such a good demonstration of how AI agglomerates knowledge through predicting text: this is every single bean recipe that you’ve ever seen in your life, all at once, complete with 1/8 spoon of cinnamon (just trust me)

I am obsessed with this guy in the Rancho Gordo FB Group who decided to spend hours working with AI to figure out "the best" bean recipe instead of.....looking at actual recipes

Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help

This is so freaking good. 👇

As a new retiree, I never had the cottage-in-the-country retirement dream.

I want a cafe, grocery store, pharmacy, bike lanes, bus line, and MDs in walking distance. I want a place where rallies & protests are normal.

I want a functional *community.*

can someone make this make sense

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

I wrote about The Broken Logic of "The Best Place to Retire"

www.patreon.com/posts/142988...

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

It takes a lot for my jaw to drop during political rhetoric but "turn the volume up" fucking did it

Them: Zohran is a socialist (extremely derogatory)

Zohran: Eugene Debs motherfuckers

I wrote about what I love about not having kids (before you @ me read the piece!)

www.patreon.com/posts/big-no...

“I want to...ask for something and hear the word “no,” and feel emotionally safe in that exchange, but it’s not how I grew up. I grew up to believe that you only ask for help when you really need it, and at that point, it’s not OK for someone to say no.”

substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wrote about what all of this aspirational resilience does to the body. The comments are a wreck but also a solace:

annehelen.substack.com/p/who-else-i...

okay let's try this: who's the person you follow here who, when they link something, you always click

Read this wonderful, highly personal collection of essays on rec of @annehelen.bsky.social. Boosting it here because worried people will think they're in for a lecture rather than funny, poignant, gorgeous reflections on family, shopping, working, money, and stuff.
www.vogue.com/article/emil...

honestly the reason I've kept away

Charlie seems to like it here on this site and we live in the same house so I figure I'll give it another try, here's his latest

I’m one of the many who’s caught this most recent strain of Covid - my case was mild, but wow have I had lingering sinus/tooth pain, which is apparently more common in Omicron cases

Smart take on why unions are what can actually protect us from AI taking jobs: https://open.substack.com/pub/garbageday/p/unions-are-our-only-defense-against?r=h567&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

WGA picket locations for folks in LA and NY who might be available to join in, cheer, bring some snacks, or just stop by https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/picket-schedules-and-locations

Sharing from the discord : https://discord.gg/vkwtZMyRqM

Coming in hot on this site with the news that you can indeed get covid for the first time 3 years 2 months into the pandemic and you can also test positive 2 days after running a marathon and 2 hours before boarding your flight to Paris