I may never forgive NBC if they don’t renew Reggie Dinkins for a second season.

You guys think I would post something that wasn’t real? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

Actually, I just checked and I think the patent expired in 2021.

So now I’m wondering, why people aren’t already all over that? Because that system was amazing.

Last I heard the IP was wrapped up in a messy bankruptcy and the original creator was a turd. I love that game to death, but if it ever happens at all it’s going to be a spiritual sequel only by a completely unrelated team.

Classic @dril tweet about spending too much on candles. “Some who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My family is dying”

Follow up tweet not helping

So you are telling me that fencing is *not* ribbon dancing for adults?

Tim Apple is finally stepping down and Tim Onion is finally buying infowars, what a crazy day for Tim Vegetables.

Call it the Richard Liebowitz Rule.

Waffle House Index - Wikipedia

Uh oh.

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The Onion is merging with Truth Social so that the satire can just write itself.

Of all the stupid data center projects, Fermi’s is by far the most destructive. It is also being built in a deeply red district by businessmen deeply connected in the Republican Party, so they are kinda getting what they asked for.

For those who don’t know, Fermi’s plan is to build a gigantic, water-hungry nuclear power plant to supply data centers just outside Amarillo, Texas.

Amarillo, which is… almost a desert.

Fermi shares are down 16% this morning on the news that it’s CEO and CFO are resigning. But CEO Neugebauer is an alcoholic chaos gremlin, so I’d actually think the company has a better chance of making it now than before.

Having a million people die is obviously too high a price to pay so that everyone has to stay six feet away from me.

But I would pay a lot to get that back. And if we expressed that price in terms of human lives, the number might not have to be 0.

This is a cool achievement in exactly the same way every small technical breakthrough in making machines go fast is cool, but it is basically getting roasted. I wonder how much of that is spillover from anti-ai sentiment and how much of it is spillover from anti-Chinese sentiment.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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This is both a very dumb joke and a thing that actually happened.

I’ve been looking up artists I liked in my college and law school years, seeing what they’ve been up to. Today I checked out Kimbra’s most recent album. She used to have such a unique artistic voice, but it was so generic.

Now she’s just somebody that I used to know.

They changed their flag colors between rounds, and Little Bit is DISCONSOLATE.

Yellow is her color, and being put in red flags is an injustice for which her tender years have failed to equipped her.

I told @macaronbaker.bsky.social to buy two pizzas for the team. She arrived with four. It is way, way too much pizza. We are never going to get through all this pizza. They’re four, we’d be lucky to get one slice in each kid.

Little Bit isn’t just sitting in the grass picking flowers like I did as a kid, so she’s got that going for her at least. (Another little girl is filling that position.)

Our team is better at the huddle though, which they understand to mean a prolonged group hug between each play.

My wife signed up Little Bit for a 4-week peewee football league. Her first big game is tonight.

I’m rooting for her, but the opposing team of 4-year olds clearly got more out of this. They are managing to stay in a vague formation and everything. I’m impressed.

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I regret to inform you that (1) was not the dominant opinion. Not sure how the people going with (2) reconciled the existence of the numerous people going with (3).

Like, even if Capcom didn’t intend it as a dogwhistle, does it not give you pause that the pedophiles definitely thought it was?

I peeked over on X to see what the reactions to this were. Three basic reactions: 1) people grossed out that Capcom would do this, 2) people claiming that this isn’t what Capcom intended, and 3) people claiming that this is exactly what Capcom intended and celebrating pedo-acceptance.

I noped out of any interest in this game a month ago when I read about its growing fandom among pedophiles. Absolutely bonkers that Capcom is basically endorsing their behavior.

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I notice he still advertises himself as a lawyer on his YouTube channel, though.

It’s also a very schlocky, long-running film series and a tv show starring the usually excellent but badly miscast Lance Reddick.

You look young for your age if you are too old for a reference to a game series that first came out 30 years ago.