I’m grateful for the alt text, because my pre-caffeinated thought was “the pope has a foot-operated lightsaber now?”

Gas Town and Bullet Hell Warning: a collection of half-formed thoughts about time, screens, AI agents, and a surprisingly relevant Japanese arcade genre. This started with a phrase in Azeem Azhar’s piece about his AI…

Matt Jones on agentic coding and the nature of time

A roller-coaster, brain fizzing read (don’t miss the colophon too)

The takeaway, for me

> Punctuality was the virtue of the electric age; throughput is the virtue of the agentic one.

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Boards of Canada Return With First New Music in 13 Years After a series of cryptic posters and creepy VHS tapes, the duo has released a mysterious piece of music

New Boards of Canada there is still beauty in the world pitchfork.com/news/boards-...

Happy Tom Waits and Massive Attack Collab Day to all who celebrate! 🎉

allbirdsgpt: you're abshoelutely correct

millennial: iykyk

plato: NOT SO FAST

nothing is real anymore.

Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider, because of course it is Flipping the ‘Bird

Good subhead (?) BTW: “Flipping the ‘Bird”

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WTAF? I just went and read the FT on this and I’m so confused.

I can’t say more now as it could jeopardize the entire project but I am very close to developing something that WILL beat a Jet2 Holiday

Is space sexist? Is the shark in Jaws still worth your time? And many more pressing questions asked and answered in the latest episode of Oh God, What Now?....

Happy for ya, Hungary 🇭🇺 ❤️

"but did you consider...." yes i made this one too don't worry.

Currently re-watching this great series. If you haven't watched it and have any interest in art, history, amazing landscapes, or Iran, I strongly recommend it.

Not sure I can properly convey how large this design really is. At 250 feet, the Arc de Trump would be several stories taller than the Washington Post building

For perspective, the Jefferson Memorial statue is 19 feet tall and the Lincoln Memorial statue is 30 feet tall. The statue on top of the Arc de Trump alone will be 60 feet tall!

Yes

does any body want to talk about whether or not things are sandwiches

I don't think I could be an astronaut because I couldn't keep from saying something to really freak everybody out when I came back from behind the Moon.

Today, 6 April, is the start of the new tax year.

Why?

The lore is that when we changed calendars in 1752, the Exchequer didn't want to lose 365 days' revenue, so tax year end shifted from traditional quarter Lady Day - 25 March.

Never verified this, as far too good a tale.

A list of two dollar words and their monosyllabic counterparts. Did you see what I did there? * facilitate ease, help factor reason, cause failed to didn't fatuous numbskull jerk feasible can be done females women final last

I found a style guide for writing from the air force academy officer training program while cleaning out some folders. It’s decades old, encourages simple language, like not using “fatuous numbskull” when “jerk” will do

bluesky is and has always been a posting retirement home for elder millennials

Far side of the moon released by NASA

Far side of the moon released by NASA today. 🧪🔭

Reminder that Elon Musk is a mass murderer and he probably doesn’t think about it at all

ok but would a dying bluesky look like *this*

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Alright ALRIGHT OK I’ll make a damn custard tart. Jeez. Stop going on.

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Sadly, the US/Iran conflict would need to continue for several centuries before an anytime single to Manchester became the cheaper option than driving