It does not need to be this way.

1) I pasted in a link and asked the new technology at the beating heart of our economy to transcribe a youtube interview with an NBA star. 2) It gave me a transcription of two people explaining the principles of physics at work in a Newton's Cradle pendulum. 3) I said, "What??!?!?" 4)

Ted Chiang for the New Yorker in 2024. Missed this until it started making rounds again this week. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

1) I pasted in a link and asked the new technology at the beating heart of our economy to transcribe a youtube interview with an NBA star. 2) It gave me a transcription of two people explaining the principles of physics at work in a Newton's Cradle pendulum. 3) I said, "What??!?!?" 4)

I wish I was friends with all these people.

see you all in two weeks!

This is real

I called my representative.

I'm English, not American. But I can tell you the feeling with Armstrong on the Moon in 1969 was very similar, with Nixon and Vietnam. I remember my late mother saying to the black and white TV, "Look. They can do so much better."

Watching the profound emotional response from all the crew members when announcing that they wanted to name a previously unnamed crater after Reid Wiseman's late wife had a similar impact on me. Empathy and kindness - and teamwork and solidarity. We can still choose these.

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

"It is a real place."

moon tourists on my coffee break

WHAT‘S TRULY AMAZING IS THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US ALSO GETS TO SEE EARTH OUT OUR WINDOWS

Why does our government make high-octane hype videos when it bombs innocent people but not when it sends a few to the moon?

Ripply and crinkly, round and bright.

Fam: Dance of Joy, or Don’t Be Ridiculous—which of the two “Perfect Strangers” rewatch podcasts is the one to start with?

I will never “go live“

WHAT‘S TRULY AMAZING IS THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US ALSO GETS TO SEE EARTH OUT OUR WINDOWS

I guess I’d condone the use of AI to take each day’s news and create a new, daily version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” rhymes and all, which an AI Billy Joel then performs, releases at midnight every night, for AI bots to stream and comment on, and none of us have to listen, just know it exists.

Iran FM: ‘Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender. It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America's standing.’

tried looking at instagram again

I genuinely cannot imagine this.

New handle just dropped. my Brand is going to be called “The Handles Messiah”

we are all paying “the price of crude“ if you know what I mean, log off and meditate on that

*Varieties* of religious experience? in this economy?

spotted these four guys just standing around at terminal. one gave his name only as “Edge”

Mark Sfirri, “25th Anniversary of Rejects from the Bat Factory” (2018)

I was in SF recently and every billboard and BART station advertisement is like “Fed up with UX rinsing your workflow umbrage? Us too. That’s why Frotzi GH8 is building HorK-facing phenstiles for the next millennium.”

"Could this be a solution?" (1910) magazine.atavist.com/2013/america...

Could someone smart plz explain why a state attorney general can't sue the fed govt, claiming it's illegally diverting taxpayer money to a war without congressional approval, and go "We're directing our state's residents to pay their taxes into an escrow account while the courts work this out."

“Baseball!”

“Baseball!”

"Just be you and see what happens," is something I just told my daughter, and I didn't get any sort of signal she appreciated its incisiveness or wisdom, so thought I'd share it here, too. You can blow right past it too. I am the Internet's dad.

This is hanging over my toilet

Exactly one person clicked the heart on this post and you better believe I’ll be shipping her a handle.

I made a handle the other day out of some very nice spalted maple. I am interested in making handles. Standalone handles. Gorgeous wooden handles that feel good in your grip. Just to hold onto. Like a fidget spinner, but steadying, soothing. When you need to get a handle on things. A handle.

working on something.

This photo of an elephant breaking into someone’s house to raid their pantry will live in my head until the day I die people.com/thmb/ixem7ta...

Nope!

Landscape with low borg isol (2026)

Learning how to turn wood, so making a lot of small, ornate, imperfect round things as exercises and then trying to find ridiculous uses for them.

I know we all can’t stand him but please stop to think about how your funny posts might be landing with those of us in the based-sons-having community.

I don’t have any thoughts on Iran or AI or fascism yet this morning because i’m just spending a moment looking up at the sky (as instructed by a recent NyT piece) appreciating how bizarre and wonderful and fortunate it was that I turned 40 alone at a Slayer concert in the midnight sun in Iceland.

Read a New York Times story this morning suggesting people move their bodies a tiny bit and take a second to look at the sky. Where did we go wrong?

Was reading "Mount Analogue," about a fantastical expedition to scale a peak connecting heaven and earth and was surprised when it ended mid-sentence in Chapter 6 because that's when the author apparently got up to answer the door, then died. Was angry at first but now I think it really works.

Took a break, looking at ducks

Hey! Someone was just nice and helped me with something. You won’t read about it in the news but worth mentioning.

Meet you there. We can do a “two guys talking” pod about it.