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What a list! blackmoviehalloffame.org/top100/ - lots of movies that I still have to watch.

“just another snake cult”

It’s on the list.

The children decided Alien was “not very scary” and during the chestburster scene E said “oh, it’s so cute!”

welp.

When you strip away humanity

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.

Guillermo del Toro - Studio Ghibli Masterclass (2013, TIFF festival) ❤️
Now online (80 minutes) >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Uo...

I got curious two things

1. Joaquin Castro went before Beto and the applause that said they would win Dem's statewide in 2026 and say goodbye to Trump in 2028 were... lackluster. People don't want to wait.
2. You can see Beto's speech starting here (should be time cued but if not 1h16m 51s )

Ha. Mx14 is a cat person.

All the children have been to orchestras and musicals at eg the Kimmel Center, but the twins only other show was Babymetal/Bloodywood/Black Veil Brides last month. They were into it but not so much they wanted to jump at the next show.

Not so Mx14, who has been to .. 10?

No fear, we know they love the dog more than us. We’ve made peace. She’s a good pup.

During the drive today one of the twins wanted McDs (gross and therefore a sometimes treat) before camp dropoff, so we stopped and … waited 30m for 6 chicken nuggets. Someone had ordered 20 happy meals and similar adult orders.

I got to explain queuing and back pressure to a hungry 12yo.

One of the car questions today was what’s your favorite thing in the world. Twins, expectedly, said the dog. Mx14 said “live music.”

Taking that one to the bank.

YouTube video by SPEED OF LIGHT Speed Of Light - Pain on a Chain (Official Video)

Still can’t get over how good The Warning were.

The owning act was also amazing - Speed of Light, incredible energy, brothers and sister band, rock, punk, great stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q73q...

Not too bad.

Today I drove for five hours (again), but I got to hang with my cool kids and listen to good tunes and play dumb word games the whole time, and then I had delicious Honduran food for dinner and a ridiculous chocolate fudge sundae while we walked home, and then I fixed a deeply stupid toilet.

The Heart of the Reproach Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

A new Tyrant Philosophers short story "The Heart of the Reproach" is now available for free from Subterranean Press subterraneanpress.com/the-heart-of...

Took Mx14 to see The Warning. Now that was some freakin rock n roll.

YouTube video by Stixy Pa the brews nofx

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdqE...

I still haven't taken good photos for the baguette bag 😅

Rewatched The Dark Tower (with a Ms. 12.) I still like it, but it could have been so much more.

When they get to the old theme park and you see the sign, E yelled “daddy! You said this wasn’t scary!! Pennywise is scary!”

No other experience with Stephen King stuff, just *knowing* about the clown.

Woah. That takes me back!

A protestor stands in front of a military Humvee preventing it moving to snatch farm workers on the farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, LA.

The famous photo of the Chinese protestor blocking the forward march of tanks in Tianamen Square

Some will reject this comparison with today’s scenes in California.

But resistance against authoritarianism in all its forms matters.

Google Slides “corrected” tailnet to telnet and I didn’t notice until I was presenting and honestly, whatever.

Fetterman is such a piece of trash.

All the neighbors I like replaced their Teslas in the last few months.

The EU Product Liability Directive will take effect Dec 2026. Software, firmware, applications, AI systems, and will now be subject to the same strict liability regime as traditional physical goods. Cybersecurity vulnerabilities will be considered product defects. www.lexology.com/library/deta...

“The first major arrest and deportation of French Jews in World War II was the Green Ticket Roundup. Eichmann and Danaker both helped to organize this scheme by which almost 7,000 foreign-born Jews living in France were sent to summits by mail ordering them to visit a local immigration office for a review of their visas. Anyone who showed up, as around 3,700 men did, was arrested and deported immediately. Now, again, you'd never see anything like this, whereby people who are attempting to maintain their legal status, even though they're foreign-born people who have immigrated, would be asked to show up at the immigration office and then arrested as soon as they show up trying to comply with the law. That would never happen here, right?” From Behind the Bastards: Part Three: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself, Jul 8, 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000716298674&r=1822

Listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social on Behind the Bastards' Adolf Eichmann episodes and getting so depressed.

Pratchett is – as ever – relevant

Living through the Setback, multiple genocides, idiotic wars and worse leaders, AND people keep moving my shit.

Also if ✨Atlassian ✨would stop hiding the issue tracking UI of their issue tracking product I would appreciate it.