as a Filipino-Wisconsinite, watching foreigners who assume soccer primacy is normal and all you need is to see a game on the field to become a fan for life discover with their own eyes that in the US it's maybe the fifth sport even though a generation of kids has played youth soccer at this point

Europeans claiming Americans don't travel *while* complaining about the distance between anything in the US *and* that Americans drive too much

Little-known #localangle #rockfacts about British artist David Hockney, who just died. When he was in Minneapolis in 1965 for "London: The New Scene" exhibit at the Walker Art Center, Hockney was among the only ones at the opening party who knew how to dance to local garage-rock greats The Trashmen.

yeah this looks like something to move out of the longshot category into "hey guys you know what else this looks like?" economically, this a classic substitution of capital for labor, but they've dumped a *lot* of capital into the production function and not really seen much change in output.

when will they come up with BI

Boston Fastfood in Tajikistan like a Warren Zevon lyric that never quite gelled

the "third places" haven't gone away. the habits of enough younger people have changed, and too many are pure bigots to anything they consider "old." you know what's sad? seeing an unused skatepark. it took decades to convince local governments that skateboarding was not a crime. now no one cares.

like I keep on having to tell people, conservatives were pro-abortion when it came to this source: my mom

this mainly tells me that Democratic voters have a working definition of socialism that is aligned with middle-of-the-road Democratic policies. that's how Republicans view the Democratic Party, too. it means that the egghead/PMC/DSA/ creatives definition of socialism is not genpop's.

if I sell a trillionth share of ownership in my car to someone for a dollar, my car would have a value of one trillion dollars. man it would be a pain in the ass to insure maybe those shares will trade as collectibles. this has been your explainer for the last ten years of financial garbage.

McDonald's; PEEL ROAD Douglas, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 5ED, Isle of Man https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=54.1536057%2C-4.501212099999999&query_place_id=ChIJ74OZd0KFY0gRSGDXaiGHOWA

this all could have been avoided if all those alleged men had remembered how Trump couldn't even sign Don Shula to the New Jersey Generals without fucking it up through unforced errors

On this day: June 11, 1989. I attended the best live music performance I’ve ever experienced. Fugazi’s first performance in Minneapolis, in the 7th Street Entry. So many moments from that night are seared into my memory. This flyer mimicked a Dischord Records ad and is in my archives.

modern Republicans want the Confederate Christianity of their depraved imaginations. (actual Confederate leaders were in mainline sects, Catholic, or in Benjamin's case, raised in an early Reform household.) that's all there is to it.

it is *amazing* how quickly left Brit commenters on the pogrom have gone from blaming foreign agents for inciting violence to damning anyone who suggests foreign agents incited violence. DOES YOUR TEA HAVE LEAD IN IT? I AM TALKING VERY LOUD MAYBE THAT WILL HELP

oh the @blankcheck.bsky.social peeps had a *time* in Madison

"once is happenstance. twice is coincidence. three times is enemy action."

made a bowl of instant banana pudding with half-and-half to beat the heat

does "bigotry against white men" include [REDACTED] for being irredeemable assholes?

ah, the bantamweights have arrived

I HAVE to illustrate this scene.

looking at pictures of the White Octagon reminds me that there is an age-segmented media style that used to be only seen on the Fox News chyron, a tremendously busy combination of embedded tickers and panels in bright colors. now you see it everywhere right-coded, with additional Al slop.

I'm at the Black president backlash, what? I'm at the MeToo backlash, what? I'm at the combination Black president and MeToo backlash

in a country like the Philippines this would correctly be seen as an admission that the national government is not fully in charge of a rebellious region

it's not telling me anything I didn't already know first principles, Clarice

"maybe it will happen today" what, JD fucking Vance becoming president? that's gonna make you happy? it's gonna bring joy to your life and put a spring in your step? go out there and do something so that when the day comes -- and that's congestive heart failure, it's gonna be soon -- you are READY

the problem with letting the market decide everything is not that rich people control it, but that rich people who don't have uses for their extra money control it. it's the inverse of the marginal utility of wealth, to be technical about it.

“Touch grass” Elder Futhark runes (Proto-Norse language): ᛏᚨᚲᚷᚱᚨᛊᛖ (*tāk grase) Younger Futhark runes (Old Norse language): ᛐᛆᚴᛐᚢ᛬ᚨ᛬ᚴᚱᛆᛋᛁ᛬ (taktu á grasi) Gothic hybrid Greek/runic alphabet (Gothic language): 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (tek* grasa*)

apparently the new generation of LLMs go kaput when you ask them questions about biomedical research? but but but I was told they would accelerate the pace of longevity research so quickly that death itself would become a thing of the past

it's Social Mobility Day? well, this is the place for it.

the Philippines used to be a baseball nation, and it fell away. no one is really sure why. the "colonialist taint" theory doesn't explain the rise of basketball or the permanence of baseball elsewhere. the Philippines also doesn't give a damn about soccer. "kicking around a dead panda's head."

watching the high educational attainment right successfully convincing itself that the Pratt guy in Los Angeles really won second place tells me that they aren't going to be willing to accept other election outcomes later this year they're another batch of January 6'ers. I hope I'm wrong.

the show returns to its educational mission. the Doctor stays a woman but regenerates into one with curly long hair. the Chameleon Circuit changes the TARDIS from its anachronistic police box form into something more comprehensible and American: a school bus. but she still fights the Daleks. yes.

Museum Weimar, TX

it has come to my attention that many of you don't know that at many bars in Wisconsin, you can play a round of what is basically the dice game Yahtzee for a free drink. this is utterly normal.

"Oh Christ, not another fucking elf." -- Hugo Dyson, the third person to have experienced THE LORD OF THE RINGS

anyhow, LLM developers have a method of monitoring the internal states of LLM that they believe correspond to human emotions (an interpretation I think is hooey but that's not my point). the LLM does not have access to this information.

every once in a while you've gotta remember we're living in the best time to be alive in human history, even if there's obviously a lot of evil out there that needs to be defeated

This has to be the best anti Mamdani ad yet

The Haitians

German traveler FreddyLA7 went to a game at Jordan-Hare and stopped at a Buc-ee’s at the same day. He went to a Waffle House yesterday. He’s speedrunning the SEC experience.

"Twitter has a much lower click-through rate than BlueSky! BlueSky is much better for engagement!" versus "Twitter is able to mobilize ARMIES of racists!" you know, other places use WhatsApp for their pogroms. Elon wants to be part of the fun, but he can barely get people to masturbate to Grok.

"... the observed behaviour was qualitatively similar to the 'answer thrashing' phenomenon documented in the Claude Mythos Preview System Card. In light of this, we measured apparent distress using both external markers and internal distress probes..." lookin through the documentation!

RETVRN to the days when a beard was considered "face fungus" and people would threaten to shave it off

the big-talking leftist who turns into a milquetoast reformist when it comes to men's international soccer, and a disgusting pig about the women's sport.

I've been watching the conspiracy theories accelerate at the other place about the reality TV guy in Los Angeles with the very Mormon name, and this morning I see it's broken containment over here. it's the lab leak nonsense again. the control rods are missing, and the dorks go chain reactionary.

Wisconsin once again basically Mars compared to the rest of the country

Alt-pitch: Cursed Casey Kasem countdown.

Maurice in NORTHERN EXPOSURE