Ian Young

"You know, I don't think the Gilded Age had a happy ending."

Is 4 a lot? Depends on the context.

When you talk to someone who doesn't know the background to the "Amy Acton's Mom" ad and only knows that Amy Acton is a Liar, part of your soul dies.

Portlanders need to be wary of Republicans posing as Democrats: whosbuyingpdx.com#slate

I get it. I get the stakes, but dear Every Democrat's PAC: please stop sending me txt's that read "SO SORRY PLEASE OH GOD FORGIVE ME FOR TEXTING YOU BUT THE WOLVES ARE ALREADY EATING MY TOES AND ONLY YOUR $5 DONATION RIGHT NOW WILL HELP ME SAVE THESE IMMIGRANT INFANTS I'M HOLDING!"

"The Democrat has some problems" says everyone who has stuck their heads in the sand while the Republican candidate platforms a rapist, or abandons their post to destroy the state they wish to govern. Our media excuses vile cruelty because the grift makes them a quick buck. We're a Dead State.

Another Day, Another Apocalyptic Software Bug. I say we turn off the internet and go back to BBSes and FidoNET. No software on phones. If you want to play Angry Birds you can play the Door Game.

Discussing "For All Mankind" Ian: It asks 'What if reasonable people could win out in the end?' Chris: So it's a fantasy Ian: Totally. Ian: They might as well have taken The Eagles to Happy Valley.

Dear Apple: This is the phone we all ACTUALLY want.

"What WAS Sichuan cuisine like before trade with the Americas?" "...Oh no. ...Oh NO. Oh GOD NO" chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com/p/what-was-s...

"Nice.... Now let's see Fusion360's AI-Slop clone."

So it begins.

"Ed [Sheeran] heats tea water in the microwave." truth.

This all makes sense. This is good. This will have a positive outcome.

Pop Culture Confession #25321: I may have thought that Elya Baskin and Yakov Smirnoff were the same person. Like... since the 80's.

My favorite part of interacting with LLM is spending tokens to train it to stop talking like a right-wing influencer. "Battle" "Cutting" "Slicing" "Breaking" ...Yeah great, writing something to convert a stream into another stream is a battle for REAL MEN; STRONG MEN using ACTION WORDS. Hoo-aah.

I can't cope with a "Lemonade Stand That Takes Venmo" future. ...at least they didn't ask for bitcoin.

"It's gross sex cults all the way down!"

Hear me out: "Jim Henson Presents The Muppets' Samuel Beckett's Endgame"

Hypothesis: "Biscuits and Gravy" is just savory "Cake and Custard"

My Inner Liberal Arts Demon sometimes tells me to submit papers to Social Text with titles like "Mitochondrial Enslavement and the Eukaryotic Origin of Patriarchal Oppression"

Dear @theonion.com: Readers ask "How do you do satire when the truth is stupider?"

"Nigel Farage: only about twice as popular as a rubbish bin."

When you've pushed things so far that a devout blue-collar Christian dude from Alabama start talking about the Specter Haunting Europe, you might want to start backtracking real quick.

Real tired of Claude writing RFCs in the tone of DOGE's "Big Balls".

They should've just cast Werner Herzog instead of having RDJ do a Werner Herzog impression. I mean... who's mad enough to go up against Werner Herzog? Klaus Kinski isn't in the MCU.

"Oh No, The Chinese Are Pushing Anti-Datacenter Propaganda" Wacky fact: without Soviet propaganda, we'd have never had the New Deal or Civil Rights act. Without the Specter Haunting Europe, we'd still be the antebellum South, but everywhere. (And that's our current path—if you haven't noticed.)

Today's Horror: "Gangnam Style is as old as Woodstock was when we were kids!"

This whole Platner thing really drives home the point that "Bernie Bros" are a real and actual thing that exists, and that Left-Wing populism is just as dysfunctional as Right-Wing populism.

"Why was Roger Penrose on Joe Rogan?" "Because Roger Penrose is a crank who still believes that Consciousness and Free Will are real things that exist."