going to a rationalist and being like listen buddy i heard about this scary new idea. its called $70’s basilisk. what if there was an entity that, when it came into being, eternally tortured everyone who didn’t give me $70? it’s a simple exercise of pascals wager white boy

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Ask the cattle every day and take a moo-ving average.

Everyone knows the best way to open a critical waterway is with a blockade.

Usually if I'm sitting in a parked car, I have a lot on my mind.

Data-center/capex headlines are getting spicy. 🌶️

@semafor.com @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com

I find it helps to think of it as just less than the amount you need to spend on musical equipment to be good at music.

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

The moon is solid Roquefort.

I wish I could be as excited about anything as my dog is about two thirds of a cup of nominally chicken flavoured pellets.

I'm not sure I buy it -- it feels like rampant rocket boosterism. At some point the numbers will come crashing back to earth.

Let me guess: the results are out of this world, and NASA administrators are over the moon?

I think someone finally told him what was in the ten point plan he agreed to. 😂

“Show me the usecase for crypto” people have shouted at me for years.

Okay, I say, sad.

is trump getting a kickback on that

Recklessly producing and then accepting a situation where a foreign power can restrict freedom of navigation is not just a strategic defeat, it is a reversal of the most fundamental foreign policy and national security priority of the United States since the founding of the republic.

The credulity of the American public cannot be underestimated.

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The beginning of being fine is noticing how things really are...

Especially because the execution *did* take. That's kind of the point. Execution went to plan, dead guy was placed in cave.

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 The White ​House on ‌Friday proposed a $5.6 billion ​cut ​to NASA's budget ⁠for 2027, ​including a $3.4 ​billion cut to the space ​agency's ​science unit, a 23% ‌cut ⁠as NASA's new chief plans ​an ​array ⁠of new ​missions under ​the ⁠flagship U.S. moon ⁠program.

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 reut.rs/4bQP6Ic

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s Saturday:

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

NC5 NASHVILLE: “A drone maker backed by Trump's two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father.” 🤔 www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/iran...

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE is released after nearly three weeks of detention Tania Warner is fitted with ankle monitor and released along with seven-year-old daughter Ayla Luca after being deemed not a flight risk

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE is released after nearly three weeks of detention

I don't know. Not everything has to grow all the time.

If you have to have this meeting, the problem is not the flow of information.

We have always been pretty close --two to three weeks -- away from winning the war with Eurasia.

"We'll get back to you on that. We spent all our tokens on the TLI burn so we need to watch a couple ads to get back in."