Ben Ellman

Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.

They released one album in high school. 30 years later, they sold out SF. Despite releasing only one album, they were one of the most influential '90s acts.

SFGate wrote up the Emo Unction

I used to be able to buy/sell/trade tix on Twitter pretty easily. Let's see if I can do the same thing here

A real test to see if Bluesky has "the juice":

I have a ticket to Dijon at Terminal 5 in NYC on December 4. I want to trade it for one of Dijon's shows at Brooklyn Paramount on the 1st or 2nd.

Are you, humble poster, the one who wants to trade tickets? Please hit my line

Today

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

"Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other sites that experts have shunned as unreliable or hate-filled, according to an analysis by researchers at Cornell University" www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

The cover of an animated book called "The Homestar Runner enters his flirty thirties"

NEW: Meta won its FTC antitrust trial. The judge found that the company did not violate antitrust laws in its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

That means Meta WILL NOT be broken up. It was always a long shot for that to happen, but crisis averted.

Screenshot of a text message saying “the cloudflare outage is keeping me from getting tickets to puppet burlesque”

Folks,,, we need to accept that the internet touches every part of human life

Things I read, in order:

1. Your screenshot
2. Quoted screenshot
3. Quoted text
4. Name of quoted poster

The gasp I gusped when I finally got to the payoff

photo of an em dash drawn on a piece of paper in pencil

chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes

math textbook covers for some reason:

😡😡happy for you😡😡

YouTube video by Cap'n Jazz - Topic Take On Me

AI can't recreate this

YouTube video by Engadget Did Valve just reinvent PC gaming again? | Engadget Podcast

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-eD... I'll be chatting with @jesslconditt.bsky.social about Valve's new hardware, as well as our favorite games of the year

There were film shoot notices all over Brooklyn with the production code name “Cerulean”

And I’m like “I know exactly what that is…😏🤭”

Also, how many things are people going to subscribe to?

Regional rags (said with affection) like Hell Gate and Coyote Media make sense. Then you’ve got 100 different people trying to make money on newsletters…it’s too much

comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!

every company in 2025

Step 1: Become Defector
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit

This is how I found out about the Drawing Center UFO exhibit and I couldn’t be happier

That's about $131,868,131.86 lost per day for 91 days.

What is business?

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YouTube video by Gel - Topic Honed Blade

I mean, they even both have sword names

Alt text readers get a special surprise

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

"Sandwich guy" beats the Feds, and they came for him hard. Via NBC

A skeleton runs through fire. "You can just start!" "You don't need permission to develop a new interest or skill!" "If shit sucks, hit the books!" "The time will pass anyway"

motivational image.
What are you learning next?

This one is the cover of the extended edition with demo and live versions of the album

You're not wrong. At the same time a lot of people spend years and thousands of dollars in therapy only to make a breakthrough that can be summed up by a motivational quote in a calendar

i hate it when something is described as "inscrutable." you have no idea the types of things im able to scrute

A wireless charger permanently installed in the Resolute desk would be grounds for impeachment in my book