Ed
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Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
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Another year: 2025
For the last ten years on Christmas Day I've written a retrospective on the past year. This year's is a public post.
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Every year on Christmas I write a thing. This year I'm sharing it.
Eye lasering, GLP-1's, *not* woodworking, laser cutters, life at The Phone Company, dog pictures, and so on
Eye lasering, GLP-1's, *not* woodworking, laser cutters, life at The Phone Company, dog pictures, and so on
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Fucking wicked airstrikes dude. You Americans have killed a lot of sand. The sand was very evil
December 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fucking wicked airstrikes dude. You Americans have killed a lot of sand. The sand was very evil
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The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.
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I am also, by the way, calling for a TV movie/series/docudrama/footsteps-of Pompey because he is the key figure in the decades after Sulla and he is just very interesting.
He didn’t leave battle memoirs like Caesar did, and his end is more sad than Shakespearean. But this is my tragic guy.
He didn’t leave battle memoirs like Caesar did, and his end is more sad than Shakespearean. But this is my tragic guy.
I watched the first episode of this BBC series this morning, and these shows are often very amusing.
It’s adequate, leans anti-Caesarean, good cast of proper historians talking heads. Tom Holland is the one with the most time, but why is pol Rory Stewart doing the Cato bits?
It’s adequate, leans anti-Caesarean, good cast of proper historians talking heads. Tom Holland is the one with the most time, but why is pol Rory Stewart doing the Cato bits?
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator (TV Mini Series 2023) ⭐ 6.9 | Documentary, History
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator: With Janet McTeer, Ian Hanmore, Alex Brockdorff, Rosie Jones. He came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny. How Ju...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I am also, by the way, calling for a TV movie/series/docudrama/footsteps-of Pompey because he is the key figure in the decades after Sulla and he is just very interesting.
He didn’t leave battle memoirs like Caesar did, and his end is more sad than Shakespearean. But this is my tragic guy.
He didn’t leave battle memoirs like Caesar did, and his end is more sad than Shakespearean. But this is my tragic guy.
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
LLMs are like fuckin', you heard it here first
he's not wrong, and completely unrelatedly I'm getting another drink, ffs
he's not wrong, and completely unrelatedly I'm getting another drink, ffs
It feels a bit like the sex ed problem. The students are gonna do the thing. Some people might wish they wouldn’t. Reasonable people (excluding the loud minority of extremists) can argue the disagree impact on health. But they _will_ do it, so how do we educate so that they don’t get hurt?
December 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
LLMs are like fuckin', you heard it here first
he's not wrong, and completely unrelatedly I'm getting another drink, ffs
he's not wrong, and completely unrelatedly I'm getting another drink, ffs
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Blogging is biphobia but we're not ready for that conversation.
December 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Blogging is biphobia but we're not ready for that conversation.
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This is not a value statement: in league of legends you have to play the game you *are* in, not the game you want to be in.
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is not a value statement: in league of legends you have to play the game you *are* in, not the game you want to be in.
tlammit
That’s about one-third of the total number of TLAMs the Navy was able to procure in 2024, by the way.
Reuters reporting it was over a dozen Tomahawks
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
tlammit
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Starting an Appalachian folk music venue sounds rad as heck. I don't think this guy is being held back by a conspiracy of snooty urban (((elites))) who hate rural folk. I think he's being held back by being imaginary.
December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Starting an Appalachian folk music venue sounds rad as heck. I don't think this guy is being held back by a conspiracy of snooty urban (((elites))) who hate rural folk. I think he's being held back by being imaginary.
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Me normally: America is flawed and honestly needs a lot of work
Me when I read a dipshit like this:
Me when I read a dipshit like this:
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me normally: America is flawed and honestly needs a lot of work
Me when I read a dipshit like this:
Me when I read a dipshit like this:
I just read a blog post by a historian I genuinely respect about perceived inabilities of LLMs. More and more I want to take a couple months off, sit with them, and drill point by point through all of this "well an LLM can't understand context" and other user-error stuff.
December 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I just read a blog post by a historian I genuinely respect about perceived inabilities of LLMs. More and more I want to take a couple months off, sit with them, and drill point by point through all of this "well an LLM can't understand context" and other user-error stuff.
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The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
this is a good response to In Covid's Wake
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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alright everyone, we're almost at the end, we made it through, and we've got one more NORMAL EPISODE to record for NORMAL MEN this year, and we want to hear from you. drop us your questions, queries for advice, or NYE anecdotes here, we record on sunday
New Year’s Mailbag
Need advice on the New Year from the Normal Men? Submit your advice request in the form by Friday, Dec. 26th and we’ll read the best responses on the New Year’s Eve show!
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December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
alright everyone, we're almost at the end, we made it through, and we've got one more NORMAL EPISODE to record for NORMAL MEN this year, and we want to hear from you. drop us your questions, queries for advice, or NYE anecdotes here, we record on sunday
you can say "wow, way to reinforce the class dynamic" at essentially any bluesky post and be both correct and inflammatory.
not this one though, I called dibs.
not this one though, I called dibs.
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
you can say "wow, way to reinforce the class dynamic" at essentially any bluesky post and be both correct and inflammatory.
not this one though, I called dibs.
not this one though, I called dibs.
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i see your cat in a beret and raise you, one cat in a beret
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
i see your cat in a beret and raise you, one cat in a beret
goddamn
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
goddamn