I went for a long walk yesterday and saw a woodpecker.

This is just the natural next step after the 2001 AUMF and Congress’s continued acquiescence to it for the past quarter century.

Happy PTA Movie’s Wide Release Eve for all who celebrate.

If Kimmel were really cool he’d do a cold open reenactment of Kirk dying but alas it’s network TV.

Every national dem still dreams of slashing social security in some grand bargain with republicans and does not have the brain capacity to see that we are being governed by fascists.

Lmao

Everyone hates Fallon for being a soulless husk, but all of his competition is getting literally canceled for making benign political commentary. So yeah, who’s laughing now? Just Fallon, no one else finds him funny.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

The Northern Lights a few weeks ago along Lake Superior. #photography #astrophotography

This guy has the same cadence and camera movement of a Conner O’Malley video

An incredible amount of evil and media illiteracy going on here but anytime Trump invokes Vietnam I think of this interview:

Brendan Eich is a piece of shit for both his political views and inventing javascript

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

the piano riff in this has drilled into my brain

@deathcabforcutie.bsky.social's 'Plans' turns 20 this Saturday. A look back:

They’re doing to cancer what they did to Covid.

Scoop from me & @joshkovensky.bsky.social: After receiving a subpoena and being threatened with criminal/civil investigations by Trump's DOJ, the University of Michigan's statewide hospital system will stop providing gender-affirming care to patients under 19 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

In a time that feels like the end of modern life, here’s a list of relatively inconsequential things that make life better I hope still happen: 1. a new Jim O’Rourke pop album 2. a new Nancy Meyers’ movie 3. I have a phone that doesn’t have a broken charging port after 18 months

Once again, under the current US mode of production everything eventually becomes a bank or a real estate company

📷: 🍃🌳 #photography

Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn

Until that's done, I think one has to take very seriously the possibility that the regulated markets ideal really does lead to a concentration of economic power that eventually under-cuts the rule of law necessary to sustain itself (a very old worry about liberalism!) might actually have been true.

Crying in corporate software employment

incredibly funny that he renamed an iconic company after the metaverse and now just a few years later that doesn’t even really exist. generational inability to sense where the wind is blowing.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

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With all the recent Hail to the Thief retrospectives (the theater production, now the live album), it makes Thom Yorke’s mealy-mouthed statement on Gaza all the more disappointing. 20 years later and his energy has gone from “Tony Blair and Bush are charlatans” to “Well pobody’s nerfect”

Thanks for nothing!

Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful

What’s up with the 51st state of Greenland?

I had a meeting with an engineer at one of the major AI companies and they straight up suggested just having their models make up data to train a new model on to me. I could not believe my ears!

hahaha hoo boy, if you think the presidential discretion and powers are too broad here, and too narrowly self-serving, well wait until you hear about nuclear launch authorities

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

hard not to see things like this and feel complete despair. my entire life has been climate scientists saying “oh this is happening faster than even worst case models predicted”. the time to do something about this was a quarter century ago and well bush v gore sealed that one.

no future

A funnier version of one of my favorite Lincoln quotes

I’ll never be able to tell my grandchildren what it was like to live through humanity discovering the solution to the Fermi Paradox.

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well i just analysed it from a Marxist perspective and it was pretty obvious

Yeah as a cis hetero white man I find myself censoring myself all the time. I can’t say things like “you heard the good word of Karl Marx” or “death to the American imperial empire”. Truly the end of free speech…

rip to the king

Turnstile’s Never Enough and Deafheaven’s Infinite Granite: two crossover bands originally from insular guitar genres who got big from albums with pink covers making an album integrating more electronics and mainstream sounds on albums with blue covers.

"They'll keep pushing this as they're replacing workers with AI!" no they're not! That isn't happening. They're laying people off because they sunsetted Section 174 of the tax code that let tech companies immediately deduct 100% of R&D if it "helped improve products." qz.com/tech-layoffs...

more like santa owned

Guess this is a bean feed now