Michael Baumann

It was the present then. It is the future now

Had Dippin Dots for the first time in my life this afternoon. 8/10

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

No I'm gonna have to wait for Hollywood to greenlight my spec script of a Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them action fantasy Western musical

End of the Line by Murder by Death, all 10 minutes, start it in the seventh inning if you must

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I lived in Houston for three years, with all the best will in the world Californians do not know what traffic is

As I've gotten older I've come to realize how incorrigibly Jersey I am, but I've felt comfortable in the South, the Midwest, New England, Texas...but there's something ineffable about California that feels weird to me.

Every time I've been to Southern California I've had a great time. Beautiful scenery, nice people, terrific food, lots of stuff to do, thoroughly pleasant experience.
And every time it feels like I'm breathing the wrong gas mixture and if I don't get back east in a couple days I'm gonna die

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

If you missed this amid all the trade deadline drama

I just woke up and turned it on and one of the first things I saw was Maeva pedaling squares. Too bad

No I didn't get that granular. For New York at least it shouldn't be too hard to get population data broken down by county. Mexico City, good luck, I have no idea

What are marsupials a subset of

AJ Preller is so out of control somehow I'm going to San Diego too

The 2025 FanGraphs Trade Deadline Roundup Miss any of our deadline coverage? Don’t worry! Now it’s easy to find all of our analysis of this year’s wheeling and dealing in one place.

Also I contributed seven articles to our trade deadline coverage from Wednesday evening to Thursday, plus others from earlier in the week. You can read everyone's stuff here

Oh My God, It's Maeva Squiban The Tour de France Femmes had a violent start and will have a wild finish

I'm about to get on a plane and throw my phone in the sea but before I do I'd like to invite you to read this prelude to a dynamite Tour de France Femmes finish, as crashes and diarrhea have torn the peloton to shreds

I know

Feels like the rules for the O change on me. I meant the Virginia opossum, though any arboreal mammal works

Seth Brown Triggers Upward Mobility Clause With D-backs Veteran first baseman/outfielder Seth Brown triggered an upward mobility clause in his contract with the D-backs. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

This in contrast to, say, a possum, which can trigger upward mobility claws

The Phillies need to have Micah Parsons throw out the first pitch tomorrow night.

Let’s troll on a city wide level here in Philly.

I didn't really care much about this news until @laurentheisen.bsky.social raised the prospect of RZC being hosted by Pat McAfee. That would be grounds for war.

Paul-Henri Spaak looks down on us and weeps

That's terrific, I thought it would be like qui and am so happy to be wrong

It's a monumental feat of governmental restraint that the EU, after the Bosman ruling, didn't drop all its other functions to just fuck with the soccer bigwigs full-time. The temptation has to be overpowering

I thought that was Wet Leg

when someone tries to tell you there are good billionaires please think about how they hoard their gold when they could give CPB enough money in a trust of some kind to happily chug along forever

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A rider from Mauritius is in the yellow jersey. The race might be decided by who can do 65 mph down the mountain without freaking out. Everyone's pissed at Demi Vollering again but she didn't even do anything! What more could you want?