An important academic update
Halal Truck Mr. Beast
Eldest boy has taken to sending me messages and emails sporadically that look normal but when opened are just Halal Truck Mr. Beast
Can't wait for the flood of SOTU live watches tonight where the commenter just shouts "wrong" every 45 seconds
This would make my heart explode... but I do love coffee
Ok hear me out
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
This reminds me of how a felt writing day trading scripts during COVID.
You make the line move. It gets addictive. Then that's all you can think about, especially after hours.
Three panel comic. Panel 1: baby monkeys in overalls jumping on a bed, having fun. Panel 2: one of the monkeys falls over the edge of the bed, reaching out as he falls. Panel 3: one of the other monkeys, now looking super buff and badass, grabs him by the arm to save him heroically. “Monkey Stronger Together.”
Spiderweb From other angles the fibers look fragile, but not from the spider's, always hauling coarse ropes, hitching lines to the best posts possible. It's heavy work everyplace, fighting sag, winching up give. It isn't ever delicate to live.
Re: periods of revolutionary ebb (poem Kay Ryan)
Don't mind me just having an emotional moment while watching the French ice dancing routing
why stop at doubles. there should be an event where they see how many guys you can stack before the sled falls over
Hear @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Founder of The cURL project, discuss the rise of AI Slop in open source on @redmonk.com's MonkCast: "it's important to not get stuck on the AI part but on the abuse part." redmonk.com/videos/danie... www.youtube.com/shorts/GwfFl...
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
Did u know they turned the game from Heated Rivalry into a real sport?
Guy who opened pandora's box 'sorry folks, I can't do anything about the torment. I just opened the box'
Software is escaping the browser
We talked with @thekenchilds.com about 🇦🇹 Austria’s Katrin Beierl, who does women’s Monobob but she hates her job.
"The laundry never stops" -- the title of my upcoming parenting book
Dark horse take
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
The NBC audio messed up and Mevis sounded like Boomhauer for a little bit.
i have worked with Casey and can corroborate their being a great team member. really smart, versatile, dedicated, and a great partner in brainstorming and product engineering
A child's duplo plastic baguette piece on a short 4x2 piece
I can't believe I spent $7 at Panera and got this
All the homie bears can crash at my crawlspace. Gotta be a chill hang tho.
Proud to support the Python Software Foundation (@python.org) as a Fast Forward member!
PyPI’s 2025 Year in Review shows the scale of the Python ecosystem:
• 3.9M+ new files
• 130K+ new projects
Honored to help power infrastructure behind the global Python community. blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...
The process to become a @fastly.com Fast Forward member was impressively seamless. A lovely partner to work with through and through.
I also want to give some massive kudos to James Fenn, our board chairperson and tech lead, for leading up the technicals behind the zero-downtime. He's amazing!
Every car I've ever had has a sunroof and I've never found a practical use for them other than letting heat out in the summer. What do people even do with these things?
