Six-Song Playlists
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Music of the magnetosphere. Stress-energy tensors in the global music plasma, revealed.
I make archival boxes and slipcases for comics, books, and LPs.
AI is degrading existing knowledge. (Read Liu Cixin, "Taking Care of God.”)
I make archival boxes and slipcases for comics, books, and LPs.
AI is degrading existing knowledge. (Read Liu Cixin, "Taking Care of God.”)
Pinned
I make archival boxes for comics & slipcases for books & LPs. Here’s one for the first 3 arcs of Monstress by M. Liu and @sanatakeda.bsky.social that I will be posting on eBay shortly — Takeda’s art made the custom shoulder really nice, but I do generic boxes, too. (See next post for detail views.)
oh ffs…
Today is truly the day the music died. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Lubbock Will Remove Buddy Holly-Themed Crosswalk After Federal Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
oh ffs…
amc = one of the all-time great editors imo. wrote for suck-dot-com (as LeTeXan) in the ’90s and her edits on both ideas (thinking through the conceit of a piece) and style were excellent.
And I’m only on Bluesky now bc I was breaking my brain against a piece that just would not come together. It sucks to be reminded that some writing gets out into the world that no one really tried to make better.
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
amc = one of the all-time great editors imo. wrote for suck-dot-com (as LeTeXan) in the ’90s and her edits on both ideas (thinking through the conceit of a piece) and style were excellent.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Top 5 movie genres:
- “You have powers!” “wha-a? OH!”
- “Have powers, would rather not”
- Quirky Crew heist
- “I totally lost my way… oh here it is”
- “Power. HUUH! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing”
That gets 80% of them and covers Michael Clayton, Sense8, and Slow Horses, so… yeah.
- “You have powers!” “wha-a? OH!”
- “Have powers, would rather not”
- Quirky Crew heist
- “I totally lost my way… oh here it is”
- “Power. HUUH! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing”
That gets 80% of them and covers Michael Clayton, Sense8, and Slow Horses, so… yeah.
Top 5 movie genres:
- It’s a musical but everyone’s sad.
- “Damn this infernal heat!”
- It’s a Christmas movie but everyone’s sad.
- Wise-cracking gangster but he’s doomed
- It’s a western but everyone’s sad.
- It’s a musical but everyone’s sad.
- “Damn this infernal heat!”
- It’s a Christmas movie but everyone’s sad.
- Wise-cracking gangster but he’s doomed
- It’s a western but everyone’s sad.
Top 5 movie genres:
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
- “You have powers!” “wha-a? OH!”
- “Have powers, would rather not”
- Quirky Crew heist
- “I totally lost my way… oh here it is”
- “Power. HUUH! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing”
That gets 80% of them and covers Michael Clayton, Sense8, and Slow Horses, so… yeah.
- “You have powers!” “wha-a? OH!”
- “Have powers, would rather not”
- Quirky Crew heist
- “I totally lost my way… oh here it is”
- “Power. HUUH! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing”
That gets 80% of them and covers Michael Clayton, Sense8, and Slow Horses, so… yeah.
If you can teach a student this, you’ve done a good job.
“Learning new things is everything.”™️
“Learning new things is everything.”™️
students are ends in themselves
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you can teach a student this, you’ve done a good job.
“Learning new things is everything.”™️
“Learning new things is everything.”™️
WHEN the AI bubble bursts, LLMs still exist, right? They’re evil and degrade existing knowledge with their obsequious, probabilistic word vomit, sure. But they’ve proliferated. Anyone can download one.
They’ll be a scourge, no? Like smallpox or white supremacy. Right? We’ll have to eradicate them?
They’ll be a scourge, no? Like smallpox or white supremacy. Right? We’ll have to eradicate them?
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
WHEN the AI bubble bursts, LLMs still exist, right? They’re evil and degrade existing knowledge with their obsequious, probabilistic word vomit, sure. But they’ve proliferated. Anyone can download one.
They’ll be a scourge, no? Like smallpox or white supremacy. Right? We’ll have to eradicate them?
They’ll be a scourge, no? Like smallpox or white supremacy. Right? We’ll have to eradicate them?
Why do we have five fingers instead of four or six?
Evolution suggests there’s an advantage.
Maybe it’s to get discounts?
Evolution suggests there’s an advantage.
Maybe it’s to get discounts?
