If we’re going to be prescriptive about the metaphors for AI then manipulating a chatbot into doing something its creators didn’t want it to do is the equivalent of “I made the calculator say boobs.”

Andrew WK was a delightful public figure because he embodied an extremely specific D&D character type: the chaotic good barbarian-bard.

Slonimsky on Zappa

Fun fact! That same sapphire playthrough also caused the discovery of a new speedrun glitch www.dexerto.com/pokemon/poke...

- What an odd little idea that didn’t quite work - Whooos! All jokes! - Emotional violence - Unexpected musical number - When I go to the camp I want to see those camp classics, camp camp classics

Alright this is solid

Great thing about growing up in the 80s was just as you became aware of a band called the Grateful Dead and started wondering “huh, why are they called that?” the “Touch of Gray” video was like hey kid…I got you.

Is this fintech

Fish have committed credit card fraud

I imitated this so many times as a kid!

Finally some Pam Tillis clip art

It was the cover art that caught my eye but the music that kept me interested. The sound vacillates between Stereolab-esque lounge-pop and more reflective, low-key musings. It’s an eclectic adventure well tuned to late fall. #musicsky #newmusic claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric

Trying Psychocandy again, still not feeling it. I think there’s a whole swath of 80s underground rock I can’t connect with because the production is so goddamn thin. (See also: SST.) Is there a technical/social reason it was recorded/mixed like that? To make the guitars sound as harsh as possible?

I adore GB Studio so much. My inner child is so happy that on of the most accessible free game-making tools produces games you can literally run on a physical 1989 Game Boy.

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

🎵🎵reluctantly crouched at the starting line / do you think rupert holmes ever met rupert hine 🎵🎵

Hamilton’s revamped arena, TD Coliseum, officially opens this Friday with Paul McCartney, but they’re doing a preview show tonight w/ Earth Wind & Fire, and the opening act is a cover band made up of construction workers, so the first people to play the joint are dudes who built it. Awesome. #hamont

Ok maybe it is all poptimism’s fault

Signed my contract for the Miley book! 🎉🥳🙌🍾🎊

Ok let’s try Mellon Collie again. It’s been a decade or two.

Told Girl Twin (4) we’re finally getting rid of her crib that she hasn’t used for 6 months. Five minutes later she comes in scowling and shoves this “NO TAKE AWAY BED” note at me like she’s Martin Luther nailing it to the door of the church.

The almost total lack of interest the “fiction need to get more masculine!” crowd has in actual currently working male fiction writers is a real bummer!

Had my first “no way it was that long ago” moment today with the 10th anniversary of Carrie and Lowell.

Just realized Edward Furlong is basically named Eddie Kilometer and I can’t decide which comic auteur is most likely to use that name for a character.

courtesy of DylPesch from the wonderful @deadlockpw.bsky.social reddit

The material conditions required to be a successful artist result in disabled people being almost entirely shut out of the canon.

Here’s a guy playing The Bee Gees on rubber chickens. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DWHRPu/

Wait is Jacob Bernstein straight?

THEY LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS

What a series of nouns

Imaging one person in your group being like “ooh that guy in the bandana is hot” and everyone else giving them shit for the rest of the night about their terrible taste in men.

Starting James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover, why not. Did I do it because I saw pics of his super nice apartment? Who’s to say!

Thinking about this

The Best 100 Rap Albums List: Recast as Rock Albums. @sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums. 8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance. www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...

Still kills: youtu.be/9BbHfceTK8Q?...

At the

In 1998, Cartoon Network commissioned MST3K creator (and CtC guest) Joel Hodgson and his brother Jim to create a new intro for SGCTC. 17 were produced, but were never used. Five of them were eventually released as Easter Eggs on the Volume 2 DVD. Models by Screaming Mad George. Paul Feig played SG

Still very funny that Radiohead made a movie about how much they hate interacting with their fans that their fans (me) then eagerly watched.

I see Larry Summers is in the news again

Hi mom I need $500

lot of people got the functional walking pneumonia version of the same social media brain rot they look down on and seem most activated by hate-sharing and dogpiling to this day lol

Listening to Bassvictim for the first time and I was like “what does this sound like…oh, Das Racist”

Having kids and seeing them do many of the same things I did as a kid has definitely made me realize that I was a really annoying kid

One thing you realize after having kids is how much your own nostalgia-colored recollection of childhood as a quiet idyll does not match up with kids’ actual steady-state of “jumping on a trampoline while someone shoots candy at you out of a cannon.” Or maybe it’s just my kids!

“Ooh, is that the intro to Yo La Tengo’s ‘Everyday’?” I thought, hearing a noise from upstairs. Nope! Electric toothbrush.

We need to bring back burning in effigy

Found a product for those of you annoyed with the big zeitgeist band

Temp-Illusion’s BIKH EP was released a few weeks ago. You can listen to and support it on BC. temp-illusion.bandcamp.com/album/bikh