I utterly love that system. Makes me feel like I’ve won bingo.

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At this point, they’re so into destroying my childhood, my parents’ divorce proceedings are going to be dramatised and put on Prime Video

When you get mad at me, this is who you’re getting mad at

Greg Sheridan, Paul Kelly and the Shanahans must be about to have a fit.

Thanks for the reminder. I think mine’s flaring up for the first time in years.

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In the year 2000, the landscape of Japanese professional wrestling was fractured when the legendary Mitsuharu Misawa led a mass exodus from All Japan Pro Wrestling to form his own promotion.

My latest book, Freedom and Faith, is finally available worldwide.

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a chart showing rising energy consmption for all companie s bar netflix

table of use

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

McDonald and key members of the DOGE team bypassed authorized record preservation requirements and violated the Federal Records Act by conducting official government business regarding the cuts using Signal, a messaging application unauthorized for federal employees, and intentionally set to automatically delete messages. DOGE fed grant descriptions into OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot, asking it to decide if grants were “DEI.” They then entered ChatGPT’s responses into a spreadsheet compiling all NEH grants, including its “DEI rationale” and “Yes / No DEI?” replies. This ChatGPT-generated list was used in place of the list created by NEH staffers to identify which grants to cut. Projects Grants that were flagged as “DEI” and then terminated included a documentary sharing the story of Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust; an archival project on the lives of Italian Americans; a project to digitize photograph collections of Appalachian residents; and multiple projects to preserve endangered Native American languages and cultures. DOGE staffers violated the Federal Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment by flagging grant descriptions as “DEI” solely because they included “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” “homosexual,” “LGBTQ,” and “Tribal,” among other terms. DOGE staffers also flagged grants that NEH leaders concede had no connection to DEI, including grants that had been awarded for collections management after a natural disaster, preservation training, and improving HVAC systems. After the termination of previously awarded grants, Michael McDonald asked an NEH staff member to solicit the Tikvah Fund’s application for a single-source award; the NEH ultimately granted it $10 million.

“The principle that knowledge of history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts is necessary to sustain a strong and resilient nation drove Congress to establish the NEH,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “Our lawsuit reveals this administration’s contempt for that principle and for public investment in research for the common good. DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking.”

Details on DOGE staffers using random text output from a chatbot to justify cuts >

"DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking"

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Trent Rez in the head like a hole vid

Pain at the pump 🎶
Feel like a chump 🎶
Just checked the news 🎶
Outbreak of Mumps 🎶

we weren’t negative enough and now no-one gets to have ram or hard drives

“9/11 was a cover up for 9/11” is the most wild conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?

BUSHI 新入場曲 YouTube video by LOS TRANQUILOS de JAPON

What goes through my mind every time JD Vance speaks:

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It’s what the role of president is in Japan when a former/wrestler holds it.

He’s the charismatic figurehead. I doubt he has that much by way of serious negotiating with talent.

@drjonathan.bsky.social closed the book on the last pages today! Well done! A wonderful read!

It will be available on Amazon when general release happens. @jonathansnowden.bsky.social is handling that one.

Hard to confirm either way because he hasn’t said anything, but entirely possible he doesn’t have it yet.

I assume Jake Lee is part of the 2026 G1.

Will he be able to wrestle on the opening night if that’s in the US?

Being in the unique position of not having Japanese citizenship, getting a passport could be a challenge.

He’s overcome so much to even be in the ring. #njpw

Cover of the comic book omnibus Astro City Metrobook 1 by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson and Alex Ross. It depicts the superhero Samaritan flying upwards with a city skyline behind him, a setting sun on the horizon.

I'm reading Astro City by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social for the 1st time & it's a revelation.
It feels real. Honest, human stories. Characters I can believe in and sympathise with. Stories that make my soul smile, wince, ache. Quality work. It should be mentioned in the same breath as the greatest comics.

I love to be that guy.

I suspect this will tighten a lot in two years

“I’m not that kind of Christian”: Rebuilding our Faith after ‘deconstruction’ A New Testament scholar’s new book to be released in February tackles the subject of how to rebuild faith after ‘deconstruction.’ Dr James McGrath is a New Testament scholar based at Butler University...

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James McGrath’s latest book will speak to a lot of Christians’ situations, myself included. My latest for Insights takes a look at it.

Royal commission into Royal Commissions

I’m unironically on board with that. Hope his foot is healing.

Uncanny X-Mas pt 1 Listen to The P[w]rescription on RedCircle

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So great to see!

It has arrived!! @drjonathan.bsky.social