that felt like a cultural victory cutscreen

oh so now the "bunny" is "bad" to you, mister president?? we the people brought receipts 😤

no one can watch these commercials and conclude america is having a good time rn

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

*sobbing* we're so back

Epstein and many of his correspondents were not unsophisticated about how they communicated, a lot of emails are requests to talk by phone, there are plenty of references to keeping certain topics to in-person convos, even kicking people from an email thread because their account is "insecure"

big fan of all this

sports app, go hawks

peter thiel's pokémon are evolving into their final forms

so many elder millenials crashing out you'd think this was bluesky and not women's downhill

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40

I love this but the road to the campsite better be smooth as glass

made the most insane mac and cheese last night... did a very french butter/shallot/thyme/white wine sauce base, then added roasted leek, jalapeños, and *drumroll* lil smokies, along with gouda and cheddar and homemade croutons french redneck spicy mac absolutely rules

the vibe

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

They’re putting chemicals in the water that are turning the frickin frogs into millennials

the vibe

it is impossible to overstate just how classy a Chapron DS is every single last one of these is a celebration of style with these magnificent little details and every time I see one I discover something new to love cars.bonhams.com/auction/3169...

saturday fit check

for sale: baby ugg boots, heavily worn

watching a little downhill skiing and I just love how the drones all go "wooooo" like they're thrilled by the action

once a year the city of portland is like "who wants to look at a bunch of crazy light-up stuff downtown" and all the degens are like "WE DO"

sure, things are pretty cyberpunk right now but if what if a random oligarch's emails got dumped on like a quarterly basis

sorry what's this about marc andreessen giving the nsa a way to eavesdrop on skype in the epstein files

Oil pastel Barred Owl

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

U guys wanna see some waves

so incredibly cool, still have the copy my parents gave me as a child in the early 90s that's responsible for me being Like This

This is because Blue Origin got a chance at a backup contract after it was clear SpaceX was shitting the bed, and NASA has been signaling they're about to cut the Cybertruck of the Stars out of the moon program and now the company is scrambling to make up for 6 years of passed deadlines and fuckups

sure, things are pretty cyberpunk right now but if what if a random oligarch's emails got dumped on like a quarterly basis

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY www.wsj.com/science/spac...

area grenade seeks soft underbelly

good reporting on an interesting angle in the files if you look at the timeline, Wyler's complaint that Elon basically ripped off his idea for Starlink completely adds up... wouldn't have been Elon's first time either www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

one of the most interesting things about Epstein is that he was super anti drug... he knew what his vices were, and wanted to share them with others, but being into drugs was somehow a very big deal for him www.ft.com/content/d8f9...

You want a real 21st Century Mechanical Turk? Tesla "Full Self-Driving" is just like the Mechanical Turk, only the game is Russian Roulette instead of Chess, and you pay to be the Turk.

a fantastic book, and an actual example of a "mechanical turk"

I have my issues with this book's title but it is incredibly clear and useful on the topic of what "autonomous" means in a practical sense and how that plays out in real-world engineering contexts and everybody should read it www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316326...

If your Roomba occasionally gets stuck behind a chair and requires you to get it unstuck, did iRobot lie to you about it being an "autonomous" vacuum cleaner? What if you have to sometimes untangle string from its brush? Does that mean your vacuum doesn't clean "autonomously"?

epstein files got me so geeked I spent like three hours digging through them this morning before I even remembered to drink coffee or skeet

i'm sorry that happened to your bite coins :(

since we're doing "waymo remote guidance equals mechanical turk" discourse again...

double booking alarms for "sperm" and "king of saudi" is absolutely crazy work

ICYMI: Someone appears to have made all the available Epstein emails searchable in an emulator of Jeff's Gmail

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

Unredacted version. "So please prepare Jen —;) She might like Elon as well" is one of the absolute darkest things I read in the Epstein files today

someone went to a "p daddy party" (gotta be diddy, right?) and found it noteworthy that Elon wasn't there

I repeat, the musk boys are never beating the allegations

you don't have to hand it to anyone appearing in the epstein files, but like... I really want to know who was hating on elon in 2013

uh... gonna need your help with this one, chat who is this person, and why do they think epstein "went to california and want[s] to be with elon now"???? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...