I feel about cLOUDS what I feel about Cole in general: I’m almost always impressed by Cole’s music, but I rarely FEEL it. There’s a difference between being great in a lane that I like but don’t love, and not matching the lane u define for yourself. And Cole sometimes slips into that 2nd group.

FD Signifier has started a convo on YT about whether Kdot’s halftime show, or mass-consumed black art in general, can be revolutionary. And he linked to the article below. Directionally, I agree with a lot of what the article says. Yet it falls into the trap of speaking in absolutes and binaries.

I’m not jumping on the “now Mahomes will never be the goat” train. But, Mahomes’ aura came from going down double digits in the playoffs and still winning, and being down in the fourth quarter and still winning. Which made people talk about him like he was invincible and unshakeable in big games,

A new theory to me - that when a profession or pursuit becomes equally women, men stop doing it. Bio majors, interior design, teaching, and now (maybe) college. Made me think, is there an example of a profession that is majority female that MEN on avg consider prestigious? UI/UX design?

Pantheon S1 was fun. S2 has been haunting me ever since I finished it. I’ve been chasing the dragon in sci-fi since I was a kid — finally caught the high where I least expected it. Seems wrong that you can’t find the 2nd season anywhere but bootlegged on YT. At least S1 is on Netflix

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

Nobody: Kendrick Lamar:

Drake watching everybody listen to that new Kendrick GNX album

I find provocative the idea that “philosophy makes no progress”, but as a feature, not a bug. It has to “keep trying to return to the beginning” bc it is always of a specific time and place. It is like grammar (of thought), improving not in an absolute sense, but in its fitness for the moment.

absolutely obsessed with the grizzlies rapping children’s book ‘llama llama’ over the beat of shotta flow by nle choppa

clickbaiting your team’s downfall is insane

wow your new nonfiction book sounds really compelling. i can't wait to watch a youtuber badly plagiarize it in 2-3 years

I have FINALLY watched the first episode of DanDaDan. What the fuck was that. I must binge it immediately.

Future’s opinion on Drake vs. Kendrick in GQ via YN

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

First off - luv the BR. Makes any show better if they’re covering it. Also… Dune & DP: prophecy is THE key motivating factor for everyone important The prophecies: Willy Wonka tunnel scene, pure vibes Me: *nodding* well when you see THAT, the war crimes make perfect sense

I always thought of neural networks as a 2010’s thing, not a 1950’s thing. This was a nice history lesson on how old tech converged with new trends, climaxing in 2012 (when I apparently noticed), and gave birth to the hype we see today: LLMs, self-driving cars, etc etc

Craig’s Tom Brady impression kills me

Covering DUNE: PROPHECY this season for @vulture.bsky.social. The premiere episode does the thing that a lot of giant world-building TV shows do and labors a bit to set the table. The bones of something good are there, though: www.vulture.com/article/dune...

dune prophecy is exactly what frank would want (evil women doing pussy magic)

Wrote about how Bluesky is booming because it's giving users precisely what the tech giants are taking away www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/blueskys-s...

Stories like this remind me that everyone likes affirmative action and subsidies when it helps their self-interest (even Elon!). How would ed policy funneling $$ to public schools with the worst outcomes for boys be received by rural men, progressive women, and black ppl? We all got sons, right?

stop saying Burrow would be the MVP if he had help when he's had the ball with a chance to win 5 times and not won any of them He's been sensational on balance this season but sometimes it's just not your year

Mostly just testing #addtoblacksky. But, a question for the void - the dems have validated the existence syst racism, and rang the alarm for how trumpism would make it worse. But what is the premiere national policy win for dems on racial justice since the 90s? I’m not saying there isn’t one.

This is huge news. This opens up the possibility of a viable treatment for a range of auto-inmune diseases, not just Lupus. www.science.org/content/arti...

I can’t escape my “easy schedule merchant” priors for the eagles. They aren’t as shakey as last year, but they still feel like the chiefs of the NFC. A lot of luck & defense, but instead of the GOAT QB, they have the best RB. So I trust them way less. Am I just a hater? @sheilkapadia.bsky.social