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I first watched this show circa 2013. It felt prophetic then. Come 2026, more so. It merited a rewatch, hard thinking, some sleuthing & an essay. So thank you @typebarmagazine.bsky.social for helping me disseminate my output on the best(?) iteration of Ghost in the Shell. ▶️🎧 Rise, Origa

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

They live on the beach for ten years. Orestes and Electra are small children when Agamemnon sacrifices their elder sister Iphigenia; Electra is still unmarried when they avenge their father. The snag here is that on film, Iphigenia is depicted an infant — in the story, she’s at least an adolescent.

Ads on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are painting prescription stimulants in a negative light while promoting supplements for ADHD that lack evidence. www.wired.com/story/wellne...

"His chief of staff passed around a stack of NDAs and freshly baked peanut butter cookies." Just insane level of detail in this @elitan.bsky.social story www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

'“The influenza vaccine is highly encouraged to prevent outbreaks that can degrade unit readiness, disrupt training schedules, and deployment execution, which adversely impacts mission,” according to the [Navy administrative notice].'

Never share with your LLM something you wouldn’t share with an eerily gifted but profoundly naive child, etc.

Oh hey, remember when I said you might be legally liable for feeding proprietary information to your LLM, when the levee breaks on the data lake? Claude remembers. Claude remembers *everything.*

Yeah, the breath patterns required for the classical languages are a whole other thing; you can feel the vagus nerve re-tuning itself, practically.

I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇

So I set out to investigate where the blueberries I buy come from — and if those farms have a record of mistreating workers. projects.propublica.org/blueberries-...

You can see why the broligarchs want want to end this kind of immortality, they’ll never achieve it

The Jesuit who taught my Ancient Greek class had one speaking voice in English, and a completely other, more musical one when speaking in dactylic hexameter. He also really loved teaching DUNE, which I feel is related.

I will say this about OBSESSION: it's expertly designed to get men who don't understand consent to tell on themselves by identifying with/writing apologetics for Bear.

And in turn, Odysseus would definitely promise to get somebody a toe and have it turn into a whole thing.

the irony here is that this used to be the old standard of party organizing (see the early German SPD or Austrian SPO having affiliated clubs, gyms, and mobilization activities)

Barron's analysis concluded that SpaceX's performance ranks it among the worst post-IPO trajectories for a mega-cap company in decades, performing worse than 90% of all major U.S. listings since 2009. An 88x price:sales ratio is beyond ludicrous. Totally unitched from reality. It's a meme stock.

“…the safeguarding concerns around covert filming are real enough for many nurseries and schools to have started banning them from the premises.”

I legit was unable to sleep afterward. It got me. It’s an extraordinarily self-disciplined film.