Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
Fun fact: John Deacon built the amplifier that defined Brian May’s classic guitar sound using a piece of electronic junk he fished out of a dumpster.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacy_Amp
It’s not a real modular guitar if you’re not swapping components mid-performance
behold! here lies the truest poster,
I’m running Gemma 4 on my gaming PC 😅 it has roughly the wits of Haiku. Maybe. It is truly impressive but I’m not yet sold on its utility. And I’m not convinced you can squeeze a useful model into a GPU I can afford 😁 and GPUs are defying Moore’s Law because supply chain economics
Until February or so. Anthropic’s public offerings have stumbled badly over the last 4-6 weeks
HERZOG: Yes, and what is more, the vibes are extremely brittle! They will shatter at the first spilled pumpkin spice latte!
Disc horse on, Eileen
Dexie’s Midnight Chuggers
I think it’s even funnier if you imagine @horsedisc.bsky.social posting in the voice of Werner Herzog
Charlene Cox WISHES SHE WASN'T HERE
Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.
She got the job done tonight!!
Exhausted but victorious
Victor Glover and Christina Koch post-flight Artemis II pilot Victor Glover (in orange, left) and mission specialist Christina Koch (in orange, right) are all smiles as they celebrate their successful mission around the Moon from the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha. NASA
That shot right alongside ones of her and Victor being absolutely jovial after the landing are so fucking good.
I like it when a water kefir grain floats in place in the middle of the jar because it’s trapped just enough of its endogenous CO2 to momentarily neutralize its buoyancy
Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"
Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."
Todd Lyons led a secret police force for Trump where masked agents attacked our own American streets, violated Constitutional rights, and shot our own citizens.
We’ll hold you accountable too.
The best slogan for 2028 is "make the traitors pay"
Oil markets have been quieter than the disruption warranted because tankers loaded before the war kept arriving for six weeks. That cushion is gone. Every barrel from here has to come from a source the war is actively disrupting. adamtooze.substack.com/p/title-1074-the-last-pr...
Isn’t this what Enron did?
The war isn't ending. It's being frozen in place. No deal on the Strait, no deal on Iran's nuclear program, no deal on Lebanon — just an agreement not to shoot at each other for now. The conditions that caused the war remain. So do the economic consequences.
Some unscrupulous 20-somethjng who works at the White House is typing the words “papal interdict” into the Polymarket search prompt even as I write this
Was it my fault for posting a thread?
OF COURSE it was King John, who else
arrogant foes are attacking kendra in your area tonight!
"She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief."
(I mean self-awareness and self-actualization and compassion, not religiosity)
