Better video of the moment when my band serenaded the newlyweds. This was so joyous and I will cherish it even though I don't know them at all.

From government policy emphasizing only STEM or trades, to AI, to assholes with MBAs trying to turn every university into fucking McDonald's, it's amazing things aren't even worse. But we're on the edge of a generational downturn in education, and the long-term repercussions might be existential.

Excellent choice of header image

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.

They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.

The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...

Not to get all tinfoil hat, but is this a way to further push AI on people? Especially people who can't remember that Google used to be better?

Sometimes AI search is wrong but sometimes it can dig up a simple piece of information that *should* have been a search hit because of its relevance, but isn't found anywhere on the first few pages.

That’s right.