Seamus
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Long deep exasperated sigh-er.
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Pretty simple answer to this question, it’s because Sam Alito is steeped in right-wing grievance culture and views himself as entitled to deference and respect from everyone he encounters
ANALYSIS: Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy? | CNN Politics
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority view and setting the direction of the law in America.
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Pretty simple answer to this question, it’s because Sam Alito is steeped in right-wing grievance culture and views himself as entitled to deference and respect from everyone he encounters
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
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Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning.
Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.
Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning.
Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.
Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.
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“The world without fascism that Miyazaki’s POROC ROSSO envisions is both plausible and attainable; it simply has to start small, and start somewhere, like any worthwhile idea.” www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/12/12/p...
Porco Rosso and the Aesthetics of Fascism
Porco Rosso creates a visual language for the anti-fascist politics at its center, undermining key components of the fascist aesthetic.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“The world without fascism that Miyazaki’s POROC ROSSO envisions is both plausible and attainable; it simply has to start small, and start somewhere, like any worthwhile idea.” www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/12/12/p...
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People a couple generations behind me have no idea how bad suitcases used to suck. “Well, sure all the parts and shapes have invented already, how could they possibly become one thing”
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
People a couple generations behind me have no idea how bad suitcases used to suck. “Well, sure all the parts and shapes have invented already, how could they possibly become one thing”
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one of the truly depressing things about the culture war over masks is that we simply refuse to treat them as a tool to mitigate the spread of illness! it should be normal to wear a mask in public when you don’t feel well even if it’s not about saving anybody’s life!!!!! why would you mock that
or- and this will blow too many minds, for reasons that depress me deeply-
THEY CARE ABOUT OTHER PPL
hence find it totally worthwhile
TO DO THIS 1 EASY FKN TRICK THAT MIGHT SAVE A LIFE OR FEW (+if nothing else save ppl some real unpleasant days/missed pay)
THEY CARE ABOUT OTHER PPL
hence find it totally worthwhile
TO DO THIS 1 EASY FKN TRICK THAT MIGHT SAVE A LIFE OR FEW (+if nothing else save ppl some real unpleasant days/missed pay)
These people aren't masking for shits and giggles- they are the immunocompromised, elderly, and others who are, or believe themselves to be, particularly vulnerable to infections of airborne viruses such as sars-cov-2, influenza, etc.
December 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
one of the truly depressing things about the culture war over masks is that we simply refuse to treat them as a tool to mitigate the spread of illness! it should be normal to wear a mask in public when you don’t feel well even if it’s not about saving anybody’s life!!!!! why would you mock that
College-going daughter has learned the hard way that starting off a request to borrow my car with, "Just so you know I'm taking your car to Kentucky..." is a poor choice (and I have to drive her brother to Indianapolis tomorrow).
December 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
College-going daughter has learned the hard way that starting off a request to borrow my car with, "Just so you know I'm taking your car to Kentucky..." is a poor choice (and I have to drive her brother to Indianapolis tomorrow).
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if i had a chance to write a john madden screenplay, i'd make it a screenlife film of him selflessly programming the madden games all by himself as the ungrateful and ignorant public complains about their bugs and glitches
December 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
if i had a chance to write a john madden screenplay, i'd make it a screenlife film of him selflessly programming the madden games all by himself as the ungrateful and ignorant public complains about their bugs and glitches
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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 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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.
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
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Damn, I found a “Catholics aren’t Christians because they worship Mary” in the wild! I thought those only lived in message boards and Utah.
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Damn, I found a “Catholics aren’t Christians because they worship Mary” in the wild! I thought those only lived in message boards and Utah.
Had someone say, without a trace of humor, irony, or knowledge, "Catholicism is just like voodoo" and I just stared at them for a while.
Damn, I found a “Catholics aren’t Christians because they worship Mary” in the wild! I thought those only lived in message boards and Utah.
December 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Had someone say, without a trace of humor, irony, or knowledge, "Catholicism is just like voodoo" and I just stared at them for a while.
Horrible flashback to my thesis research and working on Allegro Common Lisp. A lisp that supported "object oriented programming". The horrors. A certain percentage of the time a function would return a function (good), other times it would return the string version of the function.
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Horrible flashback to my thesis research and working on Allegro Common Lisp. A lisp that supported "object oriented programming". The horrors. A certain percentage of the time a function would return a function (good), other times it would return the string version of the function.
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A lot of that stuff is 100% subjective; I don't know how you could shape a study around it. I have a friend who found programming awkward and hard to learn until he picked up clojure. I've used at least ten languages commercially but lisps are beyond me for anything serious. Humans aren't uniform.
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A lot of that stuff is 100% subjective; I don't know how you could shape a study around it. I have a friend who found programming awkward and hard to learn until he picked up clojure. I've used at least ten languages commercially but lisps are beyond me for anything serious. Humans aren't uniform.
Long history of that in software engineering: "language/framework X is easier to learn than Y". Where's your study? What specific items did you measure? Why? Sample size? How did you select population? Just a bunch of made up crap, hoping to become a "thought leader".
METR's study is decent
METR's study is decent
i know of *one* study that bothered actually *measuring* time to do things with AI coding, and that's the METR study and it states its caveats
but I see AI advocates (a) pooh pooh it utterly for 1000 reasons (b) *never* run a single study themselves to even that degree of rigour
must be a reason
but I see AI advocates (a) pooh pooh it utterly for 1000 reasons (b) *never* run a single study themselves to even that degree of rigour
must be a reason
December 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Long history of that in software engineering: "language/framework X is easier to learn than Y". Where's your study? What specific items did you measure? Why? Sample size? How did you select population? Just a bunch of made up crap, hoping to become a "thought leader".
METR's study is decent
METR's study is decent
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my favorite thing about McTiernan is that going to prison made him woke www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ju...
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
my favorite thing about McTiernan is that going to prison made him woke www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ju...
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🎁 ♥️ The Gift of Room Tone 🎁❤️ Every holiday season, we like to put together a montage of footage from the end of our on-camera interviews with filmmakers, critics, and scholars, highlighting the moments when we capture "room tone"-the ambient sound that our editors need to create a seamless video.
The Gift of Room Tone
YouTube video by CRITERION
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December 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🎁 ♥️ The Gift of Room Tone 🎁❤️ Every holiday season, we like to put together a montage of footage from the end of our on-camera interviews with filmmakers, critics, and scholars, highlighting the moments when we capture "room tone"-the ambient sound that our editors need to create a seamless video.
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For the first time ever, I’ve seen enough movies to make a proper top 10 list, and I’m happy to shoutout a few films that got downright ignored by most critics. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
I saw 70 films in theaters this year. Here are my best movies of 2025.
Including favorites from Sundance, Cannes and TIFF.
www.sfgate.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For the first time ever, I’ve seen enough movies to make a proper top 10 list, and I’m happy to shoutout a few films that got downright ignored by most critics. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
Had a co-worker that "fortunately" got one as a hand-me-down car (as one does), and was so pissed when he found out how much it cost to fix, and how frequently it needed to be fixed (constantly).
Owning this would be a curse upon your household of such dire impact that you simply cannot comprehend it. Flee mortals and do not tarry.
2004 BMW 745i at No Reserve
December 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Had a co-worker that "fortunately" got one as a hand-me-down car (as one does), and was so pissed when he found out how much it cost to fix, and how frequently it needed to be fixed (constantly).