🌲Gobsmacked ye merry, gentlemen🌲
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Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD dropout. Underemployed and over-caffeinated.
Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!
Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!
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🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
Started my annual Winter Holidays reading…
“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world”
(There’s a BBC audio adaptation as well.)
darkisrising.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dar...
“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world”
(There’s a BBC audio adaptation as well.)
darkisrising.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dar...
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Started my annual Winter Holidays reading…
“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world”
(There’s a BBC audio adaptation as well.)
darkisrising.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dar...
“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world”
(There’s a BBC audio adaptation as well.)
darkisrising.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dar...
I’m still in. But I was in a context this weekend where I was sure I was going to get knocked out at any moment
#Whamaggedon
#Whamaggedon
Whamageddon.
I’m out, someone put Christmas music on and played THAT 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
Anyone still in?
I’m out, someone put Christmas music on and played THAT 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
Anyone still in?
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I’m still in. But I was in a context this weekend where I was sure I was going to get knocked out at any moment
#Whamaggedon
#Whamaggedon
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
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gotta be honest with you all, Seasonal Minion Fire Hydrant is carrying my mental health on its back.
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
gotta be honest with you all, Seasonal Minion Fire Hydrant is carrying my mental health on its back.
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"I think much of the US stock market’s growth is held up by how long everybody is willing to be gaslit by Jensen Huang into believing that they need more GPUs."
NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter
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December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"I think much of the US stock market’s growth is held up by how long everybody is willing to be gaslit by Jensen Huang into believing that they need more GPUs."
Perfect: “What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing “Abundance””
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Perfect: “What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing “Abundance””
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Perfect: “What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing “Abundance””
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Perfect: “What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing “Abundance””
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I solved the 12/08/2025 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:31!
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I solved the 12/08/2025 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:31!
Strands #645
“Grammatically speaking”
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December 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Strands #645
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel. 🎬
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel. 🎬
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
- Wallace Stevens
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
- Wallace Stevens
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
- Wallace Stevens
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
- Wallace Stevens
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel. 🎬
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel. 🎬
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The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
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I don’t understand why people attempt to denigrate Hallmark Christmas films by referring to them as “too cheesy”, as if that is a bad thing? I mean, have you *had* cheese? It’s not exactly the insult that you think it is.
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I don’t understand why people attempt to denigrate Hallmark Christmas films by referring to them as “too cheesy”, as if that is a bad thing? I mean, have you *had* cheese? It’s not exactly the insult that you think it is.
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it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
Adjusted for inflation, Andrew Carnegie spent... about $1 billion dollars building libraries in America. Which had a profound positive effect that continues to this day.
Imagine - imagine! - what good this clown could have done with that $70b if he had cared to.
Imagine - imagine! - what good this clown could have done with that $70b if he had cared to.
Reality Labs spent $70 billion+ over the past 4 years, per @mikeisaac.bsky.social, without developing, launching, & scaling any killer app for Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for a #metaverse. Now, Meta is pivoting from virtual reality to smartglasses with AI to augment our vision. (I expect to see… ads.)
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Adjusted for inflation, Andrew Carnegie spent... about $1 billion dollars building libraries in America. Which had a profound positive effect that continues to this day.
Imagine - imagine! - what good this clown could have done with that $70b if he had cared to.
Imagine - imagine! - what good this clown could have done with that $70b if he had cared to.
Where are the wild hogs, the colour-shifting dresses of yesteryear
It's been a rough year, but as it winds down let's all remember the most heartwarming thing to have happened: when everyone was clowning on katy perry et al "going to space."
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Where are the wild hogs, the colour-shifting dresses of yesteryear
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
School districts across the country appear to be overpaying for basic supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing
US schools face big price swings for basics under Amazon’s ‘dynamic pricing’, report claims
Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
School districts across the country appear to be overpaying for basic supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The Doctor and Susan or The Doctor and Susan
(Would have been fun to have a real schoolgirl in the series)
(Would have been fun to have a real schoolgirl in the series)
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Doctor and Susan or The Doctor and Susan
(Would have been fun to have a real schoolgirl in the series)
(Would have been fun to have a real schoolgirl in the series)
Possibly a false alarm?
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Possibly a false alarm?