I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

The Chef is in the kitchen working up his magic

Two prominent people in tech I know very very well (and know to be brilliant) have come up with polar opposite views on AI. One is all, “It’s powerful and interesting and the negatives are over-stated”. Another says it’s ruining the world, won’t work and will trigger the collapse of the economy.

Just like they threatened to leave NYC if Mamdani was elected… …and then stayed.

MARTY SUPREME is a very good movie. Goes places you wouldn't expect. Intense, but I didn't find it overwhelming—the pace works. I've never seen a Safdie movie, so I don't know how it compares. But recommend checking it out!

Boxing Day In-N-Out madness in Kettleman City.

CRIME AGAINST PROPERTY IS RELATIVELY UNIMPORTANT

this just reminded me how playlist stories are my favorite things

🚨NEW WORDS🚨 The NBA released its new "gravity" metric and... Surprise, surprise, Steph Curry leads the league in it. On Curry's gravity in full display against the Mavericks (link to article in reply).

"You will be visited by three spirits"

Lulu and the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. Louise in Pandora’s Box (1929):

Search your first name and then “glamour shot” And post a photo.

It’s clear that for all the hewing and crying against algorithms, many (most?) don’t want to do even the minimal work to tune their feed, and when it doesn’t show them what they like, they just bail. For all their faults, the Meta platforms seem to give most people what they want most of the time.

still no whamageddon, and I’ve been out in public and stuff

Private equity needs to be regulated

Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.

Does this ark happen to have telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, public relations executives, and management consultants?

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

Does this ark happen to have telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, public relations executives, and management consultants?

#NBA OKC is 2-3 in their last 5 games. All those pundits who thought they'd match (or even blow past) the Warriors' 73-9 season, didn't acknowledge just how difficult it is.

PayPal is, well, evil. (They acquired Honey, and continue to run it as a data harvesting scam service.) youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...

Just in time for NBA Christmas, I'm soft-launching heatcheck.site. Heatcheck tells you if an NBA game was good without spoiling the result. To do so, I've built the Heat Index, a system that accounts for final score margin, lead changes, and back-and-forth drama. Would love your feedback!

For me, in WAKE UP DEAD MAN, this scene is the *heart* of the movie. I still think about it two weeks later. It has no role in the plot nor mystery. Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

WINTER SOLSTICE

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

LOW EXPECTATIONS ARE GOOD PROTECTION

Tell me you don't see it

#NBA Reached the part of the season where I stop watching the #Warriors because they’re effort doesn’t warrant it.

Louise holds the June 1927 issue of Theatre Magazine for a portrait by Eugene Robert Richee.

Classic case of loss aversion. White men were so used to their social and cultural dominance that slight attempts toward equity were perceived as "shutting out," particularly for the mediocre whose success was due to privilege, not performance.

A bunch of us are working to advance #PublicAI: AI that is publicly accountable, accessible, and sustainable. A lot of us are interested in local-first, community-governed, and more open models of what this technology could be. We welcome allies in the @publicai.network! publicai.network/whitepaper/

I don't understand this argument, and the use of the word 'should.' Some streamers (HBO) mostly drop weekly, and they're businesses, and have evidence that it works for them. Other streamers binge-drop. Some do both (Hulu/FX binge-drops THE BEAR and weekly drops other shows).

I know we need the rain, but... oof

Harriet Hammond by James Abbe, 1920.

I seem to be in the minority of finding ADOLESCENCE to be a simply okay television show, and That Episode to actually be kinda bad, because it plays out as an adult fantasy of how things are, not how an actual adolescent would engage in that moment. It just felt so fake to me.

This seems to be the 10-year anniversary of my nerdiest Twitter post (which has to be saying something), wherein I bitch-slapped @jonathanhoefler.bsky.social for confusing the heraldic terms "rampant" and "segreant".

Got my 23 and Me results back

Anna May Wong for Flame of Love (1930).

Never let anyone get away with saying "Republicans are better for the economy." They never have been.

Here's my bracket. Go vote!

If you need a smile today. I know I do.

There's so much to remember Rob Reiner by. Of late, I loved his contribution to THE BEAR, a small part stuffed with gruff heart.

I'm looking for a Full Stack or Frontend Software Engineer for close to full-time help with a project for a few months. Requires skills in Vue (Typescript) and Laravel (PHP). Data engineering experience and past work with NBA stats preferred but not required. Please email [email protected].

PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

“Louise Brooks, Paramount player, and her sister, June Brooks, imbibe in oolong tea and health crackers at four o’clock in the gardens of the new hillside home of Miss Brooks and director husband Edward Sutherland.” Photo by Otto Dyar, 1927.

Both at The Castro Theatre: 15th anniversary showing of STOP MAKING SENSE with people dancing in the aisles and all band members in the same place for the first time in a long time. Susie Bright’s lecture/presentation HOW TO READ A DIRTY MOVIE where one of the film performers autofellated on stage.

So there is just no way to have a reasoned, level-headed discussion of AI on this platform (at least, not without way-constraining interaction options, as I've done with this post.)