Reid Dossinger

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

My mentions have folks calling Talarico a "fascist" and assuring me that black Texans would never ever vote for anyone who uses Christian language.

For the good of democracy, I'm begging some of you to take a long break from social media. It's not helping you and you're definitely not helping us.

In our current world, most people would consider this a partisan statement.

This is about 50% of my job, so this would just roll right off my dad back.

And this quote sent the stock market back up. It's wild that anyone can still be credulous enough to think this has any basis in reality. Time frame to what?! The regime change that clearly isn't coming? The destruction of the nuclear program which they already said happened last year?

In the first episode of Ghosts (UK), they're told that a distant relative died and "she was 99" and the main character responds, "Oooh. So close." That's what I think every time anyone dies at 99 now.

I found said dead kids a dealbreaker (one in particular made me angry for weeks afterwards), but my wife, who will flat-out dismiss a show if it has "child endangerment" was able to take it. It's very well done, but def a lot of "we're going to make you feel AWFUL".

And the hardest questions that kids ask are about the things you would never have guessed they even would notice! I was floored once when asked “why wouldn’t he want (his wife’s parents to live with them” in response to an in-law joke.

Alum here of a base elementary school (the one on the base where officers who know better than this start their training)

Ah yes, that famously reliable part of parenting wherein it only provides scenarios the parents are ready for*

*don't try to tell me this is about what the "kids are ready for", lololol, kids DGAF about who loves whom, and kids are ready for what they ask about, with age-appropriate responses

If such things interest you, the new HELP(2) compilation is really good. Not a clunker in there, and the covers are all excellent.

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

Was talking this week to an elder Millenial who teaches computers to college students. Says that, having grown up on Chromebooks, they're functionally tech illiterate. Don't know how to change a document format. Don't know how to print. Don't actually understand what an app is.

"Do you speak French? No. You only speak french fries."

Also, Bluesky’s problems are the same problems as any social media platform has.

The irony is that “Bluesky is an echo chamber” is an opinion that people are just parroting from other people who also don’t use Bluesky.

I keep seeing this gif and it makes me think that the people who rented out fog machines really had a boom time in the early 80s.

Good to hear. I thought the Macca 70s doc was fine, but not very illuminating. I'll check out that '62 doc.

They have religious exemptions. That means the parents are liars, tbc, because no major religions object to vaccines…but they do usually have moral objections to lying!

People lying ab their religion are putting other people’s kids & the broader community at risk in schools w/21% MMR uptake rates.

This is not a celebration. It’s violence.

This whole thing has made me real low. For every celebrate unit I can give to Anthropic for rejecting it, I have 100 despair units over the others, especially Google, going along with it.

For the first time ever Claude is the top free app in the US App Store. There’s been no better marketing than the U.S. military trying to force the company to use its AI to fight wars and spy on Americans.

It’s also notable that AI apps and Threads are the most popular apps on iOS.

Read the room, robot arm with puppy dog eyes.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

That's menus put together by chefs that are not jaded and indifferent.

Oh, if she had friends over, she would have left the room immediately in fury at me.

"Thin desert boy" is a gift.

Cheers to my 12-year-old who sat and watched with apparent genuine interest as I made a chip clip lip sync all of "In a Big Country".