This stuff is all just warmed over Descartes without God as an escape hatch.

Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · yesterday

continental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)

this is legitimately a huge problem that i don’t know how they will resolve, either from an executive or legislative standpoint, and it’s going to be the case across a lot more than just defense

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h ago

I fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.

#ParishLife

If investors believe this, they deserve to have their money taken. I will shed no tears for someone who loses everything when the grift is this obvious.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

EA was my first job in the industry, like it was for a lot of developers in my generation. One of the few places that would take swings on hiring brand new folks. It was deeply flawed, even then, but I was on a great team full of dear friends, and it helped launch my career. This is sad.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 23h ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Oscar Hammerstein had a terrific 1943, with Oklahoma! opening in March and Carmen Jones opening in December. Finding himself the toast of Broadway again after a long string of failures, he took out a self-deprecating ad in the January 5, 1944 issue of Variety listing his flops. An absolute legend.

Golden Gate Claude was actually the peak of human civilization and it has all been downhill since then simonwillison.net/2024/May/24/...

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

grumpy today because my laptop is in the shop and my Kindle for some reason decided to erase all my non-Amazon books so my plan to spend the laptop-less time catching up on reading has been FOILED oh well more video games then, I guess

enough of a typesetting nerd that I am positively STEAMED that the official Vatican PDF for _Magnifica Humanitas_ is just a web browser's "Save to PDF" output. the resources and talent at the Vatican's command and they can't find someone who to LaTeX/Typst/InDesign or, heck, even Word?!

Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

I'm finally trying out Baldur's Gate 3! And I just realized today is its three-year anniversary! Loving the narrative design and exploration (aka the things I like about D&D) and loathing the combat (aka the thing I don't love about D&D) so I guess it captures the system well?

Can never point to just one stat and say it explains everything but this is one of those stats that does seem to say an *awful* lot

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Please, enjoy one minute of mind-soothing snowy Shenmue.

there’s, like, a lot of yall who think I’m talking about one specific guy here and it’s like no. this is a general problem. the guy you’re thinking of, that is just one guy among many guys

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d ago

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

Today is Quartidi the 14th of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate basil. #JacobinDay See today's page

rise of Jollibee + ube popularity + BINI's international tour making me wonder if Filipino culture's about to have its Moment like Korea has had for a bit now y'all gonna love gettin' buckets of lumpia

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 5d ago

Customers line up for the Jollibee opening in downtown San Francisco on Friday morning, after six years of delays. 🎥: Irene Adeline Milanez/S.F. Chronicle

"SF downtown is dying" not with a jollibee it's not

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 5d ago

Customers line up for the Jollibee opening in downtown San Francisco on Friday morning, after six years of delays. 🎥: Irene Adeline Milanez/S.F. Chronicle

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Consider, too, how many people will learn about a period from consuming its media and how, with almost no exceptions, TV shows just pretended covid never happened.

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · last wk.

Out of all the cataclysms we suffer, pandemics alone deny us our most important coping mechanism: each other. To gather, to seek comfort in each other's company, becomes deadly--a vector of the disaster, rather than shelter from it. And yes, that very obviously fucks with you.

I agree with the sentiment but are we thinking that expanding humanities academia would lead to *fewer* violent arguments about how to read Homer?

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · last wk.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

me: Graceland is a perfect album also me: egads, this nails it

Will Harris@sandwichpick.bsky.social · 3w ago

The perfect parody doesn't exis-

Times like this I ask myself, "what would Jesus do?" and by the gospel, he would take a nap

Writing, etc.

Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · last wk.

Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.

A. Because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics (among other things), people need food in order to live. B. Making it easier for people to have things they need in order to live is good policy. ∴ Making it easier for people to have food is good policy (A+B)

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.

everyone who was convinced that I, especially, would love The Expanse

Bridget O’Brien@bridgetemob.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the root of like 10-20 conversations each year in which a secular friend tells me I MUST watch (a tv show or movie), I in particular will LOVE it, and I have to explain to them that generally speaking, I just cannot watch media that tries to do anything with religion.

This is the root of like 10-20 conversations each year in which a secular friend tells me I MUST watch (a tv show or movie), I in particular will LOVE it, and I have to explain to them that generally speaking, I just cannot watch media that tries to do anything with religion.

Ethan Kocak@ethankocak.com · last wk.

I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.