Ed Tubb

Jason Mantzoukas and Mallory Rubin on ‘Shoresy’ Season 5. Plus, ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ S2 Casting News, and a ‘Game of Thrones’ Film. Podcast Episode · The Watch · March 5 · 1h 37m

I would like to sincerely thank this episode of the Watch -- in particular, Jason Mantzoukas and Mallory Rubin -- for finally pushing me to watch Shoresy. 🧵

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

I see your TACO and raise you STAR:

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"We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled."

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

Perhaps the best trailer ever.

The payoff at the end was earned and such a very moving moment…

… and then immediately the film overdid it to the point of nearly ruining it.

Strange film. Good. But not as good as I hoped.

Hamnet: Loved aspects of this film unequivocally. Perhaps the best film ever at depicting the past as a recognizably human and lived-in place, not a theme park; the darkness of the Thames at night.

Odd that the people (esp. the side characters) were so strangely… off… in this film.

I basically find gluten free Italian style pasta to be universally vile.

On pasta night, I stick with GF potato gnocchi, polenta or might try a substitute Asian noodle. (Last spaghetti night was a konjac noodle and it was good enough to try again.)

So, I mean, if you happen to be in year 15 or so of sitting on a back-of-your mind suspicion about a dietary issue, my personal experience of finally doing something about it is good, actually.

These from Costco are more than good enough to partake in pizza Fridays, BTW.

It’s remarkable how much finally accepting my gluten intolerance (maybe coeliac but I haven’t been tested) has drastically improved my day-to-day health in every other way.

I’ve gone from being the one who always gets floored by colds to the sole live heartbeat in a house full of snot zombies.

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

And my extreme doubt that news orgs will ever be able to convincingly explain corrections that boil down to “I trusted a robot and it made an error that I published” and continue to retain any semblance of trust.

Which is to say nothing my extreme doubt that readers have any interest in paying for news writing generated by an LLM in a commodity style.

I’m not naive. There are plenty of pieces of reporting that 9 times in 10 do not need much thought, or where speed is more important than craft, where an LLM tool could speed up the process.

But you don’t want to train a lot of your reporters to habitually download the thinking part of the job.

It’s true that some v. good reporters are subpar writers.

Thing is, the act of writing is essential to being a good reporter.

Skip writing and you skip the part where you sit down to think about and synthesize what you’re reporting.

The quality of your first draft is *not* the main thing.

Trump administration dangerously close to experiencing consequences

The number of fixed-wing aircraft lost in friendly fire incidents today equals the number lost during the entire 20-year span of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

The precedent that the United States of American can kill or kidnap a rival world leader, at any moment and with no regard for a plan for what comes next, will be used again in less moral situations than this.

Hard not to see the U.S. returning to this precedent again and again.

It's all very bad, and I don't want to take away from that reality when I say this, but we've had an awful lot of "I told you so" moments and I'm tired of not saying that so I'm saying it.

Over time, it has become impossible to casually know the approximate truth of what’s happening in any given current affairs topic.

It’s just not a thing anymore.

(We read them in French, which isn't my strength, so having the joke land a little slowly in my head is a big part of the fun.)

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As a dad, I can state definitively that the very best kids' books are about either a group of small animals who blindly follow a firefly in the dark until they all get eaten by a lion, or they're about how a penguin got got by an orca, but it had absolutely nothing to do with that stylish red hat.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

There are few things more disorienting than listening to otherwise totally reasonable American podcasters doing an episode on health tech.

Is it genuinely normal to spend that much of your mental energy on this stuff? Really?

Like, this is a normal life experience?