“I was in Syracuse, New York two weeks before 9/11” is a throwaway line from The Good Place that has burrowed into my brain and stayed there

I'm convinced by the replies citing Empire Records/Clueless as the last/first. Hackers was also '95, so is clearly the cinematic bridge.

Soon (tomorrow)

I think this is very correct

Is Romeo + Juliet Millennial or Gen X coded. Does this change once you take the OST out of the equation?

So questions that interest me more are “What is the first millennial movie” and “What is the last Gen X movie?” The latter should not include deliberate nostalgia plays.

Is this a savior in these dirty streets?

There's this increasing attempt by Gen Z and younger Millennials to try and shove me into the Gen X category, and fuck the lot of you, I had to run around a school assembly singing a stupid song about how I was the class of the year 2000, that's as Millennial as it gets.

The new Department of Defense faith codes list also classifies Orthodox Judaism as a type of Orthodox Christianity and "Reformed Judaism" as a type of Reformed Christian, while classifying Messianic Jews as a type of Judaism.

This is a point made by @stephenjacobsmith.com and I think it's very good: if you're a home cook, you should be making primarily modern dishes from urban, low family size societies like Italy or Japan. Traditional recipes from high birth rate ones will get you.

Pro-tip: don’t take hydroxyzine at 4 am, no matter how badly you need to sleep, unless you plan to sleep til at least noon. I woke up at 8, which is late, and I am definitely not all here.

Ah fuck, the birds are starting to sing and I have just tossed & turned all night

RIP Ayatollah Khamenei you would have loved Bluesky

i do have a quibble with the papers, though, in that you seem to operationally define "parasocial" as "one-way follows", but i regard many of my one-way followers as acquaintances that i recognize and regularly interact with and care about, bc i try to be selective about my follows for feed curation

what? now you tell me?

Flexibility is so weird: it’s like, my brain is convince that a muscle can only stretch so far and that exceeding that will injure me, so I have to continuously exceed that to convince it otherwise and then if you stop it will forget

One thing I don’t think we appreciate is that short and long form video becoming dominant over text is a reversion to an oral story telling tradition, complete with some form of power accumulating to those who are literate that was obviated by universal literacy.

i am attracted to the simcluster (and what you might call tpob, and its predecessor, tpot) i think mostly because its a space with unusual levels of intellectual humility. intellectual humility is rewarded, disagreeing is a bit less dangerous, and we can laugh at ourselves and be lil silly about it.

Faine talks about food a lot. All the time. I sometimes have to tell them that I don’t want to talk about my next meal after I’ve just eaten.

I like this so much

The Syria test never fails and that's why the vast majority of people who invoke it have had nothing to say about anything happening in southwestern Syria since December 2024

The Syria test never fails and that's why the vast majority of people who invoke it have had nothing to say about anything happening in southwestern Syria since December 2024

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

it should rly be possible to write your nix config in arbitrary languages. for example, I think writing it in Go would be--*gunshots*

My “Nobody watches men’s sports” t-shirt has,in short order, prompted the women at working at running store to ask where they could buy it and a butch woman at the hardware store to go “Nice shirt!” so suffice it to say this one is a hit

Heads up: if you see a book for sale with this cover * it is nothing to do with me, I didn't publish it * if you pay money for it, none of that money will go to me * this is V1, the old self-published edition of the story, not V2, the overhauled new edition which you (probably) actually want

1) Concur and 2) am extremely mad I can't get it here

This is LITERALLY camp of the saints

This is just straight up Nazi shit. In Normandy. On D-Day. Fuck this whole awful administration.

🙄 It's an evolution of Pointillism and Divisionism, art styles that developed in Europe in the 1880s. "Indigenous Australian Dot Painting" is an art style that only originated in the 1970s. It's not a historic cultural tradition. Historic aboriginal art is not generally dot painting.

yeah these are genuinely quite fun and you will probably not guess the artist immediately

This is good advice.

This is the best introduction to how AT Proto actually works, written in very clear and approachable language, that I’ve seen so far (and it seems like @mackuba.eu is regularly updating it). Please give it a read!

Is fun how the general public is convinced that things I've been using for decades—em-dashes, the rule of three, and now, apparently, serif fonts—are signifiers for slop. We're training people to use bad heuristics and we're going to make both design and the written word worse.

I'm convinced that literally none of the people posting, "you can say you have religious concerns about AI and your job can't make you use it," people have actually read Pope Leo's encyclical, because it doesn't say what they think it says, like, at all.

How the fuck is Graham Platner younger than me?

This is going to create new and incomprehensible forms of horseshoe politics.

I'm still baffled by the sudden universal translation in people's heads that "data centre" = "AI data centre", when statistically a data centre is more likely to be used to house social media, stream video and music, or host your email or cloud pictures.

Goddammit. This is 100% accurate and I’m embarrassed for us as a generation.

wait I’m sorry Matt Stoller the lunatic male working class chauvinist economist is the brother of Nick Stoller, the guy who made like half the best comedies of the Obama admin????

On Bluesky? All of us

perhaps the horrors will go away if we just forbid all mention of them

This just pure conspiracy theory and I don’t know what else to say about that.

i don't do it super often but i do sometimes need a word that doesn't exist and just use it anyway. not sure anyone has ever noticed. it can be quite subtle if you want it to be.

Good for them

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

I think I just saw an accidental raw 5.5 CoT leak in codex I have thinking summaries off so seeing this I was like "wtf", but this is not a summary, this is raw caveman speak this is really neat

When Mythos comes out, of someone pays the inference bill I will make Stellaris run at full speed even heavily modded late game