Joe Neal

Somehow Cheesecake Factory escaped the millennials' murderous rampage.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The house that Dripped Blood For Tax Purposes

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Damn. What an icon. RIP

Scenes from outside tech billionaire Peter Thiel's second Anti-Christ lecture in Nashville. I bet you recognize a face or two! 1/

I did the thing.

Hawktober surprise

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Paging Xzibit. "Yo dog ..."

That was hard.

Buckaroo Banzai will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

Not having seen Nathan Fielder's full body of work, I've found him somewhat confusing. Upon reading that the dishonesty expert they brought in to talk about Elizabeth Holmes in the new documentary was discredited for fudging his own research, everything clicked. He's Andy Kaufman.

What’s the problem w using LLMs to write stuff you want other people to read -emails, articles, posts- and why are people (like me!) so incredibly hostile that they will block you/mute you/block your domain, to never read anything from you again? Bryan spells it out. Read it:

So all the clankers are clunkers?

I denounce all twitch streamers, all other kinds of streamers, and all video platforms. Web video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Farscape had puppets in every episode and nobody complained.

1. Brother Where art Thou 2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles 3. Freeway

Andy Ogles committed the cardinal sin in Southern Republican politics. He was tacky. He didn't fake being high minded about the hateful shit he believed. He didn't wrap it in religion or pretend moral principles. He was all id, base and tacky.

Very important piece by @davidoatkins.bsky.social at Washington Monthly: the DNC is actually doing just fine and raising record money, and the hit pieces are a product of a tier of useless DC consultants who don't want their media buy gravy train to end. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/31/t...

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

The turtle crossed the road.

Officials from the Nashville Zoo say a planned data center just beyond its perimeter could introduce constant noise, light and industrial activity that may disrupt the environmental conditions critical for the more than 3,000 animals that call the zoo home. https://cnn.it/4visczU

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Guys has anyone actually read this article?

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This dog takes advantage of someone washing their car to use the brush 😎💙😎

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

Sign outside the studio where we’re wrapped up our shoot of the four new MST3K episodes today. Yes, this is the level of professionalism you can look forward to. We’ve had a wonderful time making these. It’ll take a few months of post production but they’ll be out there before you know it. Wheee!

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

///BREAKING/// The Broadview Six trial has been VACATED due to the grand jury developments

WATCH: Hayley Williams performs in front of an image of Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Salt Lake City

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

So the statue-pfp crowd on The Bad Place are Having a Moment about the depiction of Achilles (image as a representative example). But the first guy to subvert Achilles was...Homer. Achilles isn't intended as some uncomplicated role model; that Alexander treated him as one is kinda a red flag.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Guy drops a home run ball then takes it from a young girl

Screw Trump's "ballroom." The WHCA should have their next gala at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Have premixed gin rickeys in a couple igloo coolers. Boar's Head catering.

Dude was a gamer. #banvideogames

We are gonna have to circle back to this.

Buying dead Kitchen Aid and Hobart mixers for parts and reselling them.

Blow it up like the whale.