Glenn Vanderburg

I agree that someone needs to write that book. If you do, I hope you will discuss "The Glass Teat". Looking back from 40 years on, I now recognize that reading those two collections in college ultimately had a profound impact on the way I see media, politics, and the modern world.

Oh awesome! Glad to be wrong!

Modified cover of Mad magazine, headline “Giving A.I. the middle fingers” showing a six-fingered hand with the two middle ones raised.

Reminds me of this (which isn’t real, but still funny):

Happy dog speaking positivity interrupted by grumpy dog yelling “COFFEEE!!!”

Sign in kitchen: “I drinks coffee for your protection”

Goofy looking terrier with red ball in its mouth.

Actual tiger watching costumed tiger being carried out of the zoo.

Bambi saying “I’m delicious!”

Mini Cooper with sticker saying “Actual Size”

Soldier carrying a donkey piggyback saying “Quick, no time to explain, grab a donkey”

Haha … I was thinking of the exact same video!

… for some kinds of businesses.

This is so pathetically obsequious and misleading that I wish I could cancel my subscription again

And also: if it gets really crowded, you can have about 50 people packed into the space that would usually be taken up by a car (including the buffer space around it) … and those people weigh *way* more than the car. A crowd on a bridge can take the bridge beyond its design load.

The reason you don't have time to write unit tests is because you didn't write unit tests.

To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?

There's a simple answer.

The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.

I truly believe part of the reason this is happening in LA right now is because they want to scare us into not protesting for no Kings day. DT is actually worried he’s gonna lose the news cycle so he wants to make sure everyone is too scared.
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

I've heard it before, but never knew what it meant (even the idiomatic meaning).

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

YouTube video by Tom Scott I can't show you how pink this pink is.

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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.

It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

Defining liberal American Jews - which is the majority of us - out of Jewishness entirely is how the American right reconciles its philosemitic support for The Jew as idealized figure with its barely concealed disdain and disgust for most actual American Jews.

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

I personally am shocked that Corey Perry is acting like a dipshit

Dallas is Finn land. #DallasStars

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

"the party told you to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential, command." - 1984

Hell, they won’t even allow us to get criminals out of the Oval Office

A striking thing in my con law class was the Bush terror detention cases. They start out very permissive, but over time the court limits Bush more. My con law prof asked what we thought was happening. People guessed at a lot of legal theories. “No!” he said. “The court stopped trusting him.”

3 panel cartoon from webcomicname.com: first panel shows a little pink blobby character saying “I want things to be different!” second panel shows the pink blobby figure taking a baseball bat to their possessions third panel shows the pink blobby person surrounded by the mess they created and saying “oh no”

u.s. voters

I follow you *here* because you evangelized Bluesky on Twitter (and because I enjoyed your posting there). I followed you *there* because I’ve read and loved your books for years.

Wow, that looks great … I'll have to go back to the Barn the next time I'm in the area.