Kári Tulinius

His father wasn’t an ayatollah when he was elected supreme leader, but was given the title when he was elected. I assume the same goes for Mojtaba.

The early stuff by Country Joe and the Fish is really fantastic. I’ve listened to Electric Music for the Mind and Body a lot, though not in a while.

Nothing quite like the flu to get you through a four hour video essy.

“Mall of America” is the model for the name, and that’s why all the sections are named after American locations. I had to think long and hard, though, before I figured this out. It’s stupid as hell.

Only the sheer length of his videos keep me from mainlining them. I will succumb eventually.

And yeah, Ultima VII is my favorite ever computer game, but I couldn’t play more than a couple of hours of VIII. From memory, IX is even worse, but I haven’t tried playing it recently, like I did with VIII.

“slicing” is definitely mentioned in an episode of Mandalorian, though I can’t recall any character being called a “slicer”, but I bet it‘s in the comics somewhere and some recent games

All you need is one tendentious metaphor and it can be about both.

A Woman's Place is in the Resistance
#InternationalWomensDay

This poster with a faded image of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia clutching her blaster was created by the artist Hayley Gilmore (c)

A screenshot of youraislopbores.me showing a prompt “woodchuck, chucking wood” and a response drawing which belongs in the louvre

Okay I LOVE this youraislopbores.me

The first thing to realize about Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is that everyone in it is basically human. The way to know this is that all the animal-form bipeds eat human food. Daniel doesn't eat tigerfood for breakfast, he eats oatmeal with blueberries. The same is true of all the other animal-form bipeds. They eat the same kind of food humans eat, therefore they clearly have human innards. But it's not merely skin, as the owls are capable of at least limited flight, indicating that the musculature is different. That indicates that this is set in a future world with a technology that can substantially modify a human being to resemble an animal. Now you might be thinking, but why do the children look like their parents? They have also been modified, either at an early stage or as babies, since Daniel's kid sister is tiger-form as soon as she's brought home. But that's not all, because clearly at least some adults have been modified once they're adults. Given that all the bonded animal-form couples have the same animal-form exterior, they presumably modify themselves at some point after they start being together. There's no taboo about relationships between people that look dissimilar. Everyone treats Prince Wednesday's crush on Katerina Kittycat as adorable. As to how exactly it's decided what animal-form couples take, I can't say. There is indication that families stick to one animal-form for generations, X and O are uncle and nephew, and both owls. Also, Daniel's grandpere is a tiger. This suggests to me that in coupledom people join other's families. I don't know if that means people reject their birth families or are rejected by them, but nothing's been shown to contradict that.

There doesn't seem to be any overt hierarchy connected with outward appearance. The human-form and animal-form people seem to interact normally and there's no obvious pattern in what jobs people have. Of course, the rejoinder to that is that the royal family is human-form, but without more data it's hard to say whether that's a coincidence or an indicator of deeper social structures. It is clear, however, that King Friday is a monarch. He is the ultimate decision maker, though he does put things up for a vote, though usually they are not very meaningful things (e.g. what kind of equipment to put up in the playground). Interestingly, the focus after an election is always put on the kids who lose, as if to cement the experience in their memory. It's possible they're being brought up to think that democracy always results in emotional pain. Alternately, they are being trained for a future time in which humanity can again be governed by democratic means. The technology on show is impressive. The AI trolleys are the most obvious, but there are some other quite impressive features. For a start there's Mr. McFeely. Whenever something's needed he arrives immediately, seemingly without needing any kind of travel-time. He can bring anything, seemingly. It's clear that there's some kind of replicator in the neighborhood which allows him to deliver anything at anytime. Possible he is himself made by the replicator. There could also be some kind of Star Trek style transporter involved.

Finally, there's the environment itself. What kind of place is this? I'm not sure, but it's almost certainly a closed-off, artificial environment. No one but Grandpere Tiger ever seems to come to town from elsewhere, and he lives relatively nearby. No one travels to other towns. My first thought was that it's some kind of vault or arcology in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, but the more I watch the more I'm convinced that the people live on a generation ship. I'm guessing they left only a few years ago as all the children, Prince Tuesday aside, seem to be no more than five years old. I don't know whether Earth has been destroyed, but it's clear that they are far beyond where meaningful communication can be had. The characters keep addressing someone through the camera, but never receive an answer. Possibly, of course, these messages could be meant for someone who will watch them many generations down the line, as a record of what life was like on the ship that brought people to colonize a new planet in a different star system.

