Zack Mast

It feels like “brainstorming with ChatGPT” is simply a shortcut to reading.

Nice thing about the HFW Jobs feature is it will update machine sites etc based on where you are on the map. It was a godsend when I had to get the last dang Moonfish Bone.

All Work and No Play - Dissent Magazine Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.

Sam Adler-Bell wrote a cool essay on this topic: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/all-...

I’ve been concerned that my alma mater will be the next university to capitulate to the Trump DOJ. Sure looks like they’re laying the groundwork!

I know plenty of women who like weirdos, as long as they’re genuine and respectful and confident in their interests and don’t see talking to women as a transaction

Creative Directors at ad agencies are sabotaging the left.

Bills fans (including me) spent like half the day in an anxiety spiral trawling their problematic rookie's Instagram Stories for clues about whether he tore his ACL instead of just waiting until the mid-afternoon for news. Football's back, baby!

Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...

Young men who believe they are exceptional are doomed. This kid’s real interests were in art and archaeology, but his talent (he believed) was in engineering, so he funneled his ambition toward the sociopaths who represent engineering “success.” We failed him.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A novel by Norb Vonnegut

“My favorite author? Gotta be Vonnegut.”
“Me too! What’s your favorite? Cat’s Cradle?”
“The Gods of Greenwich.”
“Huh?”
“But honestly I love everything from Norb.”
“What the fuck”

Could Sean McDermott salvage his reputation with a strong showing on Hard Knocks, or would it not really matter because of, well, what always happens in January?

What is “That’s my secret, Cap. I’m always concussed”?

When the current DOGE regime lies about its accomplishments, it will adopt jargon as a way to mask its incompetence. Otherwise, when nonprofit orgs use the word “outcomes,” it’s a DEI term that can get a grant killed.

Oh it’s totally valid! I’m just saying: the stuff I might’ve thought was a little lame, the kid fucking loved, but he also covered his eyes during romance scenes lol. Just gotta be tough to balance the entire audience with these things.

My counterpoint to any of these quibbles is that I was sitting next to a 10-year-old boy and he loved all this shit

“$11.95. Minus our $12 trade-in.”
“You owe us a nickel!”

The jokes are still great

This is the plot of Horizon Forbidden West

an almost minimal symphony

No… no! @durbin.senate.gov, is this true??

But she told @durbin.senate.gov she’d protect farmers! What gives?

The logic also doesn’t make sense. If the outcome is predetermined, then there should be no downside to making a fuss about how harmful it would be.

These guys have all the money and power in the world but their biggest most desperate need is to hear “Great idea, sir.”

Pretty telling that what these guys consider a novel idea is a subordinate saying “You’ve got something.”

Shawn, of course, provoked the project with posts like “Try and find it! I dare you!”

Omg this one! I remember when some fans scoured very early Google Street View to try to find the background image in the last panel, thinking it would help them pinpoint Shawn’s address. I was one of the few users pointing out that it probably wasn’t Shawn’s actual house

I had a Pog MAKER which involved finding right-sized pictures in whatever magazines I had permission to destroy, so multiple layers there

omg omg omg 🥲

Who is House AirBnb?

The air-to-water heat pumps can serve the hydronic system for heating and a separate ductless ASHP (or window units) could provide cooling. But that’s adding a bit of extra cost.

Feds just threw tear gas at protesters so they’d clear the road for a US Marshals bus carrying people they arrested at the farm

Good thing we put the most sunburned man alive in charge of the FDA