Brian Baresch

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

There's something very big missing in the media coverage of the Trump-Putin story. I reveal what that is in the new issue of my OUR LAND newsletter: link.motherjones.com/public/48076... Get a free trial subscription at davidcorn.com. And check out HowRussiaWon.com

Cool site

audiophiles are like i came as soon as i heard

Everything doesn't smell like cigarette smoke now.

Yes, we can have nice things. Thanks to gravitational lensing. nautil.us/nasa-shares-...

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Who Let the Dogs in My Pants Out

Friction is so important to creative work that people *add* friction to allow themselves to do it. Just one example: meter, in poetry. You create a framework that restricts you, that limits you, in order to give your thoughts a scaffold within which to build.

The Vivek ad is what happens when an amoral outsider must prove to a political movement centered on protecting abusers that he’s on their team:

The POTUS and VP hyping the Acton ad is like Springfield “eating the pets”. You think the guys at the highest levels won’t go so low — surely they’ll leave the gutter swimming to their minions — but no they will absolutely go to the depths. You have to conclude, they like it.

This was oddly cathartic. AI economics for dummies, by @andrewsingleton.bsky.social at @mcsweeneys.net: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

@jennylsq.bsky.social SLOW HORSES. So excellent.

The dark side of nominative determinism.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

guarantee even the “liberal DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC” YouTube industrial complex is looking at this video and cringing

Photo from my collection, writing on the back says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

ok first off, I already disavowed myself. when you tell me to disavow that person you don't like, it's a disavowed person's disavowing which turns right back into avowing so now what buddy

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I still mask. It's not hard and I still have more social life than I can schedule in. I haven't had a cold, flu, Covid, or anything for going on seven years. I don't even remember what it's like to start to feel sick.

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like

Movie —> porn parody The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her 10 Lovers

--Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

To me an underexamined bit about this is how the vibe-coder took aim at a multi-billion dollar company with infamous subscription practices using a tool (Claude Code) provided by a multi-billion dollar company with infamous subscription practices, so it's just trading one capitalist yoke for another

My favorite birds look like parodies of birds.

not to take away from the thoroughly abominable job Zacharia did for all of thirty seconds, but this administration absolutely loves to prop up women so they can tear them down in short order as patriarchal proof of concept. it's really only surprising her tenure didn't last longer.

It's called dinosaur evolution, maybe you've bird of it.

These are good questions. So I'm going to spend a little time giving my answers to them. Will build it as a full thread that posts all at once, rather than post by post.

"he warned that A.I. could kill us all soon" --> "he claimed that A.I. could kill us all soon" #AmEditing

If you're a fraternity alum (from any school/state) who experienced sexual violence as a member, I'm here to listen. I understand this is extremely sensitive and I will treat your story with the utmost discretion and care. Reach out— Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

today is the only day you can post this

This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds

Graydon Carter’s memoir says he wrote an unflattering piece about how vulgar Trump is for GQ. Thin-skinned Donald got employees to buy all the copies. Si Newhouse, noting the brisk sales, recommend that Random House publish “The Art of the Deal,” which led to “The Apprentice.” Hence this presidency.

put protections in place for --> protect #AmEditing

The Clanker God.

Not now, drug-resistant sexually transmitted diarrhea superbug.

Up in the Air Bud