Andrew

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

Telling formerly smug coders freaking out about AI to Learn To Plumb The Depths of the Human Condition

No Kings includes Draft Kings

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I was comparing my COBRA quotes to the NY health exchange and it is WILD that’s it’s cheaper than the state’s offerings by like 400-600 bucks.

I mean, I know why but fucking a.

It *is* funny how I think about heart attacks every time it snows now.

(Also, same.)

Well, shit. My ISP CGNAT-ed me out of the blue.

Also, Legend of the Red Dragon was probably my first true online addiction.

The day my dad got a 14.4 baud modem was an incredible day.

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

Trump is doing to politics what biz schools taught future CEOs to do: break the social contract (e.g., the one btw mgmt & labor that once ensured steady jobs) & extract all the value stored inside.

This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again

Federal agents shoot 2 people in East Portland, police confirm In a statement, Mayor Keith Wilson called for a halt on ICE operations in Portland, asking Portlanders to show up with "calm and purpose" after the shooting.

THEY SHOT THEM IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL FUCKING PARKING LOT

Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.

all I am going to say about this is that propagandists got tried for war crimes at nuremberg too www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

YouTube video by matkapolka2222 Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees - Who's Got the Pain

Introduced my wife to Bob Fosse tonight. youtu.be/BIiZuAVZH4w?...

A Screaming Sicilian frozen pizza box with the name “mother of meat.”

A fantastic way to anger your wife is to refer to this pizza as a “meat mommy.”

Honestly, the strongest pitch I’ve ever heard for having children.

— The Miseducation of America's Elites Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret. By Bari Weiss 03.09.21 -Education

In a backyard behind a four-bedroom home, ten people sat in a circle of plastic Adirondack chairs, eating bags of Skinny Pop. These are the rebels: well-off Los Angeles parents who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city. By normal American standards, they are quite wealthy. By the standards of Harvard-Westlake, they are average.

The parents in the backyard say that for every one of them, there are many more, too afraid to speak up. "I've talked to at least five couples who say: I get it. I think the way you do. I just don't want the controversy right now," related one mother. They are all eager for their story to be told - but not a single one would let me use their name. They worry about losing their jobs or hurting their children if their opposition to this ideology were known.

Consider this story, from Chapin, the tony all-girls school on the Upper East Side, involving a white girl in the lower grades who came home one day and told her father: "All people with lighter skin don't like people with darker skin and are mean to them." He was horrified as she explained that that was what she had been taught by her teachers. "I said to her: that's not how we feel in this family." It's worth taking a look at Chapin's various affinity groups, which have become de rigueur at all of these schools. (Chapin did not respond to a request for comment.)

When Bari Weiss wrote about the national crisis of “woke private schools,” all of her sources were anonymous students, parents, and teachers who agreed with her premise—and she ran the story without getting a school on the record, for “context.”

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

prescient www.theverge.com/business/793...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

It’s a great day to be a cartoon gooner.

I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started. Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.

there's a lot going on in this article but I think my favorite thing is watching people learn the hard way that if you threaten a reporter, the reporter is going to write about the threats — and make the story bigger www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Although the pretense of adhering to democratic values has been abandoned by an administration that disdains democracy, free speech, and the rule of law, the theory is nonetheless the same: Unless America defends ethno-nationalism against the forces of multiracial democracy elsewhere, ethno-nationalism will not be safe here. The Trump administration’s rabid hostility toward the “Rainbow Nation” of South Africa, with its history all Americans can recognize, makes more sense in this context.

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Fiona Apple Quit Cocaine After An 'Excruciating' Night With Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson The singer said every addict should be locked in a private movie theater with these two filmmakers.

I completely forgot that Fiona Apple famously quit cocaine after spending an evening hanging out with Tarantino. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

It’s really bonkers, but also weirdly makes sense for Tarantino to say.

I don’t watch films like I used to, but I never honestly enjoyed Tarantino films and his recent commentary on Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood really validates that for me. The shame of years of “cooler” elder Gen Xers sneering at me completely wiped away.

Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