Apparently our governor here in Massachusetts is getting on board the "age gate the Internet" train.

www.axios.com/local/boston...

If MA recapitulates the language in the last proposed bill to do this, it'll be a trainwreck.

www.sunclipse.org/2025/02/an-o...

Singing

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

GIGANTIC interview with the head writer of G.I. Joe about Serpentor and Cobra-La (two of my all-time favorite sci-fi concepts), dealing with Hasbro and the studio...absolutely fascinating reading if you were raised on this stuff. It's the interview @brettwhite.bsky.social was born to do

This article was an absolute delight to read

Would want to see some backup that this is SAT. Maybe some state level benchmark or something, but had a kid recently take the SSAT for high school and the questions were much harder. Seems dodgy

Deported and Imprisoned Archives A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Search your camera roll for hell

The Best Electronic Records of 2000-25 · Feature ⟋ RA 2000-25: The Best Electronic Tracks, Records and Mixes of the 21st Century.

Resident Advisor was (and remains) indispensable to me when I first started to really delve into electronic music. They’re doing some “best of the century” lists this week that mostly testify to how vast and varied electronic is but I love this album list ra.co/features/4482

Cargo pants? I don’t think so buddy. Cars go vroom.

Cinema will find a way. 💕

Grandpa Simpson talking to children about Tunde in TV on the Radio before he became known as an actor.

You see. Before he was the teacher in Spider-Man or the tornado hunter in Twisters — Tunde Adebimpe was the lead singer of one of the best band of the 2000s. You’d never think it now while watching Skeleton Crew, but that man brought the falsetto to Brooklyn.

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

“You better not be NBA Live ‘97 David Robinson when you get back from that *walk* with your cousins!”

{me coming back from the *walk* with my cousins}

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.

It’s built with the signifiers of fraught cultural topics but fails to expand on, interrogate, or complicate any of them in a way that adds up to anything. Funny climax tho

The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content

god just sort of zoning out and making 20,000 different kinds of ants

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

The purpose of a system is what it does

I saw Gavin Newsom load a homeless family into a Waymo and shout, “the ocean please” into the steering wheel and then slap the back of it to send it off like a horse.

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov