After watching the remake movies, I thought I would probably never be interested in any new Evangelion stuff ever again. But, fair play to studio Khara, getting Yoko Taro to write it was a trick I didn't see coming.

I see the new firmware for the Freewrite has finally gotten the typing latency down to that of my eink typewriter hobby project from five years ago, which is to say, merely a bit laggy as opposed to not updating the screen at all if you type too fast.

If no one local bites, I’ll let you know.

Quite a lot, but I intend to exhaust local options before I consider anything involving shipping stuff.

Getting rid of about 40 years worth of video games before we move to New Zealand. Sold almost all of my 3rd-6th generation stuff last night. Still need to find a place in town that wants all the Atari.

In honor of then-dog Betty Boop's first appearance entering the public domain, here's a novelette about how she became a human.

www.eugenefischer.com/writing/swee...

First-round 1-in-1000 hit on Cavendish

When I heard that Rachel Brosnahan had been cast as Lois, that was the first moment I started feeling cautiously optimistic.

I’m still thinking about some of the structural/franchise-movie-starter choices, but what mattered most to me was having a good Superman characterization, and I got that.

The new movie is the first live action Superman movie to come out in my lifetime that seems to have been made by people who understand this.

A key power fantasy of Superman is the idea that we can be arbitrarily powerful and still be guided by the better angels of our nature. That power need not corrupt. What makes him Superman is not that he’s the most powerful, it’s that despite being the most powerful he’s Superman anyway.

I’ll be interested to hear what you think!

It finally happened. They finally made a movie during my lifetime with good Superman.

ON GOLDUNE POND

But “radical” in the 80s slang sense of “awesome.”

(For the record: I’m on here.)

I can’t believe I missed this. All my alerts failed me. Or I failed them, or something

Logged in to Facebook for the first time in forever to see what was up with one specific person. I saw my feed and was like, "Oh my god, all these people I know and love and am never in contact with anymore!" 20 minutes later I was like, "Oh, that's right, I hate this place."

I loved that book. And what a way to nail the ending.

please buy this—I love it so very much—you will make me very happy & I think you will be, too

Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs.

I'm reproducing the text of the email here:

If anyone on here works at Politics & Prose or other bookstores that are scheduled to host Chuck Schumer, I have a proposal—if you cancel his event, I would pledge to buy a book of equal value or make a donation to make sure you didn’t lose revenue—and I bet a lot of others would too.

Well this is terrifying.

The Velveteers - "Bound In Leather" [Official Music Video] YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound

The Velveteers released a new album on Valentine’s Day, and I’m digging it. Here’s the low-fi video for one of the singles youtu.be/gl7VWsrjEo8?...

Now THAT is how you do a trade! Brian Wright is much better at his job than Nico Harrison

How many times in my life am I going to see the Lakers start to slip in relevance, only to get to trade for a top-tier talent that none of the other teams in the league even knew was available?

@jakekerr.com I am experiencing the unique sensation of feeling sympathy for fans of the Dallas Mavericks.

Just when I thought it was safe to stop hating the Lakers, they’re gifted Luka.

Sorry, Mavs fans.

@theguardian.com removed these passages from a column judith butler wrote after the ‘gender critical’ hacks who write for them kicked up a fuss.

now they’re all running around praising trump.

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Did you know that this neat WW2 Office of Strategic Services Simple Sabotage Manual is declassified and available freely online? www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Truly, truly, truly: FUCK 2025.

Another great has left the world.

RIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025.

THIS STRIP IS FROM MANY DECADES AGO BUT COULD'VE BEEN WRITTEN TODAY: