Ironically, celebrating white hair would be better.

The whole idea is that they can engineer people to be "better" but humans are terrible at identifying what makes a better person. Even if we did, we don't know what complex combinations of genes/environment it takes to produce those traits. The best they could do is make sure your kid is tall.

It's already happening. Multiple women have been harassed in bathrooms (at least one in the Boston airport and another in a Buffalo Wild Wings, IIRC), plus a Utah politician making a whole thing about a tall teenage girl being trans. Women thinking this is a feminist position is just wild.

Only tangentially related, but while I was doing a bookstore signing a few weeks ago, a group of teenaged boys stopped at the front table and admired the cover design on Bel Canto.

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

I was at a Nation's yesterday and half of the restaurant had been taken over by pies!

This was honestly the nudge I needed to finally get around to reading The Smartest Guys In The Room.

Yeah but his name is Tyler *and* Austin. What are you going to do?

Watching this after Thanksgiving has become my official way to kick off the holiday season.

Also, the reporter will get distracted flipping through them and forget to ask you any tough questions.

(To be clear, these are US and UK-based women's clothing and fragrance companies--not from anywhere that Singles Day is a longstanding thing.)

I went through this for like a week with "banjo"

I read Jane Friedman's interview with one of the survey creators, and what I came away with was how profoundly pro-AI biased he was. He called anyone who was against it "ignorant" and "scared" and seemed convinced that those were the only reasons to be opposed. So I have questions about this survey.