Jason Parker-Burlingham

The Cage gets what the Cage wants, I assume

It's somewhat accurate to how Quint goes out, too, some A+ foreshadowing there

_Influencers_, but on Friday it will be _Honey Bunch_ because I'm a hopeless romantic

By no means am I a particularly good coder; people I know swear by this thing but I don't think I have personally heard a report about it working as well as this author claims, ever.

Pivot to AI It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong

The blog "Pivot to AI" -- co-written by a USENET minor celebrity name you may recognize -- is a nice counterpoint to the relentless LLM hype machine:

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/27/c...

the solution, of course, is to move the goalposts after they come back and demand MORE

Not a dime for ICE. Get back what was spent, with interest.

man benchmarks and god laughs

i hope It Happens on a Monday so we can enjoy Taco Tuesday for the rest of our lives

businesses all over need to adapt to the new reality that phone call spammers and scammers have made answering calls from unknown numbers actually dangerous and start controlling and informing customers of the numbers they'll call from.

When 2020 was finally called, I could hear the celebrating even in the lonely suburbs of Pittsburgh.

No-one will need to look at a phone when It Happens.

If they'd sharpened that up a bit it could still be a song title

Hm, Lucky? That might be my favorite recently

Good guy Chuck Tingle refuses to spoil own book

I knew we were fellow travelers

is that a fact that you just looked up, or one you've had memorized for half a century

no shade either way

🚨wow, Speaker Johnson finally admits to having seen something

Unbreakable (of all things) was formative in my understanding of cinematography.

I still remember the flash of recognition as I realized that the movie was aping comic book panels, like the long push in as Bruce Willis learns he's the sole survivor, and dutch angles on Samuel Jackson's Mr Glass.

You can really watch Black horror movies every single day this month. Here’s 28 I recommend to help you get started!

Thank you! I mined lists of Black directors on LB (the best part of a Patron account is the "add all movies to a list" feature) to make a list of my own but I've been on the lookout for something with a human touch.

knowing who was being talked about here has put years back on my life

idea for a business

a subscription service where the background of today's social media drama is discreetly emailed to you each day so you know what's up

"end of X movie explained" but for bsky basically

I was today years old when I worked out what "MSP" stands for, rather than just "Minneapolis". That apparently-reversed S and P always confused me.

Apologies to Saint Paul, I guess

No word of a lie, no-one told me about the audience participation, so my first RHPS I just sat there stonily angry, and then the water pistols came out

Slack, please make every use of the "at here" functionality cost a dollar

I watched an hour of Carol (2015) and just like every other time I'm in awe of how it manages to pre-break my heart from the very earliest moments

Ever since I learned about how challenging it is to select a random chord in a circle I've been wary of processes like this, so even though your explanation is compelling, this all makes my head spin.

I should just read the original article and papers; the Futility Closet piece says "[t]he stars in the night sky appear to be distributed randomly on the celestial sphere", which fine, it can be biased and random, but does choosing from a biased set at random undo the bias?

This strikes me as pretty odd, given that stars are clearly not randomly distributed, but it would be easy to check: just generate 1000 random pairs of my own and see how accurate that pi is, relative to theirs.

Sopranos demonstrated many times there's more than one way to die surrounded by those you love

Implementing the transcendental functions in Ivy Towards the end of 2014, in need of pleasant distraction, I began writing, in Go, my second pseudo-APL, called Ivy. Over the years, Ivy's ca...

Implementing the transcendental functions in Ivy

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