crime rate

traditionally prosecutors have had better luck charging the sandwich

wow. check the timestamp

what’s the name for a version-and-dependency-and-more manager like `uv`? I don’t know, but I’m building one for Ruby anyway andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

Great pains, small gains for those who ask the world to solve them; it cannot solve itself.

A grand jury stood up to overcharging. Good for them. Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

a lot of people on here acting tough about the subway but what if you were in a movie theater and it was coming directly at you on screen

being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???

huge bummer about AI has been learning how many people think em dashes are strange and exotic

considering having opinions again, being opinionated, forming and expressing opinions, that kind of thing