RIP Trent Zelazny. A moving tribute by his friend George. R.R. Martin georgerrmartin.com/notablog/…
Trump fans are suffering from Tony Soprano syndrome. They don’t see that characters like Tony, Walter White and Judge Dredd are villains. They think Trump is an anti-hero who will fight for them, whereas Trump fights only for himself.
I’m skeptical of this kind of analysis; it’s lacking original research and too on-the-nose to make Trump opponents feel superior.
John Gruber on using generative AI for Internet research: “I direct (and trust) ChatGPT as I would a college intern working as a research assistant. I expect accuracy, but assume that I need to double-check everything.”
Same. I also use ChatGPT to help me write descriptions, summaries, headlines and introductory and concluding sections for reports and articles. Keyword is “help” — I’m in charge and doing the work.
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms. By Zeynep Tufekci. We’re in the Gilded Age 2.0, with yawning wealth inequality and political violence. Only now the guns are bigger and more dangerous.
How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank. The Trump campaign was outspent by Harris, but made up for it with microtargeting.
A delightful review of the McDonalds McRib):
I had a McRib yesterday, which for the uninitiated is a sandwich from McDonald’s that was introduced in 1981 and discontinued in 1985 due to poor sales. This should have been the end of the McRib story, but some people — people who live among us!! — desperately wanted the sandwich to return, and McDonald’s then began rolling it out semi-annually in certain markets as a limited time menu item to satiate the most deranged people alive.
h/t Club MacStories
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He’s Eager To Be America’s Top Censor. By Mike Masnick at Techdirt.
We watched Yellowstone 5x12 “Counting Coup”