This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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At the very least, the rest of us need to become intimately familiar with making these people feel like absolute dreck.

Anyone who attends the WHCD deserves nothing less than absolute ridicule; mockery of their work; metaphorical pitchforks, tar and feathers; a lifetime of utter and complete shame.

What you were saying @jamesaltonsanders.com.

Huge fan of @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social's deep reporting and writing style. If you aren't following him yet, click that button.

A photo of a pot on a stovetop filled with a red and orange bolognese pasta sauce.

Weather dropped a bit, putting me in a bit of a Bolognese mood. #SundayDinner

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

A colorful photo of a band on stage.

Because sometimes your college pledge brother (who has 11 albums under his belt) plays a gig near you. Tonight was a good night. Celebrate the good times. And support the fucking arts.

@tomkrazit.bsky.social Tip of the chapeau to your leadoff headline this week.

“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...

Aibirds.

I'm not a consumer electronics expert, but this announcement from @gopro.bsky.social is sure to cause a stir (and a lot of fear) among those who make cameraphones and digital cameras. Huge news for image (still + vid) and content creators.

gopro.com/en/us/news/g...

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

There's on brand...and then there's on brand.

A black coffee mug with a logo from the Monktoberfest conference sits on a latticed brown metal patio table. Similar style chairs are blurry in the background. Behind them is a blurry scene of green grass and trees.

Morning: Coffee, a cacophony of chirping birds, and a cautiously approaching squirrel.

One down…

What a race! What a finish! #parisroubaix

A screenshot that says: You’re the local legend on Chubby Chunky sprint.

Me: Yay! I won a trophy on Strava.

Also Me: Uncalled for, Strava.

There are more good humans in this world than evil ones.

I'm choosing to view this as a comment about the greatness and impact of those coaches rather than the greatness of your age.

(Seriously, this is all kinds of cool!)

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Like a mini Louvre in our backyard. Love spending time there.

Truth.

Designs for the 2026 Monki Gras conference inspired by punch cards and paper tape technology.

Lovely feedback from @monkchips.com for my 2026 Monki Gras designs.

"And of course our incredible designer Gail Myerscough – her take on punch cards really pulled the whole event together. She is open for commissions, does brilliant design work, is flexible and works really quickly."

The unsexy infrastructure and plumbing that make all the cool AI stuff possible is the new sexy.

Wow. I remember driving up to Wiliams College to meet with Bo Peabody way (way, way) back in the day when he was building Tripod. Had the privilege of doing early PR work for them.

dmr: stories Last week, I had the honor of meeting a number of Bell Labs researchers who worked alongside the man responsible for the connected world we today live. His name was Dennis Ritchie. I, clearly, am n…

Memory lane: maneydigital.com/2012/03/05/d...

Praise be to challah.

"You do not need to make people’s lives worse through your own ignorance."

So glad I spent time with this piece this morning. Thanks for surfacing it, @monkchips.com.