DA MOVIES ARE BACK BABY

The dumbest thing about this "we need to teach kids A.I. in school to prepare them for the future" shit is that, even if you believe that is necessary or good (it's not), the whole interface of LLMs is natural language. The only way to be "good" at using AI is to be good at... reading & writing.

Thursday is Polling Day.

Salad Fingers. Charlie the Unicorn. Badger Badger Badger Badger. All Your Base Are Belong to Us. You're The Man Now, Dog. O RLY? Numa Numa. Leeroy Jenkins. They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard. This is Sparta. It's over 9000. Rickroll. The Cake is a lie. Chocolate Rain Don't LIE to me I was THERE

potatoes are fun because theyre a great staple food until you leave them in a corner for 3 weeks and then they suddenly become 2500 points worth of tyranids

DARTH VADER: Luke, you will join me, the deadbeat father who killed all of your beloved parental figures, in the Dark Side, and if I can't convince you, I'm certain you won't be able to resist the seductive powers of the pasty, giggling goblin man who is my boss

In the beginning, the gaps between British food discourse were lasting 24 days, then 12, then 6, then every 2 days. The last post, on whether catfish and chips was antisemitic, was a day. In 4 days, we could be seeing a new topic every 8 hours. We should witness a double discourse within 7 days.

Dropping in on the Discourse to reiterate that British food is a) not bad and b) the way Americans specifically talk about it is completely deranged. Yes Brits eat more processed food than anywhere else in Western Europe and that is Not Good but it’s also doubly true of America!

Here are 4 of the most brilliant people of their generation and they love each other so much and yet they’ve spent the last few weeks on the verge of killing each other but they’ve come together for one last mad idea that will be their final performance together. I mean COME ON.

OK FUCK IT WE BALL (1/2) This is the Day - The The Maré - Rodrigo Amarante Dog Days are Over - Florence + the Machine Lake Shore Drive - Aliotta Hayes Jeremiah Chicago- Sufjan Stevens Philosophise in it! - Kishi Bashi We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger Then I Met You - The Proclaimers

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

Over a year later and I’m still transfixed by Josh Robert Thompson’s impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Rio on Redlettermedia. Olivia and I can’t stop saying things like “Cmon! Into the deepest part of de ocean!” and “The piss man came around” at every chance youtu.be/iXwDFfFx1cs?...

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

the Dark Forest theory is a terrifying hypothetical where humans on social media don't post their true beliefs, to avoid being noticed by other, more aggressive humans who will attack them and assimilate their followers

Looking back it was very funny that Mr Beasts team flew in Dan Olson, a creator who specializes in making well researched essays deconstructing disingenuous financial rackets doomed to fail.

How does an eel think about its life? What are the steps? And when should it start to eat its own bones? This map tells you! “But SEH,” you say. “I don’t want to come here every time I need to see this!” Good news, friends! You can buy it here as a poster and put it on your wall! etsy.me/3Nvk5jK

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

I think i understand what i was getting at because this is one of the hardest lines in the history of western literature

Confronted by this in my notes app on Saturday morning

Project Hail Mary (2025)

This is my holy text. I would go into battle for Ella Risbridger 🫡

Just realised I can name the last 5 presidents of Iran from memory. troubling…

giant carrot gotta be top 5 snacks of all time

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

“And there he saw, clear in his ascent, the wandering planets, hearing harmony in sounds full of heavenly melody.”

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Interestingly, the three successor empires that claimed the universal kingship mantle of the Roman Empire *all* fell between 1917-1923. So I’m going for 1923 as fall of the Roman Empire.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Easter bunny using unorthodox transport to deliver eggs.

Mandatory timeline cleanse youtu.be/vjpm6wBHeLU?...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

HUGE NEWS!!! we are doing the first EVER weird medieval guys live event and it's a (medieval) pub quiz in london!!! gonna be so much fun and i will be THROWING free stickers at everyone present so grab a ticket and come on down!!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weird-medi...

Apropos of nothing I was just struck by a thought that people now /both/ underestimate and overestimate how horrible premodern society was thanks to dark fantasy

Tried to pick a few that are foundational for me but nobody ever references

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

I think this is 100 per cent true, but to be a stuck record…it is also 100 per cent true of Andy Weir’s work. You always know that international cooperation will be rewarded, scientific inquiry will make things better, and good people disobeying bad orders will be validated.

I’m not breaking new ground here but it’s almost shocking how much the marketing for this show is aimed at nostalgic millennials instead of, yknow, the actual target audience for Harry Potter

My main feeling was it overwhelmingly reminded me of this:

I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's "not February 2027 yet" but I'm simply too seated

Project Hail Mary is goddamn delightful. Movies? Movies are back folks! Words of great encouragement!

Thank you Meta VR for giving the world my favourite paragraph in journalistic history

they literally renamed the entire company after this

vaxxed?

I've just reviewed my 52nd Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?

Absolutely aghast at the idea of someone reading everything else in the Guardian but not reading the best part of the Guardian

This is true of most people in general prior to about 1700 or so