In addition to being my first day at the new job, today was the baby’s first day at daycare. An anxious day for her parents, but she reportedly had a blast and napped better than she does at home, so I guess she’s already moving out.

Big update from me: I’m starting today as an associate editor at Boom! Studios.

One thing they don’t tell you about being an older parent is that your creaking bones can wake up the baby.

Genuinely baffling to me that chatbots could be seen as an appealing research tool, let alone an addicting one. They make stuff up and get basic points of fact wrong constantly. That disqualifies any source in my mind, including any downstream sources that would reference this garbage.

Still unsure if I’ll see The Odyssey. I’ve been burned by Nolan too many times. Is Batman in this one or not?

Trying to raise an existentialist baby. Disappearing mid-Peekaboo to teach her object impermanence.

Sure feels like those in power have forgotten that the whole point of a justice system is to be a more appealing option than an unruly mob.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Cyclospora doesn’t scare me, as I’ve been avoiding vegetables for years, and incidentally already have diarrhea and fatigue.

A two year long arc of Batman realizing he stepped in dog doo.

Steve Baxi@stevebaxi.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you line up your DC Finests in order, Batman gets real depressed

Part of my daily practice has become playing baby songs on the accordion. Simple melodies and 2-3 chord harmonies are pretty well within my wheelhouse, so I’ve been setting myself the challenge of taking them through all twelve keys. Weirdly, the keyboard side is the bigger weakness right now.

We’ve settled into a morning routine where H pulls the baby into bed for her first feed, with the hopes that she’ll doze between us. A kind of milk snooze button. It’s a sweet tradition, though it’s losing its luster now that the baby is big and strong enough to forcefully kick me in the groin.

Trump Sees Hunter Biden   Smoking Crack On Wing Of Air Force One https://theonion.com/trump-sees-hunter-biden-smoking-crack-on-wing-of-air-force-one/

Fun story: when I was in charge of my university’s weekend-long trivia contest, players searching for the answer to the final question mistakenly called a guy that ultimately had nothing to do with anything. That guy was angry enough about the calls to reach out to me after the contest to complain…

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · last mo.

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them

We’re one news cycle away from being assured the reflecting pool is “American Flag Algae Green,” just like he asked for.

I could use some fast cash. Can the US declare war on me next?

I cannot emphasize enough that any belief that isn’t supported by actual, verifiable evidence is equal to all other beliefs that aren’t. There’s no excusing one as harmless because the “reasons” to believe it are indistinguishable from those that support the ones you agree are harmful.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago

“This is pure, uncut, black-tar slopulism injected straight into the vein. Investors owning less than one percent of housing is not the reason why any American families struggle to afford a home. Rental houses are not ‘off the market.’” www.liberalcurrents.com/everything-i...

The baby will get in these chatty spells where it seems like she’s really trying to communicate, like she’s some kind of Moira MacTaggert-style adult consciousness trapped inside a baby body. Then I’ll catch her trying to get her foot in her mouth and my suspicions are banished.

Companies treating creators like lotto tickets — prized if they’re a winner, but most go straight in the trash.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2mo ago

this is also a crisis in publishing as the midlist collapses and publishers chase fanfic or tiktok breakouts and then throw them to the wolves with little support. no one has the time or budget to grow authors while they learn their craft and become better writers, and that was BEFORE AI bullshit.

People are naming their top three Bond themes, and I can’t decide if I really want to dig in or just say “Thunderball” three times.

I cannot stress enough that if I ever wanted a talentless hack to prompt an ai, I would just do it myself.

A crooked pet groomer that gives under-the-table haircuts to local criminals

Brother, if my Bluesky feed of hundreds is a bubble, you are going to lose it when you learn what a book is.

Principal Skinner: Am I Out of Touch? No, Children Are Wrong

Alt: Principal Skinner: Am I Out of Touch? No, Children Are Wrong

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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

Google's CEO saying that the reason there's intense backlash to AI is because humans aren't "evolved" enough to understand it youtu.be/RgV57kDzcng?...

The ironic thing is that the only job I am confident a chatbot could do well is write a commencement speech everyone hates.

Donating a fraction of his wealth to fund public and school libraries across the country seems like such an obvious slam dunk for the online bookstore guy. Just pretend like literacy was his mission all along, and he could buy some goodwill. Instead, he’s out here with the world’s smallest violin.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3mo ago

Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos accuses U.S. politicians of villainizing the ultra-wealthy and using tax policy as a political wedge issue to distract from bigger challenges facing the country.

Just heard a snippet of Smash Mouth’s “Walkin’ on the Sun” and my millennial lizard brain went “hell yeah.”

The baby has taken to expressing mild displeasure by sputtering spittle in all directions. I think I like it more than shrieking, but it’s a close race.

The baby has entered a phase of being fascinated by her own hands, so will spend minutes at a time staring intensely at them, which looks a hell of a lot like she’s trying to force choke us.

Are they allowed to dust off that “mission accomplished” banner if they never settled on what the mission was?

Axios@axios.com · 3mo ago

NEW: Trump has notified Congress that the hostilities initiated against Iran on Feb. 28 have been "terminated," though he did not rule out future military action.