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“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

Picking a good Chinese name is such an art and science that to this day, the British Consulate General in Hong Kong has dedicated staff to provide official names of UK prime ministers and cabinet members to the rest of the Cantonese-speaking world. It's a gesture of goodwill and care

Just reflecting on how many Stan Rogers songs are imbued with positive masculinity vibes: -Work hard for the people and things you love. -Protect your community. -Find your joy in simple things. -Life is hard so cry if you need to. -Never give up or forget the bastards who did this to you.

Woah, it's renowned short story writer Deborah Eisenberg's partner!

LUCASARTS PRESENTS Columbo in: SCUMM of the Earth #pixelart

just one hit bro, i just need to level out bro

It turns out you CAN just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.

Reminds me of the line from Cosmopolis "When he died he would not end. The world would end."

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

That show also has an episode where the Kirk Gibson home run ball has been secretly owned by a guy whose doofus sons end up fighting over it when he dies. My second biggest guilty pleasure show after Las Vegas.

i don't want them to optimize caves of qud. i want them to go backwards. i want it to take eight minutes to load because it's computing how much a frog hates me

I'm not normally one to go in for lazy criticism of other people's attempts at stats but this one boggles me. I think Simon Bazelon has discovered a new form of curve fitting failure, hitherto unknown even to xkcd

ok this is my new favourite thing

This is a backdoor path from the Son to the Holy Spirit that should be closed by conditioning or stratifying on the Father.

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

An underrated part of protests is you get to go on a nice walk through the city and use car infrastructure to do it.

W.H. Auden mention!

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Showing up to the protest in my Beaker costume with a sign that reads: A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN MEEP IT.

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥 Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

When you pay in advance for a pre-order and go to pick it up, it's essentially free, so you get to buy another one. Books are tricky like that

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

This week I'm thinking about the last Pynchon novel release when I had just started grad school and I walked an hour from the University of Minnesota campus to Nicolette mall Barnes and Noble cause I saw skyscrapers and used my Missouri experience of how tall buildings are to estimate that distance.

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Heroes

I loved One Battle After Another, really enjoyed how tidy it was that the two organizations' ways of establishing membership are kind of the same choices Willa has with her dad. How do you prove your identity? With shared experiences, or with blood?

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

Having a bunch of formal statistics training didn't save me from having similar feelings, but I know intuition about probability is awful. Even knowing the point, I'm barely restrained from recording the results on my next play to check. Just one rung up on the ladder of self-awareness

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

"Sorry, there's just no money for new projects" "we have to lay off hundreds of people to cut costs" "that show/game/studio has been canceled and closed due to lack of profits"

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

a gifted kindergarten program does not need to exist and as a kid who was arbitrarily sorted into both gifted and regular track classes throughout my education i think gifted programs enforce race and class divisions and don’t do much else

I love this chapter and it gets a bad reputation as whale minutia. Ishmael has the energy of a substitute teacher who makes a show of ignoring the teacher's instructions because 'textbooks can't teach you how the world *really* works.'