Rich Nordin

Well this is going to be cute. If you're in or near Boston, you should probably swing by.

First Platner, now this!

From your mouth, to uh... your ears.

YouTube video by Sir Swag How the Dune Universe sounds to an outsider

This is a pretty good explainer for folks who still don't get it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqK...

A Dark Alien’s Thesis

My five year old referred to Fever Ray as "Spooky Ghost in the Woods" music and I think that's spot on.

Houseboi, Queer Dance Music & Drag Show Event Thursday June 12th@10pm Manray Boston’s Featuring: Bossi Boots LaDaune Etoile Gigi Gloom Geya Genda Eclaire Carryon Hosts: Pussywillow Sham Payne Achaziya Char

There’s this cute little party in Boston at Manray this Thursday. You should probably come!

Gogol Bordello and Dropkick Murphys are topologically equivalent. No further questions, please.

2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...

I was doomscrolling the latest criminal activity by the administration and they made me sad. I read this and it didn’t quite make me happy, but it did make me hopeful: commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...

The best part of the night (my 5 yo giving me a high five while I was lining up to get my masters diploma)

Turn it up

Maybe you like to dance, and you love drag, too? Well, I'm playing at Houseboi for the first time in a couple of years. You should come dance with us tomorrow.

Well presumably to hire the engineers and product folks to make it happen.

I dunno, I still think its risky to put an LLM in front of a customer... someone will produce a screenshot of your chatbot telling you customers to eat deadly mushrooms or put their 401k entirely into penny stocks.

Cool application of genai. Fidelity was hiring for a director level position to build this out as an app. Unmediated by experts. I think most casual investors wouldn’t listen to/understand your caveats, and that’s why it wouldn’t make a good product. (Yet!)

YouTube video by Rick Astley Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan Cover)

Gen Z cultural exchange: they all know Rick Astley, and now he's done a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club.

(A banger, I might add)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...

I still believe by Tim Cappello obviously:

youtu.be/PdaaGlyu7EQ

Hehe, I go to a bunch of songs I like, and I deconstruct them onto paper. Then I take the best elements of each. Reconstruct and add my own quirks.

YouTube video by Young Holy F*ck - Super Inuit

Holy Fuck has always been an amazing show. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZRG...

We got lucky I guess!

Bluesky Moderation – Nuclear Block & Mute Lists for Beginners With X‘s tailspin into an unusable platform—where you are aggressively served content that is unwanted, offensive, and a waste of your time while your own content is suppressed—I have really taken …

Oh, btw, did you know you can block tags and words permanently or temporarily? Cool huh? boringstorybook.com/bluesky-mute...

Your Sunday morning "heroes still exist and they walk amongst us" nice time.

Whoa neat!

Zizek figured them all out by looking at their toilets

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

The Carter Center posted the best picture of the present and past the president's and vp's today.

Bad shape The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.

I was going to post something else this week, but the structural inability of global corporations to govern platforms seems inescapably relevant.

www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

I did it. I downloaded two decades of data, and I deleted Facebook. The reflexive instinct to sit in front of a computer and type 'fa <enter>' into a browser is some Pavlovian shit, innit? Done it like 3 times in the last 10 minutes.

YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan11 BT featuring Tori Amos - Blue Skies

This was a total banger back in the day! Still is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=axup...