i've had a good amount of time to prep for this trip but hot damn, insomnia and My Agonies really ate into it. at least tomorrow i have the benefit of a deadline to force me across the finish line, but i'm really not doing bad at all. i feel way more harried than i actually am
fyi for those who use bank of america - check your email for the update to the user agreement which introduces binding arbitration for any disputes and forbids you from joining a class action. you have 60 days to opt out and you absolutely should opt out
A Toronto hospital recognized that a huge returning percentage of their emergency services kept going out on the same marginalized folks.
They created supportive housing for these people, including medical care, and they SAVED $1.66 million.
They’re expanding the program.
Art exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library asks visitors to imagine a world without prisons
“The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, builds an environment where visitors can see and feel through the possible answers prismreports.org/2026/04/13/w...
A metallic foil tray, with "Always Support The Bottom" embossed in the base.
In a world of changing values, one piece of advice remains constant:
these people are the clerics at the temple of capitalism, a system that they think fundamentally is a good way to distribute resources. why would i listen to any conclusion that starts with that assumption
also: vibes function in the world on a material level. people feeling pinches means spending goes down. even more dramatically, shareholder vibes upend hundreds of thousands of lives through layoffs and degraded labor conditions. vibes don't occur in vacuums, they have causes and effects
this steam cleaner's accessories have been recalled but it requires i prove that i threw them away so what better time to get one last use out of them than right before my friend lives in our house for ten days
oh god did i make a mistake steam-scrubbing the nasty ass grout without a mask on
we all got jumanjied into monopoly
Maybe I’ll write about the Affordability Discourse one day but I think that one thing (among many both material and perceptual) that this hard to untangle is that everyone—including those who are doing fine in material terms—has a lot more visibility into how well the rich are doing than in the past
I think a lot of things about our conversations and broader culture would improve if we were slower to pass judgement on things. especially if and where what passes for developing an opinion about something is picking a side of an ongoing dispute - and thus implicitly accepting its terms
god i wish that were me
good god this ends SO HARD. i used to cry at so many of his vids and it felt good to shed another few tears lmao
it's so cheesy but having sewer socialism referenced by my mayor and them showcasing the civil servants that make it possible is just so beautiful
i am not saying this out of a sense of malice or to give this poster a hard time. but i do think we should consider posting predictive market data about news events to be the same kind of tide-lowering slop as posting generative ai
When playing certain games, you gotta ask yourself
Am I enjoying this or am I making ice cubes?
You deserve better than ice cubes.
i know this is my very specific industry hobbyhorse, but this is true, it's been true for longer than people realize, and many of the systemic solutions for it are pretty hard to implement, both technically and politically
There's an ambulance market (I could stop there), private equity has rolled it up, and it's now delaying deliveries, tripling the cost for cities & creating shortages across the country.
This is what happens as we shout about what podcasts politicians should go on
anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one
damn so the pelican eels made it to land too huh
I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.
No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.
You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.
laws were made to caption broadcasts as a matter of civil rights for the disabled. these were extended for streaming services and specifically cover anything aired as TV.
they are required to be accurate in content and timing. sesame st. likely provides captions! you can file complaints here:
Impeachment sounds like what they call it when they surgically make your ass bigger
sometimes we randomly get paid like 25% less than other months despite having a consistent number of subscribers and I think that's good and easy to plan for :)
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
The affect of a well-intoned "dude, what the fuck did you say?" Is truly remarkable.
People all the time say "I want to be an ally, how can I help?" And most of the time the answer is just to call out gross behavior.
This, by the way, is why Hayao Miyazaki was right when he described AI as "an insult to life itself." The act of creation is the most human thing we do and we have people deliberately releasing termites into the foundation of our culture.
A photo of a nicely designed set on the stage of Radio City Music Hall. Emily from naddpod is in the middle, Zac Oyama and Murph are on the left, Jake is on the right, and they're all looking at Caldwell who is hiding behind some bushes
the stage of Radio City Music Hall kinda far away but with lots of pretty lights around it
naddpod show was insane, Dustin talked to me about hoobastank for like 5 mins and was like "i'll play some when we get home" before the show started and i was mad at him the rest of the show. 1 of 3 things he brought up that murph said immediately after. it was so fucked up!
it's fun to enjoy things!