Bill Tipper

Fortunately @outofmemory.bsky.social’s parents had a free clinic going at their house. “Come on over and see what can be done with a TRS-80” was the draw. The chat-program inoculation was painless.

Never bad. He COMMITTED. Tender Mercies, The Godfather, The Apostle, Apocalypse Now, even total junk. He was Boo Radley, for god's sake. RIP.

Check out Tender Mercies or The Apostle if you haven't seen them. Beautiful movies about faith that don't proselytize.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Jumping in a time machine to 2035 to confirm that the “Tales of Glass Town” K-Pop animated musical series became the epochal media event of a generation.

A truly disturbing image of a frankfurter cut to look like a sailor. He has a mustard smile and only a monster would eat him.

Babe, are you okay? You haven’t touched the Frankie Doodle Dandy I made you for Presidents Day.

Leading AI chatbots easily prompted into creating phishing scams despite safety claims | The Sidechannel Leading AI chatbots including ChatGPT and Gemini readily generate convincing phishing letters from European tax authorities when prompted with slight variations on direct requests

I’ve got to admit, when I started trying to get commercial chatbots to help me with a phishing campaign, I didn’t expect it to be quite as easy as telling them “do this or I won’t pay you”: thesidechannel.tech/article/lead...

A repetitiously phrased post but it’s late

I just went to a show (the wonderful, annual Love Hangover) where a crazy good lineup of talented musicians played love songs (of various moods and modes) for two hours, and it just really feels good to be in the presence of people making music just because they can’t not.

leaving out cookies and milk for george washington tonight

Having had my parents take those small-ship European river cruises…I bet a similar format would work for PBS audience…but it all takes place on the Danube. (Surely I’m thinking of this because of the related setting element in “Murder Takes a Vacation”)

And also (this is the part that is harder to pinpoint an example of but I feel it to be true) weirdly…sad?

The thing about Fantasy Island was that it was tinged with some real Twilight Zone/monkey’s paw vibes. My sister and I always stayed up to watch with our parents and went to bed disquieted!

So good. LRB should sell some kind of pamphlet/reprint pairing it with Patricia Lockwood's genius essay.

This is terrific (as was Lockwood’s essay). Both as a reflection and as an exercise in sheer entertaining style.

That was what immediately leapt to mind.

The Long 80s began when Kraftwerk released “Autobahn” in 1974–and did not end until the name “Michael Stipe” had been fully disseminated into global culture.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.

As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.

She replied: “To get out of here.”

SIGHING HEAVILY

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Marius the Epicurean (Comfort+ edition)

FDA’s rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry Experts say the FDA "moved the goalposts" on Moderna, creating "a destructive precedent that will undermine the future of vaccine development" in the U.S.

“I consider it an unprecedented action that really violates the basic principles of a data-driven regulatory agency and the fundamentals of public health, and it’s that simple…it’s a destructive precedent that will undermine the future of vaccine development and the preeminence of American research”

I’m not saying that if we showed this to Elon he would immediately incorporate the Space Train into his plans. I merely suggest this is an experiment worth performing

Fair but I do have a few other questions about the space train

Worth reading all the way to the end.

Very excited!

‘On Morrison’ and ‘Language as Liberation’: Toni Morrison’s Complex Craft Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

By the end of her life, Toni Morrison suffered from the agony of being an influence--she became a plaster saint literary icon. Namwali Serpell's terrific 'On Morrison' aims to shift to focus back to the difficult and brilliant innovations of her craft. My WSJ review: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

why aren't people loyal to their jobs and willing to work hard and go above and beyond? maybe bc everybody's boss is now telling them their job is in danger bc their standards are low enough to replace them with a shitty robot that doesn't work

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Far and away the best album by Zwergwerk

This is good and the natural state of things. Posting and podcasts are the two fields where if someone says they’re good at them they’re invariably the world’s greatest monster. Shame is the foundation of everything, that all posters need repentance, in a lot of ways it’s a good reminder for Lent.