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This hits all three of my interests

Had this one taped to a book cover in junior high

One fun side effect of the AI boom is the increased popularity of the word “ouroboros”.

This meeting could have been a profane ceremony

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]

the fundamental problem of civilization is that humanity's highest calling is Hanging Out With Friends, but a small minority of humans are maniacally driven to control everyone else because no one wants to hang out with them

So many fun potential voice readings for "You imagine that?"

Getting surreal is all we've got left

This definitely hurts in a unique way. "If that person's *that* old then I must be... oh... oh no."

Steps for turning off autoplay or blocking sensitive content

You don’t have to watch everything. Protecting your peace online is an act of self-care, not a state of denial.

Learn how to filter your feeds and safeguard your mental space ⬇️

theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election * Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on ​Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Continue reading...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

List of individual dogs - Wikipedia

Intently reviewing
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There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

Bad poetry is the life force of this poor earth. In reading bad poetry we are vulnerable and cruel at the same time. It confronts us with all the complexity of our own ambivalent relationship to sincerity (authenticity/cringe), to craft (skill/trickery), to our OWN HEARTS, to LIFE ITSELF.

Poker Face is a fantasy where the ability to recognize bullshit has an effect on society

"As well as deleting old emails, the National Drought Group has urged people to delete old pictures as well as “data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems”.

Also: fix leaking toilets, avoid watering lawns, turn off taps when brushing teeth, and take shorter showers.

It would have been cool to see a tightly plotted, epic narrative arc, something like a Vince Gilligan version. Those are the expectations that people have today. But that's not SW. Yes, there are flaws but the things people complain about are no worse than issues that the previous trilogies had

They're very good space adventure movies, which is what star wars always was about.
Rian Johnson introduced a needed, smart challenge to 'the heroes get lucky against the odds yet again' trope.
The backlash stems from toxic fanboys. People still whining about the ST need to have their cards revoked.

Detective: GPS puts you at Hillside Manor sometime after 2AM.

Adam Duritz: Then the GPS is wrong man! Do I need a lawyer??

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Anxiety Dream Bystanders JADEN, COLLEGE STUDENT: “It was second semester senior year. I was quietly chatting with classmates before our French literature exam. That’s when...

OFFICER TOM, CHIEF OF CAMPUS SECURITY: “My department got an alert that an elderly, sexually confused woman had dropped from the sky and landed face-first on the South Quad.”

This explains how i feel first thing in the morning

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

"Just 10% of users produce roughly 97% of political tweets... A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news."

So when you see that same account popping up over and over, consider a mute or a block, *even if you agree with them*. You'll feel better, I promise.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Framing this one

Happy book day to... me! My second novel, WEARING THE LION, is out in the world!

Come join the messy found families of monsters and gods!

anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

Cover of THE DIVIDE, A Novel, by Morgan Richter, with a quote from Sarah Weinman at The New York Times: "A wild ride of a novel... Richter, an industry veteran and pop culture critic, writes with the energy of a freshly charged battery, full of bright sparks, quick wit, and vivid color."

THE DIVIDE comes out in paperback today! Despite nice reviews, it didn't make a splash in hardcover; I'm hoping it finds its audience now, because I'm really, really proud of this book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731122...

When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.

Every 7.5 minutes, an American man thinks about the Roman Empire. Albeit now with an increasingly dreadful sense of recognition.

Ack. Been wondering about this. I've got timestamps going back several... ok 10... ok fine, 12 years!