God I love music so much.
I need to get back on the piano again. I used to be good.
Author: Chill
Phoebe Bridgers – I Know the End
How did I not know this amazing song has an equally wonderful video? Phoebe is a truly great poet. But the video. Wow. The symbolism! The weirdness! It’s a mini-masterpiece. It couldn’t be more different than AI slop pap.
(Incidentally, the skeleton suit Phoebe is wearing has a male pelvis.)
AI Music
This is an AI song. It’s easy to recognize.
It’s completely predictable. Nothing unexpected ever happens. It’s so static that it might as well be a hunk of diorite buried under 100 meters of sediment. That said, it’s not a bad song. It’s just completely mediocre in every way possible.
Compare and contrast it with the song in the video below. That has life. It’s dynamic. It’s intentional in a way that AI music can never be.
Hatchie – Only One Laughing
Brand new, but has a definite 90s dream pop vibe; I like it a lot.
Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans.
Quantum properties on a human scale.
Thales Anti-Drone Rockets Now Being Used In Ukraine.
What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.
A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is.
Walmart CEO issues ominous warning to US workers that AI will ‘change literally every job.’
Less Than 5% of People With Mortgages Are Under 30 in Nation’s Biggest Metros.
Who Gets Healthcare Subsidies Under the Affordable Care Act.
Have the Itch
It’s pronounced (not gonna use IPA here) itch-(tiny glottal stop)-tuk-nee.
I’ve heard tourists say:
Itchy-took-nee
Icky-took-a-nee
Icky-tuck-a-nee
Itchy-a-tuck-a-nee
Icky-toke-annie
Ict-toke-nay
Itchy-toch-nay
Icky-tock-nay
And many more I’m sure. When I lived near the confluence of the Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers, every weekend we’d get 1-3 tourists asking where the river was. They never pronounced it right. Not a single time.
Also, nearly none of the YouTube videos or pronunciation guides on the internet render an accurate Ichetucknee pronunciation (as North Florida natives do). All of them totally butcher it. Whoa, I found one woman who gets it about 95% right! She says it as close to a native as anyone I’ve ever heard.
The rest are so bad. But if you ever get a chance, do see the Ichetucknee. It’s one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Masc Pol
I’ve been made fun of by women way, way more often for liking supposedly non-manly things (like women pop stars, clothes, sweet alcoholic drinks, cooking) than by men. Like, it’s not even close.
That includes when I was in the 82nd Airborne Division, which is supposedly a bastion of manliness.
Women police masculinity a lot more assiduously than men do. In my experience at least. Many women treat that like a full-time job. Which they aren’t very good at.
Trust Loss
Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet.
Too late. Trust lost. After someone stabs me in the back, I don’t show them my back again.
I’ll never buy another Synology.
WPITW
Other than Hitler, the worst person in the world is probably a vegan recumbent-bicycle-riding anti-Zionist anti-vaxxer with tattoos.
I’d be worth nuking an entire city to get rid of this person.
100 Known
Reading this kind of thing is interesting because it shows how different people are.
Nearly all of this advice sounds terrible and are things I’d absolutely hate. I’d rather kill myself than do some of this crap.
But they seem to work for her, so who am I to judge? It is indeed remarkable just how divergent the same basic neurarchitecture can be.
Phonics
What is this port? Thought it was Ethernet but I think I’m wrong.
Oh my fucking god. That’s a phone line. Specifically, that’s an RJ11C wall socket designed to accept an RJ11 connector for (usually) analog phone service.
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account. Evil.
Black holes might hold the key to a 60-year cosmic mystery.
Our Brains Evolved to Socialize—but Max Out at About 150 Friends.
Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it.’
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time.
Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong.
Foreclosures are surging as U.S. homeowners grapple with rising costs.
Jerkel
Angela Merkel blaming the Baltic states and Poland for Putin’s war is beyond absurd – it’s indecent.
Those who warned her for years about the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions are now scapegoated by the same person who kept filling Russia’s coffers – after Georgia and Crimea – and… pic.twitter.com/rqGDYObTXe
— Rihards Kols (@RihardsKols) October 6, 2025
Wow that is clownishly insane. But I guess she kind of has to believe that now since she spent more than a decade funding Russia with Germany money?
Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived.
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics.
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports.
NASA equipment makes a surprise landing on West Texas farm.
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Of Tariffs Has Been Great — If You Like Higher Prices.
Trump is destroying America. Are his voters starting to realize that?
Million-dollar homes are the fastest-moving part of the housing market as wealth gap grows.
UCLA forecasts ‘stagflation-lite’ economy with higher inflation and unemployment. Followed by depression.
Cuts
Remember: if China really chooses to go to war against us, you won't learn about it through blaring headlines and social media posts. Unless you're at the highest levels of government, you'll learn about it through the unexplained digital silence you suddenly experience. https://t.co/98xE1Hxeae
— Tom Shugart (@tshugart3) October 3, 2025
Yes. China’ll be taking out satellites, cutting undersea cables, hacking infrastructure and bombing data centers.
How do I know? Because that’s what I’d do, and I’m awesome at this shit.