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Wow. I know it can be resource-consuming to keep up with new software. But this is ridiculous.

I appreciated him so much as an actor.

Also, when I still thought I may have children, I thought I'd name a son Raul.

Worf, labeled "Monday" is manhandling Spot the cat, labeled "Me."

"Happy" Monday!

#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #TrekMemes #work #Monday #cats

Thanks

Yeah. At home. At work. I feel bad for him. He was just a kid.

Sometimes I feel like the people behind the scenes who did not want a teenaged character sabotaged that character.

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Don't humiliate me by sending me back without paying my passage.
I am a delicate ribbon of celluloid - misuse me and I disappoint thousands; cherish me and I delight and instruct the world.
7/7

Speed me on my way. Others are waiting to see me. The 'next day' is the last day I should be held. Have a heart for the other fellow who is waiting, and for my owner who will get the blame.
6/7

Please see that my own band is wrapped snugly around me on the reel, so that my first few coils do not slip loose in my shipping case, to be bruised and wounded beyond the power to heal. Put me in my own shipping case. Scrape off all old labels so I will not go astray.
5/7

Don't rewind me - my owner wants that privilege, so that she may examine me, heal my wounds, and send me rejuvenated upon fresh mission.
I travel many miles. I am tossed on heavy trucks, sideways and upside down.
4/7

If the pull on the take-up reel is too violent, I am torn to shreds. If dirt collects in the aperture, my film of beauty is streaked and marred, and I must face my beholders - a thing ashamed and bespoiled. Please, if I break, fasten me with clips; never with pins.
3/7

Over the sprocket wheels, held tight by the idlers, I am forced by the motor's might. If a careless hand misthreads me, I have no alternative but to go to my death. If the springs at the aperture gate are too strong, all my splices pull apart.
2/7

Another film-related thing I feel compelled to share (🧵):
The Film Prayer by AP Hollis c.1920
I am celluloid, not steel; O God of the machine, have mercy. I front four great dangers whenever I travel the whirling wheels of the mechanism.
1/7

I learned recently that Boomers had some version of booze in a trash can, too. I wonder how far back that goes.

Don't know why this quote has been on my mind today, but:
"My own hell would be to have a projector and all the films, but no one around to see them with me." — James Card, founding film curator @ George Eastman Museum

*Flashbacks of my friend's older brother stealing their mom's Bartles & James*
Then he jumped off the roof of their porch on a pogo ball.

The guy nextdoor to me burned down his house 20 years ago. Everytime he has his fire pit going & (illegally) throws some of his trash in there, the whole street is nervous.

The guys are touring the US doing screenings of Stand By Me.
I saw a preliminary screening in the fall. They left a seat open for River.
Of course I cried.

It is an existential imperative that we begin a serious global dialogue about how ‘experts’ as the media uses the term, consistently lag behind us laymen when it comes to Knowing Some Bullshit When We See It.

Why does my ear hurt? Am I getting a cold? Ugh.

In The Marvels movie, when Captain Marvel is so excited to herd cats, I knew Beverly Crusher would react the same way.

I turned 50 yesterday. Some moments I'm ok. Other moments I'm reminded that Bridesmaids was 15 years ago & Stand By Me was 40 years ago.

I didn't know that was a thing and I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

AMAZING

I'd love to hear you and Gates talk about music.
It seems you two have some similar interests, but coming from different generations and growing up in different regions, your perspectives might be different.
Also, I bet you each could introduce the other to some cool "new to you" music.

It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Then I will bite my tongue on certain things to try to avoid spoilers for you.
It's been a few years so you've probably seen some. But I don't need to ruin more things for you!