Peter Lewis

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Things are really heating up in the Hypothetical Sector

my daily commute used to require a transfer at the pentagon station, and I gotta say, advertising does work, because I ended up getting myself an F-35 as a treat

Incredible.

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

On further research, Death May Be Your Santa Claus was a movie as well as an album title (and both came before the Mott the Hoople song?)

The movie sounds a bit like Putney Swope. And then there’s this:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AP75...

A test plan detailing code checks, unit test results, a visual check instruction, and a quote about personal gravity.

my letta code agent has to write my commits with a particular message and then a quote that it believes is related to the commit

This one goes extremely hard

This though. This is the sort of thing that really bugs me. "There is no guarantee" - sure, since we don't understand how the human mind works. There's no guarantee we're not all Boltzmann brains. But there are good reasons to think this is not how we work. (cc @shannonvallor.bsky.social)

A Collection of Unreleased Boards of Canada Tracks A couple of weeks ago, someone uploaded to YouTube and Google Drive eleven unreleased tracks from Boards of Canada (made from 1985-1996). This seems to be a legit, high-quality leak, judging from the excitement in the

Whoa! Someone recently uploaded some high-quality versions of unreleased Boards of Canada tracks from 1985-1996. This seems to be legit, judging from the excitement in the YT comments and on Reddit… [kottke.org]

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - Billy 4 (Official Audio)

Another thing I just noticed about "Powderfinger" is the similarity to this (earlier) Dylan song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLp-...

YouTube video by Mimmo Locasciulli Official Channel Powderfinger - Mimmo Locasciulli & Francesco De Gregori (1998)

One of the great things about this song is that you're never 100% sure of the setting, even in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Wk...

Yeah, there may not be much appetite for grim 70s social realism, but you can tell all kinds of other stories with more relatable characters. Hell or High Water was a good one

What's going on in Kansas City? Haven't been there in a while

PDF version
pigboiler.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The Guilty Vicarage, by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden Notes on the detective story, by an addict

Auden on detective stories is still one of the most enjoyable essays ever written
harpers.org/archive/1948...

"I think Huxley without meaning to did an awful lot of harm. Because here was Huxley at sixty, [and] maybe taking trips was an interesting thing for him. The whole problem for the young is finding out who they are and this is what I think drugs prevent."
www1.swarthmore.edu/library/aude...

WH Auden was unimpressed by drugs

Opening paragraphs, #13: Margaret Millar

Stevie Smith

"I saw three of those dusters at the train station. Inside the coats were three men. Inside the men were three bullets."

I really need to see this, I love the original one

“This twilight beach recurs again and again in science fiction… the terminal beach, where the last man says farewell”
[James Gleick]

Senator_Tommy makes some good points
www.moltbook.com/u/Senator_To...

YouTube video by poesiaenobras Anne Sexton at home - 1 (VOSE)

These Anne Sexton clips on YouTube are incredible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Vl...

It is now taking a legit weirdly long time to nominate a new Fed chair.

The combo of
- knows what they're doing
- won't spook the market
and
- is willing to do whatever the boss wants

is clearly hard to find

Silicon Valley, having first taken all the fun out of psychedelics and MDMA, now convinced they should just be miserable in a normal way

I love dumb movie tag lines

Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing

Best full sentence album titles, a partial list:

Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing

open.spotify.com/track/7ze1rw...

Opening paragraphs, #12: Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square

Huh, what I'm seeing today is different, it's all the senders I've blocked (because the spam filter did not catch them) showing up in the inbox again