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I just discovered that this exists

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we all know I have no life, so:

He hugged Mr. and Ms. Met, and that’s enough for me.

(I don’t actually know anything about the political proclivities of Mets fans vs. Yankees ones. All I have is biased assumptions.)

Hey, not fair. The Mets are the official team of Mamdani.

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

"This was the original vision for CNN by the way. They called it “Randemonium”. The idea was, whatever the Current Thing happening in the world, put it on CNN full time, cover it from every possible angle, and keep it running until a more important Current Thing comes along."

as an aside I think this thing about CNN's founding vision being something called "randemonium" is some sort of ChatGPT hallucination. This doesn't show up anywhere else in search, which, if so, says great things about this new news org and @a16z

Someone out there is going AAUGH right now. In a half-century they’ll be complaining about the Bluesky post that ruined Citizen Kane for them.

A nick on the old stele

On the plus side, this will help when I’m trying to explain to my students the difference between liberalism and utilitarianism.

Saw it at 9 y.o. on TV (without ads). Thought it was pretty awesome.

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.

Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)

Distributed physical copies matter.

I saw it at age 9! That’s the way to avoid the spoiler.

I don't like thinking about Zohran jinxing the Mets either but unfortunately we on the Left have an obligation to confront reality soberly, with clear eyes.

This all makes sense! Thanks.

I dimly remember my parents receiving one in the 80s, when we were in London for the summer. I’ve quizzed my mom about this but she doesn’t recall.

My post seemed funny to me because I thought you had written “to,” not “in.” Oh well.

And not even one reply smh

Wonderful paragraph, but it makes me wonder: Did Maya Angelou literally send a *telegram* at some point between 1967 and 1990? I know the technology still existed, but did she really use it in my lifetime? Metaphor or reality? (I feel like a Gen Z’er bugging out about a rotary phone.)

Gross.

You may have a super-seeker.

Mets nation will welcome you as a fellow traveler.

But does the digital generation even know what a paperclip is?

(Funny that the attachment icon is a paperclip. We talk a lot about the diskette for “save” and the old phone handset for “phone app” but maybe not so much about the clip that now should perhaps symbolize our entire economy.)

I am now going to refer to the AI sector, and perhaps the economy as a whole, as “the paperclip economy.”

The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction.

I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

Indeed not.

quite right. What’s with that em-dash?

I have heard exactly one person in my entire life use that phrase, and it was, guess who, Andy Beshear

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