starting my new job as allbirds’ lead shoe designer tomorrow and so excited i havent even had time to look at the news today

2031

History student: so was any of the Biden Saga canon? Or was it all just filler?

Teacher: As a large language model, I am not permitted to answer that question.

Omfg

A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina

A close up of the ruins

One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

What is happening

cats during your darkest moment deepest ugly cry session will bust open your door like where's my dinner

Inside Bad Bunny’s Historic Super Bowl Halftime Show Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.

All the logistics (and plant people 🪴👀) is so cool.

Amazing

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Apparently it’s already been edited out of replays. The best would have been to cut back and forth between JD and the US athletes with booing or cheering depending on who’s on screen, like with that little kid at the hockey game

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it.

“There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

High five for film courses in the midst of it all haha

Very specialized PhD in Human Factors Psychology after undergrad but now idk I just taught an Art History college course that FELT like it was 50% Nazis and/or capitalism and how it’s all relevant today.

Anyway, interesting to reflect on it all.

Tell me five classes you took in college:

Sociology of the 1960s
History of NYC
Intro to Spanish
Art of the Motion Picture
Race, Gender, Class, and Culture

Psych major, French minor but loved extra classes (with no real understanding of the debt I was accruing) and liberal arts are so important.

love all these services adding AI bullshit you don’t want/use and then increasing prices for the added “value”

Compare.

it’s totally infuriating how over the last six years or so, every single tech company decided for some fucking stupid, evil reason that they didn’t need user interface designers anymore

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

As a [ grown adult working in tech ]
I need my messaging app to [ obliterate the water supply of a small town ]
so that I can [ chuckle about being an armadillo ]

👏👏👏👏👏

The incredible value of "nothing" "Better than nothing" rhetoric hides the opportunity costs behind the bare minimum. Reject this framing.

When you hear "better than nothing," ask whose responsibility the "nothing" is, and whether the "better than nothing" solution simply lets them abdicate that responsibility & check the box.

AI is the ultimate "better than nothing" technology. Don't negate this argument — reject the whole framing.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

*goes back to reading Walden lol* 🌲🌲🌲

“A lot of us still care about things like the potential for technology to help people… We weren’t wrong, or naive, or foolish to aspire to those goals simply because some bad actors sought to undermine them.”

not to repeat the things he says but I JUST got why that trash bag said “donroe doctrine”… I literally thought it was dementia nonsense

I think this year really peaked with Nathan Fielder flew the plane.

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."

‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”

So a napkin is a little tablecloth.

10/10, no notes.