Every AI thing is like “congrats! We FINALLY made a robot that can eat a delicious burrito!” And I’m like okay? Can it *make* lunch b/c that could be, yknow, something, and the ai people are like “unfortunately the robot cannot produce delicious burritos :-( seven billion more dollars please!!”

There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.

@bookshop.org Please let me turn the pages of app with the arrow keys of a connected keyboard I am begging

Research on Clark’s Nutcracker. Corvids are always fun.

Hey you guys hear about this movie “Ran”? boxd.it/cPQsQN

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

finally reading Homestuck, a thing my best friend loves that I have bounced off several times. Massively recommend homestuck.github.io and rangedtouch.com/homestuck-ma...

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from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

@ztul.bsky.social hey your bio on game studies study buddies still links to your twitter which is like, not public any more might be something to update — finally listening to Homestuck made this world and reading along, (also for the first time thx to Homestuck unofficial, app) thx for the shows!!

I'd argue that the AI wasn't art until it was eaten

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

Criterion Channel Jan 2026: https://jacobdavidearl.com/2026/01/04/criterion-channel-jan.html It is a new year! and I, your movie-watchingest friend am here to remind you that you subscribed to the criterion channel and haven’t watched anything on there in awhile.

2-minute comic

Shout out to my wonderful cat for finding the spider that I lost and not *killing* it, but getting it where I could *see* it so i could catch it take it outside. He and I are A Team 🤠 🐈‍⬛

I like that a good portion of the preamble to E. Wilson’s translation of the Iliad is “imagine a world where honor is taken seriously” and “look Patroclus and Achilles have a love that transcends the concept of marriage so I just went with ‘good friend’ but like. We All Know.”

Anytime I hear someone propose getting rid of the internet or getting rid of social media I want to know what they, exactly, think the internet *is*

Rewatching Percy Jackson and man. Can you imagine, a pen you can never lose

Because the sun should rise on Hogswatch. youtu.be/vPS5Yw_YsHA?...

@404media.co mater is not a goddamn tractor he’s a tow truck cmon get your facts straight

Happy holidays, everyone youtu.be/jbZo4x0NbbI?...

Agentic AI is just what if an API was antagonistic and didn’t work

Have they tried ringing up all the people they fired and replaced with ChatGPT?

Jonesy

The murderbot lady wrote a duology of steampunk space adventures For Teens™ — this is unsurprisingly highly compelling to me

“blue black” my ass

Putting the cursor in the iPad was a good move next stop: a real file system

Bell boook and candle? No! Knife coin pen book cloth! Pass it on

I always liked that Scrooge story b/c it was the only time (outside a service station i saw one time) I heard my own name in the real world

I always forget how much of a wodehouse this first back to the future is

Mariah Carey does not get to be the Queen of Christmas while Darlene Love is still here. That's Darlene's crown. Sorry, them's the rules, I didn't write the order of succession. #Heistgiving

Are fairies ferrous? How do they feel about aluminum do you think

They should invent a cat door for the bathroom

as someone who saw the lobster and immediately decided that lorgos lanthimos was from now on simply “the greek” its great to hear that stravros cumtown’s main reference point for the greek is that he is, y'know, greek

Annoyed that the Pope keeps saying cool stuff, I don't want to like the Pope

huge blow to Conan O’Brien

you think Indiana jones ever graded an actual paper

Petition to rebrand AI as "All Idols." I'm cool with getting on the Christian grift train by equating AI with evil and unholiness.

made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)

I don’t like being menaced by bill maher ever time I finish watching last week tonight it’s a jump scare I don’t need

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Dear Bookshop.org ebook department:: https://jacobdavidearl.com/2025/11/11/dear-bookshoporg-ebook-department.html

finally listening to the magnus archives and I think if there’s one takeaway it’s “wear a watch” and if there’s a second takeaway it’s “carry a flashlight”

Jake’s Drawing Book: https://jacobdavidearl.com/2025/11/10/jakes-drawing-book.html c. 2003

MDBFSSD!!!: https://jacobdavidearl.com/2025/11/10/mdbfssd.html undated, c. 2002–2003

Working Journal: https://jacobdavidearl.com/2025/11/10/working-journal.html undated, c. 2002

re-inventing the laptop

really nice work here from @robrubsam.bsky.social