jimray

Does the New York Times know you can say what actually happened, in the headline?

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/vanilla-ice-freedom-250-concert-canceled-weather-1236796016/

In the 22 years since Malcolm Gladwell’s “Big and Bad” we’ve failed to rein in ever bigger trucks or make streets safer, and the size of your SUV is now yet another culture war battlefield that kills 45,000 Americans every year.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html

Happy Father’s Day from the domestic bliss of one child teaching himself Ode to Joy on a steel drum and the other banging a maraca to a heretofore unknown time signature.

“You don’t underSTAND this couldn’t HAPPEN there are NEW. PARENTAL. CONTROLS. in iOS twenty SEVEN” I insist as I drag my sobbing child out of a Toy Story 5 birthday party.

Elon’s boorish boosters will just laugh at you, but Starlink has already ruined the night sky for even casual stargazers

https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938

Tech boosters when democracies propose the most basic regulation against Uber or Facebook: this is an affront to basic freedom and I literally can not imagine a great tyranny.

Tech boosters when Trump targets Anthropic: lol woke ai got what they deserved so based

Exceedingly, perhaps a bit *too*, proud of this plywood sheet-cutting benchtop I put together to fit on my Bora Centipede workbench. Broke down TWENTY SIX full sheets of plywood by myself his weekend thanks to this bad boy

Raysidence World Cup ranking

Personal Connection > Formerly Colonized > Underdog > Mexico > Spain > Japan > USA > Everybody Else

You can watch this any time. Even today!

https://youtu.be/jKOk738pM9Q

Once you were cool, you were On It, you were the target demo.

And then suddenly you’re googling “bifocal safety glasses”

Me, podcast listener: why are the credits for these shows so long? How many people could it possibly take to put some audio in the internet.

Me, podcast creator: ah. Right.

When the AI hype first got going a few years ago, I recall predictions of unicorn sole proprietorships. That doesn’t seem to be happening and it feels equally likely the very idea of a unicorn software startup might be dying.

This summer, I’ve commissioned a series of portraits of artists and writers important to me, to be completed by a hyper-local artist interested in subsidizing their lavish lifestyle (my older son)

On this morning’s dog walk, neighbor introduced himself by giving me his name, not the dog’s. What the fuck, “Brian”

I know it’s anathema for the press to do any actual reporting in response to a Trump tantrum, a quick scroll through Wikipedia shows a $250 million expansion and renovation of the Kennedy center opened in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center#:~:text=in%202008.%5B36%5D-,2013%E2%80%932024

> Support for vi keyboard emulation, for basic navigation and editing

@bbedit@mastodon.social, the only app I'm certain has been installed on every Mac I've owned since the late 90s, did it. You crazy bastards you finally did it!

I’m never gonna read Nate Silver’s silly book about how becoming a gambling addict is good actually (@davekarpf@mastodon.social doing the yeoman’s work here), but I will say Silver has inadvertently helped me understand just what happened to a lot of left of center dudes who turned pretty reactionary since the pandemic.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-nate-silver-gets-wrong-about

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”