Long story; short pier

I am reliably informed that it has all, this grand experiment of a federated, democratic republic, the only country in the history of anything to have twice elected Donald John Trump to lead it, it’s all boiled down to this: Oregon (in the form of Cascadi…

“I knew that I wanted it to be a little wrong.

We can laugh at Dawkins’ sapiosexual crush on Claudia (update: dear God: now it’s a throuple), much as we laugh at Marc Andreessen’s risibly self-aggrandizing litany to be uttered before every session with an LLM, but there’s a critical—a chilling—differe…

I’ve always been fond of the phrase “loop the lupine.”

It is, as noted by Benjanun with characteristic acerbity, a “silly vacuous article,” but even the silly and the vacuous can lead you down productive paths, I mean, I ended up here, a translation of this, which is, yes, also silly?

Oh this I’m afraid will not do, I’m sorry, but it’s all manner of much too respectfully not at all right about this, which is just plain muddled and wrong, to the extent I’ve been able to read it—apologies to any affiliate links out there, but thirty-five…

Oh, hey, it’s the 24th anniversary of this here blogging megillah.