CHASE!!!!!!

Newsom scrambling to get this guy on the podcast.

The Oracle data center thing is going to be an existential problem unless OpenAI becomes the most profitable company of all time and does so in two years or less. I am not speaking in hyperbole. Oracle had negative $13 billion cash flow last quarter and is about to pay out a massive dividend.

Did they say what kind of flies, specifically

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YouTube video by NirvanaGrunge87 Nirvana - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle

worst remix of
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Officials mark closing of Netflix Fort Monmouth deal - NJBIZ Officials mark the close of the $55M Netflix land deal at Fort Monmouth, advancing plans for a $1B production hub in Monmouth County.

The ghost of Thomas Edison is about to get his undeserved revenge.

njbiz.com/officials-ma...

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

this is because Dolly Parton is the equal or better of most strung- instrument players you can name, a fact often obscured by the vocabulary of iconography sometimes used to discuss her work. thanks for coming to my presentation this’ll take about half a hour

so what I like to do for an easy protein-rich weeknight meal is wrap up 50g of loose tobacco in saved up yogurt cup tinfoil and eat it

People will mock 1970's Jello mold dinners, then happily scroll through like 10 identical videos of people jamming biscoff cookies into yogurt, letting it get all soggy and calling it a cheesecake hack.

Oof, I feel you I had one Thursday

An illustration of two orange branches, one in the upper right corner in blossom, one on the left lower down full of oranges. On the bottom right is a western grey squirrel tearing open the peel of an orange. Wrapped around it all is a golden ribbon with text on it that reads: May you find moments this year that are as sweet as a stolen orange.

I think everyone's got their mail so time to share the holiday/new year card we sent out this year. Quick post up about it at the usual places but who cares, also at the blog.
✨ https://bzedan.com/blog/a-little-something-sweet/

Angels share of frames

YouTube video by JohnnyRebeck CART REVENGE! #repo

If you like my stuff, I appreciate clickin' through and giving my shorts a view on YouTube! 💖

Watching old Murder She Wrote makes me miss comfortably eclectic old set dressings of middle class TV homes. Every house interior now - even in purportedly middle class homes - is a glossy minimalist painting. Fresh flowers! Immaculate sinks! Shiny counters! Matching tableware and napkin holders!

Ignatius Entertainment Pop

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

This is guaranteed to be the best 12 and a half minutes of your day.

Some things about the internet are actually good

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc?

He had no idea.

Mass market paperback is actually the ideal book format

Ensign Beefheart

The current community mall vibe at the Lloyd is one of the best things that have happened in Portland over the last decade.

"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.

Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers

Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac

a black and white photo of a man standing watching a flock of pigeons take flight from a lawn, the man casts a long shadow under the pigeons

a man dressed in tasseled suede cowboy clothes and cowboy boots jumps on a trampoline in front of an epic american west landscape of high clouds and craggy mesas

a woman in swimwear lays backwards leaving a depression of tall grass

a hand from off frame cleans the glass protecting a diorama of firefighters pulled over on a forest road near a forest fire

Henry Wessel
Lars Tunbjörk
Boris Mikhailov
Sage Sohier

A photo of assorted animal skulls, center sliced nautilus shell, hand-forged nails, and a cassette tape on a round silver platter, which itself is sitting on a dark wooden surface. Just below the platter are two halves of a fox jaw. Hiding in the shadows above the platter is a black ceramic bowl filled with antique keys.

An angled photo of a raccoon skull under a photo exposure lamp. Beneath the skull is a glass plate and a piece of watercolor paper that has been treated with photo-sensitive chemicals. Plastic sheeting covers the rest of the work area.

An angled photo of hand-forged nails arranged neatly over a glass plate and a sheet of watercolor paper treated with photo-sensitive chemicals. They are strongly illuminated by an exposure lamp and color is developing around the shadows cast by the nails. Plastic sheeting covers the rest of the work surface.

I am, per usual, doing solar exposures in my basement to mark solstice.
(Ritualistic katabasis, etc.)

The wheel turns, bless bless.

Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in a modern day rendition of Beauty and the Beast. Linda looks at Ron romantically with her hand on his chest and Ron is in full Beast Mode

Don’t never let these old folk try to moralize to you fam y’all have no idea how chaotically horny y’all’s parents were at 9pm on Mondays