Admittedly fueled entirely by childhood nostalgia, my brain is exceedingly delighted to see this news. All hail the memory of Edsel Ford Fung!
"'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." - Elwood P. Dowd Baker of Bread. Brewer of Beer. Altogether awkward but not entirely unpleasant person.
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Admittedly fueled entirely by childhood nostalgia, my brain is exceedingly delighted to see this news. All hail the memory of Edsel Ford Fung!
you misunderestimated the boy! I'm actually surprised that it took this long, considering how deeply bent over backward he already was in his hangdog gríma-like servility toward his boss.
This is so cool.
I'm sure his burgers are good, and I am sure he has skillz. But noting his past tenure at BK really doesn't support the rest of the narrative.
"'All I know is burgers,' he said, having flipped them at Burger King" Uncertain who to blame for this off-putting comment but it makes me hate the rest of the article: Burger King patties don't get "flipped" - they are broiled on a moving rack over flame. There is no griddle. There is no spatula.
"seriously questioning face emoji"
What an incredibly disheartening story.
added to the UC overall demand for $1B in payment to the feds to "release" those funds, along with the whole "prove our specious allegations of antisemitism are false" issue. We already had about $480M in grants cancelled. story is here
Oh, you have no idea!
We got the letters last week.
And UCSF! (and U. Illinois while we are at it!)
This is fantastic news, and gives me hope that it may impact the direction of the actions against UC as well.
hey is the president still dead? or is he alive again today? asking for a friend.
If this is at all correct, this is seriously messed up. And from the reporting it is hard to see this not having some real accuracy. Also, here is a link to the original report by Stateline: stateline.org/2025/08/31/f...
now...if we could somehow bring back the serendipity of discovery that occurred when searching though a library card catalogue. god I feel old
Let’s fight back, California. Yes on 50!
big-ass sad face emoji
We need to stop with the completely infuriating and unrealistic sound bite of "working families." There are adults who work. They often have families which they support - with their work. Not always. There are indeed adults who do not work. Some are unemployed. Others are in Congress. Or the WH.
Fresh whole wheat sourdough still warm from the oven, with a hunk of Locarno cheese from Nicasio Valley spread over it; washed down with a strong cup of Yemen Al Qafr Hawari coffee. It is making the mid day bearable. Not great, but bearable.
and the constant tail wagging!
Picard management tip: Once in a long while, pilot the shuttlecraft yourself.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
The "point-counterpoint" model of media inquiry has pretty much short-circuited the possibility of ever getting a pool reporter or the like to ask a frame question like "why on earth would you even say such a thing when we all know it is false?" Those days are gone.
for no reason at all I have the kindergarten joke stuck in my head: KID: I can count to ten! 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-10! ADULT: What happened to nine? KID: 7-8-9! Lolol please somebody help me
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
Why had I never seen the Lion of St Mark from the Echternach Gospels before? What a fabulous sproingy beast.
if we are going to be forced to endure nepotism and the continued elevation of 20th c. dynasties instead of leaving them in the dustbin, we could do far worse than Chelsea Clinton, regardless of who she chose as parents.
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
Inspired: If *everyone* is in prison, then there can be no crime...
"What if i never find out who's a good boy"
Having built them I know well *why* it is hard. But when, like this past week, I encounter incredibly inadequate ones in the wild, I am frustrated that most developers don't even bother to take the time to make them "merely adequate" from a user or userOps perspective.
Pondering the difficulty and the incredible importance of effective, accurate, and comprehensible error messaging models in complex networked systems. What went wrong? Where and why? How is it remedied? Which systems are involved?
really, really struggling with “benevolent American panopticon” as three consecutive words in a sentence unburdened by irony
I agree! but the lack of sourcing or confirmation makes it seem more like a zeitgeist statement than reporting. vibe shitting on Schumer is easy right now; not sure how it really helps this piece in this particular case.
I agree with the sentiment, but “reportedly working behind the scenes” with no source need and no corroboration is about as unconfirmed as an unconfirmed rumor mill rumor can get.
Begging the news media not to both sides this, not to ask democratic governors (or mayors) why THEY haven’t called trump (looking at you Martha Raddatz of ABC) & instead start to asking why crime fighting programs that were working were cut by trump.
The same group of people and organizations who previously organized #NoKings has scheduled another #NoKings peaceful protest for October 18, 2025!! We are expecting protests in every state and territory!! Mark your calendars now and get ready to protest by the millions!! October 18, 2025!
This was the *point* of these things being taken up by corporations. If you're just hiring people to "fix" something, you can pay them less than if you're asking them to create it -- even though it requires them to do more work. In particular this was the reason for the WGA strikes around this.
lice and bedbugs are 2 more perennial nuisances along with nazis and fascist politicians and western dictators that we really were making headway against between 1947 - 2016
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
thank you!
preparing for what will very likely be a really hard day today, both intellectually and emotionally. wish me luck.
this aspect of the incentive toward AI is really not highlighted enough. In my field I'm already dealing with a flood of “reduce labor costs with our AI-forward roadmap” which aren't, and don't.
maybe it's the insomnia talking, but it's wild to me that it's been less than 20 years and we've gone from blowing up wedding parties in order to end terrorism to blowing up boats in order to end drugs, and in both cases the only justification is basically “cuz bad guys” & the desire to blow shit up
More Gov. Pritzker. I would like a dozen, a baker's dozen, please.
