dang that is grim

feel free to be suspicious but there needs to be a category for "barely too old for harry potter but forced to hear about it for 20 years anyway"

Pope Leo giving Spike a jersey

Was a gift

what

thank you!

thank you!

and also we don't have lead poisoning

just had an extremely cursed thought. what if elder millennials are just unleaded gen x

“LLMs are an enterprise technology that may make certain kinds of data organization easier, or coding faster….Making it easier to write code doesn’t change that I don’t want to write code. I have other hobbies!

The actual use for LLMs in most normal people’s lives is cheating on schoolwork.”

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

CRANK is going to tangible, physical harm to people this summer and I will be doing some of the harming

a protest filled with people holding up signs that say ANNA KARENINA DIES UNDER THE TRAIN

I'm already an onion subscriber so you bet I bought the cool tote

Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind? Disruptors, disrupted

as always @lopatto.bsky.social nailed this ages ago (gift link!) www.theverge.com/23697708/and...

i was morbidly curious so put probably 10-12 minutes of that new MIA album on and it is unlistenable.

I say this as a man that's listened to literally dozens of merzbow records

airport departures are for reading a book with an expensive bloody mary what is he talking about

David Byrne - Life During Wartime - Live at Coachella 2026 YouTube video by Coachella

we've got computers
we're tapping phone lines
I know that that ain't allowed.

A screenshot of CNN. It’s the Chicago pope, speaking. The chyron says “NEW DEVELOPMENTS: POPE SAYS ‘WE CAN LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE.’”

new developments

but my real takeaway was that at some point she published a novella I hadn't heard about, the english understand wool. also the original prize people should just pay her because this was way more effective pr than the video & podcast & 6 day event & original piece for their lit review they wanted

I love that she was posting through it despite her inability to find wifi, I did not love the mental health discourse, I am bemused that somehow tyler cowan comes out of this looking good and that peter thiel's money may have accidentally done something good in the world

with the caveat that obviously I support women's wrongs: her book the last samurai is brilliant, she's had a pretty rough last decade, and that "prize" was essentially a paid media contract (and by that standard rather than the amount fiction writers make, not a very good one)

exactlyyyyy

I am pretending I do not see it

utopia while you're here what do you think about helen dewitt

sometimes you have to fuck around and send your friends little voice memos about it

happy anniversary to all who celebrate

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

siri play "can't get there from here" by REM