Pretty sure it's the jazz festival.

Kaiju (but make it haiku):

How nature points out

Again the folly of man

Go go Godzilla

The 1st canon of rhetoric is invention: not sitting on your duff waiting for inspiration to strike, but going out to the common places to uncover that which is out of sight.

This is reason 8 billion why humanities matter now more than ever: because inventors no longer understand invention.

I remember a few years ago, some tech bros were talking about a daring new learning initiative asking questions like "WHY was this thing done in THIS PLACE and NOWHERE ELSE? It's a MYSTERY -- we're going to solve it!" and like: literally any historian can answer this. You can just read about this.

I had a friend once upon a time who tended to have this same perspective: the first time they thought of something was the first time that thing had been thought of.

I don't want to blow anyone's mind, but that person was a libertarian. IYKYK.

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

Hook this to my veins:

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

Remember how when we were kids how old people (silent generation-ish / turn of the last century / Depression-era adults) were portrayed (by their grandkids, the boomers) as babbling incoherently about irrelevancies?

That's gonna be us.

No one will believe it was like this.

Kid Rock Dragged After Offering Massive Discount To His MAGA Festival Due To Abysmal Ticket Sales Oops!

Three takeaways from this:

1) They are loud, but they are few, and they are losing. They're like cats with their backs up trying to look big - but they're just mean, scared, and much weaker than they look.

2) Bob ritchie sucks

3) Hope he dies

BONUS TAKEAWAY 4) <Nelson> Ha-Ha </Nelson>

Fuck Yes.

For no particular reason, I looked up Bean Dad today because I didn't know how that story ended and wow, that took some turns...

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

I think that what pope Leo is saying here is one of the most important lessons one can learn about living life.

I have spent my entire career studying language and one of the first things I'll tell you is it only gets you so far.

The same is true for any symbolic interaction.

Nice try, Sean

A terrifying neon clown - only the head is visible. It is a prop marking the last hole of a miniature golf course

Went mini golfing today at a monster-themed indoor courss - GF kicked my ass, and play was held up *several times* by the dipshit couple in front of us taking duck-lip influencer pics for insta, but I feel like the high point was the clown that was absolutely not fucking around at the 18th hole

Barely more than a decade ago, Florida proudly and with a bipartisan vote passed in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who had been brought here as children and grew up in Florida. DeSantis’ Lieutenant Governor was actually a champion of the bill.

Things changed fast.

*while I think the vehicle is shitty, stupid, wasteful, and all the rest, I don't actually *care* about it in any meaningful way except to avoid their owners at all costs. I'm much more enamored with the way this guy sums up our current failfash dying empire moment and skewers it.

2025 Tesla Cybertruck: Regular Car Reviews YouTube video by Regular Car Reviews

In under 20 minutes, this guy managed to PERFECTLY articulate not only what's wrong witht he cybertrukkk*, but also how I feel about AI, tech generally, late-stage capitalism, fascism...so many things (that are all kind of the same thing).

youtu.be/L3oO510dyVI?...

I have a hot take, and that hot take is that I don't care for multieffects processors. I know they're a lot better than they used to be. I know they're indistinguishable from what they're modelling. I know they're packed full of amp & cab options.

I just don't like 'em.

Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves. The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people. The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.

The section that the Guardian censored…

By Prof Judith Butler

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

TV and vhs tapes

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

A special gold star red letter day for Blueskee today! *Minutes* of uptime! The power of AI vibecoding on full display.

Cartoon of man exasperatedly throwing his hands up and saying "I guess"

Millions of lapsed Catholics realizing that they have become realigned with the Pope against their will

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

How good are the guitars at the pawn shop?

When things are flush, people are hocking Ibanez, Jackson Epiphone just to make space.

When I see Fender, Gibson and Martin...

So ends another semester. I'll have a wave of final projects coming in over the next week, but so far as most benchmarks are concerned, the 25-26 Academic Year is over!

11 million to shelter and care for children - just gone.

I'm barely Catholic, but I'll absolutely side with the pope on this one.