So depressed by AI Hype...hey, here's a promising story in Nature about scientists being encouraged to report negative results...I'll read that to cheer me up!
Robert Kennedy Jr gets multiple (correct) diagnoses of a brain tumor, and one quack who says maybe it's a parasite. Guess who BobbyJ went with? Dr Red Wiggler, the Cadillac of oncologists.
I'm reading The Freaks Came Out to Write, Tricia Romano's oral history of the Village Voice and getting angry and sad all over again over the censorship of Lenny Bruce and the death of Don McNeill, Jr, things I haven't thought about it in years.
in the toby-won't-eat-his-cinnamon-monstrosity Wendy's ad they kind of make the feminine crewmate the caregiver when she puts the fork in his fist and why do i care about this shit but i wish they had cast a masculine person in her role
One of the things I never realized as a kid reading the Odyssey and the Iliad is that Odysseus is just a compulsive liar who can't tell the truth under any circumstances.