You might think the takeaway from this chart is “wow bicycles are efficient” but that’s incorrect. The takeaway is that we should be giving bicycles to salmon

Millenials got the last childhood before social media, the last dating before the apps, and the last white collar careers before AI. If you think the boomer resentment is bad, lots worse coming.

“When the wife’s away, the boys will play” and it’s just me reading List of Historical Horses on Wikipedia again

Some "holy shit" synchronicity for you all: My former PhD advisor has not hired any grad students for the past several years, for reasons unbeknownst to his former students. I just received this text from a former lab member explaining why. This is a tenured professor at a T10 university.

Some art

We are interviewing applicants for our open PhD positions and it's sad but I'm not really interested in any of them, no matter how good, because Claude is better.

I love when you can count how many people tried and failed to listen to a "challenging" album

Joe Medicine Crow was a Native American who joined the U.S. Army in 1943. During WWII he completed the four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him (counting coup), taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse.

One of the great mysteries of life is music. Why is it so beautiful

No Country For Men

Context: this is because I bowled a 170. If you’re having a bad day it’s because you didn’t bowl a 170.

perfect_day_counter_2026 = 1

It has come to my attention that I was not following many of you! My sincere apologies!

Tweet sommelier time: For the hubristic schadenfreude of the doomed, may I suggest the 2011 Carbon Date Cello Solo? youtu.be/Y73kCzab-XY?...

This is becoming “the spot”

The key to understanding this review is noting that the hyphen was meant to be a hyphen and not an em dash

szechaun tingle autocomplete complex umami autocomplete distinct mouthfeel autocomplete

In hindsight we could have saved a lot of bad AI discourse by naming it "next token discovery" instead

list of former rivers 1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzboy

“ ‘is a sentence fragment’ is a sentence fragment” is NOT a sentence fragment.

Thinking about the ending of Tár, where it is revealed that a bad letter of recommendation is all it takes to sink someone’s career. Well anyway I’m sure glad that movie is fiction and never happens in real life.

Milan Cortina is the named of the meanest girl at your high school

three borges? damn

Congrats to the Seahawks for winning the most boring football game I can remember watching

Greatest backing band of all time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXBb...

There are those who grind, those who performatively grind, and those who performatively “grind”. One of these options is far better than the others but you kinda have to figure it out yourself.

Reminder that clicking the lock button on an iPhone five times forces you to use the PIN to unlock. Disables biometric authentication.

I’m just saying “I’m just saying” is an odd phrase because it typically denotes the opposite of what it connotes. You’re “just saying” something because there’s something else you’re *not* saying!

left vs right is an eternal struggle between a death cult and a fertility cult and one side recruits but doesn't reproduce which is why this is an eternal struggle

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Revisiting my lecture notes as I teach the same class as last semester. And let's just say, last semester's students learned a whole bunch of incorrect information

something you don't see very much anymore: A website, filling a specific niche, with articles written by a human being. www.atlasofwonders.com

portrait of tracy. also guess who just bought an audio interface.

We're gearing up to Beat the Chinese by (checks notes) de-staffing the National Science Foundation

I love when people on LinkedIn call themselves seasoned.

As far as I can tell, there are only five emoji that denote a specific place or object on planet earth: 🗼Tokyo Tower 🗽 Statue of Liberty 🕋 Kaaba 🗻 Mount Fuji 🗾 Silhouette of Japan

I know it has to feel like this, but its still crazy to me that when I pick up my phone, this is what's in it, when outside of it, my kids are going to a birthday party, a wren is cantilevering on the lemon tree, oatmeal banana muffins just came out of the oven.

There are good students, and there are hood students, and there are a number of good, hood students.

Reporting from the trenches: college students these days seem to get a lot of their information from YouTube.

funny to then reverse map the distinction between 'blitz chess' and 'correspondence chess' to internet arguments

Atomic tweet

Coworker music and the smell of sour apple vape in the air👌

Been saying this for a few years now but “naive” art, folk art, primitivism, kinda-sucks-so-you-know-it-was-made-by-a-human, etc is already the defining aesthetic of the next decade or so.

Lovingly made pasta spilled on subway floor paired with rework of Chopin’s raindrop prelude. I feel alive. This is why I was made to live.

Reader, don’t call me that.