neat www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/a...

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

IBM peaked in the Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic era

MEET_GUY.BMF

had the democrats had a majority at the beginning of 2025 of the same size that the Republicans did, they would have lost it by October of 2025 due to deaths

thinkin about baseball

speaking of Supreme Court cases, Windows compatibility for Linux would not be in as good a place as it is now if Google had not won Google v Oracle. www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewr...

Not content with the Betamax case, Sony decided to lose another huge copyright case at the Supreme Court www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

absolutely incredible. Trump might have done more damage to American imperial power than anyone ... ever?

You may have missed or been befuddled by the announcement that Mountain Dew Baja Blast is now the official soft drink of Major League Baseball, but you simply weren’t considering the potential brand activations. You know, like a Heart of the Hide Baja Blast glove:

Mike McCartney spills the beans… The Boys of Dungeon Lane is the new Paul McCartney. theboysofdungeonlane.com #paulmccartney

One of the last known photo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney together at John's Rental Beach House in Santa Monica, California, on March 29, 1974. With Linda McCartney and Harry Nilsson. 📷May Pang ?

Dig! in IMAX

"england" is a great setting for stories, much like the old west and the star trek universe

such an amazing podcast if you're a Beatles person. all archival stuff. yes I want to listen to Paul's radio appearances promoting Off the Ground from 1993 yesterdayandtodaypodcast.wordpress.com

B.K. Borison's new book, “And Now, Back to You,” includes a line about ordering a “sub” — not a hoagie — from Wawa. Some readers are horrified. Now, the author is doubling down.

remember when the press spent several years parroting the GOP's claim they'd be tough on corporate power and "rein in big tech" only for them to turn around and immediately engage in one of the most devastating and corrupt attacks on corporate oversight in U.S. history? good times

Criminal.

Author of the linked rant here. I agree with a lot of this, but I think it understates how big the gap between good and bad software can be. Usually good software is what we choose to use in our daily life, and bad software is a corporate tool your workplace has purchased that you are forced to use.

the multi-camera sitcom is a unique stylized form of theater much like Noh or Kabuki

The Ellisons are a malicious force and their wealth should be stripped for that reason alone but we should also cheer for an end to media consolidation that makes "third season of College Star Trek" not worth the effort

Star Trek somehow landed a pleasantly earnest, straightforward show in its most difficult setting (hundreds of years after TNG/DS9/Voyager), perfectly open-ended track clear to make adventure-of-the-week-with-students episodes, and hahaha no, Paramount is anti good things gizmodo.com/star-trek-st...

I used to think this was because it applies to hotels (which it does) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelli...

Like with hallucinations in medical transcription services, AI models do well with clean and structured input but as soon as anything is a little hinky they hallucinate in order to make their output "make sense"

I like this guy

the question of whether AI outputs count as "speech" (by the AI company) seems almost entirely irrelevant. epiphenomenal. second order

I've watched the web grow up, thrive, and then destroy itself stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-p...

Lots of under-bus-throwing www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

going through my backlog of depressing saved instapaper articles nymag.com/intelligence...

Shop-Vac attachment...excuse me, wet/dry vacuum nozzle attachments...need to be more standardized! Neither of these fit!

WARN.ANS, 1997-06-01 from 192.99.104.14 (FTP)

good ordering

I don't actually believe Kasey Musgraves would have a "dry spell"

great phone wallpaper

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is weaponizing the “public interest” standard against viewpoints he dislikes. Such jawboning violates the First Amendment, due process, and the rule of law. 75+ civil society groups & free speech experts joined us in this coalition letter 🧵 techfreedom.org/fcc-threats-...

Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

a truly atrocious song www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/a...

"Consumers will pay the price." Read our statement from @bergmayer.net: publicknowledge.org/fcc-formally...

LOGOS/FAITH.GIF

I hate 4Chan but merely being "a website on the internet" does not subject you to UK law (or US of course) www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

on the one hand it fucking sucks that that stupid right wing aphorism about good times making weak men is actually correct on the other hand it also fucking sucks that the weak men are them and they're collapsing ruins of the current order down on all our heads

great late career appearances in Kelly Reichardt movies

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

re: Dinergoth. “goth” itself may have started in UK clubs in the early 1980s but ever since has been firmly a suburban phenomenon. punk, metal, all these aesthetics are Middle America and have been for decades

ibm thinkpad power series 850, boot screen (1995) oldcomputer.info/portables/tp...

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."