one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I felt it was my duty to inform everyone that these old-ass men are finally living their truth

I'd never get back up

Does anyone know why the two Cs in Luka Dončić's last name get different diacritical marks even though they both sound like the English "CH"? Is there a subtle difference I can't hear? Do the marks affect the vowels or consonant length or something else?

At the point in the day where I'm watching the sun dip low, punting on tasks until tomorrow, and wondering if instead of returning to work this week I should have started a new life with a new name in a new town

Got a question about whether you need to wait until your parents are dead to buy this book, and the answer is NO, it’s great for getting a sense of what you need to know before it’s an emergency! Also there’s a chapter on what to bully your parents into doing if they’re not yet dead

Walz: "What Trump tweeted the other night put the Hortman children at risk. They have to look at security. Put my family at risk again. What he's doing the Somali community is unconscionable ... for God's sake, the kids of a murdered Speaker. And [Rs] can't speak up and say 'this is wrong. stop it'"

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

I love Boris Diaw, who was actually a phenomenal athlete but perennially out of shape and didn’t give a fuck about sports when he was on a bad team. Perfect team player on a great one. Also a terrific (very French) sense of style kottke.org/17/10/boris-...

people getting infuriated by this set of posts in a way that is answered by the second post, over and over again, incredible stuff

Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."

Not the way I’d imagined a permanent revolution

Victorian tables were set with three shakers, but apparently nobody knows what went in the third one? Salt, pepper, and…probably dried mustard but nobody is sure? Wild. nowiknow.com/the-mystery-...

Whether at home, at a sporting arena, or especially in an airplane, I have never regretted spending more money to sit in a better chair

The Pistons were better than the Knicks in last year’s playoff series — and their 31 pt victory shows that now they know how to close teams like that out. My favorites to go to the finals this year.

Five years since the violent putsch that seemed to fail spectacularly at the time and now, well

I had to switch to a different coffee bean recently because my regular La Colombe Bleu was out of stock. Now it’s back, mysteriously relabeled “Deep Bleu,” and somehow better than ever? Deep Bleu is a darker roast with notes of cocoa, sweet cream, and macadamia. What do you look for in a blend?

1976

Whether at home, at a sporting arena, or especially in an airplane, I have never regretted spending more money to sit in a better chair

I am obsessed with what goes on in our brains AND our minds AND our bodies when we read. Like, a total theory of the experience of reading. Unsurprisingly I’ve read a lot about it but haven’t hit on a single framework yet that does what it needs to do

I stabbed myself in the hand trying to break up frozen ice cream with a hot kitchen knife. Three stitches and nerve damage from that one. Nothing hurts like cutting into a nerve.

You can read more about Revived here: magazine.atavist.com/introducing-...

Ending a bad year on a good note: @atavist.com is excited to introduce Revived, a project breathing new life into old stories. We're releasing previously published features otherwise lost to dead outlets and dead links. First up, from @alexmarvar.bsky.social. magazine.atavist.com/2025/lummie-...

It's hard to pick a favorite 90s JRPG but I will gladly submit Chrono Trigger. An off-the-cuff but uncontroversial top 5: 1. Chrono Trigger 2. Final Fantasy VI 3. Final Fantasy IV 4. Phantasy Star IV 5. Final Fantasy

i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts

Every Cybertruck you see shaves a year off your life

AGI = Artificial German Idealism

There’s more than one way to come to an Absolute Moment

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Ten years ago President Obama issued an executive order on gun control where he nearly wept when describing the government’s inability to make progress on this issue during his Presidency despite its urgency. A decade later, we are in a much, much worse place www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Why I Left Substack. A combination of “a good deal of gross misogyny, transphobia, and hard-right stuff” plus Substack “trying to deny this responsibility [as a publisher], to pretend that their decisions weren’t decisions at all”. [buttondown.com]

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

Hegelly Blonde

the full context of his famous quote about AI "I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself"

happy birthday to the GOAT Hayao Miyazaki

also, if i were advising, say, anthropic, i would tell them to draw extremely broad and aggressive marketing and messaging distinctions between the CSAM hate machine (xAI), the suicide machine (openAI) and the clippy-but-worse machine (copilot), and focus on being the buddhist codemonkey machine

the other tech companies working on AI will — not now, but eventually — regret having chosen not to draw a bright line between what musk is doing and what they're doing, and google, of all companies, really should know this firsthand, given how much tesla's self-driving informs opinions about waymo

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

The Golden Age of sports blogging

I was so excited to eat my lunch soup that I forgot to drink my breakfast coffee (the best kind of soup)

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Since the world is asking, and sometimes supposing otherwise: The victims of America — Black, red, yellow, brown, and everyone else with a marked identity — who still live in the USA know precisely what it is, and know it in a way that few people elsewhere in the world ever will

Eternal Sunshine of the American Mind

Imagine being one of the men who escaped Maduro’s Venezuela, sought asylum in the U.S., got instead sent to months of hell in El Salvador, got sent back to the country you’d fled in the first place as if that was some kind of win for you, and now finds out the U.S. says it’s running your country too

The worst year of this decade is still 2020 by a mile, but it’s not for the other years’ lack of trying