Andrew Ferguson

Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.

section 3 on AI Literacy really is cutting edge scholarship, especially if you imagine the practice of history itself as one big jugular

ah huntsville memories. you could've bought wvb's lovely midcentury house and backyard nuke bunker for a great price a decade ago, but the market there has boomed since then www.al.com/news/huntsvi...

Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now 2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Pynch. After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, the 87-year-old author will publish Shadow Ticket on October 7th, 2025. The new novel concerns Milwauk…

for @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon’s early career, the rocket death drive, and the statue of Werner von Braun in Huntsville

lithub.com/why-thomas-p...

so much me it's proving better to leave the field entirely rather than keep letting people down. nothing i have to say is worth the attendant worsening of people's lives involved in wrenching words out of me. maybe i figure it out at some point but right now it's just anxiety/shame rinse n repeat

fully automated straight luxury asphalt capitalism

they want to make every interaction threatening & invasive. born too late for the frontier so they just declare everything outside their own conveyance terra nullius

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

vaxxed?

there once was a don allen chrysler dodge jeep ram of nantucket...

The most important British character in US comics Alfred Pennyworth? Captain Britain? No, it’s a trench-coated, chain-smoking reprobate who this year celebrates his 40th birthday—John Constantine

40 years of John Constantine! Come raise a glass with me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk. With @jamiedelano.bsky.social
@damedenisemina.bsky.social
@ianrankin1.bsky.social

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70761/the-most-important-british-character-in-us-comics-john-constantine-hellblazer-alan-moore

bad ending% always teeters on the edge of meme category record for its own sake stuff but mostly redeems itself because it's such a funny way to set out to play a game, and usually also it makes a total farce of whatever narrative is being attempted

the only good bumpersticker

@seckswrecks.bsky.social knew you had to have at least one gdq run under three minutes and spike hike did not disappoint (but also celeste classic!)

you want twin galaxies

cause this is how you get twin galaxies lol

gif from oceans 11, with matt damon's nerdy conman character responding to andy garcia's oily casino owner "not since he died last year"

YouTube video by Games Done Quick Fallout 3 Bad Ending by BubblesDelFuego in 53 - Summer Games Done Quick 2015 - Part 128

and the half minute hero run might not have been the shortest incentive run at its own event either www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ndp...

absolutely sold on this as a video though, there are *wild* variations between different sorts of these micro runs

YouTube video by SpeedDemosArchiveSDA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance Speed Run (0:19:57) *Live at #SGDQ 2013* [GBA]

baby moses may not have been the shortest run at that gdq: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5WU...

YouTube video by SpeedDemosArchiveSDA Awesome Games Done Quick - Myst (01:37 approx.)

hmm right off the bat www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbn...

real frisson of joy at the ridiculousness of parsing that statement

haha I was actually thinking I remember that run may have been a little loose with the timer

could’ve sworn there was a meme game (not mega) that got down around the 2 minute mark, will trawl a bit

YouTube video by Games Done Quick Two Worlds by Shaddex in 2:26 - SGDQ 2016 - Part 125

just barely
youtu.be/5NeR-bT3uv0?...

No

vibes without a face This is "vibes without a face" by caz node on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

one of my very favorite sleepwaves, node was wild for this (but then they always are)

vimeo.com/714819070

needs more wombats

very strange mix, no doubt. clerked for winter, a feeder judge for fedsoc attorneys, but then marshall not scalia. goes sullivan cromwell till he’s parked on the uva faculty. a member of the CFR for goodness’ sake. a rockefeller republican profile at a time those could not be more definitively dead

thanks now i’m gonna have to think about the inevitable guys who have to keep their waifu offline so she doesn’t download a patch, or just disappear to the void. her training data and references continually getting more and more recursive & out of date.

if it’s possible to use something to get fucked up humans will find a way, that’s a core species characteristic

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

dislike having reached this point because anathema to how this *should* work but: well past time to judge our erstwhile reps not based on what they publish but on what they do, who they partner with, to what end.

also, time for bona fides to be established up front with collateral, not just assumed