Pats now 52 points underwater in Super Bowls

happy Super Bowl Sunday! for all you commercials sickos, I make the case that this game's ad blitz will be to A.I. what 2022's was to crypto and 2000's was to the dot-com boom—with all attendant implications for our broader economy and the celebrity-promotion complex: slate.com/technology/2...

New England needs to win by 37 points to come away with a positive scoring margin in Super Bowls

"Natalia Bonanno’s family owns 200 apartment units"

In addition to being a valuable and heroic hitter, he was a genuine, actual backstop: subpar at throwing out runners, but when it came to preventing wild pitches and passed balls, he was more than 50 percent better than Pudge Rodriguez

NBA trade deadline in Olympics/Super Bowl week is extremely Mods Are Asleep

The entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances

For scale, Bloomberg lists the most recent daily market fluctuation in Jeff Bezos' net worth as -$3.71 billion

Johnny Dee flaminghydra.com/johnny-dee/

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 10, Indignity Image Roundup: FROZEN www.indignity.net/indignity-image-roundup-frozen/

The other tell? It works the same way.

So the machine dash basically lands like a rimshot on a failed joke. The machine repeats itself—and it says the same thing over again.

A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.

At first I didn't understand why people were holding forth about how an em dash—a totally normal and human piece of punctuation—was an obvious tell that an AI wrote something. But eventually I figured it out.

Woody Allen popping up again and again around various famous or notorious figures involved in seemingly disparate major events

That's not just an em dash—it's the AI Voice em dash

"My weekend following the Epstein Files via the website controlled by Elon Musk confirmed to me that rich and powerful people eagerly continuing to try to party with a convicted sex offender and then lying about it in public is not real news" is certainly a take! www.semafor.com/article/01/3...

FYI the CM-8M can integrate with a Camelbak for on-the-go hydration. You really get what you pay for! www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

on the right's new pantheon of heroes: "sky king," killdozer, and that penguin maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...

Facebook friends, here's Indignity Vol. 6, No. 9, THE STAIRS, Chapter 12: A serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-12/

Lots of discussion about his filmmaker mom, less about his professor dad

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 8, COLUMN DEP'T, MR WRONG: Groundhog Day Is an Occasion for Reverence www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-you-aint-nothin-but-a-groundhog/

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

"Musk has also discussed using SpaceX’s Starship rockets to carry Tesla’s Optimus robots to the moon as well as to Mars."

"xAI could benefit enormously from computing capacity provided by SpaceX’s data centers in orbit, if the company can make the engineering work." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think the key that unlocks Dan was his desire to share the things he loved with other people. Wouldn’t be the worst way to honor him if we make the effort to do that for the things we love, too. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

McQuade personally used the power of the press to get the Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop to take down the "Acting is like scoring a touchdown" quote erroneously attributed to Ed Harris. What have you ever done? defector.com/the-garden-s...

Celebrate a voice who was entirely lovely and entirely Philly by heeding this infographic of his he sent along when he found out we had the same bee in our bonnets

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Five jobs I've had: assistant editor associate editor senior editor managing editor executive editor

I guess DEFCON 1 is bacon so maybe she's just into the smell of smoke

The cat, who despises any fish-based product if it's made by a cat food company, went DEFCON 2 at one whiff of the Vantablack

Oh wow

Getting out the RIGA GOLD smoked sprats pate to try a little something I'm calling THE VANTABLACK

OK FINE

"When he goes to grocery stores now, Juan said, he sees lots of Somali and Latino teens in the aisles staring at their phones, as their immigrant family members stay safe at home, trying to explain to them what to buy." www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

Somebody's def launching a pop-up storefront called GOBLIN WIND BAKERY in Q2

Oh, the look is contrary to the leading Instagram aesthetic? Only the most authentic old-school places still carry them? It's tricky to make them? The hot trendy bagel place has worked out a recipe but won't share it with the public? Hmm what ever will happen next??

This piece seems engineered to be the first step in its own negation; the Pumpernickel Revival starts now www.grubstreet.com/article/why-...

I cannot stop thinking about the thing this person put on their resume, I am posting about it, I am normal and they are abnormal

Only if you count golf as sportsball

At least I understand all those stills of the glass-walled office everyone's posting

Canonically in the multiverse a bad timeline splits off when something that obviously was the proper thing to happen is wrongfully prevented from happening, so the only hope is to go back and do it right, oh, I see the Seahawks will be meeting the Patriots in the Super Bowl

"When the facts change, I change my mind," he writes, and then appends a flood of links to Trump's public words and actions, the vast majority pointing to stories from before 2025

The idea that the administration unexpectedly went somewhere other than where it always said it wanted to go is really hard to square with widely reported facts www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump renewed his calls for America to own Greenland on December 22, 2024, before even taking office

Strictly mid as a movie, which is good for Paul Thomas Anderson; alarmingly timely; should have made the whole thing out of Benicio del Toro