The Claude logo is a butthole.

ISN'T THAT JUST WONDERFUL

Yesterday I learned that I am sometimes referred to as "J-Dog" (complimentary) amongst the folks who work for me and I think that's just a very nice thing to hear. 🥰

Not with those big beautiful nacelles, she ain't.

It kinda blows my mind how many people in Academia I've encountered who don't own a personal, non-institutional, computer.

Is it just me, or are at least half of the streaming / Internet ads these days just pushing AI products? It's embarrassing how desperate they are for buy-in.

Started a re-watch of THE AMERICANS last night. I never finished the series but now feels like the time to dig in and do so. An incredible show that I feel isn't discussed enough.

The sleepiest toastiest boy.

Spouse: hey can you finish this salad, it's mostly just olives and feta and tomatoes left. Me, instantly salivating: I'll manage somehow! 🤤

We had just adopted our orange cat Magnum a few weeks before and he was ill and I had to make several trips to the vet for food and meds in the middle of this. Trudging through thigh-high snow felt like I was in the Yukon fetching provisions from the only trading post in the territory. Wild times.

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Oh my fucking god, it's 2026, can hospitals PLEASE figure out how to set up their phone systems so that caller ID doesn't make them look like you're getting a scammy robocall? THIS SHOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT.

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In the last 2 weeks I know three people who either quit without another job lined up, or who have been fired, and they're all taking doctor-approved mental health leaves because of their jobs. This late-stage capitalism crash out is absolutely blendering everyone's mental health and it really sucks.

One offhand comment from Obama during an interview and Trump is such an insecure piece of shit he's babbling this nonsense. Incredible.

ACAB Conan is the purest form of Conan.

After burning through the novel PROJECT HAIL MARY in 24 hours (like I did when I first read THE MARTIAN) I am unreasonably excited for the film coming out in a month. I'm just so sick and tired of seeing Hollywood grinding out IP gruel in endless sequels, remakes, etc.. Give me original stories!

Lotta people don't really understand that comparative compliments aren't compliments, they're just rankings.

Episode 402: #ComeBackCharlestonBlue This week we got afroed archers, deadly drag queens, murderous midgets, fiery footballs, gangster ghosts and smack dab in the middle are the Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. We come out guns blazing at soundcloud.com/murmanproductions.

My team and I spent countless hours doing everything we could do to enable remote teaching for a year and so did all my colleagues. My institution had something like five lawsuits by students within that year because they felt they weren't getting their money's worth.

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

Just watched a video talking about the Brown Hoodie Kid and how the ICE supporting kid thought he was in the clear because he said "you'll get in trouble". The video reviewer pointed out that MAGA authoritarianism works because bad people break rules and good people don't. Something to think about.

Tangential to this: it really fucking sucks working in academic IT where most of your clients are functionally computer illiterate but worship Apple tech, so when Apple breaks it's own OS every fucking year, all your clients blame YOU because clearly YOU did this, not the geniuses in Cupertino. 🙃

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Yup, this. I fell and busted two disks in my lower back in my early 20s and although I work full time and I go through my day doing everything I need to, I am in pain every single day, and I just kinda ignore it after 25 years, even though I get out of bed like I'm 80 years old every morning.

Chronic pain is disability. So to everybody out there in pain all the time, you're disabled. I know we keep our chronic pain to ourselves because no one wants to hear about it & do our best to manage. But if it affects your day to day functionality, you're a disabled person.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the notion that you can measure someone's degree of conservativism by their lack of empathy and caring for people further and further away from their personal "circle". Stancil's stance here is a textbook example of this theory in practice.

Went and saw a matinee of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY this afternoon, so naturally needed to go hit up a deli afterwards. And no, no one did *that* bit, because we're not jagoffs.

Back when I was a kid in the 80s there were commercials for something you could write to get information on and it was out of Pueblo, Colorado. I don't remember what it was, anyone have an idea?

This is so funny because I used to teach at one for years in one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts and they closed it a year ago because they claimed they didn't have enough attendance and the budget was too tight. So are we doing this again or what? Call me, yeah?

This place is going to be a fucking shit show of misery today so I'm dipping out. ✌️

Absolute fuckin' legend. 💪😎

Tonight while playing D&D I teleported off our magic boat and onto the back of a giant bat that was trying to kill me and I rode around on it trying to kill it with magic while almost a hundred feet in the air. I am clearly intelligent. 🙃

I've got something fun in the hopper for y'all, and I'm excited to announce it in the next few days. The action is the juice, baby

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Democracy being dismantled by fuckwits who can't fly without their special blanket. I just can't fuckin' process this shit anymore.

Trying not to cry during an episode of THE PITT challenge level: IMPOSSIBLE

Funniest excuse (or actual reason, I suppose) you've ever used to call in sick to work. GO.

I want to promote this idea specifically as a novelist, because (in my often incorrect opinion) people are a lot more forgiving of other amateur art forms than they are of written forms of art. Every writer started as an amateur and grew through experience, but it's really hard to grow...

Thank y'all for the good fortune, the Very Concerning Thing is just an annoyance and not, y'know, a potential death sentence. 😅😬🙃

Told my spouse I couldn't attend this because I would pound three espresso martinis and then heckle Piven until he took a swing at me.

We all know what we need to do, we just need to find the strength to do it.

A person of elevated tastes here, I approve.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Ohmygod FUCK YES.

Every single thing I've seen from the MAGA regime is just textbook DARVO behavior: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Every time.

Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc