WALL-E, probably. But Young Frankenstein is right up there

Did you do part time or full? I took the part-time route which gave me a lot more time to think about exactly what I wanted to do, and watch how (in my case) technology was evolving with respect to human nature

I'm so happy for you! I did my PhD at 50, and it gives a whole level of insight and experience. I spent a good deal of time just talking to younger candidates whenever they were feeling overwhelmed. Enjoy! And feel free to reach out

Ernest Callenbach & Michael Phillips have laid out a really interesting approach that they call "The Representative House" constitution.org/1-Activism/e...

As an ongoing happy supporter of the Banner, this is great news!

Still from the movie "A Monster Calls" where the the monster is looking down at the boy, who is looking up. A church is in the distance. Hazy sunset light permeates the frame

a movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

The soulless, sociopathic orange cunt stands in his suit looking bored and devoid of intelligent thought whilst an Oval Office guest is collapsed on the ground behind him. Fellow guests, able to demonstrate more compassion than the pedo protector has ever mustered in his entire miserable existence, are helping the collapsed man. The photo captures the insipid, disdain Trump holds for any other human being not permanently kissing his fat, wrinkly ass. At least today is one day closer to his death.

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Harnik who has won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for presidential news coverage with one of the greatest Oval Office photos ever captured.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

A few years ago I looked up the police budget for every major US city I could find and Baltimore was double the next highest per capita - and I wasn’t including overtime where BPD really shines. To pay so much for such nightmarish results is infuriating.

I had forgotten how good Le Guin is. Thanks for reminding me. Now I have to read LHoD again

Go to the talks and the rehearsals if you have the chance. Fun! No pressure!

Random numbers are wild. I mean, you have *no* idea

I had an idea of starting an alt-channel named something like "boring sane facts". Not edgy hot takes, but like, grounding facts. Like, the earth is round. Bombing children is bad. Biofuel is wasteful. MSG is safe. Vaccines don't cause autism. Removing cars from streets increases shop revenues. etc

I wouldn’t be surprised if this volatility correlates with inequality too. We are rupturing many maybe all aspects of our order when we fail to adequately regulate wealth and power for some degree of fairness and justice. Cf late 1800s through half the 20C

#inequality #regulation #resilence

"This exam will be in embeddings and tokens only"

I can’t think of one offhand, but you can learn a lot by skimming current and historical field manuals. One of the big changes was the introduction of the After-Action review, which is covered in FM-7

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

I launched IgnoreMore.com this week! It's a suite of free tools for protecting your attention online. The first tool helps you decide whether a comment is worth your energy — reply, ignore, or block, grounded in research. Still coming soon, but I'd love your input while I build it.

Honestly, I'm not sure that anything that spreads between humans can be anything but a narrative? It seems that narratives and metaphors are all that there is in communication - everything else is noise

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Fascists like to start wars and will use the consequent crises they created, from economic hardships, loss of lives to terrorism, as another vehicle to consolidate power at home.

Popularity is less relevant when the state & instruments of power are already corrupted to favor the entrenched.

Also I think a lot of ppl LIKE algorithms. It surfaces things they can get excited or mad about. We're living in bleak times that can be numbing, algorithms are focussed on you feeling SOMETHING at all times. Even if it's fury.

New York Times lede: "No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In Gregg Phillips, who is in charge of responding to fires and floods, says the hand of God suddenly and mysteriously moved him to a 24-hour breakfast spot in Rome, Ga."

This is the funniest thing I've read in... months?

I think this one is getting traction. Ironically, if this works right, there should be nothing about it in the news. Or news about anything else.

I have a sudden vision of Jeff Bezos trying to run WAPO software

it's pretty well known that seeing the earth from space can give you a whole new Outlook

This is great stuff. Revolutions are a bottom-up phenomena that can be shaped in effective ways

I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way Can’t a president go watch his justices?

You know how much I love an oral argument. I am a big fan of the law. I like the faint, wheezing sound it makes as I trample on it, and the mountains of litigation that result. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Anyone wanna see the funniest 12 seconds that include a murder?