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I'd never heard of this terrible low budget SF film, The Yesterday Machine, till #TheMadsAreBack riffed it, and I've been watching bad movies for fun for about 60 yrs. It's pretty terrible, which of course, made for a great comedy presentation. Downloads available at @dumb-industries.com 🎬💙 #MST3K

Also, they were part of a purge show where we crammed a bunch of semi-unusable interviews in one show.

Goldie Hawn was interviewed at the Concert for Tibet and all she wanted to talk about was the Dalai Lama, so Pavement sort of drowned her out.

I wish I had known this for my article on that episode!

It makes me sad that nobody I have ever been attracted to, or even married to, has wanted my attention 1/10th as much as LinkedIn does.

Listening to [REDACTED] board game podcast...

Paraphrasing:
"I dislike the gatekeeping that comes with it; the idea you have to be a hardcore gamer to enjoy 18xx."

The only people I've ever heard say such things are those who don't play 18xx.

Those perpetuating this myth are "the gatekeepers".

Found this little guy in a vintage toy shop the other day. #thetick #tick #ticklife

I suggest it is to lower the average lifespan of working people. If they live past their productive years, working people impose an undue burden on the wealthy. This seems to be the core of conservative economics.

Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people:
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security

If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas. I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

On hatred.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

Those are all solid. If you read my article you will probably add the Pavement episode to that list :)

The Anti-Televisual Politics and Aesthetics of “Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast” Obligatory Background

Signal boost / shameless self-promotion! Check out my article on why Space Ghost: Coast to Coast was totally punk rock and deserves to be remembered not for launching Adult Swim, but for its brilliant satire. #spaceghost #spaceghostcoasttocoast medium.com/@jsbegy/the-... What do you think, sirs?

The Trump administration intends to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants for Brown University, expanding its campaign to hold universities accountable for what it says is relentless antisemitism on campus, according to two White House officials familiar with the plans.

Every lede like this is a fundamental journalistic failure.

(There is no "relentless antisemitism on campus" and you don't need to give the administration's propaganda priority). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Kombucha girl meme where she looks disgusted at “losing a land war with emus” but looking approvingly at “losing a trade war with penguins.”

List of US tariffs (March 2025) with Taiwan listed as a country

"What do you mean they accidentally just recognised Taiwanese sovereignty?"

There we go (Tufts statement for Rümeysa Öztürk): www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

My 15yo convinced my 11yo to watch The Fly with him. Apparently she loved it so much she wrote a review.

Five Songs We Listened To This Week And Accidentally Leaked to The Atlantic Here are five new songs that made us do that little half smile we do when we’re actively having a panic attack but don’t want to draw attention to it. Enjoy!

Five Songs We Listened To This Week And Accidentally Leaked to The Atlantic

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I miss the days of just creating weird stuff and throwing it on the air.

Thanks for reading, Andy! It's a great sequence. Was it fun to do? It comes across as very joyful.

I think the result is anti-authority, regardless of the behind-the-scenes dynamics. Plenty of punk bands have been headed by control freaks :)

Thanks for reading and promoting! I wasn't aware of that part of the story. I don't think I painted Lazzo specifically as anti-authority (I mostly quote him on the DIY stuff), since the show was certainly the result of a lot of great creative people working together.

I also wanted to shout-out @kenplume.bsky.social 's great interview with Mike Lazzo, which was a big inspiration. I quote from it liberally!

I really wanted to try combining deep, thoughtful analysis with humor and a personal perspective. I think it came off rather well and I'm very pleased with it. I hope anyone reading this enjoys it too! #spaceghost #spaceghostcoasttocoast

I'm very proud of this piece. I channeled my former academic self to write a detailed critical analysis, but drew a lot of stylistic inspiration from David Foster Wallace and Chuck Klosterman. Most thoughtful academic writing is dry as dirt, and most non-academic writing is surface level and dull.

The Anti-Televisual Politics and Aesthetics of “Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast” Obligatory Background

My first significant piece of writing in almost 10 years: "The Anti-Televisual Politics and Aesthetics of 'Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.'" medium.com/@jsbegy/the-...

All my typos are international. It’s called HUMOR.

In a given day the biggest mistake I usually make is trying to click on a thing in Word.