Simon Egleton

This is not one of those sugary too-good-to-be-true memes, it did happen, I tracked it back.

Yes!

In rural Argentina, isolated residents exchange messages over AM radio. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I do love little bits of word joy like this

The atrocious, boring AF new Skydance logo, that reminds me of the one at the head of a C grade movie in the eighties. Those little icons below are going to be culled by CPAs with chain$aws shortly.

Today I learned: MEEP is allowed as a word in Scrabble™. After watching Coyote vs. Acme,I had to try putting it down on the board. Computer says yes.

"More than 500 stars, showrunners and TV lovers voted on their favorite shows of this century. Here are the results of our poll." Some mediocre choices here, and an almost complete lack of a few superior European shows. I'm proud to have helped make 35 episodes of the #2 show on the poll. #thewire

Nothing says “AI bubble” like the industry’s biggest player opposing the caution that others agree on in the interests of, er, human survival.

Chip-maker Nvidia’s founder and chief executive Jensen Huang responded to calls from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman for a slowdown and other controlling steps by saying AI companies should “run as fast as you can”.

This is every BBC World Service news radio announcer all day, every day.

Heading into Tuesday like... (Bird Photographer of the Year. Birds in flight – gold award : Eye-to-Eye with a Short-Eared Owl by Ivan Sjögren from Sweden.)

Heading into Monday like...

Spy Magazine’s Anniversary Chronicle of a Certain Short-Fingered Vulgarian "From 1986 to 1993, we kept very close tabs on a certain short-fingered vulgarian. For Spy’s 40th anniversary in October, we’ll be revisiting and sampling some of those greatest hits every day." substack.com/home/post/p-...

TBT: What is one scene in a tv show that you watched as a young'un, that will forever live rent-free in your head? I'll start: Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks making a knot in a cherry stem with her tongue.

Oh, that's just g r e a t. So before I start having my cups of liquid enthusiasm over ice, is coffee good or bad for us this month? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Something simple that you don't forget enjoying, fifty years later. (Photo: Julia Nikhinson/Associated Press.)

Labor Day weekend, you know the drill.

One other thing about Furious; lots of shows have that one performance where you're like "This person just steals the show whenever they're on screen." This series has like five of those

Am cautiously approaching Monday, in this global warming heat. (Bullfrog Between Worlds, shot on Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Photograph: Steven Scott Grogin/ mobilephotoawards.com)

Pedro Pascal, in recent years, got the nickname "Internet Daddy" after his role in The Last of Us where he seems like a genuinely good guy — and a genuinely good “daddy.” Plus he's hot. Well, to me the OG "Internet Daddy" for years has been Kyle Chandler.

John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, and Steve Buscemi in a film about a pickpocket in New York City? Take my money! October 23rd in theatres. youtu.be/0ng40-oiiVQ?...

Dangerous buffoon.

Everything is fine, keep inflating the bubble!

Hard to get going this morning, might watch reel 1 just to wake myself up. #coffeealonenotdoingthejob

Great news, the novels are excellent, and Graham Yost (Justified, The Americans...) is involved.

Today a lovely colo(u)r I didn't know about: peacock green. "Strapless peacock green party dress - Fred Perlberg, ca.1950's Featuring a pleated neckline, draped full skirt gathering at the side and a rhinestone brooch."

They're *so* much worse than I thought, wow.

NEW: EFF’s @doctorow.pluralistic.net joins Jon Stewart’s @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social to examine how the AI industry relies on inflated expectations, question what AI can genuinely do, and explore how AI supercharges problems like surveillance, labor exploitation, and corporate consolidation.

During a surprise visit to the WNBA All-Star weekend, Barack Obama delivered a personal message to Caitlin Clark, picked up on a hot mic. The encounter was a “heartening reminder of what ‘presidential’ can look like,” @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/FTQQxfkN 📸: David Dow / NBAE / Getty

I had to repost this, as the noise is getting even louder in recent times.

I need a Silkwood Shower after watching Musk.

My loudest "Ha!" of the day, so far.

I wish that I was floating in a little boat, fishing for my lunch, here on The River Epte in Giverny, France Painting by John Leslie Breck.

The same audience that accepted Brad Pitt in Troy has suddenly become the Athens Historical Society.