Justin Baumgardner

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Waypoints has become my favorite roll and write. I have a few copies in my travel bag for downtime at airports or coffee shops. Can't wait to try the new map!

We are subsidizing AI usage.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

15 game point streak to start the season, followed by not scoring a single goal in January.

It's soup outside. The air is soup.

sign on a box of grapefruits reading “free weird lemons”

one less thing i need to pick up at the grocery store

Did everything become so flooded with bullshit that we lost our collective capacity to name and refuse it?

Photo of Spaceballs: The Book. The cover art shows the winnebago spaceship from the movie flying across a starfield

TIL that the novelization of Spaceballs (Spaceballs: The Book) was written by R.L. Stine (writing as Jovial Bob Stine)

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

If they made a Santa Clause movie where a young Tim Allen played for the Bills before killing Santa with his car.

This is what I cant wrap my mind around

With 4:48 left to play, the #Bills were down 15 points and had a 0.9% chance of winning this game

And somehow…somehow they pulled it off and scored 16 points to win

Mind-boggling #BillsMafia

Willingly watching three hours of commercials intermixed with Cris Collinsworth color commentary isn't enough?

My hope for today's Bills game is a 39-0 win, where Buffalo scores exclusively through field goals.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone.

Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking.

[Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

If you are going to make a game where sustainability is a mechanism, maybe you should use that mechanism when you are making the game? There are plenty of ways to improve the sustainability of production. It adds cost, but greenwashing, and the original post point out, has its own cost.

"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover.

Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.

I believe that the second best use of time travel technology would be to go see all your favorite bands before they broke up or when they were at their peak.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚

Highway filled with slow moving, bumper-to-bumper cars

It’s still amazing to me that we’ve basically let ourselves be tricked into buying that THIS is what “freedom” looks like. #CarDependency

chicago's is better because of the colors but ours is very close to being perfect too

I've been reading a lot about game design and production, but "it got set on fire" wasn't in many instructional texts to the best of my memory.

Anyway, this game looks really cute.

Easier Said Than Done

This snuck up on me and may be my favorite new album of 2025.
open.spotify.com/album/3H6HMb...

Finally realized why the last few concerts I went to seemed "off." Ten years ago, you'd absolutely lose your phone in the chaos (or to the crowd) if you had the audacity to raise it in the air and record a meaningless video mid-show. Small venues will always be the best.

I'm just learning the game, so seeing this post come up gives me life.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Illustrations of four types of pasta with small tubes labelled "Rigatoni" and big tubes "Bigatoni" and then curly pasta "Fusilli" and straight pasta "Fuserious".

It just makes sense