And the FIFA Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to ...

I encounter this a lot on public transit. Some people also play music in public with their phone speakers, despite the existence of headphones, a useful product.

That's mean.

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism

it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

I feel like we're in an alternative reality where Cobra Kai won 1984's All Valley Karate Tournament

Hey, the committees that write these emails are trying to meet as many conflicting objectives as they can. Some of these PDFs take hours.

Graph showing Netflix stock rising 8.56% in after hours trading.

There's a reason Netflix stock is doing this after hours.

That article is strange. It leads with examples of a data breach and ransomware, then segues into AI use in supply chains. Did AI cause the cyber attacks? It's hard to see how, and the article makes no connection. But we had cyber attacks before AI and they've always been bad for supply chains.

A story arc was a must. Unlike the original trilogy, which Lucas might have improvised, and unlike the prequels that benefitted from VI's conclusion, a sequel trilogy had to justify having any post-VI story at all. It had to provide an arc that brought the whole thing to a conclusion. But no arc!

What's frustrating is that the seeds of IX being so disappointing were sown in the previous two (good) movies. The characters in VII and VIII were worth following, the writing and cinematography were solid, but ultimately no one bothered to devise a story arc for the trilogy.

They should stick to their core business of AR headsets connected to the low-res metaverse.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

My wild guess is that Moderna was preparing a rock-solid lawsuit against RFKv2, and the federal government has a shortage of good lawyers and didn't want to waste any losing this.

I'm actually reassured by the retraction: their statement makes it clear that they have a policy for using AI copy to save time (don't) and that someone didn't follow the policy.

Pizza, famously an American food that had no particular relationship to an immigrant group.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

You gotta keep one pistachio nail.

Sarcasm - Wikipedia

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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Remembering when Jeb! promised 4% GDP growth and everyone made fun of him.

I think kicking south. The earth would be rotating to the left.

Something wrong Hon, you've barely touched your meat and ferments.

The official title of the 2024 election.

Hey watch it, some of my best friends are AI branding companies.

Pretty sure it still is!

Smart, but not necessarily because the companies with high capex are stupid. Just a different business model.