Drake definitely took psychic damage from this one. Also, love the Syphon Filter cover art.

Lucky couple weeks.

So the 15 tracks released for the Protomen Act III Pre-order are absolutely incredible. Even without the liner notes, the story the album paints is beautiful and tragic. I can only hope there's another track or two waiting for the full album release because yikes, that ending...

Connections Puzzle #915 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Exclusive footage of Elon Musk, JD Vance and Stephen Miller today.

Assuming the Steam Frame is reasonably priced (and actually comes out) I'm getting one. And to be clear, "reasonably priced" would be under $600, preferably under $500, GABE.

If anyone wants to explain the purple category in today's Connections to me, I'd appreciate it. I can't imagine anyone guessed it for any reason other than "probable surnames", but the actual connection they give for it makes like 0 intuitive sense.

This is what pivoting right to "win" always accomplishes.

Halfway there... #Protomen #ActIII

As an IT guy who constantly advises against cloud-based solutions in favor of on-premise solutions, I'm feeling pretty vindicated today.

I had an enlightening conversation with @anthropic.com's Claude over the weekend.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

God I legit had no idea just how many characters in the Hades games are voiced by Logan Cunningham. Dude is amazing.

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“Americans are curious, inquisitive, learning, and enriching themselves…” Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social knows we need the right to read to understand each other. Full interview: youtu.be/Gm4-SOEwEYk #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 w/@topshelfcomix.bsky.social

oops

So mote it be...

Favorite Robert Redford movie.

Valid Point Fishbag Stinkiness, A Revolutionary Act Wonderful Wall Gas Station Subway Overunderestimated The AI Military Drones I Gave Blood Because I Was Bored Microwave Burrito’s One Too Many Gregs Wadi Rum Regular A Waffle Is Just A Vessel Peanut Butter Prawns Amsterdam Pee Break Tarot Card Poker

If Fuentes' 4channer fascist movement is found to be a primary source of radicalization for Charlie Kirk's assassin, his trial is going to be a disaster for that entire ecosystem, and it's going to be interesting to see what that ecosystem looks like in the aftermath.

You magnificent bastards

"Imma let you finish..."

Sometimes I feel like the only nerd who's bullish on Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom. Like, I get the kneejerk reaction to the optics, and it certainly COULD go badly. But like... if he had never been cast as Iron Man I feel like we wouldn't find this casting weird.

Nate Silver’s thoughts on Bluesky culture, a platform he insists he does not read, are worth pretty much what you’d expect based on that information.

Man who thought Marco Rubio was a shoe-in for the 2016 election and got fired from ABC believes he understands what appeals to average people because he looks at lines on charts. As someone who has spent too much time looking at Nate Silver's lines on charts, they're not actually all that helpful.

I have officially confirmed that the Wordle Bot "Skill" score is just a measurement of whether or not you behave like Wordle Bot. If it were a measure of skill, I wouldn't be shellacking the poor guy despite having an equal luck score and five fewer "skill" points.

A search is on for an armed suspect spotted on the South Campus of UMass Lowell today. Police said in emergency radio broadcast that the suspect appeared armed with an AR-style rifle. Massive search ongoing.

My first impression of the new Sabrina Carpenter album is "Chappell Roan for straight people".

Connections Puzzle #810 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Managed to resist the obvious red herring and even got a reverse rainbow!

Connections Puzzle #804 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 124

I think WordleBot is off its game. Only beat me three times in the last two weeks despite us both having pretty average luck.

This doesn't make sense unless you've completed Expedition 33, but it doesn't really spoil anything if you haven't played it. John is right, by the way. Always walk away from Omelas.

Connections Puzzle #789 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Clunky reverse rainbow, but still a reverse rainbow!

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Live Sorbo Reaction:

I started watching "Solo Leveling" with Kaye for next month's @versuswolves.bsky.social and we're both fairly surprised at how little we hate it. Like, it doesn't deserve "Anime of the Year" in the year of "Frieren", "Apothecary Diaries", or "Dungeon Meshi", but it also doesn't deserve the hate.

Wordle 1,505 X/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well that's some shit luck

Reverse Rainbow Day! Though I almost feel like I cheated since the categories told me what order to put them in. Connections Puzzle #781 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Direct File was an easy way for Americans to file their taxes for FREE each year. It's a no-brainer — and it's popular. So why in the world did the Trump administration kill it? To give a huge handout to giant tax prep companies like TurboTax that rip Americans off.

Finally got around to watching the rest of Ironheart. I actually thought Cohen did a good job as Mephisto, but boy, that ending made absolutely no sense narratively, creatively, or emotionally. Unless Riri has a scheme to outwit Mephisto, I don't buy that she would take that deal on those terms.

Today's Wordle is brutal in Hard Mode. Wordle 1,497 X/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩

I swear, if the Democrats have been sitting on the Epstein stuff this long just because it also implicates the Clintons and Kennedys, I will be so mad. Political dynasties are poison.

For the record, I've listened to both albums a bunch, and both are incredible in completely different ways. I've even listened to them both back-to-back, and it works surprisingly well, I recommend trying it. Neighborhood Gods Unlimited is my favorite of the two, though.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance. Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger. Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.

Oh that's much worse

Hey, I only just now noticed that WordleBot changed their starting word to CLASP. Seems to be working out pretty well for them.

I legit had an entire back and forth where I kept asking an LLM to make a correction to some code, and it refused to make the change, but rather than tell me that, it opted to confidently lie and tell me it made the change, apparently hoping I wouldn't check.

Ooof. Combo breaker. Max Streak 25. Connections Puzzle #764 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟨🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟦🟨🟪