Patrick Crispen

Can you stop or override this? No, not fully. But you have mitigation options. The best option is to switch to the X app.

Narrator: They parked anyway.

Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone.

If 2025 was a challenging year, may 2026 bring brighter days and greater opportunities.
If 2025 was a rewarding year, here’s to building on that momentum in the year ahead.

Wishing you all a healthy, joyous, and meaningful 2026.

... For deadline-sensitive mail (taxes, ballots, payments), request a manual postmark or use certified or registered mail to prove timely mailing.

Official rule (Federal Register):
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-20740.pdf ... 2/2

Important news if you vote by mail or submit taxes or bill payments by mail: As of Christmas Eve 2025, the U.S. Postal Service now defines a postmark date as the date of first automated processing—which can occur days after you dropped mail off. ... 1/2

So, I was at Sports Clips in South Pasadena. They were playing ESPN’s Roll Tide/War Eagle documentary. About 15 minutes in, one of the stylists CHANGED THE CHANNEL.

Anyway, this is a roundabout way to ask: does anyone know any good criminal defense attorneys? Asking for a friend.

This seems relevant.

Source: Department of Defense (sic) Law of War Manual: ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/d...

Once again, Dallas ruins Thanksgiving. :)

As we gather around the Thanksgiving table, let’s set aside our differences and instead come together over the one thing that truly unites us: our shared hope that Dallas loses.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Baseball trivia: every team that won game 7 went on to win the World Series.

Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida after being at Tulane University.

2025 in a nutshell.

Gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's [sic] day.

Since I am supposed to practice what I'd do during a real earthquake, I figured I'd run to social media and quickly post "EARTHQUAKE!"

This concludes this test of the emergency earthquake notification system serving the Los Angeles area.

YouTube video by Green Day Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends (Official Audio)

Can someone please go nudge Billie Joe Armstrong? It's that time again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhw...

"When you wish upon a star."

Tonight's Space X Falcon 9 launch as seen from Disneyland. Photo credit: Reddit user ErinRisi

"I feel the need ... the need for speed."

With educators a looking for a magic bullet AI detector, we need to be careful that we’re not over- or under-stating Pangram’s reliability. ... 3/3

Simon Smith on X: "I have huge respect for Ethan Mollick but Pangram is TRIVIAL to defeat. I spent like two minutes in ChatGPT: 1. Gave it an example of human text and corresponding AI-generated text from the paper. 2. Asked it to identify characteristics that made the human text look human. 3. https://t.co/qaT3rkPpij" / X I have huge respect for Ethan Mollick but Pangram is TRIVIAL to defeat. I spent like two minutes in ChatGPT: 1. Gave it an example of human text and corresponding AI-generated text from the paper. 2. Asked it to identify characteristics that made the human text look human. 3. https://t.co/qaT3rkPpij

However, in a follow-up today Mollick noted that Pangram is far from foolproof. As Simon Smith demonstrated, it can be defeated with a handful of simple AI-based re-generation steps:
x.com/_simonsmith/... ... 2/3

The Effect of Inflation Uncertainty on Household Expectations and Spending Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This one is for my educator friends. Yesterday, Ethan Mollick shared a recent NBER article on AI detection that (tl;dr) found Pangram produced nearly zero false positives:
www.nber.org/papers/w32939 ... 1/3

Huge shoutout to xGoxSpaceman’s Burbank community group. It’s so active we pulled FOUR concurrent 100-person rooms for Eternatus. And Mystic7 wasn’t kidding: the Santa Monica Pier really is goated for events and gyms.

This game has been a wild ride. Here’s to whatever comes next! ... 4/4

The hardest grind? Hands down the 999 excellent throws to get from level 49 to 50. That task felt like climbing Mount Everest. Somehow, I made it. ... 3/4

Best part? It happened on my birthday.

I definitely got lucky along the way. Both the Sinnoh and Unova Tours kicked off in my hometown. And Worlds was in Anaheim this year, and I just happened to be across the street at Disneyland. So, yeah, I may have snuck over to the convention center. ... 2/4

This won't make any sense unless you play Pokémon Go, but ...

770 days after my son first introduced me to Pokémon GO on a train ride around Disneyland (July 30, 2023 — Poliwag Community Day!), I finally hit Level 50 (the max level ... for the next month or so). ... 1/4

Hat tip to Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (aka Nano Banana) for the laugh.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Mike Dunford does a fantastic job breaking this down — and why your outrage is (mostly) misplaced. Highly recommended read: bsky.app/profile/ques... ... 2/2

One of the most predictable (and infinitely repeatable) internet panics is moral outrage over social media terms of service. Why are they so broad? Because they have to be. ... 1/2

LA Has Become the First Major City to Sync All Its Traffic Lights The long-ago traffic promise of the 1984 Olympics has finally been fulfilled: yesterday in Historic South-Central, Mayor Villaraigosa switched on the last Los Angeles traffic signals to get...

This still remains one of my favorite bits of trivia.

In preparation for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Los Angeles became the first major city in the world to sync all of its traffic lights citywide.

The synchronization program was completed in (checks notes) .... 2013.