🧵Oh boy. Here we go. Materials & resources for helping to protect our neighbors in this thread.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Anyway when the Trump administration tells you they are concerned about antisemitism, just remember they haven’t told federal agencies that scheduling major events on Jewish High Holy Days is off limits but they do want to deport brown people who oppose genocide You can do the math
too true
I'd be pretty happy if we got the punchline today of the joke that's been dragging on now for seven months. and yet...
such good advice, and so frustrating that there is not even a hint of it happening
good news for the morning, the warm glow of which will likely get overshadowed by more evil shit out of the White House by mid day...
Vinay Prasad had YouTube censor Jonathan Howard’s channel because he didn’t like how it made him look. A petty act by a vindictive, unqualified hack. And more evidence that these frEe sPeEcH warriors have always been petty censors out to silence criticism that they just can’t cope with.
today I avoided restarting my exercise regime by: grilling and marinating 1 lb of zucchini; making 1½ lbs of carrot refrigerator pickles; buying some lottery tickets (just to be safe); drinking a bucket o' coffee. I'm going places. don't @ me.
Long Day's Journey Into Gary The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Gary The Seven-Year Gary How to Marry a Gary The Good, The Bad & Gary
Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.
There is no hate like Christian love, and there is no love like Christian hate.
then they should have written ""friend"" otherwise it's just sparkling sycophancy for hire.
this article is suspect. the claim that Giuliani has a friend undermines the rest of the reporting.
Labor Day rally to support federal workers in San Francisco. We The People appreciate our government workers and the essential services they provide. They have the right to unionize, and the Trump admin has no right to take that away. #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionaires #ProtectFederalWorkers
the burners are back in town.
I wrote a song about this. here, have a seat, I'll play it for you
farewell to summer but be aware: the peaches are still sweet and ripe #haiku #poetry #LaborDay
oh hey it's a cartoon that sadly did not become immediately outdated on friday www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
“punish the victim” is, to be fair, something of an American tradition.
Never mess with historians, lol. 🗃️
here in the US it just marks our president as massive, freakish taint.
I've worked with Stanford Medical School pretty closely over the past 2 decades. The whole situation is risible. I can't speak for Badenoch's personal intelligence - as opposed to her public presentation & statements & actions - but she could be Doogie Howser or Asclepius & it still wouldn't rinse.
"As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job!" Joan Blondell disposes of gold digger Claire Dodd (she of the best pre-Kirk Douglas chin dimple) in Footlight Parade (1933).
I think I'd stick with Hill's Cascara Quinine Bromide. ain't nothing like a "tonic laxative" to really oust the grip of la grippe
new project: an actual page from an actual book from my own collection, each day. no order, no theme. just what takes my fancy at the moment. Day 1: Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World. from 'The One Big Union of the IWW', seventh revised edition 1979, second printing, November 1984
as a 17 year old, I too had high SAT scores. And I did get offers from Brown, Brandeis, and Berkeley, and a few others. But I also busted my ass for them, they weren't in any way based on "scores alone," and none of them were for non-existent ”pre-med” programs.
Important reminder for anyone who thinks you can feed photos of Trump through AI filters and believe you’re getting a more accurate picture of reality.
This is rich. And that Badenoch is doubling down is even more so.
I don't dream of labor, I do dream of organized labor and unions, for everyone. Happy #LaborDay to all who actually support labor rights!
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
the inability of many of our leaders too grasp the difference between arguing a premise, and changing the frame, is a really disappointing lack. It's can't see the forest for the trees stuff as far as communication goes, and frustrating as hell.
“Does the AI care that you’re insulting it? That’s a complex and hotly debated philosophical question, to which the answer is “no”.”
repost, in honor of Labor Day.
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
On this Labor Day, I'd like to express my appreciation for all the immigrant workers who have made this country what it is for 100s of years.
lol She-hulk, Attorney at Law. it'd be fine. I'd trust Tatiana Maslany with most anything.
to be fair, the 6th tee has a LOT of mitochondrial challenges for a player...
acknowledging the right for what it is means acknowledging that they (dems) are & have been for an entire career complicit in the system allowing the mechanism of our destruction to flourish, and profiting from the same. To see what is in front of one's Orwell is a constant struggle, ya knows?....
jumping in to say just 4 words. CORN DOG ONNA STICK
Thoughts for Labor Day. The work is never done. “...resistance is patriotic. Everything that we do to oppose American authoritarianism we do not just in the name of defending freedom, but in the name of preserving America as such.”
This is very good. Read and act!
“At the moment, AI healthcare research almost exclusively fixates on its flaws...But this orientation doesn’t take account of the creaking and sometimes unsafe systems we already rely on.” Can't stress how much I disagree with this take, which gets the diagnosis backward, and the prescription wrong
throw some anchovies on that, and we're getting somewhere...
homeopathic chirurgeon
having just eaten an entire pizza (a small pizza, but still) and regretting it, I bow to your wisdom.
meet my children, Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego. say hi, kids. seriously though — as an ex kid-with-a-weird-name, I am strongly in favor of boring, culturally commonplace names for everyone. it saves so much in future therapy bills...
two things: #1: everything is a grift to these people. #2: "Kyle" and "Brandon"??? Seriously?
I drove to the shore to look upon the water and, oh! what I saw... #haiku #poetry
please read, and share. What @fishkin.bsky.social describes as the playbook against UCLA is now actively (and almost identically) being used against UCSF. this will not stop until we all work together to stop it.
I rarely self-promote here, but it's a long weekend and the sun is out, so... if just 1% of my follows each bought just one cheap ass collection of poetry, or dumb stories, or self help parody, that would be amazing. plus, you'd have something interesting to read on the beach!