Max Walker

Why WOULDN'T I think that Donnie Darko is a movie artifact that was created as the result of a time war battle that occurred on September 11, 2001?

I worked at a company that still had stuff like this, the tangible residue of a Golden Age. Typical thing, company started in the 1920s, had a major heyday in the 1950s-1960s when the entire country was booming. Ancient black and white photos of ancient sales meetings featuring crowds of grinning long-dead salesmen in long-demolished hotel ballrooms hung on seldom-traveled carpeted hallways. The proverbial split-level "corner office" was enormous with its own broad conference table and bathroom the CEO could disappear into mid-meeting like slipping behind a mirror at Versailles. The office was full of rich mid-century modern details like heavy drapes, sharp lines and dark wood paneling. Padding around the building you would find glassed-in fish-bowl offices and incredible conference rooms complete with built-in bars for serving three martini lunches to grandees with gleaming coifs of Vitalis. I felt like a dirty shepherd wandering the toppled ruins of Rome.

this is absolutely the greatest video of all time

And with that, Flat Earth is over.

Some pics from the solar arrays being published now. The light on the spacecraft and solar arrays are also entirely from Earthshine

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

@historyinmemes What song is this in the background?

This is how Queen Elizabeth II returned to London after her passing in 2022.

it's such a perfect planet. You couldn't have asked for a better setup really

Michael Pollan quit caffeine for 3 months… and realized his “normal” self was just caffeinated. First week: “Felt like I contracted ADD. Couldn’t concentrate, couldn’t write, veil between me and reality.” Month 1: Functional but miserable. Month 3: “Slept like a teenager… but I was still a mess.” First cup back: “Waves of well-being → euphoria → like cocaine for 20 minutes.” Then: irritability, compulsive cleaning, unsubscribing from 100 listservs, reorganizing sweaters, plotting the next dose. Classic addict behavior — even he admits it. Chronic caffeine lowers adenosine sensitivity (your brain’s sleep-pressure signal). Withdrawal = fog/ADD-like symptoms. Re-dose = euphoric adenosine clearance after 24+ hours of buildup. Baseline becomes caffeinated baseline. Pollan’s takeaway: “Yourself is caffeinated… and that is baseline for many of us.” Ever quit caffeine cold turkey? What hit you hardest — the brain fog, the irritability, the insane euphoria on return, or something else? Your stories 👇

The scary premise of Weapons is: What if you let a character actress into your house

Honestly, this Straight of Hormuz drama is making me realize that we really lucked out with getting an interesting worldmap. Great seed.

I'm never leaving this hellsite.

Dude.

I just want to point out how crazy it is we can watch livestreams from 5 different countries at the same time and watch what is going on live during this war.

@spectatorindex it's the phones

Generation Z is 'less cognitively capable than previous generations, despite its unprecedented access to technology' and it is the first generation in modern history to 'score lower on standardized tests than the previous one', according to neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath as reported by FORTUNE magazine.

This photo from above of Alysa’s last spin… woah

simply one of the coolest things i’ve seen in my life

Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom. When figuring out how to design a kitchen, for instance, there are a bunch of subproblems to solve: where to put the stove and the windows and the kitchen table. And which of these have the fewest degrees of freedom? The windows. If you want good light, there is going to be only one wall where you can place the windows, and at best two spots on that wall where the window looks natural. So you put the window there. And now what? The kitchen table, because you want to have that where the good light falls. The stove can wait because that can sit nearly anywhere. If you start by placing the stove, there is a big risk that you block the only good position for one of the other subproblems that have fewer degrees of freedom, and so the whole design will suffer.