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Why do we have five fingers instead of four or six?
Evolution suggests there’s an advantage.
Maybe it’s to get discounts?
Evolution suggests there’s an advantage.
Maybe it’s to get discounts?
Also you have “all but won” the Mega Millions jackpot.
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Also you have “all but won” the Mega Millions jackpot.
Hell, I object even to the characterization of The New York Observer as “read by the city’s elite.” How about “a weekly paper, once fairly respected, but then demeaned and ruined by passing into the hands of a 25-year-old Jared Kushner.” I enjoyed the mid-’90s iteration and even subscribed.
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hell, I object even to the characterization of The New York Observer as “read by the city’s elite.” How about “a weekly paper, once fairly respected, but then demeaned and ruined by passing into the hands of a 25-year-old Jared Kushner.” I enjoyed the mid-’90s iteration and even subscribed.
Absolutely. Even just Bandcamp listening parties (since I’m on a real choke-chain of a budget). Juana Molina’s listening party for her new album made me breathe funny.
I'm thankful that at my age I haven't lost that giddy excitement feeling of finding records and CD's that make me want to rush straight home and listen to it immediately.
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Absolutely. Even just Bandcamp listening parties (since I’m on a real choke-chain of a budget). Juana Molina’s listening party for her new album made me breathe funny.
I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like. Thanks for being a great role model @bookshop.org !!
I haven’t ruined a workplace, but I do take pride in ruining Jeff Bezos’ day every single chance I get.
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like. Thanks for being a great role model @bookshop.org !!
Still two of the greatest @theonion.com headlines ever, imo. It’s genuinely unsettling how often I think of these two.
I definitely think of the CD-R one more. My stack just turned 15.
I definitely think of the CD-R one more. My stack just turned 15.
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Still two of the greatest @theonion.com headlines ever, imo. It’s genuinely unsettling how often I think of these two.
I definitely think of the CD-R one more. My stack just turned 15.
I definitely think of the CD-R one more. My stack just turned 15.
I have been called “David” more times than I can count, but I tolerate it because it’s my father’s name. (None of my names are David. It is just some spooky, cosmic connection.)
I have unfollowed people on social media who have called me Andy. It’s not my name. I am not an Andy. You might as well call me Ronald. Call people by the name they want.
Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I have been called “David” more times than I can count, but I tolerate it because it’s my father’s name. (None of my names are David. It is just some spooky, cosmic connection.)
“Maybe I shouldn’t use index cards for story elements AND to-do lists…”
Coming soon: a chapter in my “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets High Fidelity” novel where the deuteragonist switches from USAA to The Hartford for car insurance.
Coming soon: a chapter in my “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets High Fidelity” novel where the deuteragonist switches from USAA to The Hartford for car insurance.
Ah, yes... the super fun game of "Where Did I Write Down All Those Story Notes?"
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Maybe I shouldn’t use index cards for story elements AND to-do lists…”
Coming soon: a chapter in my “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets High Fidelity” novel where the deuteragonist switches from USAA to The Hartford for car insurance.
Coming soon: a chapter in my “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets High Fidelity” novel where the deuteragonist switches from USAA to The Hartford for car insurance.
You’ve inherited a movie theater. What’s your first double feature?
Merentau (2009) followed by Midsommar (2019).
Unlike, and yet alike. Also works if the theater is a drive-in.
Merentau (2009) followed by Midsommar (2019).
Unlike, and yet alike. Also works if the theater is a drive-in.
October 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
You’ve inherited a movie theater. What’s your first double feature?
Merentau (2009) followed by Midsommar (2019).
Unlike, and yet alike. Also works if the theater is a drive-in.
Merentau (2009) followed by Midsommar (2019).
Unlike, and yet alike. Also works if the theater is a drive-in.
Aww. Someone needs a hug…
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Aww. Someone needs a hug…
Literally bulldozing the country’s heritage.
Metaphorically too, of course, but you don’t often get to use “literally” the ways it’s literally always being used these days.
Metaphorically too, of course, but you don’t often get to use “literally” the ways it’s literally always being used these days.
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Literally bulldozing the country’s heritage.
Metaphorically too, of course, but you don’t often get to use “literally” the ways it’s literally always being used these days.
Metaphorically too, of course, but you don’t often get to use “literally” the ways it’s literally always being used these days.
