Otis Anderson

My most Stancilian instinct is to say that anywhere that has a Whole Foods has an edible bagel

Offer not valid for residents of New Hampshire

Diane Arbus?

I guess this is what I’ll feel like every time I see young person speak until I die now.

Could not disagree more! The sun is up when I wake up and it makes me need to hear “Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It” and “Sing me Spanish Techno” immediately

People do grow to hate movies after they become film critics though

The tooth fairy is more real than the person this website imagines Ezra Klein to be

I do think it’s true that one or two of these guys will at least be an 8th inning arm. I’ll just take “the field” for now.

Those guys were both top 100 so that is pretty high

There must be a closer in here !” I yell, digging through pile upon pile of marginal starter prospects

Why

Experimental noodlers that could write excellent songs but really don’t care to. The flaw in the comp is that Sonic Youth don’t have the goodfball gene.

This reply made me realize that Sonic Youth is Gen X Frank Zappa

That was my reaction!

Doing a keeper league and my projections have a player going about 6 rounds ahead of where we would keep him. He’s such a thoroughly mediocre player that it is hard to talk myself into it.

Several nations of shopkeepers

That’s a pretty good idea!

We need to raise the bar on research code right now.

1) documentation and tests are dead simple now.
2) creating benchmarks integrating across multiple implementations
3) have agents double check your work / fix broken tests
4) fix outstanding bugs in major scientific packages

according to @baseball-reference.com, over the entirety of his career he was worth 144 more runs than a replacement level player during that span, otherwise known as One (1) Greg Gross of runs

This bullet is not delicious. There are some truly repellent people in there.

One person one vote, there’s no lizard person carve out.

If you are democracy believer then you have to bite the bullet and admit that low engagement voters - no matter how weird, perverse and dumb you find their beliefs- really matter.

Rare correct Bluesky AI take

I was never sick until I went to the doctor!

I’m sure some private equity companies are bad at management but the reason why a private equity firm bought the business that’s about to go under is because a subset of them buy distressed assets.

He’s a slop factory producing content that flatters your prior beliefs.

I’m telling you whenever this guy writes about anything I know even a little about , it is a couple of not very well applied facts and a theoretical framework that doesn’t hold up to moment’s scrutiny.

Anthropic and Google now seem to get that the primary value people get out of AI is doing annoying work they don't want to do (coding, basic research, drafting emails, etc), OpenAI/XAI/Meta seem to still think image/video slop and search replacement are the future

Challenge accepted

Juan Uribe and another genius