The pivot from “You’re going to be so tired of winning” to “American children don’t need so many dolls and ‘a piece of chicken a piece of broccoli a tortilla and some other thing is a full meal’ and Americans should be choosing the cheaper cuts of meat” happened a lot faster than I thought it would.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Runner’s World is reporting Jeff Galloway passed away - so sad for this to happen just before another runDisney race weekend. Grateful I was able to chat with him a few years ago before my first half marathon attempt www.runnersworld.com/news/a704440...

That’s my first baseman. 🫡

Matt Olson avoided being struck out by Paul Skenes with a challenge and ended up walking. Look how damn close it was.

Heck yeah, @firefox.com 🙌💯

Apple, I like the new-ish sleep score feature of Apple Watch / Apple Health, but do you really need to notify me of my score the instant I turn off my alarm each morning?!

Hey, so! This book that I wrote and that I love is now out in paperback!

Kinda amazing that Trump shits on Canada and Mexico every day, and there's the Mexican-American captain of Canada's Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews, standing behind him as he defiles an Olympic Gold Medal He hates your mother and your fans Auston Matthews but - you do you: be a collaborator

Dang, 1Password with the 33% price increase today 😬 Time to think about using Apple Passwords…

Disney Parks friends: in March I'll be in Orlando for a conference with one evening to spend at WDW, but *not* at a park. Besides DS, is there anywhere worth visiting or having dinner (QS or, unlikely, walk-up TS)? Debating DS, Skyliner resorts, or monorail resorts. cc @markwillard.bsky.social

So many people mad that he’s a charismatic and practical politician instead of whatever strawman nightmare loon they declared he’d be.

Again, Flavor Flav has been walking the walk of his Olympic fandom and his fierce support of women’s teams for a while now. I really hope they go.

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Shout out to Team USA Women's Hockey for declining POTUS' invitation to the State of the Union after he joked with the Men's team, "we're going to have to bring the women's team... I do believe that I would probably be impeached [if the women's team was not invited]." www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

how can you not be romantic about baseball?

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#AmReading “Parable of the Talents (Earthseed book 2),” by Octavia Butler. #BookSky bookshop.org/p/books/para...

The Olympics aren't perfect, but man are they fun.

I don’t know what this says about me (or, perhaps, my high school English teacher), but whenever I hear someone say Jack Hughes’ name, I hear it as “J'Accuse...!”

My timeline is, apparently, so back. Cc @lindaholmes.bsky.social @henrytcasey.net

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Justice vs. Just ICE (Via Reddit, presumably via X, Mike Luckovich’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution political cartoon scheduled for publication tomorrow)

It is so enjoyable to watch Olympics hockey without the moving advertisements (or any advertisements!) on the boards.

I know it’s my fault for being on here while trying to avoid certain information, but, goodness, people on Bluesky really need to use hashtags (especially for live events happening in other time zones…) so I can mute them.

Curling!!!!

I'm all for cheering on your country's participants in the Olympics, but hearing people in venues chant "U-S-A... U-S-A..." comes across (to me) as extremely obnoxious.

“A thing I thought might take five minutes… ended up taking over two hours to produce… I can't believe we're boiling oceans and burning forests and firing everyone in the tech industry for AI systems that can't complete fairly simple tasks.“ a.wholelottanothing.org/trying-ai-an...

Just learned that Denmark has only one medal in the Winter Olympics EVER and my mind is blown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark...

Shout out to the employee of ESPN who, when updating a support article on ESPN's web site, included an Outlook Safe Links URL in the support article (in multiple places!) instead of a regular URL. Bravo! 👏👏 See it for yourself at support.espn.com/hc/en-us/art...

I’m officially at the point of the Olympics where I need an MLB TV-style “condensed game” option for some events 😂

I was catching up on speed skating yesterday and I could swear that the Peacock replays were skipping heats/pairs. It would go from "Pair 4/15" to "pair 6/15" with no explanation of what happened with pair 5. Super annoying. #Olympics

#AmReading “The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties,” by Jesse Q. Sutanto (book three of the “Aunties” series) #BookSky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Man, if Siri could do this kind of AI work on-device, it would be game-changing. Kind of hard to believe that it can’t after nearly 15 years. www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobst...

I think part of my fascination with curling is that it’s the only (I think) Winter Olympics sport that is not a) time-based, b) judge-based, or c) straightforward scoring-based (e.g., hockey)

I am deeply skeptical of most AI nonsense, but, as a programmer and tech enthusiast, is there some of it I should be looking into that WON’T destroy the environment?

Seated Rivalry: the double luge #Olympics version of #HeatedRivalry

It would be awesome if Peacock added chapter markers in their Olympics replays so that you could skip to, say, the final run of an event, a specific athlete, etc.

As a fan of NPR’s #PCHH, I always enjoy when Barrie Hardymon joins the show. And twice in one week? That’s an extra special treat!

Via Anders Eknert (@[email protected]) on Mastodon: “AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib. PR gets rejected. AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*. What a time to be alive. github.com/matplotlib/m... Original Mastodon post: swecyb.com/@andersekner...

All curling is fun, but mixed doubles is where it’s at, IMO. Especially given how much of it there is to watch in 2 weeks.

I swear, every fan-oriented decision Major League Baseball makes is tailored toward making it a worse product for fans. Yes, this is re: the move of MLB.TV to being purchased via ESPN and requiring a free trial of ESPN Unlimited. You’d think with a lockout looming they’d want to treat fans better.

@cabel.panic.com I know you like interesting snacks, so I thought I’d share these gummies I saw at Walgreens this morning. I searched for them online and found no information about them, so I don’t know if they’ll be available near you. Milano/Cortina 2026 Tina and Milo gummy stoats.

What a miserable existence to be filled with so much hatred, especially hatred for things that are undeniably good and joyful and true.

Missed the halftime show because I headed home from a party early (I’m old and I have to work tomorrow…) and it sounds like I missed a really good performance. I hope there’s somewhere I can watch it tomorrow.

Most boring Super Bowl ever

There’s something so wholesome about Olympic medalists taking a selfie together with their medals on the podiums.