This is fabulous.
Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is fabulous.
As seen in The Peripheral:
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
As seen in The Peripheral:
What's the worst opening line you've ever gotten from a door-to-door cold knocker/solicitor?
Mine's easy: "Hi, my name is—oh wow, I have that same t-shirt!"
My response: "Really? What's your favorite release?" [waits 5 seconds, possibly more] "Didn't think so." [closes and locks door]
The shirt:
Mine's easy: "Hi, my name is—oh wow, I have that same t-shirt!"
My response: "Really? What's your favorite release?" [waits 5 seconds, possibly more] "Didn't think so." [closes and locks door]
The shirt:
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What's the worst opening line you've ever gotten from a door-to-door cold knocker/solicitor?
Mine's easy: "Hi, my name is—oh wow, I have that same t-shirt!"
My response: "Really? What's your favorite release?" [waits 5 seconds, possibly more] "Didn't think so." [closes and locks door]
The shirt:
Mine's easy: "Hi, my name is—oh wow, I have that same t-shirt!"
My response: "Really? What's your favorite release?" [waits 5 seconds, possibly more] "Didn't think so." [closes and locks door]
The shirt:
Yes… ha ha ha… YES.
As people look at the wreckage of my life over the past five years, I can just say, “It’s okay… I’ve been peaking.”
As people look at the wreckage of my life over the past five years, I can just say, “It’s okay… I’ve been peaking.”
When including cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional intelligence, financial literacy, moral reasoning, sunk cost bias, cognitive flexibility, cognitive empathy, & need for cognition, peak in overall functioning is at age 55 to 60, not earlier
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Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
Fluid intelligence, which peaks near age 20 and declines materially across adulthood, is often regarded as the most critical cognitive ability for pre…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Yes… ha ha ha… YES.
As people look at the wreckage of my life over the past five years, I can just say, “It’s okay… I’ve been peaking.”
As people look at the wreckage of my life over the past five years, I can just say, “It’s okay… I’ve been peaking.”
It’s truly uncanny, the extent to which this reflects my 17 years at a big tech company.
"Communication skills via email are unimpeachable and degrade only slightly when telephone contact is unavoidable. Candidate prefers solitary lunches in an entirely average corporate cafeteria but can be available for 'midday work sessions' on a semi-quarterly basis."
Moderately Motivated Gen-Xer for Hire
Forty-something professional seeks opportunity in an environment that is neither “fun,” “playful,” nor “collaborative;” minimal responsibility pref...
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s truly uncanny, the extent to which this reflects my 17 years at a big tech company.
It seems like now diseases have a stronger infrastructure to fight us than we have to fight them!
Disease HQ: they’re destroying their own fortifications, and filling in their moats with… dead measles patients.
H5N1 *swiveling around in a high-backed chair, with steepled fingers*: Ehhhxcellent….
Disease HQ: they’re destroying their own fortifications, and filling in their moats with… dead measles patients.
H5N1 *swiveling around in a high-backed chair, with steepled fingers*: Ehhhxcellent….
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It seems like now diseases have a stronger infrastructure to fight us than we have to fight them!
Disease HQ: they’re destroying their own fortifications, and filling in their moats with… dead measles patients.
H5N1 *swiveling around in a high-backed chair, with steepled fingers*: Ehhhxcellent….
Disease HQ: they’re destroying their own fortifications, and filling in their moats with… dead measles patients.
H5N1 *swiveling around in a high-backed chair, with steepled fingers*: Ehhhxcellent….
MUSICKE RULEZ
Just some good 16th century advice:
"Company, musicke, honest gaming, or any other virtuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heavinesse of mind."
William Bullein, 1558
wellcomecollection.org/works/bga5qy...
"Company, musicke, honest gaming, or any other virtuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heavinesse of mind."
William Bullein, 1558
wellcomecollection.org/works/bga5qy...
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
MUSICKE RULEZ
Still waiting for a world leader with enough of a sense of humor to do a Peter Sellers / Inspector Clouseau "Put Your Weight on Something and Have It Break" move with the ridiculous gold-spray-painted styrofoam in the Oval Office.
September 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Still waiting for a world leader with enough of a sense of humor to do a Peter Sellers / Inspector Clouseau "Put Your Weight on Something and Have It Break" move with the ridiculous gold-spray-painted styrofoam in the Oval Office.