oh I could punch a wall

Man. Just. Yeah.... www.reddit.com/r/mtg/commen...

you too can experience Billionaire Madness, for only a modest fee

Happy goblin day to all who celebrate

God I love The Menswear Guy.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Reality Fracture is literally what if Jace wrote the universe as shitty fanfiction. At least it makes sense from a 'why it makes no sense' standpoint. Jace is a moron.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Can't believe there might be a place in AI for massively overconfident self-proclaimed geniuses who believe you can data-logic your way through any complex societal problem if you just reject complexity, empathy, morality and legality as obsolete weaknesses.

This is so, so well-articulated.

God I love the cube. Turns out yes, Mox on the play *is* good. Highlights include: Etali into Time Walk: someone stealing *my* Etali and playing *my* Time Walk; and beating multiple mana drains by throwing 11 to the face with Bombardiers. #mtgarena l o v e t h e c u b e

What might THE PITT for higher education look like? Two new shows are definitely *not* interested in finding out! I wrote about ROOSTER and VLADIMIR and the problem of college caricature for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2081...

4-0 at the armoury and we've got a new favourite old school sage deck. Legit I think Flying Kick might be one of my all time favorite cards. #fabtcg

Any competent legal writer who pretends not to understand this is trying to sell something. At the start of my legal career I was envious of the lawyers who could just sit down and bang out briefs. That envy didn’t last.

Spoilers: Uh-oh. The full book is available though, so plenty to dig into.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Once again the latest tech innovation is a new way of avoiding labour regulations.

Quite often I feel compelled to explain why law matters even if it isn't functioning in a present scenario: this does a handy job of articulating why it's still always important to keep it as an aspirational moral framework.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

Glad to see the mask is off and someone is openly offering a cheating app rather than being coy about it.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The AI doomer narrative (it’s going to wake up and kill us all) is, whether its adherents intend it or not, pure marketing for AI companies It’s one reason their CEOs have even, on occasion, leaned into it

So, after several failed attempts of doing weird BG decks with flash or artefact shenanigans, turns out I should draft stuff I actually know how to play. #mtgarena

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.

Me, increasingly wild-eyed, to my students:

I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation

We're back in standard babyyyyy. #mtgarena

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

Called shot with the name, and turns out yes, yes it is. #mtgarena

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here

I cannot stress how distrubing it is to find out just how many peoples’ perfect partner is anything that can never disagree with them

Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.

Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day

2026: scrolling past the AI generated CSAM on the nazi pedophile app to see my favorite politicians' public anti-war statements

The case of the Twitter purchase shows the bad media strategy from Biden-era top Democrats. They were “indifferent” to a far-right billionaire oligarch buying a key element of our information infrastructure. www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

Unbelievably bleak to see journalists quoting an LLM bot's output as if it's an agent capable of making statements that mean something.

The crossover I never knew I needed.

New, from me: Time for something fun - I wrote about themes and fashions of the Knives Out Universe (KOU). 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-...

We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

retvrn to mystery stories based around the actual mystery and not whether the detective is sad and/or wet

Fairly legendary levels of hater energy.

Everything I see from Lorwyn is my favorite thing from Lorwyn.

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.