HURRAH for a new Sterlin Harjo show and HUZZAH for @noelmu.bsky.social coverage on episodicmedium.tv!

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

don’t forget to listen to earth wind and fire today (and every day)

Thread. Have only ever heard delightful things about GDT.

Oh boy! ROBOCOP is an all time favorite of mine. It was a treat and an honor to join my friend Keith on The Laser Age!

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If you see Noel at #TIFF25 today, wish him a happy birthday!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

Struck out swinging

Most people I talk to find this counterintuitive. But just a moment’s thought changes that. People who move to a frontier don’t tend to be conformists. They go to the frontier to be free of social pressures they find oppressive — including pressure to attend church.

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Vince Gilligan has successfully lured me back to Albuquerque— I’ll be covering PLURIBUS for Episodic Medium this fall. Take advantage of one last chance to get a discounted subscription and follow all the great coverage!

Prezi has overestimated the enticement factor of this subject line.

DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)

When I remarked on the unicycle's corn dog valve cover at the State Fair's bike corral, a man in a cow costume produced another corn dog valve cover and gave it to me That's a statistically improbable sentence, but 100% true

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️

On August 8th, I saved a small child from a burning building. A few hours later, I was injured in a scooter accident when I jumped a curb and I hit my butt on the handlebars and the handlebar went in my butt and now I need surgery on my butt.

Rearranging my freshman writing syllabus so we can spend a day discussing this.

For just $65,000 a year, you can send your kid to an athletic camp where they spend all day in bed, looking at their phones

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Reading Huizinga's THE AUTUMN OF THE MIDDLE AGES (1996 translation) and on every page is an observation that sounds like it was written yesterday. "All too often, sin was, for these agitated minds, whatever their enemy did." (20)

ChatGPT helped teen plan suicide after safeguards failed. (That’s because ChatGPT doesn’t have a mind and can’t think and has no awareness of ... arstechnica.com

new Shaker New Shaker NEW SHAKER www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...

“A Theology of Liberation” by Gustavo Gutiérrez

Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots

As @ghost.org's Concierge team moved all of Episodic Medium's posts over automatically, the sheer volume of the work our contributors over done over the past 3 1/2 years was hidden a bit. I just put in all these navigation tags, though, and...it's a lot, y'all. www.episodicmedium.tv

i wish ai could hurry up and replace my doctors, what's taking so long

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New heresy just dropped

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

“But the long quest of white evangelicals has been to undermine and eradicate liberal Protestantism and social justice Christianity in its many forms. They, and they alone, must stand atop of the mountain of American religion as its rightful heirs and leaders.”

Right at the end of this wonderful oral history, Chris Eigeman says “it has this charming way of not judging the characters,” and unexpectedly I’m wiping away tears. That’s exactly why this movie means so much to me.

what a pirate says when it's time for his massage:

This piece lays out all the reasons AI is ill-suited for historical work — getting facts wrong, relying on existing sources only, churning out banal claims in bland prose, etc — and then asserts we’ll all just have to use it anyway. Yeah, no.

“Execution was the favored solution to every problem, including those caused by previous executions,” writes Adam Hochschild. “When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot." --from Orwell's Roses

it's Bloblobbers birthday today…im so in love with this weapon. everything about it makes me so happy—the design, the sounds it makes, its unique gimmick, its versatility—EVERYTHING about it is so much fun and brings me so much joy. i wanted to make a video about it for today but i wrote 2k words in

“Got to Get You Into My Life” changed my life when I heard it for the first time.

Time to post the greatest sign of all time again

Somebody sent me this incredible FB marketplace listing.

This response to Bryant's original post made me do a spit take bsky.app/profile/aiza...

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

FWIW, our decision to move The Reveal from Substack to Ghost recently was very scary because the newsletter is a big chunk of our livelihood. But the transition was seamless and we got a significant subscriber bump for doing it, too. Win-win!