Look how much bicentennial Archie Bunker jingoistic bullshit they were able to cram into one image.

The fact that he thinks it's challenging isn't a great sign, either.

Brutal seeing Radiohead and The White Stripes on Apple Music's "Dad Rock" station.

Here’s a list from 2020 of the 154 Californian billionaires at the time. I count three that I’d miss.

Did somebody say William F. Buckley?

Grammarly has a "plagiarism or AI writing" checker, and I regret to inform you that it is not good.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

As a former D&D player, it was fun to discuss whether the scariest monsters were Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, or Chaotic Evil. Turns out the scariest monsters are True Neutral. ChatGPT will tell you how to make sourdough bread or kill your family in the same tone.

🤞

It seems as though the psychotic-break enhancer is _not_ in fact a necessity on every desktop, I’m saying.

Maybe society should put up guardrails around the suicide whisperer, I’m saying. Maybe we _don’t_ need the self-annihilation intelligent assistant chatbot.

Just finished the final episode of Frieren and wow, what a show!

In college I took a course “class, crime and the police” which essentially boiled down to people commit crimes at the same rate, but poor people are likelier to be prosecuted, and likelier again to be concerned. It was a criminal justice class, and every future cop was in such denial.

This headline is such bullshit. His citizenship has absolutely NO bearing on his being accused of sexual assault. Like, really? Are they trying to imply that if he was a US citizen, this wouldn't have happened? Well, I beg to fucking differ. www.wral.com/news/local/d...

In 2025, I continued to publish articles championing humans in the context of the #AI onslaught (while also looking for work, which I have not yet found). I co-authored 1 oral conference paper and 2 book chapters, and I wrote 4 articles for @fastcompany. Here is the list for 2025:

Anyone want a job at my alma mater?

Tired: Dark Brandon Wired:

One of the dangerous things about LLMs is that they repeat widely accepted untruths. I just ran into another: the mistaken belief that NA beers have the same alcohol per volume as orange juice. That's off by a factor of about ten, and it's probably because of mixing units.

YouTube just served me an AI-generated ad with Ben Carson telling me that dementia is caused by drinking warm water.

Next up: Black Plague was a lab leak, dinosaur extinction was a lab leak, Big Bang was a lab leak.

"In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."

I’ve been reading a lot of conservative Christian content and it’s amazing to me that millions of people base their entire moral framework on word choices by random people 2,000 years ago.

Eion’s being sued by self-described useful idiot Matt Taibbi. I just bought his book, and you can, too:

Make a Bond film casual. Dr Meh

“Still going over every choice made” Including buying it?

Why’s Vance wearing Rudolph Valentino makeup?

Make a Bond movie academic: Goldfinger: Precious commodity price regulation and emergent market maker behavior.

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

The more I look at the right, the more I realize how much of their ideology is due to their inability to count.

A useful thread about the philosemitic antisemitism of the Christian right--IOW, an explanation for why their unqualified support of the Israeli state is totally consistent with their wish for a future in which Jews convert or perish.

A lot of conservative behavior makes sense when you realize their hierarchy is man over woman, adult over child, white over non-white, straight over gay, Christian above everyone else. Want to know why they don’t care if Trump’s involved with Epstein? Man above woman, above child.

And Christian nationalists get pissed when you call them Christian nationalists.

like you cannot say this is for *sure* the reason but

The overwhelming message of the New Testament is that the deity sends to Hell those who oppress the poor, the orphan, the widow, the imprisoned, the sick, the stranger; those who discriminate and hate; those who use power to make others worse off.

He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.

I’ve been reading through a lot of conservative Christian content lately and “I believe in the death penalty because God created it” and “empathy isn’t in the Bible” are two things I’ve seen from people with huge audiences.

This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

I beg conservatives to read beyond the minimum that confirms their preexisting beliefs. From Toxic Empathy: "Malthus’s theory, however, was wrong… As it turns out, human beings add to and benefit our environments more than we subtract and detract from them."

Holy crap, this is *post* Epstein files?? It would’ve been creepy as hell if it’d been dug up from years ago, but this is astonishing.

“Have you seen the tattoos?”

Let the airing of the grievances begin!

Wow, a lot of spelling errors, too: they misspelled true, well-founded, and false.

Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k. I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."

Recommended!

Lord, grant me the strength to reserve my hot take until after my coffee has kicked in.

Get that cereal money, @thegrink.bsky.social!

Imagine being a Chinese admiral or general who trained your entire life for Gotterdammerung and then France blows up America for you because a senile reality TV show host doesn't understand how the Mercator projection works and therefore thinks Greenland is 87 times the size of the solar system.

Nothing says late-third-reich like a cabinet so coked to the gills it snows when they sneeze.

I’m convinced he’ll live forever, but this flurry of naming things after yourself is something you do when you think you’re on your way out.