Craig Rawlins-Wilson

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday?

ME: That’s correct.

CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’

ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday.

CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

The Guardian U.S. is hiring a Washington, DC-based Senior Science Investigative Reporter: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

A quote from Isaac Chotiner’s interview with Cass Sunstein that reads, “Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.”

💀⚰️🪦

Can Liberalism Be Saved? The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Sunstein done got Chotinered
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I have since removed the protective film from the display, dear reader

Here’s Why I’m Calling the GoPro Max 2 the Best 360 Camera Right Now The GoPro Max 2 brings major improvements over its predecessor, including higher resolution video and greater post-production flexibility, for a powerful 360-degree alternative to traditional single-l...

Reviewed the outstanding
GoPro Max 2 that launches today for @pcmag.com
www.pcmag.com/reviews/gopr...

Samsung Smart Fridges Now Show Ads In Your Kitchen The smart home gadgets worth $1,799 or more are now part of a pilot program showing promotions. There's currently no way to turn the ads off.

Your $1,800 smart fridge, now with free ads you can't completely disable:

www.pcmag.com/news/samsung...

It’s unconscionable

I'm Going to Terrify My Neighbors With a Huge App-Controlled Animatronic Skeleton This Halloween Ultra Skelly, this year's updated version of The Home Depot's iconic giant skeleton, stands 6.5 feet tall and is controlled through a smartphone app, letting you personalize its movements, glowing eye...

"The foot bone connects to the leg bone, the leg bone connects to the hip bone, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."

@jimfshr.bsky.social reviews The Home Depot's new animatronic Ultra Skelly:

www.pcmag.com/news/im-goin...

iPhone 17 Pro pro tip: Get the orange one so that everyone knows you got the latest iPhone this year (and next year, they’ll know you haven’t) 🧡

Tim Apple doing a jig at Apple Park

Bring back live Apple events (and paper restaurant menus)

Cyd 1.1.16 released | Cyd Docs We're pleased to announce Cyd 1.1.16 is released. Here's what's new:

Cyd 1.1.16 is out. If you've already deleted your X account, you can still migrate your tweets to Bluesky now! docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...

My kind of pedant

Well, of course not. The wings they is on the boid!

Friends don’t let friends publish on Substack

A screenshot of a Google search page. The search term is: "why does google search suck so much?" The AI overview result reads: "Google search quality has declined due to increased focus on SEO optimization, aggressive advertising, and the rise of AI-generated content, leading to less relevant and reliable search results. The algorithm prioritizes these factors over providing users with genuinely helpful and accurate information. Here's a more detailed breakdown: Increased Advertising: Google search results are heavily populated with ads, pushing organic content further down the page and making it harder to find what you're looking for. The ads are also designed to blend in with organic results, making them harder to distinguish. SEO Manipulation: Websites are increasingly optimized to rank higher in search results, sometimes prioritizing search engine algorithms over user experience. This can lead to low-quality content that is optimized for search engines rather than providing genuine value. AI-Generated Content: The rise of AI content generation has flooded search results with low-quality, generic, and sometimes inaccurate information. This content is often optimized for search engines but lacks depth, originality, and real value."

It's true

How about "Unsinkable II"? (with thanks/apologies to Arrested Development)

The Itchy Trigger Finger whatnows?

Travel Forecast for Thursday as generated by the Weather Star 4000+ emulator. At the bottom my humidity of 7% and dew point of 21°F. Everything is washed out like an analog NTSC television image, which I did by overlaying shaderglass with an NTSC shader.

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location?

weatherstar.netbymatt.com

The Milky Bars are on me!

A man standing in a parking lot taking a picture of a mural with a smart phone. The mural depicts two images of the same bird, mirrored. The bird on the left is in color. The one on the right is its skeleton in sepia tones.

Showing street art lover and tech soothsayer @art2gee.bsky.social some of Kingston NY’s finest murals last weekend

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing for “REAL COFFIN/CASKET - MANY AVAILABLE - SEE PICS-RENTAL OR P…” priced at $100. A woman in a black shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers is sitting on a closed gold coffin.

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing for “REAL COFFIN/CASKET - MANY AVAILABLE - SEE PICS-RENTAL OR P…” priced at $100. Two open coffins are stood upright next to one another. A blonde woman stands in the one on the left. She has her eyes closed and is wearing a brown sweater and blue jeans.

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing for “REAL COFFIN/CASKET - MANY AVAILABLE - SEE PICS-RENTAL OR P…” priced at $100. A wooden casket is stood upright with the lid off. In it is a large orange plushie of a sausage with arms, legs, and blue eyes. On the lid of the casket yellow text has been overlaid that reads, “ANOTHER ONE OF MY RENTAL COFFINS, MR. WIENER AVAILABLE FOR YOUR PARTY ALSO- LOL !”

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing for “REAL COFFIN/CASKET - MANY AVAILABLE - SEE PICS-RENTAL OR P…” priced at $100. The top half of the lid of a gold coffin is open. Lying inside is a woman with long dark hair, wearing a black shirt and blue jeans (it’s the same woman from the first picture of the listing). Her eyes are closed and her arms are crossed over her chest. Text is overlaid on the cream fabric lining of the open portion of the lid that reads, ‘THE “FEISTY STIFF” IS NOT INCLUDED’ 👀

Perfect for your next office party or team building weekend!

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing of a “Silicone Practice Hand for Nail Techs” priced at $35. The fingers are all a little bent and the ring and index fingers look especially unnatural.

Some will say it’s AI

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing of an “EXTREMELY RARE Christmas Betty Boop Statue” priced at $300. The 30-inch tall statue features Betty Boop dressed in Christmas garb with a golden sack slung over her shoulder with one foot on the top of a chimney and her right finger pressed to her lips.

Betty wants to know if you’ve been naughty or nice?

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing for a “Rare Aurora 1964 Guillotine Plastic Model” priced at $60. It’s a plastic toy guillotine with a figurine dressed in while in it with their head poking through above a yellow bucket.

Toy guillotine anyone?

A screenshot of a Facebook Marketplace listing for an “Angel Winged Golden Lion Throne” for $995 that looks, well, a lot like the description. It’s an ornate gold chair with gold wings on either side of the backrest.

Some of the the strangest things I’ve seen on FB Marketplace, a thread 🧵

The Pocket icon for iOS with a badge showing 3,016 unread items

I was expecting worse

Pocket's export to CSV file screen

Looking forward to importing my years of Pocket saves to another service where I can also never read them

I expect it'll be better looking than the Rabbit R1, but no less useless. I look forward to not buying one.