2026 is the year to do something really crazy. . . like apply to that job you don't think you're qualified for after adding "Newtype" to your résumé. Then, when you get the interview, don a stylish white helmet and bold red suit.

I'm really glad I transitioned. ⚧️

Goddamn, just learned the titles of two different action films I watched back in the '90s, and now I want to host a Jean-Claude Van Damme + Hong Kong action directors double-feature of Maximum Risk and Hard Target.

This was a concept simple enough that Matthew Broderick successfully demonstrated it with Tic-Tac-Toe.

Ugh, that is crushing, particularly because there is an obvious correct answer, "Either we won't have a World War III or, if we do, the answer will be 'no one.'"

This was an all-timer headline

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journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is. just walk out. you can leave. if it sucks, hit da bricks. real winners quit.

"Marco Rubio, we salute you!" A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.

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It has been as long since The Last Starfighter was released as the time between the release of Casablanca and The Last Starfighter.

I guess one of the interesting things about living in these times is we’re almost certainly going to find out if this is a wild misjudgment of the people who comprise The US Armed Forces or not.

Bill Ackman, who pressured Harvard to fire Claudine Gay (ostensibly over plagiarism allegations), is...funding Francesca Gino's lawsuit against Harvard; Harvard fired Gino for *checks notes* committing research misconduct. This man...

Mothra's Crossing A Serious Mothra The Mothra Proxy O Mothra, Where Art Thou The Man Who Wasn't Mothra

Bela Lugosi Is Dead

Proof: I am very wise in the maths, who among you can name a number bigger than this: 1,000,000,000,000↑↑↑1,000,000,000,000

Still losing my mind thinking about the mini-season finale of Watanare.

so it’s a product specifically *designed* for incredibly toxic, unhealthy, dangerous, and mistaken ways of relating to LLMs?

The purpose of a system is what it does. In this case, the purpose of “break up the massing” design rules is to make new apartments look ugly and increase local opposition to their existence or building more

“Communities with limited housing options before disasters become even more constrained afterward. People can’t ‘choose’ resilience if resilient places won’t let them build affordable housing.”

over on @washingtonpost.com - yet another piece on the lack of 'starter homes' we should stop using this term. high interest rates. high land values. the starter home as our parents knew it is not coming back. we need a new path forward. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

plus blocking feels great. you wanna argue with me when we essentially share the same views? bud I'm a 58 year old man eating SweeTarts out of a box. lying on his stomach on a bed. here I will relieve you of having to see my posts. I've done a kindness! back to my candy!

This is a direct response to the European statements. It’s an attempt at a palliative. It’s still the worst act the United States has pondered since the Mexican War and it think there’s an least a 50% chance it happens. NATO is basically over unless Senate Rs like Senator Kennedy build a barrier.

1. this is beautiful 2. morale was better when we blocked takes we hated. instablock. I hate what you said? block you! that's it! right away! it's worse, and will continue to get worse, under any other strategy twitter sucked let's not be twitter, be like this dog. free and jumping

um, maybe the news should be covering this?

remembering that time where someone put my silly tweet in some uni newspaper and it's still incredibly funny that happened.

The guy with Nazi tattoos is going to cost you ten customers who are Jewish, LGBT, decent human beings in general, etc., EVEN IF HE REFRAINS FROM SAYING NAZI SHIT OUT LOUD.

You can and should generalize this. The dude who creeps on women and follows them around the store or whatever is going to cost you ten women customers.

Critically, THERE ARE MORE OF ME THAN HIM. KEEPING CATPISSMAN COSTS YOU TEN OF ME. The effect of multiple catpissmen is multiplied. You have two or three playing Lorcana or Pokemon and you had better fucking believe middle class parents aren't bringing their kids there.

If you have a tournament, magic or Warhammer or whatever? I want to come to that tournament. I want to come to painting night. I want to make incidental impulse buys at those events. I will not come if I have to be across the table from catpissman.

I don't want to bring my partner, child, or friend to your store if catpissman is there. I can get my stuff on the Internet. I probably spend as much money or more than he does, I just don't make gaming my whole identity.

If there is a guy who stinks like cat piss browsing the D&D books, you don't want to tell him to leave and come back after he takes a shower. It's confrontation, it's uncomfortable, you may be losing a sale. Too bad. The customers who encounter him don't want to come back now.

You have to understand that it is happening all the time and it is, in fact, your fault for not competently managing your space.

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

I call this the 10:1 Rule, but that is purely an estimate. The mathematical reality is of course more complicated.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.

My questions here were heavily informed by this excellent piece Kris Black wrote: share.google/SIKm5y6lEQJx...

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

It is incredibly unfortunate that the United States squandered its single opportunity to deal with this the easy way.

suck it extroverts

In 2026, I need to find someone who will do a pair cosplay with me as Misato in this outfit and her as Ritsuko in that outfit.

Five years ago.

Kuzushiro's my obvious top choice, but Nakatani Nio, Yodokawa, and Hiro are all up there as well. I love it when a mangaka's got that distinctive kind of style where you can tell at a glance who drew the art.

watched Network (1976) with my wife the other night and even though it was my second time through it, *god* that movie hits, what an absurdly relevant masterpiece

is anyone really surprised? fascism serves capital, and capital returns the favour. it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. I thought we all knew this lol.

Despite all attempts of whitewashing, January 6th is part of the top few atrocious events in the American lexicon that are defined and described by the day they happened. No ranking implied. Day of Infamy January 6th 9/11

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life