That’s kind of already happening, a guy posted to MetaFilter about getting guidance about his diabetes treatment from ChatGPT last year

YouTube video by BJ the Simpson Collector Simpsons - Infatuated With Woman Named Mindy Or Man Named Andy (from "The Last Temptation of Homer")

Í gær heyrði ég Barry Manilow-smellinn Mandy í fyrsta sinn á ævinni. Sem kom mér á óvart því ég hélt ég þekkti lagið ágætlega, hefði getað raulað það hefði ég verið spurður. Þá fattaði ég að ég þekkti það úr Simpsons. Fyndið hvað mikið af gömlum poppkúltúr berst til yngri kynslóða í vísunum.

Daniel Tiger‘s Neighborhood.

I posted to MetaFilter about the Langley Schools Music Project, a late 70s children’s choir that sang pop and rock songs in wild arrangements, and a documentary made about them in 2002, after a compilation of their recordings became a surprise indie bestseller.

MONSTER TALK with King Ghidorah. "The first step to scapegoating a group is to dehumanize it," says Ghidorah. "The real rich guys dehumanized themselves," says Godzilla. "They jumped in the money machine and said 'do me!'" "Who is the victim here?" asks Ghidorah. "Somewhere is an Elon Musk with a leased CRV and a split level ranch whose poker buddies find his edge lord schtick borderline insufferable but who makes it to all his kids birthday parties. Somewhere Jeff Bezos is wearing khaki pants and a braided leather belt and doing on-site tech support for B2B software and daydreaming of how much better his life could be if he could just make $80k. Somewhere Mark Zuckerberg and his young family are living with his in-laws until they can pay off his wife's med school loans and, while he resents it, later when they are in the townhouse and the kids are fully grown he will look back on it as the best time of his life." "So you must destroy the machine," Godzilla says. "The machine first, yes," says Ghidorah. "But you must still DESTROY ALL MONSTERS." "Ahem," says the bandleader. "Not you, Mothra." Godzilla turns to the camera. "Stay tuned for these messages from our sponsors!"

Monster talk.

I wrote about the Iran War and the most politically charged game in World Cup history goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/the-mother...

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I wept my heart out watching De La’s tiny desk gig. Because Petra had been there since the Daisy Age, we played them in her shitbag Plymouth Neon in the heat of DC summers from ‘89 onwards.
Seeing them remember Dave (Plug2, Trugoy the Dove) made me think how we all sing in the shadow of grief.

Jim Carrey er orðinn gamall = hann lítur ekki út eins og Ace Ventura = þetta er klón

ég hef haft mjög gaman af þessari samsæriskenningu, hún er eitthvað svo saklaus og meinlaus, en ég veit að á endanum verður hún að einhverju alveg hrikalegu og mannskemmandi

It sounds like he was in the military, that’s the standard pronunciation in those circles. The story goes is that it’s easier to understand across radio, but that sounds to me like an after-the-fact justification.

All the clubs have closed down

Congratulations!

A Complete Unknown is from 2024. He was nominated for an Oscar last year for his performance as Dylan.

there’s a german term, fachidiot, someone who excels in one field but has neglected every other aspect of life

I suspect messi has a child’s idea of politics, what he knows is that trump’s the american president

his wife seems plugged in, though, she shut down a $1B move to saudi for moral reasons

Eventually, you’ll be reading some other thing, or listening to a lecture, or watching a play, and some joke will be deepened by your knowledge of these topics, and the surge of joy will make all this reading worth it.

Yeah, everything about that is just wonderful.

Skjáskot af vefnum Íslensk orðsifjabók. Þar má sjá uppflettingu á orðinu „hnarreistur“.

Skjáskot af Orðsifjabókarvefnum, sem sýnir venslanet orðsins hnarreistur.

Skjáskot af orðsifjabókavefnum sem sýnir orð sem hafa tengsl við finnsk-úgrísku.

ómægodd hvað nýi orðsifjabókavefur árnastofnunnar er mikil snilld

Íslenskur fáni á gervigreindargerðri mynd, sýnir íslenskan fána með tvöfaldan kross.

Tvöfaldi krossinn á fánanum!

The racism was also because Hergé created Tintin for a right-wing magazine and continued publishing in a Nazi-controlled newspaper during the occupation of Belgium. To Hergé’s credit, he does seem to have genuinely regretted much of his previous work, but not enough to withdraw it from publicatio.