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So many good jokes about that modernize YA op-ed but of course it is yet another form of erasing history/erasing literature/subsuming language and therefore right at home with the current all-devouring fascist wave, this time with a marketing face.

If dudes (inclusive) could commit to keeping it at the tempo of golf play-by-play coverage, Remembering Some Guys would make an incredible ASMR/sleep podcast. Just an endless susurration...

New reaction meme for ya. (From the Smithsonian material newly available on Unsplash, in the Anacostia Community Museum collection.)

"average texan commits 3 crimes per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average texan commits 0 crimes per year. Crimes Paxton, who is attorney general (??) and commits 10,000 crimes per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

How can 700K people vote for that pustule of a man?

Just saw a small dog in a pink-flower dress get a pup cup outside Nossa Familia on a warm spring afternoon. Has any creature ever been happier?

If you ever wanted to go to the H Mart on Belmont, now is the time! I have never seen it so empty.

I feel like folks are being willfully obtuse about the AI/GLP-1 analogy. They are both being forced into every nook and cranny in the exact same way. Both are being positioned as inevitable and feel inescapable.

Texted my friend that I woke up in an awful mood. She's listening to the Cure and cleaning out closets and counseled doing the same. Me, at the exact same time, already cleaning with my 1992 playlist going:

Whoever recommended Puzzmo in someone else's replies recently, I love/hate you! ❤️

i was trying to get a link to an episode of the podcast “i don’t speak german” and google wants to be cute with me like i was talking to the robot. no bitch, i’m trying to use a search engine! i’m not fucking talking to you!!!! we aren’t friends!!!!

Worked from home today (for plumbing reasons, but it's all fixed) and am about to turn on the Phillies game feed and I keep suddenly remembering it's a long weekend. Good good stuff.

According to this Naxos Music Library newsletter, both Richard Wagner and Sun Ra were born on this date in history (almost a century apart). That's fun to think about.

Y Combinator, huh?

Okay, this one made me laugh. Routle - TriMet 05/20/2026 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

In the paper, the "household sharing unit" *includes income from parents*. It's not "how much did this person in Gen Z make" it's "how much was the total income of the household the Gen Z person lived in divided by the square root of the number of members." 4/

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

It's a little creepy in this day and age to look up and see fighter jets pass by overhead. (Not uncommon, they do training flights here, but I'm not usually sitting quietly outdoors when they do.)

Ah, yes, the ancestral homelands...

I interviewed Tony Leung. www.vulture.com/article/tony...

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Those glasses are a Portlandia joke.

Tired of the screechy boy audible on the Dodgers away feed, so I switched to the Angels home feed. Joke's on me, he's still getting picked up just as clearly. Someone sit on him!

It's wild how "caring about things" works for these people. It's always entirely totemic, never ever about the thing itself Why do they care about the Odyssey? Because it's Great Work of western civilization. Why is it a great work? Don't worry about it

A better solution to this would be wonderful -- even with modern HAs, a group gathering is a miserable and/or exhausitng experience.

Today, one of the local teenage boy e-dirtbike gangs decided to ride on the sidewalk. They were giving dirty looks to a guy waiting outside a restaurant because he was in their way.

Your next question is when can I ride it??? Looks like that will happen in the fall. We need to have three trainsets here with testing and training complete before we can start carrying passengers. Note: we're waiting for all of the trainsets to finish being manufactured.

Ladies and gentlemen! Lift. Your. Cameras! The first new Amtrak Cascades trainset arrives in Seattle tomorrow at 11:29 am! It will be coming south from Everett attached to the Empire Builder. Track Train #7 at asm.transitdocs.com for precise times. You can share pics/video here! #wsdot #trains #PNW

just like his Tesla package in 2018, Musk's new SpaceX compensation deal appears to specifically incentivize his proven skill at stock promotion: sure there are "operational" targets divorced from any economic value, like "create 1m person Mars colony," but awards are all tied to market cap increase

what "never bet against Elon" leaves out is the nature of the bet being made: not that Musk will build sustainable, profitable, well-organized businesses, something he has never conclusively proven he can do, but that he will create a speculative bubble of previously unimaginable proportions

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Just took a little jaunt on the Streetcar and finally remembered what a Tesla's suspension reminds me of...

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Have the A's game on. Am I hallucinating or is there an AT&T ad with Onyx as the soundtrack? I feel like if you went back to 1993 and told me that this would happen, my response would've been:

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

I'm going to be at Powell's in Portland on 6/2 for the Meeting New People book launch. come say hello! www.powells.com/events/danie...

Hi, just FYI, Airpods are not good enough at mic pickup to use when presenting on Zoom. And actually neither are 99% of laptop mics. How are we this many years post pandemic-onset and we still have people just mumbling in front of their screens?

Is there a super cut of these?

giving the "good blog" to this good blog not only because it is a good blog, but more importantly because it includes at least one properly deployed en dash www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...

Does it seem like a lot of very young pro athletes are dying this year -- or is it just an artifact of reporting that makes it through the algo?

Walked around the house all day asking my cats, "Pourquoi l'évangile du mal?" Now that I've put it through Google Translate, it actually seems like a reasonable question.

LRT ........a MOSLEY runs Palantir UK?! My brain cannot metabolize this information.

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

Treated my mom to DQ after she wouldn't let me pay for the schmancy Mother's Day dinner, and this was the sky over the drive thru.

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

LRT the whole article my whole face was like: [citation] > [needed] — Also, what age is this writer?

Sometimes I just be leaving articles in Slack channels and then spying from afar like I'm Ma from the movie Ma 😭😭😭

“save for retirement because social security will be bankrupt when you’re old but also your day to day life expenses are outpacing your income, the stock market is manipulated by the worst people alive who want us dead, but if you ever crowdfund you might as well kys, but if you kys that’s sad :(”