Sarah Emerson

The crowd work had me howling. What a show!

Awesome shot!

We were at the very back of the top balcony (for peak acoustics). You’re probably in this photo!

omg Alexis 🥹

The Giant Pool of Money - This American Life The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis.

I’m old enough that I listened to the Peabody-winning podcast episode ‘The Giant Pool of Money’ on an actual iPod! www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-gian...

“‘Tranches’?”

[smokes cigarette]

“…haven’t heard that term in a while.”

— me, last laid off during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis slash WGA strike

Very rude to post this while I am feeling snacky

Sockpuppets as a Service?

But also: read about all the stuff he predicted. Pretty spot on.

Here’s a fascinating 1997 profile that kicks off with a very creepy anecdote www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

So is the West Wing now just… The Wing

AOL keyword: what the fuck

I don’t get a ton of opportunities to promote my video game, but any time redaction is in the news…

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mrgan.com/blackbar/

The ancient texts

omg are LLMs a type of antimemetic SCP

Local Economy

Seems like you should check out what @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social is building in Oakland! www.thelocaleconomy.com

Particle6, a generic-looking UK production company / ad agency, which it looks like is partially supported by (your??) taxes!

Like a CAPTCHA but for COVID

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm: 9780593983751 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely...

Blew through this over the last day; now considering starting Apocalypse Book Club to make me feel a little better about how our world is going. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041...

Addendum:

“rubella”
“medbed”

Had a dream that I cried at work because Google Maps got a redesign

Probably worth unpacking that one a little

Came to recommend this!

Chotiner? I barely know ‘er

For Seattle folks… I’m giving a talk tonight at Obec Brewery (6:30) about science funding, the history of human computer interaction, and the future of AI. I’m off the clock, so I may get a little spicier than usual. If you’re around, please come!

Me, a dumb person: it’s very cheap and efficient to store and transport energy in the form of electricity

You, a stable genius: we can use gasoline to power trucks to carry other gasoline all over this large country

However, missed opportunity for ice-boxing: taking turns putting on the gloves and punching a large block of ice hanging from a chain

Extremely @markpopham.bsky.social coded

“you know who else got eaten out every day”

“WHAT”

“Prometheus; specifically his liver”

Will never get used to how @kevinroose.com pronounces “frontier”

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Because if he’d said something specifically objectionable, there is a regulatory framework in place for that and the network would get fined or whatever, right? Obviously this is another thing going on