I was thinking of this diner tonight because my youngest said that after their show they were going to Applebees. I guess you’re limited by what’s open late, but that’s not a proper place for theater kids to hang out.
West Lafayette High School Presents: RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA Original Book and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Music by RICHARD RODGERS
Got to see some musical theatre this evening. My youngest was Madame (the stepmother) and my wife did a lot of work on the sets and the program.
Data and Picard from Star Trek TNG, with the onscreen text: “the Irish Unification of 2024,”
A grownup Lisa Simpson from the Simpsons, in the Oval Office, surrounded by her advisors. Onscreen text: “As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.”
When Star Trek doesn’t predict the future but The Simpsons does
The closer we get to 2045, the more I think the weird, janky America depicted in Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 might actually be prescient.
Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent.
With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.
The Feb issue of Japanese visual arts mag Geijutsu Shincho is a Ghost In The Shell special featuring Mamoru Oshii/Kamiyama Kenji/Shinji Aramaki interviews, select art work from the GITS exhibition & the upcoming Science Saru series. See more in my review- halcyonrealms.com/books/ghost-...
NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”
Hot take: most of the students who you laughed at for majoring in critical theory or comparative lit dense in French theory are more prepared for the 21st Century than computer scientists and engineers.
Everyone who rolled their eyes at “the gulf war didn’t happen” owe Baudrillard an apology
My architecture column today. Art Institute tells the Sun-Times no decision has been made on the old CSE trading room, but adds "the east side of the building — where the Trading Room is located — represents the area where gallery space could increase the most."
Yes, I was trying to find if there was anything of his that had been translated recently. This got my hopes up for a second.
"In March, Japan marks International Women’s Day, as well as the anniversaries of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11 and the 1945 Tokyo air raids."
Such a weird sentence. Japan Times, what are you even doing?
The book in question, just for context
www.amazon.com/Haunt-killer...
When you see a newly-translated book of Greek detective stories, but then notice with a sinking feeling:
1. A probable AI cover
2. No translator listed
3. Rambling (LLM?) bio of the.. editor? publisher?
Sigh. If this were real I'd have bought it.
One side - bio grandpa worked at the (Greek) family restaurant in Chicago, adoptive grandpa ran a small neighborhood grocery store, also in Chicago
Other side - chemist for Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati
How I arrived on Bluesky
I like this set alot
When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was skeptical. He said once he got it running, we’d be out of a job, so when the boys started talking about breaking into the factory and smashing the thing, I was on board. Until, that is, I saw the funny tapestries it could make.
"So far, all of Finland’s garrisons cater to vegetarians and overall, the Army has sought to introduce increasing amounts of vegetables into soldiers’ diets."
Isn't it surprising how better diets, clean energy and active lifestyles contribute to national security?
#Sufficiency
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stupid meme about how Oshii just keeps making like profound philosophical films for studios that really seem to want him to just make a good action-comedy for christ sake
watched Angel's Egg (its great ofc) and rabbhitholed on Oshii's career again... really love this dude...
Drawings by Tetsuya Nishio of Isaku Okabe as a priest and Mamoru Oshii (dog form) as a shrine maiden.
I missed that last year at the Howling in the Night event they were selling acrylic stands of military consultant Isaku Okabe as a priest and Mamoru Oshii (dog form) as a shrine maiden.
hn226.hatenadiary.com/entry/2025/0...
I think this can be generalized: "If you think AI can make a better product than you can, maybe you're right but that's a personal problem."
Thanks! I will try to be there.
I'm looking forward to this! Do you have any planned signings / talks?
Cover of Trace Elements, coming out of the box
Spine
Cover held up
It's arrived, it's real, it's an actual book! @adapalmer.bsky.social Preorder now, in stores March 24th!
Ulysses 31 has seemed like it would be a great @discotekmedia.bsky.social title, just saying
I love talking about Battle of the Planets because it gets people excited, even though it wasn't part of my own childhood.
For me, it was Ulysses 31, Goldorak (UFO Robot Grendizer), Captain Future, Captain Palnet, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water ...
“AI is here to stay” has become “common sense”, a phrase I’ve ranted about before.
Any time someone says something is “common sense” it means “I haven’t thought too much about this, and you shouldn’t either”.
Same goes for AI.
