ze germans have a knack for it: “gesamtscheiße” 😙👌🏻

sensible, succinct 👍🏻 Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI: Examining the most common misconceptions queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

most rejections of the “stochastic parrot” metaphor are quite unfair to parrots

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings.” – Ursula K. Le Guin what once gave me hope is now a splinter in my sole/soul we’ve lived under the invisible thumb of capitalism longer than the divine right of kings

Silo is such a dense sci-fi thriller that Season 3’s “Previously on Silo” is 5 episodes long!

sorry, i have to self-report a potential crime against humanity: i might think "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe" is a solid premise for an episodic sci-fi sitcom, pretty well executed, and kind of an ideal low budget original for a large streamer 😬

Spider-Man: Brand New Day… job well done. 😙👌🏻 May the already impressive legacy of Short Term 12 continue to grow… 💕

they should consider doing a movie about an extra terrestrial deadline.com/2026/07/atar...

Atari Signs Deal With Universal To Turn 10 Iconic Games Into Movies

Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures giving the studio first look at developing 10 classic Atari video game properties for the big screen.

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it’s always slutty little glasses and never a slutty little wig

If you’ve ever thought, “Gee, I wish Anne Twomey would do a video about The Engineers case”… good news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83b...

Changing the Constitution by interpretation - The Engineers case

YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion

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The Great Gatsby is the “great American novel” because they’re not a particularly bookish people.

If you’re ever slowly passing by a friend in opposite directions, you have to do the “I loved you in Wall Street!” gag from Hot Shots. I do not make the rules.

Justice Breyer talking about Camus and civic education: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...

Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died

YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848

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you can have single-member electorates without gerrymandering (plenty of examples worldwide) proportional representation is a great aspiration, but what if it's just a differently shaped target for underlying corruption?

Lee Drutman@leedrutman.bsky.social · 2w ago

More than 500 scholars agree: "We write to urge Congress to do what most democracies have already done: adopt proportional representation." proud to be among them. medium.com/@scholars-re...

I’m surprised as anyone that Australia is mapping out some pretty sensible “AI” policy… DEWR’s “AI and employment in Australia” report, establishing quarterly monitoring: www.dewr.gov.au/workplace-re... The PM’s “AI in Australia’s interests” policy speech: www.pm.gov.au/media/ai-aus...

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It’s bonkers that Halt and Catch Fire was ever made, let alone that it is so damn good.

finally read this piece I've had in a to-read tab for a while and when I tell y'all these two paragraphs gave me *whiplash* like, historical milkshake duck hammerandhope.org/article/robi...

Ban “Can you talk about…?” in an interview context. Ask a real fucking question.

yeah, i really do want to hear Obama talking about Reconstruction… but not with Malcolm Gladwell 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Odyssey was 90% great, with a neat trick up its sleeve, but some of the dialogue associated with that trick should not have survived contact with the many discerning people involved…

Timely, but I wonder how potent this will be…

Of all the New Zealanders we claim as our own, I feel like Sam Neill might've given Australia something close to permission… what a mensch. 😢

Constitutional Clarion (Australian national treasure* Anne Twomey) with entertaining niche context on Farage and Count Binface * yes, we have a constitutional lawyer national treasure www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN38...

Count Binface, the Chiltern Hundreds and UK electoral eccentricities

YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion

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trump continues to be the turd in every bain marie

“In July of 1776, our city simmered under the yoke of oppression. The British had imposed a colonial rule so repressive…” even Mamdani shovels this bullshit 😆

Banger from @grogsgamut.bsky.social putting capital gains sooks in context www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Capital gains tax changes are already having an impact on wealth inequality – and vested interests are running scared | Greg Jericho

Weekend house auction results and the official taxation data reveal the arguments from outraged conservatives are hollow

theguardian.com

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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music review – it’s amazing that this staggering show exists

Charlotte Ritchie presents a wildly ambitious and unapologetically brainy YouTube documentary that takes in Big Bang soundwaves, singing dolphins and an astonishing amount in between. Don’t miss it fo...

theguardian.com

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