I’m not sure they’ve lost interest. This is kind of like saying people stranded on the moon lose interest in playing volleyball.

I’m watching a home cook I enjoy on YouTube who decided to ask ChatGPT to write her a recipe for waffle batter and it completely flopped, not even close, wildly too runny, she had to add multiple cups of extra flour. I just don’t think it’s quite ready for war planning.

When you have rented for a long time and you want to own a house, one of the nice moments is that you realize you are building up equity. I bought my house as a middle-aged person; I may be pretty old when I pay it off. But I have some equity in it.

I’m not sure whoever chose the White Lotus quote for the lede in the auction description is aware that on the show, hearing his wife say this makes her husband consider whether she is so soft that if they’re not going to be as rich, he might be better off poisoning her.

It would be nice to not live in a world where people in both non-doofus jobs and doofus jobs didn’t run around trying to present themselves as terrifying bullies. It is baseball. All of you are rich. Suggesting you’ll put anybody in a ditch makes you sound like Matt Dillon in MY BODYGUARD.

I’ve had to do a little unexpected traveling this week and this boy is being so good while he stays over at daycare.

This is wonderful. Timeline cleanse, but smart and cool and interesting. Priya is the best. youtu.be/8kSLVxoZDyg?...

I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.

What a great story.

Admitting that you don’t know enough about a landscape of references to use them in your work is about one one-thousandth as humbling as doing this. You do not have to be conversant in everything. You do have to understand the scope of your own knowledge and experience better than anyone.

I hope you have a friend you truly trust.

He does economically hit the highlights. Plagiarism, energy/environment, and horseshit. Check, check, check.

Love this show and loved writing about it.

One of the best shows in forever—achingly sad, hugely entertaining, and really REALLY thoughtful about important things like … the value of humanity. Really! And I gave away as little as I possibly could—almost nothing that’s not in the very opaque trailer.

You have to be patient with Apple TV’s servers; they have limited experience with people actually watching the good shows they put on. (Yes, PLURIBUS is great.)

Nobody put the Popemobile Baby in my timeline this year, and dammit, I want to see the Popemobile Baby every year.

CAPITAL NEW YEAR!!!

Okay, question for my Minnesotans: One year when I lived there (maybe like … around 2000?) I went to this St. Paul New Year’s Eve thing with my friends, it was a collection of events in a centralized spot, I remember at one venue there was swing dancing (because … it was then). (1/2)

All rise.

They did not prove the mortadella-ments of the offense.

On LAW & ORDER, it's gonna be a gyro.

He did not have the requisite mens rye-a

We find him not guilty on all Counts of Throwing A Monte Cristo

I get it, but my guess is that he was going for help. Hauling ass is not necessarily the wrong response in an emergency.

I am in the middle of this book and it is really good. Go see Stephen!

I’ve been assuming Alex Gibney is somewhere circling.

If you believe, as I do, that Supreme Court justices are just a committee of lawyers who have political interests and personal motivations just like everybody else, seeing them more willing to be more openly skeptical yesterday than perhaps a week earlier is not surprising.

Watching Survivor in bed. Dog is zonked. I don’t know if the excitement level is really even responsible.

The question is whether this behavior violates the spirit and the muffuletta of the law.

I’ve been talking to friends about some of the things that made Mamdani’s campaign feel unusual to me (*aside* from the policies he was promoting), and I kept coming back to the fact that he seems to really like the city and like the people and enjoy being among them. (1/3)

This guy is a suuuuuper interesting piece of the Mamdani story to me.

Update: The chili is so good you guys.

I first saw Mamdani in pictures of the event where @svershbow.bsky.social took her Simon to be sworn in as New York City’s dog mayor.

I have a big pot of chili in the slow cooker and I think I’m going to eat some at like 10:30 at night and then watch returns come in until the rest is cool enough to put away.

If I heard correctly, they said on MSNBC that literally more than half of *all TV ad spending* on her side (might have been over a particular period of time?) was spent on anti-trans ads.

This is the kind of result, if it turns out to hold, that I personally think is most significant.

I am a Phillies fan, so your booing only makes me stronger.

Perhaps there were two sandwiches. The regular one and… … … … the grassy roll

Ken Burns only wishes

I encourage you to review the entire history of alleged Sexiest Mens Alives, because no matter who you are, I think you will experience at least one jump scare. people.com/celebrity/al...

One thing I think is interesting about him is that people often associate being politically deft and able to think on your feet (and not drive into a ditch) with a lack of commitment to your beliefs, and I think he’s a good example of how those don’t have to be the same thing at all.

This doesn’t have to be made in a pressure cooker if you don’t have one, but if you do, you can make it the same way I have made it one bajillion times with all kinds of seasoning combinations. My favorite right now is the Resist! blend from Penzey’s. www.budgetbytes.com/pressure-coo...

Happy birthday to my beautiful mom.

Obviously THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is a very particular Sorkin-Ian fantasy, but: One of the things I like about it is that at the end, the president rolls out a policy proposal (banning handguns!) and says he’s willing to go door to door if necessary until he convinces people he’s right.

The dog woke up this morning like “It is NOT 8:30 it is 9:30 and the bladder knows so I will NOT be eating breakfast first I will be going out first THANK YOU.” (He’s very expressive.)

Oh, it was the most boring and predictable possible outcome? Cool, glad I watched none of it.

I’m so excited for this I’m going to stop watching 9-1-1 Nashville, which is, for the record, exceedingly bonkers.

I just remembered that last winter I bought a heated throw. I am now under it.

Independent cats I don’t know are “chief,” sweet cats I don’t know are “fluffo,” independent dogs I don’t know are “bubs,” and needy dogs I don’t know are “friend.”

You have to be a real trashcan to use “AI” tools to make videos of cute babies and animals. If you can’t come up with an adequate supply of cute babies and animals using reality, you are, I repeat, a trashcan.