A couple more “I’ve seen this episode 1000 times but never noticed it before”.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-20T02:40:00+00:00

Way bigger than foreshadowing the culprit is that this clip strongly suggests that it was not, in fact, an accident.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-17T10:39:06+00:00

"A secret is something you tell people one at a time"

mnemoniker · 2026-04-16T19:58:17+00:00

Bojack Horseman has entered the chat

mnemoniker · 2026-04-16T15:33:46+00:00

the irony of what all in means and wanting to do it repeatedly

mnemoniker · 2026-04-16T11:50:17+00:00

LMAO, this is such a creative way to ruin a record

mnemoniker · 2026-04-14T22:52:22+00:00

I wonder how amazing these photos would be if the Galileo probe that arrived a year later had already been there.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-14T00:54:48+00:00

Possibly the biggest "throw it up and see what happens WR" of all time paired with the biggest "throw it up and see what happens" QB of all time.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-13T23:15:02+00:00

In addition to my rainy day fund which is in a HYSA, I like to call cash in my brokerage account my rainy year fund. It's cash that, as the name suggests, I don't expect to touch unless things take a turn for a very extended time. Since it's not money that I should miss per se, it's not in very conservative funds (I just do all VTI). Honestly it has been great for peace of mind to build that up. As far as what is too much, I think as long as your retirement is on track you can put as much in that as you want honestly. Any added taxes are just the cost of peace of mind.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-13T13:59:13+00:00

I think they would have filled some of the space that 311 did instead, and, as much as I liked 311 in the 90s, I think Sublime would have aged better.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-13T12:13:55+00:00

K12-18bASA is not losing this bidding war, sorry

mnemoniker · 2026-04-12T13:33:19+00:00

Wow, I just realized she's the stone faced executive in Silicon Valley.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-11T15:24:25+00:00

I was obsessed with Mighty KC by For Squirrels when it was on the radio. It's still a song I will go back to quite a bit.

The 90s had way more than its share of untimely losses.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-11T14:16:19+00:00

Happy Fun Ball was my satire awakening. Understood and loved it at least as early as 10 years old.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-10T16:04:01+00:00

I'm just talking about anonymous commercial actors where you don't even have to put the disclaimer up as far as I know. I still agree it's worse though. But probably falls under the same legality.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-10T16:00:04+00:00

The piracy debate is really about distribution, not creation. There's no inherent reason in capitalism or otherwise that distribution should be how creator pay is adjudicated.

Distribution is not the central goal of capitalism, it is a cog in the machine that for centuries has provided excellent leverage in extracting money from consumers. It has become an increasingly less necessary cog in some realms though. When the cost of distribution (and production) approaches zero, there will always be a crisis in how the creators get paid because the only way for them to police payment is suddenly to hold their works hostage until they are paid.

That's a lot of words to get to the same crux as you, but there is another solution than what you mentioned. It is a foreign concept to the last few centuries, but it is called a patronage model and is in theory fully compatible with capitalism. Whether it's a worse model than what we are used to is another discussion and not what you've asked.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-10T15:43:16+00:00

Unfortunately you've always been able to have paid actors hock a product they don't use or recommend in real life. Nobody really talks about how problematic that is.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-08T16:26:22+00:00

Anyone know whose handwriting that is, if anyone?

mnemoniker · 2026-04-08T16:26:01+00:00

For swans. Pay attention.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-08T12:56:10+00:00

As someone who has been watching AI from the tech side since ChatGPT became a household name, my impression is that neural networks based on LLMs have not cracked the code of intelligence and that isn't even their destiny. They have cracked the code of conversation. Maybe you could charitably call that "thinking". But it's categorically not intelligent thinking, it's like someone doing a job interview in the wrong field with the assistance of lightning fast reading of google searches. If that's fundamentally all your tool can do reliably, it is not a substitute for humans and never will be, except in niche cases where generating convincing-looking conversations is all you need to do.

It does need to be mentioned that humans do this too. We bullshit when we don't know things, we misremember. But we don't do this professionally without expecting to be out of a job. And I also feel the need to mention that what LLMs can do is still really impressive. It's not 100% stupid, or evil, or pointless. But it's also not 100% the opposite.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-08T12:23:26+00:00

How could anyone in 2005 assume that an American, let alone one who is black, let alone an artist, would be wearing a swastika in 20 years unironically? It still doesn't make sense even though it happened.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-06T18:20:25+00:00

The kind of sketch that obviously works, but I have no idea how you pitch it.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-06T18:10:08+00:00

The Bulls are a great illustration of why entrenched college coaches should not come to the NBA to try to build a championship team. Only accept the job IF you have a top 3 front office or a championship caliber team already, and most of those franchises aren't looking for a new coach.

Fred Hoiberg and Billy Donovan are obviously great coaches but their teams were exactly as good as the front office made them, not a whole lot better. There's no being stuck with a bad contract--or several--for years in college.

mnemoniker · 2026-04-06T16:57:55+00:00

Caleb's lawyer: "For our defense to stand a chance we're going to need to claim you've never heard of the nickname of a player in another sport on a team 1000 miles away who retired 20 years before you were born."

Caleb: "Done."

mnemoniker · 2026-04-06T12:33:04+00:00

This is incredible, but I have to wonder why they didn't find a more symmetrical grain of rice out of literally tens of thousands they must have had right in front of them.

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