If you are a Star Trek fan (though maybe not NuTrek) or just want to see a thoughtful sci-fi show, I put together a 55-minute episode that you may want to give a watch! piped.video/x7pfV1s4oNQ

I haven't played Magic the Gathering in forever. Fun card. I'll take bluw/red.

I love this coat of arms based on my tweets!

If you are a Star Trek fan (though maybe not NuTrek) or just want to see a thoughtful sci-fi show, I put together a 55-minute episode that you may want to give a watch! piped.video/x7pfV1s4oNQ

Acme is the best company in the world! Same-day delivery to rural New Mexico half a century before Amazon.

"The Purge" except X turns likes back to public for one night.

The always awesome Feral Historian with an important and nuanced take on a prophetic book. Westernkind is critical to a high-quality world. I hope he's right that the west won't go quietly, but I fear he's wrong. piped.video/watch?v=0iQb3Uu4…

It's easy to mock this post in light of all the Americans Microsoft has laid off, until you realize the size of the audience this is for.

A gag I think about all the time from Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions.

We lost to Belgium?

We're in the middle of a civil war but only one side is fighting.

Leftists during "ain't assassinating April":

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

I see @Jason, @friedberg, @chamath, but no @DavidSacks. Sad!

I'm in San Jose for a conference and was excited to check out the @robotaxi service, but it's still iOS only? C'mon, @elonmusk, that app should be out for Android by now.

The same AI that will take your job, apparently.

My rankings best to worst: TNG TOS Picard S3 DS9 @AfterDinnerCo ‘s TNG S8E1 Animated Series Voyager The Orville Enterprise after S2 Lower Decks Stick figures in my back yard Discovery Starfleet Academy

THE MEASURE OF A CHAD: Star Trek is infamous for sneaking in double meanings in show titles and elsewhere, they loved that sort of thing. However, I think one that's often overlooked is Riker's Sacrifice. In this pinnacle episode of Star Trek the sentience of Data is questioned, forcing a trial to determine if he's a person or an object. It's an episode that has had grave philosophical ramifications throughout the years, not just for AI but for questions of Animal Rights, Pro-Life belief structure, and elsewhere. However, hidden in all that is Riker being required to perform an act of service that forces him to wear the black mask. He must argue for the enslavement, if not execution, of his friend, and if he pulls punches that horror is all but assured. You can see it in Riker's guilt and shame, the self exile at the end of the episode. He views himself as the villain of the story. Of course we don't, not until it's laid bare before us. This was Riker, charming, persuasive, too clever by half Riker in direct conflict with Picard for the very first time. Smugly turning off data, only to realize a moment later that this bit of theater may have ended his friend's life. And Picard is at a loss, head in hands by the time it's all done. It's only with the aid of Guinan, spurring Picard to one of the greatest speeches in Trek history, that Data is spared. Riker knows this. Everyone does. Knows how close he came. The episode is almost Tolkienesque in a way. Like Samwise Gamgee before him Riker doesn't quite connect that far from being the villain of the story, he is in fact the hero. Perhaps more than any other he is the man being measured in the opening title.

Happy New Year! Fun fact about 2025: It's 45 * 45. Fun fact about 2026: It's what you make of it! I look forward to all of you making something amazing happen next year!

Hey @grok, please don't use the word "tea" here like this. I'm a grown man. Use some adult words. No "skibidi toilet" or "6 7"-type language. Also, I am always spot-on, "bruh".