I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

And they still know how to nurture a scandal--they ran "huh Biden's pretty old isn't he" headlines for weeks. But! Falling asleep in public, incoherent rambles, 'third term', ignoring due process or Congress's powers: none of those seem to clear the scandal bar for 'em

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

I wasn't a raging optimist before, but ugh, some of the world's worst people are even worse than I'd have imagined

I feel like in an ideal world it would be like 30 seconds between when people start patiently giving explanations like this on TV and when the investment bubble actually pops www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7w...

With the three-cueing stuff going around: I want to plug _Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons_. Breaks down reading bit by bit, hardest part is enticing your kid to sit down a bit every night! And then find anything (books, comics, candy wrappers, anything!) your kid genuinely wants to read

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Today.

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

Using AWS feels like interacting with a bureaucracy. Probably because it is!

I can hear @quinnypig.com reading this article to me. It’s uncanny. With dramatic pauses and everything www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/a...

Knuth knew what he was talking about with 'I have only proved it correct, not tried it!'

It's that time of year #Halloween

No one knows how big pumpkins can get. People always think they can predict the outcome, manage the risks. Then they’re standing in the shadow of something they created, realizing it grew far beyond their intentions.

Tidal's credits browsing is great--"what songs has this person written that other people performed" and "who do they share a producer with" are fun

Personally I love seeing corny, cringy bad protest signs. Means the amateurs are activated

QotD: "I put some fun things in there, I call them Easter eggs but my team called them IOCs"

i recall someone saying they hoped the end of zero interest rates would mean a less bubble-y economy and, jebus, nope

I don't know man, it's wild that causality loops and out-of-thin-air values are even *ideas* that come up in modeling concurrent memory access

the decline of instructional design work genuinely sucks, because the job is basically “how do you execute big ideas that sound awesome”

For a while I got periodic calls from the Red Cross blood folks and would say things like "the vampires are calling me again"

Okay, I’ll quibble: the role of SCOTUS here looks more like recklessness than fecklessness. Even now, the justices rush to hear case that could overturn Humphrey’s Executor—but dawdle over a challenge to Vought’s pocket recissions. They aren’t _emboldening_ constitutional arson; they’re in on it.

OK, people who read the NYer: does Chotiner ever do *non*-takedown interviews, either because he's talking to someone he finds neutral-to-sympathetic, or the topic's just not anything momentous?

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Some of you on here

At the big game, representing my alma mater.

this one hits hard because @garlingilchrist.bsky.social is a friend and former colleague from moveon days & I'm going to go insane thinking about what he is going to have to deal with as his political star keeps rising as it will b/c he's the kind of political leader we so desperately need

I do wonder if the future is going to involve a lot of local govs and utilities looking for convenient sites for a low lake and a high lake for pumped hydro installations

Gonna make a cpuid that returns “Mozilla/5.0 (like Gecko)

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Yes. I grew up in Alabama. Thinking it's all racists, and no one affected by racism, defies simple logic and arithmetic. The idea of collective worthlessness or punishment is fundamentally broken; this is not at all hard.

Johannes Vermeer. Mujer de amarillo escribiendo una carta, 1665

Extremely helpful from @pkrugman.bsky.social about why markets' reaction to Trump's attempts to abolish the foundations of American prosperity have been so muted, even as he's gone after Fed independence: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-... It's even got a political epistemology angle.

For years pretty recently I worked mostly off mini PCs except for carrying a laptop for on-call. It really was nice to Never Be Computering outside the one room. Also better for the back than looking down at this laptop screen is (sigh)

Republicans will do anything for the money — including bringing back one of the most unpopular and unhinged men their party has associated with.

The leadership always seems to be thinking "we have so much to lose if we make the Pres mad" rather than "we have so much to lose if we let the Pres boss us around"

To return to some positivity, one of my favorite bits about Hiroshima's resilience: they still have streetcars which survived the bombing in service today! Here's one of three such cars lined up at the grand reopening of Hiroshima Station a few days ago. Photo via a very nice local sock shop.

Can we replace the daniel craig weekend gif with this

Yeah--travel time and cost don't fully capture how much less *misery* there can be with a train trip

i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the conservative majority wouldn’t let Biden halt a single border program, in a case where plaintiffs did not have standing and the actions were clearly lawful (as they later affirmed!), but did let Trump kill an entire Department via clearly unlawful actions.

Everyone shut the fuck up, Aztec Batman

just absolutely insane that there are executives scream-whining about theft of their intellectual property because you can determine the empirical distribution of a model by sampling from it. let's not talk about how we made the model to begin with

What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your soup-on-the-rocks

trying to get followers on bluesky

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 25,1953