Mike Innocenzi
@pantagrapher.bsky.social
There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings.
November was a pretty good month for movies.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
November was a pretty good month for movies.
Just saw the holiday Metra on the MD-N!
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Just saw the holiday Metra on the MD-N!
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Current* conditions near Traverse City, MI:
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Current* conditions near Traverse City, MI:
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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Nice — 5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Nice — 5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
The speed with which the rightwing media apparatus would turn “Strong Floor, No Ceiling” into a concern troll about the housing shortage. “What’s the point of a strong floor if you can’t afford to put a roof over your head?”
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The speed with which the rightwing media apparatus would turn “Strong Floor, No Ceiling” into a concern troll about the housing shortage. “What’s the point of a strong floor if you can’t afford to put a roof over your head?”
My phone switched to dark mode at 4:34. Despair.
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My phone switched to dark mode at 4:34. Despair.
Everyone in the family at 10 a.m.: “We should go out to eat tonight!”
at 4 p.m.: “I don’t want to go ANYWHERE.”
at 4 p.m.: “I don’t want to go ANYWHERE.”
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Everyone in the family at 10 a.m.: “We should go out to eat tonight!”
at 4 p.m.: “I don’t want to go ANYWHERE.”
at 4 p.m.: “I don’t want to go ANYWHERE.”
That snow is heavy y’all. Lift with your legs.
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
That snow is heavy y’all. Lift with your legs.
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I said it and I'm glad.
May I suggest that Arcadia is the greatest play written in the English language in the last 150 years or so at least?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I said it and I'm glad.
Sorry, everyone. The new rules are you have to watch one dipshit get the full redemption PR treatment every month.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sorry, everyone. The new rules are you have to watch one dipshit get the full redemption PR treatment every month.
A true genius. RIP
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A true genius. RIP
These universities are making the same mistake some media companies did. Right wingers are still going to have nothing but seething contempt for you while you throw your actual customers under the bus.
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
These universities are making the same mistake some media companies did. Right wingers are still going to have nothing but seething contempt for you while you throw your actual customers under the bus.
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
Of course the Bears most low-stress win in recent memory comes in a nationally televised game vs the defending Super Bowl champs.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Of course the Bears most low-stress win in recent memory comes in a nationally televised game vs the defending Super Bowl champs.
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![Quote # 2: "I want to do a deal with the federal government," [Interim
University President Henry] Bienen said, according to The Daily
Northwestern, the student newspaper.
"I don't want to get into suits with the federal government."
Nothing better captures the servile cowardice of major institutions in the moment. Faced with a corrupt
administration unlawfully withholding money and demanding a surrender of core institutional principles on a legally frivolous claim, the institution leader's opening position is "take our money so we don't have to fight, just allow us to say publicly that we retain control of our academic mission (even if we know that's false).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3n55ofeg53jvxkslkg3hyayd/bafkreic5sqmzybozvur4fust4tdpjpkk3mmqvmuh6hnexn7i7roxtxgw54@jpeg)
The fake bollards at Six Corners continue to be an embarrassment. They’re going to spend more repairing these janky ornaments than it would have cost to install real bollards.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The fake bollards at Six Corners continue to be an embarrassment. They’re going to spend more repairing these janky ornaments than it would have cost to install real bollards.
I love these games where I absolutely can’t root for either team. Just be a fun game. Entertain me, shitheads.
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I love these games where I absolutely can’t root for either team. Just be a fun game. Entertain me, shitheads.
If you’re the guy outside running your leaf blower on thanksgiving morning I hope you have a bad day.
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you’re the guy outside running your leaf blower on thanksgiving morning I hope you have a bad day.
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A buck grazes at Rosehill Cemetery
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A buck grazes at Rosehill Cemetery
First time we let the kids watch Pieces of April for Thanksgiving and it was a hit!
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
First time we let the kids watch Pieces of April for Thanksgiving and it was a hit!
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Harlem — Gordon Parks, 1948
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Harlem — Gordon Parks, 1948
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democrats/liberals/progressives with any common sense need to get ahead of this electricity cost issue - we need restraint and regulation of ai and data centers, which are driving up costs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
www.cnbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
democrats/liberals/progressives with any common sense need to get ahead of this electricity cost issue - we need restraint and regulation of ai and data centers, which are driving up costs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...