thinking about how much i indirectly engaged with various media as a kid, without actually playing the game. knew like every pokémon, but didn't play a game til I got a ROM on my Android. bought a WOW strategy guide for stuff that was a bajillion levels above me. read it cover to cover

First learned the word from this poem, which I dig.

me when I learn that not only do we have coffin jiu-jitsu, we have car jiu-jitsu as well

my christmas wish is for aggregator accounts to please stop editorializng/posting with flair, I do not follow you for that and it is unbecoming

there is literally no engineering or science profession other than mechanical engineers which is even close to parity. tech workers literally donate to Democrats over Republicans by a factor of 17:1. and that 1 is almost entirely executives.

like how ZODIAC on Netflix is rated R for "some strong killings"

slate.com/culture/2025... haven't seen marty supreme yet, but reading byrne's character in 'If I Had Legs' as strictly sympathetic feels incredibly misguided imo

OBBBAAA (one big beautiful bill act after another)

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

music.apple.com/us/album/cob... what a goddamn miracle of an album, man

while we're here might as well post what my friends and i call the "iceberg manifesto", which regards the card "inverted iceberg"

this vid is probably on my mount rushmore of memes

music.apple.com/us/album/for... waiting for winter to hit so i can get my sufjan on

don't wanna qt that paper saying AI is NP-hard and thus it can't mimic human intelligence, but as someone with a BS in computational cog sci it's emblematic of the irritating squishiness that cog sci produces

OH MY GOD

absolute nonsense there from Caleb (complimentary)

music.apple.com/us/album/sui... always a good time to listen to my favorite song

youtu.be/JgX2-Lvfs3U?... I am extremely grateful for all the rando accounts uploading weird & rare tracks on youtube

big "why i quit smoking, by don draper" vibes here but i mean i'll take it www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

"Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage, according to Cleanview analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data shared with Canary Media." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social 🔌💡

revisiting chinese philosophy (calligraphy, etc.) and continuing to appreciate that i, a person with poor motor skills, get to live in this day and age

youtu.be/o-XZlpRrxMs?... we've never been more back, thank you mr. cusack

most of the wiles vanity fair profile wasn't shocking, but the genuine flip on russia policy was pretty surprising

I'm pretty unsentimental about sports—having rooted for a lot of heartbreaking teams in my life—but I cannot possibly even begin to state how much Philip Rivers means to me. Sucks he didn't get the win, but what a joy to see him on a football field again

somehow am facing kyle pitts in two leagues lmao

youtu.be/A8zVO5Ug0zA?... just watched, good doc. great cast of talking heads, too

the hilarious thing is that this was a thing before LLM's existed lmao. like you are patently unqualified to talk about AI if you conflate everything with Gen AI/LLM's

the anger/cope from other fanbases is so funny to me as someone whose biggest adversaries are UGA, The Dodgers, and The Chiefs lmao

George "LeGarrette Blount" Pickens

been there, done that

i have been deep into east oregon. i have driven past these places. it is all farming. what are we doing

it is incredibly funny that every metric I looked up/model I made said "hey tez johnson is probably going to be good if he gets playing time" and I chalked it up to the model not knowing he's historically undersized lmao

thinking about pluribus and got mad all over again that rhea seehorn doesn't have an emmy yet

youtu.be/4b7xEYhOJQ4?... what a revelatory album. RIP legend

I don't understand why Harbaugh didn't challenge?!?

(1/2) addressing a point further down this thread: when I exited my master's program in 2018, I (and a lot of other new grads) got rug-pulled incredibly hard by big tech. they just flat-out ended the interview process and decided to convert interns.

massive jumpscare from seeing Jeff Sims is still playing college football

was Rousseau the first NIMBY? many are saying

this album rips music.apple.com/us/album/dim...

fine, I'll click

having lived in Burbank & taken public transit there for a meaningful amount of time, I cannot stress enough how badly it needs better bus transit. the one time I actually took the bus there (vs. just driving 5-10 min to a metro stop) it was delayed for over a half-hour lmao

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I think a lot about a recent study that said using AI with no expertise hurt people on a retention task, but people who learned a bit about the topic and *then* used AI blew everyone else out of the water

that game brought me so much joy

youtu.be/wulZFVNSo8s?... live trevor footage

oh my GODDDD

that verizon ad was a sin against the lord

lol

just texted "lol" to three different people

this unequivocally rules