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Taegan Goddard, a few days ago at Political Wire: The sudden suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show after threats from FCC chair Brendan Carr was a jolt. It looked like the next step in Donald Trump’s campaign to silence dissent. But there’s another way to see it: an opportu...

The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years, including Extra Yarn, School’s First Day of School, Julián Is a Mermaid, and Don’t Trust Fish.

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Even after reading a couple of reviews and watching the trailer, it’s difficult to understand what the Austrian film Little, Big, and Far is actually about. So here’s the official synopsis:

Austrian astronomer Karl is at a crossroads in his life and work. He finds his physicist wife growing distant and his job being reshaped by environmental crises as thoughts about science, fascism, and his grandson’s future spin above his head. After attending a conference in Greece, Karl decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a dark enough sky to reconnect with the stars. Abandoned at a remote mountain trail, he ascends and waits for darkness to fall.

Tags: astronomy · Little Big and Far · movies · trailers · video

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ABC is putting Kimmel’s show back on tonight, which is great. But I think it’s essential to watch the joke that triggered his suspension. I’m linking here to a CNN post with the full clip. CNN headlined their post “What Kimmel Said About Charlie Kirk That Yanked His Show Off Air”, and that’s basically how most news outlets have phrased it.

But the joke wasn’t about Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t about Charlie Kirk’s assassin. It was about Donald Trump being a sociopathic ghoul. Trump was asked how he’s holding up after the death of “his friend Charlie Kirk”. You really have to watch it — a transcript of Trump’s answer does no justice to how sociopathic it was. And Kimmel called him out on it with mockery.

Link: cnn.com/2025/09/17/business/video/abc-jimmy-kimmel-fcc…

This morning’s music selection while working: this 1h23m mix by German DJ/producer Parra for Cuva.

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We visit an underground oasis in Fresno, California, that’s a winding maze of rooms and passageways filled with lush citrus trees. All this week, we’re heading underground to discover the stories beneath our feet.

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Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit rewatching movies. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by actor, writer, and director Bill Hader to revisit an all time comedy classic, ‘Airplane!’ starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, and Robert Stack.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Ronak Nair

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Why AI systems might never be secure The Economist have a new piece out about LLM security, with this headline and subtitle: Why AI systems might never be secure A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse I talked with their AI Writer Alex Hern for this piece. ...

We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task. Here’s how this happens. As AI tools become more accessible, workers are increasingly able to quickly produce polished output: well-f...

Some advice: “finishing creative projects is a skill in and of itself. if you want to be able to finish large, complex projects, you have to _practice finishing things_. which usually means doing smaller projects.”

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It's been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 - official FP8 quantized versions of thei...

Disney dropped the trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu today, a feature-length film that will debut in theaters in May 2026. As this Star Wars Explained breakdown, er, explains, that the trailer was going to come out earlier but: Word on the street is that it was suppos...

Super Mario Bros. Remastered is an open source, fan-created, remastered version of the original Super Mario Bros. The trailer is above.

The game includes new levels, custom modes and characters, a custom level editor, and more. You need the SMB1 NES ROM to play it — “none of the original assets are contained in the source code, unless it was originally made by us!”

You can download versions for Windows, Linux, and MacOS…check out all the options and details on Github.

Tags: Nintendo · remix · Super Mario Bros · video · video games

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Lāhainā Noon (aka zero shadow day) occurs twice a year in the tropics when the sun is directly overhead and vertical objects (like flagpoles) cast no shadows.

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CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of cod...

Weird day (fuck, weird week) but this totally totally made it. Some genius took Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe and mashed it up with Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole:

Totesally amazingballs. Way way better than I expected. (via the verge)

[This is a vintage post originally from Mar 2013.]

Tags: Carly Rae Jepsen · music · Nine Inch Nails · remix · timeless posts

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Maggie Harrison Dupré for Futurism. It turns out having an always-available "marriage therapist" with a sycophantic instinct to always take your side is catastrophic for relationships.

The tension in the vehicle is palpable. The marriage has been on the rocks for months, and the wife in the passenger seat, who recently requested an official separation, has been asking her spouse not to fight with her in front of their kids. But as the family speeds down the roadway, the spouse in the driver’s seat pulls out a smartphone and starts quizzing ChatGPT’s Voice Mode about their relationship problems, feeding the chatbot leading prompts that result in the AI browbeating her wife in front of their preschool-aged children.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, chatgpt, llms, ai-ethics, ai-personality

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. “It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.”