Mark Tough

Millions will vote. Only hundreds will, as we did today, vote in the library beside Frank Zappa's head on a post.

battle of the 90s characters- person who thinks bisexuality is fake vs person with a phobia of african bees vs person who refuses to believe a woman with large breasts doesn’t have implants vs the Loch Ness monster obsessive vs the person who lives in smoking section of a restaurant vs maybe vampire

Two things can be true. Absent all other context, I think the rocket Roadster is kinda cool in a dumbass, Monster Truck, bread-and-circuses way. Allowing even microscopic shards of any context, however, Musk is a racist megalamoniacal dipshit whose every move warrants scorn.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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this is beautiful

Paging HoCo, MD. HoCo, MD, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone.

Things that suck about Facebook's Muse: probably pretty much everything else. Thing that's kinda cool about Facebook's Muse: my niece designed the avatar/logo.

Props to the young women of LR Central. But am I alone in cringing at the nominally valid but to me antiquated use of “coed” to mean female student? There is no analogy for men/boys and thus it strikes me as a sort-of adjunct descriptor.

Time is a circle, but no longer flat. The only thing to Sphere is Sphere itself.

I can't even begin to tell you how much I needed this 3rd Bass callback today. We can gas face the Oval Office too, just not the one from that same album.

On the flip side, I think people are missing how much of the datacenter build out is not AI. AWS has an obscene margin and is capacity-limited. About 10% of datacenter demand is the AI companies.

By demand, they mean supply. Odd, that.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

Ahhhhhhhh! I need to be in New York RIGHT NOW.

Arizona State?

Sunsteinian Pitch: Just bundle EVs with Truck Nutz, maybe?

I was wrong. It’s happening

The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.

One of my strongest inconsequential opinions. Inline wired earbud mics are fine. Clothing clipped tiny mics are fine. If you are holding a tiny mic with finger and thumb, however, you are committing a crime against humanity.

This is living.

I don't have a dog in this game, but if the damn ball moves ten yards forward thanks solely to the movement of the QB's arm . . . that's a PRETTY GOOD SIGN that said QB's hand was moving forward on impact. This one wasn't that complicated.

In the early 90s down on ye olde Redwood Street in downtown Baltimore, I worked with a fellow-20-something office manager who enjoyed being extremely transparent about her personal life. "We were REALLY ready to go Saturday night but my guy was out of Trojans. So we used Saran Wrap. Is that cool?"☠️

"It nipped my bud when I happened to fall Into a spot Where no ink or an ink-blot Was on a scroll I just wrote me a new mot But now it's gone..."

Joan Jett is also, of course, the world’s greatest living Orioles fan.

This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.

Notable voice transcription of a message from my eye doc’s office today. (the call origin is legit; I haven’t had the heart to actually listen yet)

My top 5 albums when I turned 18? This would have morphed radically by age 21, but whilst still in high school: - Sandinista, The Clash - Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull - Moving Pictures, RUSH - Speaking in Tongues, Talking Heads - Abbey Road, Beatles

The Rock Island locks are rubble. The loose meat in the Moline Maid Rite is no long steamed but flash-fried into charcoal bits. Palmer's campus backbone in Davenport is broken. Bettendorf, as yet, remains untouched. As yet.

LSU is far more diverse in its student body than Ole Miss. It's way closer to my personal ideal of the large state school. That being said, in the football dimension: Suck it all night long, Lane.

Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"

Whoever wrote this succeeded in composing a post that even I, online as I am, cannot make sense of. At all. And I do not want to.

Emily saw something about a Sankey something something and thought better of it.

Hell and also yes!

The wild thing about the current extinction discourse is that at age 21 in 1986 I read Eric Drexler's first major book on nanotech and it legitimately fucked me up deeply. I almost pursued doctoral work in tech policy with an eye towards mitigating nanotech problems. But then I just did other stuff.

THIS is the stuff. NOT the stuff that made it all to way to Aella. The real stuff. From one of the two or three best live bands I ever saw.