this is true and bad but part of the problem is that *the market* also seems to be treating this as "distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out" which is a deeply confusing signal that is not entirely the fault of the press in this case
Baseball in the best park
Who was the third base coach there
A group of children serenade President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani with "Soda Pop" from the movie KPop Demon Hunters
Man Torn Over Which Shirt Worthy Of Wooden Hanger Area Resident Considers Pros, Cons Of Each Garment
Man Torn Over Which Shirt Worthy Of Wooden Hanger theonion.com/man-torn-over-which-shir...
Still no progress on what they are saying to each other? Is anyone working on playing recordings of clicks back at them to try and communicate à la Arrival?
⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat
Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.
JD Vance entering negotiations with Iran
They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno
good morning
One of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard. It’s just a guy in the audience and there isn’t even an improv segment after! Just watch it
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
Image of NASA Mission Control from the Artemis 2 launch
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The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already
Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults. For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves
Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.
When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.
This is my trans agenda
I would imagine it hurts to see your wife transform into ICE Barbie when that's always been your heart's deepest desire.
A complete TTRPG called PIG AT A WEDDING. You can download a text-only version of it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at-wedding-153576626
PIG AT A WEDDING is a one-page TTRPG where you must sneak a pig into a wedding and release it at the most traumatic possible moment.
PDF, text-only version, and a largely unrelated dev diary here: www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at...
My colleague @michellemgriff.bsky.social wrote about Republican dissonance on Operation Metro Surge:
Yay! I’ve been on tenterhooks waiting for the Paris mayoral race to finish
If Confess, Fletch had come out in 1991, it'd have made $65-70 million and at least 5 times its budget, there would be four more Fletch movies like it that people on here quote like prime Simpsons, and Comedy Central would air one of them every Saturday morning up to around 2011
This article goes kinda the way you think it would but I enjoyed the read and like so many poisons it's a reminder that no we aren't built different it's just bad for you.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.
Much Ado is the one I run back the most. Lear probably my fav.
Echoing that the alec guiness version captures the whole of it. The movie is cool when you’ve read the book but is incomprehensible if not
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
"of course people should have known, he didn't hide any of it!" is a valid complaint but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people self-evidently did not understand what they were voting for and they don't like it
One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation
I listened to several of these and across all of them two things are standard- the simpering nature of these calls which are always "oh I dont know theyre nice I'm sure why don't you lock them in a cage just in case" & how ENRAGED they get when they simply have their own words repeated at them
