Art Stinchombe has entered the chat.

This is a properly interesting book. From the cradle, social scientists of all stripes learn that everything from productivity to alienation is rooted in an increasingly specialized division of labor. Jackson basically asks: if this is true, why does my job consist of so many distinct goddamn tasks?

Hollie Davidson is not having any more of your nonsense in the line-out.

I do love how so many MAGAs do not seem to have the faintest idea of what Trump likes, or what it means to have your own center of gravity, or be super-charming in person. Have they ever wondered why Trump looks so bored and irritable most of the time he has to hang out with them?

JD, back at the Naval Observatory, on the floor, in the fetal position, sobbing uncontrollably, his bloodied hand grasping his shattered phone, its dying screen still intermittently flickering with this photograph.

You can’t tell me that Don Jr and Eric won’t flinch a little on seeing this footage and learning their father is in fact capable of such unaffected fondness.

Compiled Zork from source with zilf and zapf (zilf.io); running in Yazmin (github.com/dcsch/yazmin...). Nice.

“Good News You May Have Missed.”

It’s-a me!

“Breaking” is indeed the word.

“Would you like some bonus Embarrassing Harvard Larry content with your regularly Awful Harvard Larry content?”

“I wish mid-20th-century, big-picture social theory had more real-world influence—particularly the synthesis of Parsonian systems thinking and German critical theory that Habermas tried to fuse together in the 1980s.”

<monkey’s paw closes one finger>

“Gentlemen, with these GPUs we are at last in a position to achieve a scientific goal that has eluded this company for decades. We’re finally going to crush those white-coated Garnier bastards and their goddamn Laboratoire.”

Love a good street map data layer.