—by Jankyn

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You know those 24-hour Criterion flash sales that come & go before you can even decide which movies to spend too much money on? Well, Barnes & Noble is offering 50% off all Criterion titles for the next _month_. Let the seasonal physical-media-hoarding begin! www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criter...

Ea Nasir to be appointed new Deputy Police Commissioner because the organisation is full of substandard coppers.

I'm so tired of being ruled by jackasses.

What a difference a day makes

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

“In 1096, a group of monks were kicked out (again) from their monastery, on account of being monks the wrong way. This is the kind of deeply medieval debacle that leaves modern souls perplexed and yawning.”

note to self, next visit to Durham…

The most British headline I've seen in a long time.

Quote of the night, so far. "Don't worry. Whiskey and beta blockers work on two totally different channels."

I was so very pleased to blurb Peter Jones' new book on the seven deadly sins and medieval psychology. It's an unexpectedly addictive read! www.penguin.co.uk/books/469085...

I'm pretty sure it was this Dick Cheney comic that got me fired from The Washington Post. It was the first time they refused to run one of my weekly comics (after over ten years), and my comic was discontinued soon after. From 2007:

Cubano Libre!

real centrist Dem v MAGA vibes

Hey girl are you a spondee because you look double stressed

Sundar Pichai on Alphabet's Q3 earnings call: "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth ... as users continue to learn that Google can answer more of their questions." Huh. Let's ask Google AI Overview! 82% are skeptical of the information provided? Gosh.

one thing I love about this site is people who get glimpses of the 37 or so people who have adopted whatever extreme position & think to themselves, “My god, what if everyone thought like this?!” & produce a 23-skeet thread based on this prospect *my quarterly meta Bluesky comment, I’m allowed

if she can wink that means she been practicing looking a mens in the face and garnering their attention!!!!!!!!

Some great values at SIFF today, including the Palme d'Or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, which we reviewed briefly at TIFF:

Answer: no. ChatGPT has no understanding of what words mean. Collocation frequencies of words can’t bring you understanding of what those words mean, even though it might help you predict which words go together. See:

“What is dating like in your 50s”

journeyman’s work but the article turns out to be more personal essay garlanded with quotations rather than any sustained review of AI’s intersection with current neuroscience

AP, the expression is neck-and-neck, see, you’re visualizing two horses running flat-out, necks stretched for the lead—if one horse’s neck was *in* another’s neck they’d stop the race

I'm still sore about the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn to be perfectly honest

chat is this good? 🧐

From Swifties to Sunday roasts: the pleasure boat that became a symbol of north-east England. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Sorry to be all “I love LA” but Maria Bamford just lowkey came through the bar as Cookie Monster handing out homemade cookies to everyone 🤩

Hey Google, play the album Hearts & Bones by Paul Simon Google: okay, here’s Hearts & Bones by PS *plays title song* Hey Google, play Hearts & Bones THE ALBUM by PS Google: okay *song* Hey Google, play THE ALBUM Hearts & Bones by PS Google: okay, here’s the album Graceland by Paul Simon

For NZ arithmetic, median house price $650k, 20% deposit = $130k. Our little treat is a filled donut at $7.50 each, so saving that $15/week, it’s only 166 years of no donuts to accumulate that down payment here.

“literature as a mechanism for producing imitations of genuine expressions of human feeling” just need to link this to @olivia.science’s critique of ‘new(er)’ connectionist model being oriented toward imitative outcomes and contrast with 13thC participative gospel meditation! Writes itself

Still the standard in online literacy

Is there anything you can do about not shipping updates that turn my alt-text reminder off? I swear I’m not hallucinating this.

Monster with Triple-Action Joint Comfort

From $187 a month to $1,345 a month for the EXACT same health insurance plan.   That's a typical premium increase that a middle-class couple in Seattle will face because Republicans have refused to work with Democrats to extend the ACA tax credits.

I’m watching ‘Murder in Hanko‘ which I think is part of a ‘Murder in [Your Town]’ franchise and so far—6 episodes!—the poliisi are no closer to solving the murder of the first episode and in fact are losing ground cos there’s been a second one.

Important new article re-evaluating the demographic transition from Pictish to Norse in Orkney. Material previously categorised as 'Norse' or 'Viking' is now shown to date to the earlier Pictish period (pre-800).

best response (thread) to Gates climate v health memo I’ve seen “there are whole sections/paragraphs with which I strongly agree! But there are multiple fatal flaws in its underlying premise”

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.” This is where we get the 'sibling.' And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.” Over time, it came to mean "close friend." Now it is something we share w/ close friends... 'gossip.'

Kathryn speaks the truth. It's not only one of my favorite shows of this year, but of the last several. Comedy and mystery and character study and joy. I don't write weekly about shows anymore unless they're special. This one's special.

One of the most Ethan Hawke roles ever Hawked. Probably the best thing I’ve seen since v different The Pitt and the most Noah role ever Wylied.

*ECOTOPIA intensifies*

“Ah would it be pillaging yer after then?”

I have vicarious exhaustion from all the people in online publishing who have to wholly reinvent their audience outreach strategy every six months bc of AI and a certain search monopoly

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

every day on this site people pass around the “don’t accept their frame” messaging advice… and every day the same people are all “fictive kinships exist! And I can prove it!” yeah it’s not about that, it’s just to say “scary Muslim” and get that retweeted a million times

JURASSIC WORLD:REBIRTH dropped to $5.99 on Prime and my review is…$1.99. It’s pure creative exhaustion, no attempt at all at Crichton-ian thought experiment. A TV says the dinos live in “oxygen-rich” tropical areas which is a) not how atmosphere works & b) 🦕🦖evolved during very high CO2? 1)

historically, there’s nowhere to go but up!