When this song came out, I always thought it might be about Dick Cheney. Feels a bit anticlimactic actually. #tmbg

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Oh wow. I just waved “thank you” to a car that let me cross the street only to realize it was a driverless taxi!

We don’t have them thar robots in the sticks.

When the Beatles Anthology came out in 1995, I really got into the Beatles music, but I concluded that the documentary was boring because I wasn’t really interested in their lives.

Today I just finished a 1,000-page biography by @marklewisohn.bsky.social that ends in 1962 BEFORE they hit it big.

Just had to break it to a twenty something that it’s very clear her work was written by AI.

“Intuition is a wonderful thing of course, but it should be followed with caution. For instance many people who visit Las Vegas intuitively believe that they can beat the odds. Their intuition pays for a number of vast hotels which are owned by people who’ve actually done the maths.”

-Douglas Adams

Proposed feature for Zoom and MS Teams:

There’s a moment in every OK Go video where you finally stop trying to figure out how they did that, then you just sit back and enjoy the ride.

About 1:29 for me in their new one:

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“What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust, but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV.”

- Douglas Adams, 2000

@danielgalarcon.bsky.social Every time someone with a new point of view came along on The Good Whale, I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly. That’s some great reporting, writing, and even songwriting there. Thank you for exploring the story of Keiko in depth. I learned so much from this.

The smallest thing I learned in 2024 was that if you use your debit card at the gas station, you get the “cash” price that’s on the big sign out front, saving a few bucks.

More useful knowledge not worth passing onto my progeny because it will (hopefully) be obsolete by the time it is needed.

Every time I watch John Oliver on my phone, those little dots on his backdrop make me think I can swipe through 4 different videos… or even swipe through to a different reality.