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Hegseth is Armitage, if Wintermute was a looped Call of Duty: Modern Warfare longplay instead of a rogue AI
My column this week speaks to this point that Trump is plainly incapable in acting in a way that isn’t self-destructive. (gift link)
this is the good stuff ⚡
y'all should familiarize yourself with what the Average American is consuming entertainment-wise!
Otherworldly sunset through the Costco cart return door
there are millions of cars on the road with "full self-driving" systems that require dynamic intervention in safety-critical situations by the person behind the wheel... and even after more than 50 deaths, regulators haven't issued a single requirement for driver monitoring, etc
A SECRET ABOUT A SECRET by Peter Spiegelman. A government agent has to solve a murder in a sort of technocratic fascism that is almost, but not quite, our own world.
THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by QNTM is an incredibly clever and interesting take on the secret spy agency; this one is so secret it’s a secret from itself. Forbidden knowledge is literally the key to the end of the world.
Song for today: "Never Said" by Liz Phair.
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"Thank you! Try the fish!"
Hey! Los Angeles and all the surrounding area. Come see me talk with @justinfeinstein.bsky.social about his scary/funny/prescient novel about AI, YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED on April 7. You're going to want to get in on the ground floor on this one.
The warmest winter on record in Southern California.
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Kinda love the idea that Jesus did crowd work.
Kinda love the idea that Jesus did crowd work.
“The romance of baseball is rarely felt as keenly as when it requires math.”
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My algorithm is severely overestimating my nostalgia for this period.
Desperately trying to TACO his way out of his war.
(Quotes from the NYT’s The Windup newsletter and Bull Durham.)
“It’s a simple game. You throw the ball. You catch the ball. You hit the ball.”
“The tied teams shall be ranked in the standings according to the lowest quotient of fewest runs allowed divided by the number of defensive outs recorded in the games in that round between the teams tied.”
I wouldn’t understand the WBC rules either, tbh.
Happy pub day to Ben H. Winters and his fun, meta-sci-fi comic BENJAMIN, about a pulp science-fiction author who wakes up 43 years into the future after he died.
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Come through
"handy with a chainsaw" a dating app is not, I repeat not, the place to mention this
this, but also the NYT operates to fixed internal narratives in its political coverage, and the one they had evidently decided on was "Andrew Cuomo has done his time on the naughty step and now gets to come back because MeToo/woke went too far"
Screenshot of a book cover showing an illustration of a crow perched on an "ICE" jacket lying in the middle of a snow-lined road under the light of a full moon. The cover reads "ICE Out " by Charles de Lint. Text to the right of the cover reads "ICE came to Newford. Big mistake." and "Download for free!"
Urban fantasy author Charles de Lint just published a new "novelet" and released it for free, his stories of myth and magic and community and found family are full of so much love and hope and we could all use some of that right now
www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html
“When you cover capital crime cases, you notice the ways in which stupidity and evil become indistinguishable.”
Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
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via Instapaper
