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Always liked how early the Royal Navy started down its path of giving its most lethal warships embarrassing names.

Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"

Getting a bunch of "Call N. K.!" tags again. This happens every time somebody attempts to blow up/risks blowing up the moon -- which you wouldn't think would happen a lot, but here we are.

absolutely here for this headline, normalize calling people weirdos in headlines more

My theory about a lot of the AI decisions being made in surprisingly normal spaces is that they’re being made by the last people you knew who still used AOL.

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

The AI unicorns are FIGHTING and @kylierobison.com has the exclusive:

B.C. brush fire sparked by bird dropping fish on power lines, firefighters say | CBC News Firefighters say a brush fire in the B.C. Interior was caused when a bird dropped a fish onto power lines.

A fish started a wildfire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why Is California So Chilly This Summer?

San Francisco is seeing its coldest start to a summer in over two decades, and nobody has felt the chill more than the people tasked with painting the Golden Gate Bridge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

not to, like, repeat myself but to repeat myself (and everyone else): the moment the internet truly took a path toward the suck was when Google Reader was killed.

lemon cookies

have you tried making lemon cookies about it

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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Thinking about watching 28 Years Later tonight, and then maybe spinning up Happy Gilmore 2 and rolling into midnight with that new Jurassic Park movie or maybe I Know What You Did Last Summer.

A credit from CONVOY reading “and Ernest Borgnine as Dirty Lyle”

The six words every woman wants to hear

this should be the chart at the eye doctor

Oops, There May Be Vodka in That Energy Drink

An unspecified number of cans of Celsius, a caffeinated soft drink, were accidentally filled with vodka-spiked seltzer before they hit shelves, according to a recall notice issued on Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/s...

Just finally closed the tab on a blog post i opened in February and carried over from reboot to reboot before finally, today, reading the (short!) post.

This sense of incredible accomplishment is perhaps a little undeserved.

Star Trek The Voyage Home scene. Kirk, Bones, Uhura, Chekhov, Scotty, Sulu, and Spock are pictured loitering about in 1980's downtown San Francisco, standing over a newspaper box. Spock's wearing a bathrobe. Closed caption reads, "It's a miracle these people ever got out of the 20th century."

Alt in image 1

A twitter post of "No Way to Prevent This" in reply to an NYT headline that's nearly identical.

I posted to Twitter for what looks like the fifth time this year yesterday. Checked back today and the post has 39,000 likes, 3.2k retweets — and 9 replies, and 4 quote tweets. I'm sorry folks those numbers ain't real. Bordering on a statistical impossibility. It's gotta be almost entirely fake.

there will always be a guy, no matter how many years this goes on, adopting a sage tone, after a confusing string of names and agencies, telling people to "get ready" "strap in" etc

Less unexpected if you’ve been tracking with the Kinkade story. I recommend the documentary ART FOR EVERYBODY, which I selected as a Critic’s Pick when it was playing in New York earlier this year:

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/m...

Dear DC friends: There are few folks in our city who know as much about the way our city works as @maustermuhle.bsky.social - join us as we make sure he's got a place to report on it.

My favorite Bluesky moment…

Amazing idea for a sports website.

"The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming 'the technology is not advanced enough for that'" is a real quote from this real article about pretend people

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

An event listing for a film screening and after party in Green-wood cemetery

Today in hyper-local personal beefs:

Green-wood cemetery: Riding a bike on the paved roads in the cemetery is super disrespectful and banned.

Also Green-wood: 10:40 pm outdoor after-party sponsored by Jose Cuervo

‘Air Bud Returns’: 15th Film in Franchise, From Cineverse and Air Bud Entertainment, Eyes 2026 Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE) The 'Air Bud' series has been revived with the announcement of a 15th film hitting theaters.

I am not in any way joking when I say i need to read like 5,000 words on how this came about and the market forces that made it happen variety.com/2025/film/ne...

'The Osbournes' changed Ozzy's image from grisly to cuddly, and changed reality TV Ozzy Osbourne's image forever changed with the 2002 debut of his family reality show “The Osbournes.”

when this began, it was a studio fight. i had never made a sitcom, only documentaries and long form—moved in to the house and spent nine full months quietly shooting everything. they became my family. as the footage came back, the studio perked up and decided "to gamble."

apnews.com/article/osbo...

most all my favorite writers at WaPo are gone. pretty devastating

Best thing I’ve seen all week