- Japan’s sushi legend Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready for retirement
- Wait. What? College golfer aces same hole twice in one day!
- Feisty Otters Are Once Again Hijacking Surfboards in Santa Cruz
- “When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.” – via Joe Hanson
- Like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, researchers say some AI models may be developing their own survival drive, seeming to resist being turned off and even sabotaging their own shutdown.
- New to me: Italian time
- The average energy bar is anywhere from 6 to 15 times more expensive per calorie than a good ol’ PB&J.
- Hoo boy. Care to read about how chatfishing has made finding love on dating apps even weirder? – via kottke
- “[On] Sunday, [October 26, 2025,] the [New York] Times had more column-inches dedicated to urging readers to gamble on football than to China’s control of rare-earths minerals.” – via TMQ
Some good reasons to vote:
- Before [POTUS], and Before the Young Republicans, There Was the Dartmouth Review – via my dad
- [I] really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. [W]e’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it. – via Marisa Kabas
- As improbable as it had seemed just minutes ago, it now appeared that I really was texting with interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan. [See also: New York AG Letitia James pleads not guilty to mortgage fraud charges]
- “the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections [to] the world’s most notorious human trafficking pedophile” is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese – via ryan cooper
Posts tagged “Darth Vader”
- An oral history of Industrial Light and Magic
- Always Invite Anna
- Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s. Why Gen X is the real loser generation.
- Fat Bear Week is here.
- This is now incredibly the 16th consecutive year I’m linking to this: It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
- The truth is not always beautiful nor beautiful words the truth. – via @swiftonsecurity.com
- I’ve always loved the Jabberwocky.
- For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an edited version of Romeo & Juliet, with “a 67-line final conversation between Romeo and Juliet“, was more popular than Shakespeare‘s original. – via kottke
And now for the bad news:
- A little chat about genAI is well worth your time. Don’t be the kind of person who says, “I hear you. I understand. But also, I don’t care.”
- He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
- “A former director of the North Carolina Republican Party – who resigned amid election fraud and corruption scandals – has been appointed to a new role overseeing North Carolina’s state and local election officials…” – via @maddow.msnbc.com
- Bear shot, killed after wandering into Central Florida home
- POTUS Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
- Hollywood Union Files Complaint Against Use of James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader Voice—Which He Sold Before His Death
#FridayFive: Star Wars Villains
The best of the worst
The 10 Most Valuable Star Wars Action Figures
On an old obsession
#FridayFive: Favorite Star Wars Characters
View the Friday Five from June 28th, 2013
#FridayFive: Villains
View the Friday Five from April 9th, 2010
Life After Darth
On how to tell a story
Vader For 2000
Vader For 2000 <now a dead link>