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Nobody has ever felt as invincible as Trump does right now.

Multiple-choice polls on Mastodon shouldn’t give results as percentages of all checkmarks, with all options adding up to 100%; it should give results as the percentage of respondents who checked each option.

So if there is a poll between A and B; half the respondents pick both; and the other half pick only B; the results should be A: 100%, B: 50%.

When I was young, the commercials were the only thing I liked about the Super Bowl. Now they may be the thing I like the least.

Holy shit somebody did it — they made a Flying Toasters screensaver clone that works on modern #macOS: https://github.com/robertventurini/FlyingToasters

Can we have an acronym for “that was an autocorrect but it was funny so I’m deciding to keep it”?

The only alternative to dying is living forever, which honestly sounds way way WAY worse.

This is a great overview of everything that’s been going on the last week or so. At some point every sentence is more terrifying than the last. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.xhE4.ck6UnxiB2l4_&smid=url-share

Nobody ever made a CD player that scrobbles over WiFi, did they? I think WiFi was becoming ubiquitous just as CD players were being universally discarded.

Would be so cool, though! I’d almost be less surprised to find a *turntable* that scrobbles, these days.

“has Oliver Platt in it” is a genre

It’s always a little goofy when a science fiction show/movie tries to have a punk band railing in earnest against some fictional sci-fi villain.

I know I heard this last year but somehow forgot to keep listening to it. This is great stuff. https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/album/messages-to-god

“While you frame this as a conflict about ambition, I hear you wrestling with a profound question: What defines a life well lived?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/well/mind/ask-the-therapist-gottlieb-hard-work.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU4.EkDA.eIercIQvrsA6&smid=url-share

As much as I’ve read about BotW and TotK, I’ve never really seen anybody talk much about the style of their art. They eschew the polygons-and-textures look for these painterly, comic-like swaths of color. And while I don’t play a lot of video games, I haven’t even really seen it imitated.

I need to read an article whose title is “An art expert talks about the paintings in ‘Severance'”

You’re allowed to complain about something that defies credulity in a sci-fi story if the question you’re asking isn’t “How did they do that?”, but “Why did they do that?”