Dan Howard

I'm heading to New York tomorrow for AEC Tech, hope to see my fellow nerds there! I waited a little too long and couldn't get into the workshops I wanted most, but still should be a good event!

Maybe I don't understand how journalists work, but this seems odd. Why would Michael Wolff give warning and advice to Epstein? I guess I could understand having to talk and deal with repugnant people as part of reporting on them, but this seems more friendly?

Dynamo swag is one of the biggest things I miss about going to AU.

Significantly fewer committees that need to approve them.

Onion-man that doesn't understand why his opponents cry after they cut him in a knife fight. Hoop snake. Axehandle Hound (eats the handle on your axe if you roll odds, becomes your companion if you roll evens).

A banshee searching for cough medicine. A band of gnomes on electric scooters. Gentle Grendel. Mongolian Death Worm. Jar of pickles that nobody can seem to open. Narcoleptic Chimera. Sartorial Satyr. Weresheep. Llama with a spittoon. Cyclops wearing regular sunglasses.

Griffon, but its the body of a lion with the head of Griff from Back to the Future 2. Six legged Jackalope. Giant Barnacle that uses a knife and fork to feed. Basilisk that just had Lasik, so it has to wear dark sunglasses, so you only feel a little nauseated when you look at it.

I fully believe Trump engaged in many conspiracies, but those ideas are "conspiracy theories". Like, Watergate was an actual conspiracy, and I think that type of shit is happening in Trumpworld, but it hasn't been fully exposed publicly yet. So for now just "theories".

Like, one is an actual set of events and agreements that happened between people (legally or illegally), and one is just the idea that a conspiracy happened somewhere which may or may not be fully or partially true.

This is so minor in the context of <gestures everywhere>... but does it bother anybody else that we've collectively stopped differentiating between "conspiracies" and "conspiracy theories"?

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Friggen Penn. Stupid.

yellow or green are the most vibrant, but it probably depends on what you're going to wear it on. in general, I'd go green unless you can do white text on blue or add a 2nd color or something

Florida weatherman John Morales explains how the drastic cuts to science and federal services would reduce his ability to predict the movements of hurricanes.

Seems like a good time to ask chatgpt to write up some bullshit loyalty essay. If it hallucinates a policy, it's still probably better or less batshit stupid than the real stuff.

I feel that way every two math puns.

Pretty much anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky, but especially the Children of Time series. Service Model is also quite good, especially for people of a programming bent.

Hail cannon - Wikipedia

Like this, but with penguins instead of French vintners... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_ca...

I refuse to read the actual article as it will inevitably be more a more mundane answer than those.

The two scenarios I imagine for this are either that the penguins have started pooping through some sort of cannon that launches the cloud seeding material skyward, or that evolution accelerated climate change has finally returned their ability to fly.

@nytimes.com @npr.org @washingtonpost.com @inquirer.com Hey any of you guys want to cover this?

Interesting choice of words to describe bringing back an old CEO after the ouster of a new CEO in light of potential criminal fraud investigations...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/b...

Was watching the latest episode of @tastinghistory.bsky.social yesterday, which mentioned the "Hooverville" shanty towns from the Great Depression era. Had the thought - should we ever get to the place where that happens again, the contemporary equivalents could / should be called "Trump Towers".

Bezos is such a wuss.

Haven't listened to Agaetis Byrjun in a while, but decided to make that my morning listen. Man, Staralfur gets me in the feels, and I'm down for it.

a close up of a man 's face with a scarf around his neck . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a scarf around his neck .

Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR

Lol "eye popping 3d" love it!

Can I give you my 8 dollars now? Looking forward to seeing it when its ready!

... for downloads of one particular library.

Off topic - I got excited for a second because I thought maybe the "Hot Ones" host had replied to me, but you're pretty cool too. Any good tips for a "Library Science Cliff Notes / for Dummies" type resources for people interested in better corporate knowledge management?