Alas, that’s my least favorite of hers that I’ve read so far. Her angle is to all the questions you want answered, then get the answer. Spook, being about the unknowable, means the answers are a lot less fulfilling. Still a worthwhile read, just not her best in my opinion.

Always upvotes for Mary Roach. Everyone should read her breakout work, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

But they’re down for electing rapists to the presidency.

Weird to see people who work 40 hours a week to advance Meta’s goals and grow its profits acting like ethics are some kind of key decider for them.

I went Sony recently too because of how garbage LG and Samsung have been getting. Only problem is Sony decided to rebrand fucking HDMI-CEC as “BRAVIA Sync” and make it not work. Other than that, the panel is gorgeous and it’s not even an OLED.

Adding AI to your TV? Stupid.

Adding Copilot AI to your TV? Turbostupid.

To this day I don’t understand how Microsoft paid OpenAI $Texas to license their tech and used it to make… ChatGPT, only worse.

I would like to see them go back to just plain old numbering and call this one the Xbox 363.

Or I guess a Humble Bundle subscription.

To this day, if I turn to my best friend and say “sup”, his response will either be “Oh, not much, just… keeping it real.” or just “Word.” Vice versa as well.

These are the exact responses Seaman gives, which we deliver with proper intonation and all.

When your sources include an episode of Star Trek TNG, you should maybe stop and reconsider posting your dumb article.