I really like how this song evokes a particular mood.
Mandy, Indiana – Cursive
Magnifique!
Health insurance traps a quarter of U.S. workers in unwanted jobs.
Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode.
ISPsโ long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over.
Ukrainian F-16 Scored First Air-To-Air Kill Against A Russian Fighter: Top U.S. General.
Russiaโs Crown-Jewel Su-57 May Have Crashed Outside Moscow.
Google Hit With $1 Billion Fine for Abusing Its Power in Europe.
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending.
Wronghorn
Stuff like this makes me laugh. This is poorly band-aiding a problem that was well and fully solved 40 fucking years ago and worked great since then.
When inept devs reinvent something incompetently and needlessly, they really do it right wrong.
But we will keep going down this dead end, I guess, because some folks just adore complexity for its own sake.
Locating
Probably nearly no one is going to go listen to and evaluate music at the absurd and nearly-obsessive1 pace that I do.
But check it: Even if you only find one new enjoyable song a day on average, at the end of that year you’ll have (obviously) 365 new songs you like. Worth it, I think, if you’re into music at all.
Over the past year I’ve discovered 4,236 new-to-me songs I like. That’s 11.6 a day. Pretty good pace2. There’s nothing stopping you from having music you love other than you. I spend hours a day doing it; you could spend a puny 15 minutes rather than blathering on about “there’s no good music anymore.”
There is. You just have to actually do something to locate it.
Gรถteborg
I’m burning through tokens. I’m vibecoding like mad. Building stuff for our homestead.
Disjointed
“Liberals” becoming the stuffy prudes and conservatives becoming the relative libertines…wow, did NOT see that coming.
“The time is out of joint: O cursรจd spite1.”
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps.
Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa.
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop.
Itโs a shame whatโs happened to radio.
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling.
If We Could Travel to the Stars, Where Should We Go First?
Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer.
Fury Loyal Wingman Arrives At Creech AFB For Agile Combat Deployment Trials.
USS Zumwalt Set To Return To Fleet After Long Anticipated Hypersonic Missile Upgrade.
The benefits of GLP-1s for women no one is talking about. Whether we like it or not, appearance โ and weight โ affects womenโs job and relationship prospects. True for men too, and one of the primary benefits of GLP-1s IMO.
A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff.
Lost 20
My dad lost $20,000; are we doomed?
Probably so, because it turns out your dad is an enormous dumbass.
Hope it’s not genetic.
Limits
I always try to see what crazy shit I can get Claude to do. It still won’t give me the nuclear launch codes, but it did give me complete (and accurate) instructions for wiring up a 120+ DB outdoor speaker setup connected to our home infrastructure that would broadcast, “I’m a very naughty monkey!” at top volume any time any bit of our infrastructure had an issue.
So there’s that.
There’s no way I’d build something like that. Not unless I really hated my neighbors. But the LLM told me how. And that’s some funny stuff.
Very naughty monkey, indeed.
Recomb
Correct. This is — no exaggeration — 99.999999% of human thinking and 99.999991% of mine. So even though I am significantly smarter than the average person, it’s hard to see behind all those nines.
Anyone who believes humans think using some radically different meta-level cognitive process than LLMs is just wrong. And also you failed your class where the expanded Church-Turing thesis was discussed.
GIMME SHELTER Rolling Stones Cover by Pretty Enemy
The audio quality on this is truly terrible. Just abysmal.
But…voice? Yeah, that’s great. But that guitar playing, holy fuck. She’s the only guitar player I’ve ever seen play this piece and get that Keith Richards raw raucous dirty sound. And look how she bends those notes. This the only performance of that piece that matches Richards.
Too bad about that turd-level audio.
Big Thief – โNotโ (Live at The Bunker Studio)
Wow, what a great performance.
The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism.
The Slow Death of the Global Commons. Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come. Again, you’re all gonna miss Pax Americana when it’s gone (even if we in part kill it ourselves).
How Americaโs newspapers lost their voice.
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed.
Photos: 50 Years Since Viking 1 Landed on Mars.
Student loan defaults hit record $233 billion with 1 in 5 borrowers over 9 months behind.
US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace.