The best single-artist single-subject covers album I've heard is Shelby Lynne/Dusty Springfield, but this Gretchen Peters/Mickey Newbury album is up there open.spotify.com/track/2nL8Qd...

"29" by the Gin Blossoms sounds like "I Ain't Ever Satisfied" by Steve Earle, who's in charge of investigating these things

And, therefore, there can also not be hierarchy of methods, because it depends on the specific case whether the assumptions are fulfilled.

me, several times a week: i can do it. i can drink this water without sitting up. it’s not gonna be like last time

While you’re all mad at Taylor Swift beefing with Charlie XCX I’m over here wondering why Springsteen didn’t respond to Prefab Sprout’s diss track “Cars and Girls” demo version youtu.be/AIf9xcDOPr0

When Kris Kristofferson died I found a few songs of his that I didn't know, and this one has really stuck in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GY...

This sounds a bit like I'll Sleep When I'm Dead with Clive Owen, which was also not as good as it should have been

“Sometimes we feel we can curve along with the façade of reality, but it’s tissue-paper thin, and you can fall through it: into the madhouse, into prison, into the cemetery.” —Russell Hoban www.theguardian.com/books/2002/j...

Apps are getting so shameless with tying other features to notification settings. Next they’ll be threatening to lose a few messages here and there, or send them to other contacts

You’ve gotta admit it’s very convenient that 100 mph is basically the upper limit for how fast humans can throw baseballs. Pretty much the best argument against the metric system

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

At this point every plural ending for "octopus" will look wrong to many readers, and what they do together can no longer be easily reported in English. I guess they knew which country to invade

Tomorrow I have to take 25 blurbs of text, copy paste them one by one into a UI, get an ID and link, and then go paste those into some docs I’m reminded how much more I value of a good REST API or RPA/headless browser (Playwright!) over AI for the kind of work I want to delegate to a robot

"I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart" is such a funny lie.

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

Me: sometimes I stay up all night and I don't go to bed. It's called "bonus time". My loved ones: no it's not.

something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc

It is the end of time. The last star in the universe flickers and slowly dies. Mark Zuckerberg still predicts that everyone will be wearing glasses with computers in them in five years' time.

What's ironic about these AI summaries is that they're often just re-inverting the pyramid, after online ad economics drove publications to clickbait headlines and buried ledes. In other words, the "summary" is an inferior version of what would once have been in the headline and first two paragraphs

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

I was Lee Harvey Oswald’s trans roommate. Taking interviews at this time @wsj.com @newyorkpost.bsky.social

Very disappointed in my kid's school PTA family movie night. I thought for sure we were going to watch Boogie Nights. They're not even showing a PTA movie at all! 😡

Slayground (1983)

"As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest."— Joanna Russ, The Female Man

This is the longest piece that Dissent has ever published, but you should set aside an hour of your weekend to read a truly, truly, great, "lost" essay

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)

In other news: complex adaptive systems keep on being complex, adaptive, and chock full of that system juice

Was a running joke that a third child was the Veblen good of San Francisco

“Holmes eludes his satirists. He’s already the subject of his creator’s joke.” [Lloyd Rose]

The billboards on the way through SF to SFO are like a parody of the city. “Wooza can push to Splorg. Can your TSMP?”

Intrigued to learn—though it makes sense—that Patricia Highsmith, living in Greenwich Village in the 1940s, had extensive contacts with the art world. She even modelled for photographs, including these by Rolf Tietgens. #PatriciaHighsmith #RolfTietgens

There are many strange and forgotten detective characters, but the strangest one might be Cleek — a master of disguise who can imitate anyone just by making faces

"The ages of the Father and of the Son are past. We have entered the age of the Holy Ghost." [Muriel Spark]

"Still, here is the book." Gladys Mitchell, 1941

A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social

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ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul— WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]

"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING STRANGERS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN"

No one talks about how this costume clearly inspired Darth Vader as well as Daft Punk, and in any fair copyright system, Brian De Palma would now control Disney

Anne Sexton

RIP Terence Stamp

You know in movies where they kinda wipe their hand gently over the face of a dead guy and it closes their eyes. It would be a good gag if they did that on a guy with glasses. Either his eyes close or the glasses turn into sunglasses.

Mets fans in July vs Mets fans in August

"Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that it was neither the moment nor the true self.” [from The Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard]

“Her languor was not a feebleness but rather a fullness of life, like that of a child half-awake…” [Chesterton]

Every time I have to get a new laptop, it feels less like my own computer, and more like a screen Microsoft is grudgingly allowing me to borrow.