as Mahatma Gandhi once said, "you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall"

True Detective S5.

occasionally I get pushed on the question of - why did you choose to write about an empire? why doesn't your book series interrogate the legitimacy of empires? aren't all empires inherently illegitimate? this is kind of a funny series of questions, to me.

get hooked on the carl audiobooks and ruin all of the rest of media, as well. there's nothing else like the audiobooks out there.

You don’t hate these people enough.

This thread has been like waking up from a coma and learning I’m the last man alive by discovering a bunch of monkeys worshipping a ruined tractor.

Shock and Uh.

woulda started already, but Team A already got shot by Cuba

when i was in college, the grocery store where i worked had a $.25 hotdog promotion. I believe I ate 12 hot dogs for lunch for $3. I definitely wouldn't have eaten 14 hot dogs for $275. I didn't have that much money to spare.

Would you like to listen to “daisy daisy” while I try again Dave

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

I’m probably on an island here, but watching spring training games, the ABS system is so incredibly dumb. Just use the technology to call every ball and strike correctly.

Now let's get a bat in Wembanyama's hands and really learn something

AWS will be fine. S3 buckets can hold millions of objects without difficulty. Iran will hate to see their bill, though.

Good point from Dean Ball on Pentagon/Anthropic and why the real stakes go even further than AI www.hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

I’m glad someone with a big megaphone called this out. Appalling argument for an appalling conclusion by Ben Thompson.

I'm trapped and i'm rich, i'm rich, my family hates me, I'm rich, and worst of all, i'm rich

personally I think if the Maine primary voters choose Platner, we will be entirely justified in judging them as people who, at the least, are fine with anti-semitism.

Collins absolutely has a massive trove of Platner dirt ready to go the day after the primary, it's going to be a bloodbath

*earnestly* Software thinking is medieval

Alicia Keys Dean (2024), detail, by African American portrait painter, Kehinde Wiley, Born 1977 Oil on linen 244 x 183 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Has anyone ever seen AIOs glitch out like this before? That's wild. #SEO #AEO #Google #AIO

I believe Senator Sanders has a responsibility to recant his endorsement and campaign for the old lady he dislikes. Some things are more important than my Le Working Class Populism.

i genuinely think the trump republican party is a new political party wearing the skin of the old one

Also, if there are only 90 seconds, you're not going to have time to time AND get a response. call your loved ones, don't chat with an LLM.

"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

Per Bob Citino, the American way of war is whatever the plan is, plus 50,000 tons of bombs. Thus it follows that a war without a plan will simply be 50,000 tons of bombs.

everyone's confidence in their ability to drink a case of carbonated beverage in the same day is shocking to me

live action performances in every American's living room, with another 82.5 billion dollars for reruns

It’s not going to happen because there is absolutely no money in that model.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

"Migrate off COBOL" is the Grave of Empires

eternally true, sadly for my profession

Extremely revealing details in this interview

Turns out its The Verge reporter from the weeks other main discourse doing this. Real good look!

Stone Pimple Toilets came to mind first but I can’t do better than 30 Seconds to SARS

So, to summarize, the president‘s speech was: 1.) fuck you, we’re doing tariffs anyway 2.) by the way, I’m gay

Bluesky has the juice

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

You could have given me a thousand chances to guess what blog post this person published the day after she published "Why Is No One Having Sex?" and I could not have come up with anything this funny

damn right this is pointless busywork, Claude. this is haiku stuff, not what I expect from opus.

Rahm sucks. we’re all there at least, right?

A thing that annoys me about the Axios newsletter is that the tone is consistently “I am one of the top experts on this thing I learned about five minutes ago.” Also that they have 280 sources in the White House but their only source on the left is Rep. Capitulate Middle (D).

I'm more or less in the same spot. There is a bubble. It will pop. But the underlying tech is very real, and can do a bunch of things (some good, some bad). And society will adjust as people learn to use it properly (which is not how most are currently using it)

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell