David 29 Sunset

Just another friendly reminder that if you want a free digital copy of the novel I wrote about a wedding photographer who goes to a destination wedding and finds her ex in the wedding party, you can let me know here. Also, you can read an excerpt!

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

That should be enough. If you need 6k more words about why you should vote yes on 40: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...

Didn't realize Israel was voting this week, too. Obviously, I'm picking and choosing to try to be optimistic, but Hungary in the spring, Brazil, Serbia, probably the US, and possibly Israel all voting in similar directions feels like a good thing.

My expanded-brain idea is that the Hawks should play the opener, and to both ensure they play later in the day and promote the WNBA Finals, they should do it on the Dream's floor, with an added NBA three-point line.

Hide your Republican beliefs girl you're comms director for the MO Senate Republican caucus

My expanded-brain idea is that the Hawks should play the opener, and to both ensure they play later in the day and promote the WNBA Finals, they should do it on the Dream's floor, with an added NBA three-point line.

Trivial NBA thing for which I've a half-baked idea that nonetheless I'm sharing here because I think it's pretty good: Do away with the gold collar tab for franchises that have won a title. Instead, individual players may wear the tag if they've been on a championship roster. (Ever? Or w/in 5 yrs?)

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This sort of AI assistant technology will only be destructive unless and until the people developing it can actually grapple with these sorts of questions because they are at the heart of everything. What is worth doing with this one life? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

This feels right coming from the "dozens of people dying in a factory fire in Bangladesh is just the cost of doing international business" guy. He's basically saying that we should ignore the global context when trying to understand our own lives, which... fuck off, bro.

A ✌🏾delightful✌🏾 thing about these general "AI" things is that they've pretty much all been imbued with inappropriate certainty. A list of links does not convey that kind of certainty. I've yet to see or hear of one of these things return an "I don't know" answer.

Good, sure, great, tell people to vote against Ramaswamy... But also, this shows the "we don't do endorsements" thing was unprincipled bullshit in the first place.

If LaMelo and Ant get along and feed off each other, vibes-wise, then I love the idea of the Timberwolves going full Video Game Basketball.

My anecdote for today that feels notable is that here in SF I recently went to a school event where there were hundreds of kids and their families, and BY FAR the most represented sports team brand was the Valkyries, on both kids and adults.

NATHAN: You broke up four years ago? TAYLOR: Yes NATHAN: And he still has your scarf? TAYLOR: Yes NATHAN: You told me the scarf reminds him of innocence. How do you know what he's thinking? Is it fair to speak for him that way? TAYLOR: Why would I deceive you?

Brewers are good at baseball

Scrolling through old photos and came across one the spouse took: California license plate COMETWN is taken.

How bad can it b---- oh no

Jim Wolf on the Hochuli program in order to look like he can bench more than any of the players. He didn't always look that way!

John Travolta was available and 20 minutes from the studio after someone else cancelled, right?

This is why JR Moehringer’s profile of Alex Rodriguez is journalism canon to me. He got unfettered access to A-Rod but refused to quote him in any way because he was a known liar. I’ve always wished political journalists would apply this thinking but they would never. www.espn.com/espn/feature...

Musk is moaning about campaign funding?!

More people need to read "Mickey7" (the movie is meh; the book is wildly entertaining).

I have seen Dial M for Murder in a theater in 3D, and you absolutely should, too.

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found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Don't know what I was expecting, but as a mediocre guitarist and singer, myself, this is just wall-to-wall "holy shit".

Changed the links in my profile. Reminded me that I don't publicize enough that you can get my novel for FREE right here. You just have to tell me what format you want. I promise I won't use your info for anything other than sending you the book!

Even if you don't go along with everything in here, I think the bit about how when it comes to LLMs most people are operating from intuition is spot on and very accessibly stated.

NATHAN: You broke up four years ago? TAYLOR: Yes NATHAN: And he still has your scarf? TAYLOR: Yes NATHAN: You told me the scarf reminds him of innocence. How do you know what he's thinking? Is it fair to speak for him that way? TAYLOR: Why would I deceive you?

My newest gestating idea on what AI is doing to brains involves baseball. If you were trying to put together a winning baseball team — or even just trying to understand baseball better — is that possible knowing only the state of the game before every at bat and the results of those at bats?

Utterly wild that this got so far that the plans were made public.

Holy shit this sucks

My newest gestating idea on what AI is doing to brains involves baseball. If you were trying to put together a winning baseball team — or even just trying to understand baseball better — is that possible knowing only the state of the game before every at bat and the results of those at bats?

Legitimately a dream to write something that inspires a reader to "go Martin Luther Mode."

I know my brain is Online Poisoned because it comes up with sentences like: "Rollercoaster" by Bleachers, as sung by Charli XCX, sounds like the sixth-best Killers song.

Chotiner interview Fielder so we can hustle forward the Singularity