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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 05/10/2026
Some pretty great incidental juxtaposition in the TL tonight
A screenshot of three skeets in a row: On top is Dr. Damien P. Williams commenting on how Effective Altruism is "just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extent," linking as example an article where Sam Altman declares that "The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI." Below that is a completely independent skeet from Ben Collins saying, in part, "Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work." Below that is a response to Ben's skeet from Ian Coldwater saying "The are acting like this because they are true believers in a millennarian cult. Seriously. That's the answer."
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 04/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA_3...
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Kids in the Hall - Painting a Chair
YouTube video by Ricky Shambles
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 04/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jkm...
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Kids in the Hall - Gavin - Butcher Shop
YouTube video by Ariel Morgan
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 04/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Tt...
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The Kids in the Hall - Running Faggot
YouTube video by Paul Bellini
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 04/10/2026
Running F****t and/or Bicycle Kid don't make me choose
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 04/10/2026
Ask me tomorrow and 7 of them will be different.
A square containing the covers of 9 of my favorite albums: The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground; Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division; Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys; Perfect Teeth, Unrest; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Death Certificate, Ice Cube; Immation, Nas; Monk's Dream, Thelonious Monk; Maxinquaye, Tricky
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 03/10/2026
💯 and I say that as someone who unfortunately grew up there!
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 03/10/2026
Oh, then all that considered, let’s see Kansas have a Democratic Senator! For kicks. And to nullify freaking Fetterman.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 03/10/2026
I don't know if this helps or if I'm being too clever by half (and thus unhelpful by double). But due to the vagaries of the two states Talarico is more likely to retain his seat for longer than Hamilton. So long-term it is probably better for Democrats to get Talarico into the Senate than Hamilton.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 02/10/2026
I just counted and she's right, there are 12.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 02/10/2026
His name is Walter Utermohlen in case other people are wondering: www.mentalhealthandaging.com/william-uter...
mentalhealthandaging.com
Alzheimer’s Dementia Self-Portraits by William Utermohlen
How William Utermohlen’s Alzheimer’s self-portraits chronicle identity, loss, and meaning—and what every clinician can learn about caring for people with dementia.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 01/10/2026
"I WAS CURIOUS, HONEY. Sue me for actually acting on it instead of just scrolling title for 90 minutes."
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 01/10/2026
I had to re-read the whole thing 3 times to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. Like, she averaged 7.3 DRBs this season, seems like the sort of thing they would want to highlight.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 01/10/2026
I should start a service (paid) where people can consult me during a variety of situations or considerations and I'll tell them how to be right. It's an enormous market and frankly I'm being selfish by not serving it.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 01/10/2026
The fact that I saw this vehicle in the parking lot for the Whole Foods on Haight St. is a little on the nose.
Photograph of a gray Toyota Camry with the license plate “CNDYFLP.” A sticker in the rear windows reads “Rice University.”
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 30/09/2026
Hey when did blueberries become Large? I don't mind, I enjoy a large berry, it just feels like I missed an announcement or something.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 30/09/2026
There has been an abliterated version of GLM 3.5 on HF for several weeks that is pretty straight-forward to use. You need to apply to the maintainer for access, but that is also straight-forward. If you have questions feel free to DM me. FWIW I am in no way affiliated with the project.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 21/09/2026
Thank you!
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 21/09/2026
Fact: fires keep Sunday Scaries away
Photograph of my fireplace with a fire beginning to roll. Above the hearth is a textured white picture I’ve never really liked. On either side of the fireplace are bookshelves filled with semi-haphazardly placed books, a mishmash of colored spines. In front of the fire are blonde wood floors, covered by a carpet of a grey diamond pattern. A round marble coffee table holding a fern sits to the left edge of the photo. The photo is from my perspective sitting on the couch, and you can see the chaise on which I’m sitting covered by a grey striped blanket. My closed laptop rests on the couch next to me, its cover adorned by a sticker containing the Hieroglyphics logo. On top of that is a closed book (“I Hear a New World” by Alan Moore, if you must know)
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 16/09/2026
In San Francisco you aren't seeing diesel for less than $8.99, but very few places are willing to crack $9.00
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 16/09/2026
So there’s an AI company who just raised a $4.65B seed round. Obviously they’re calling it that as a joke, but that’s just a lot worse. Don’t do that guys. Any of it. Stop doing things of that nature.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Front page of today's Financial Times at LHR. Fun times ahead!
Photo of the Financial Times front page for 15 September 2026. Headline reads "Ten-year Treasury yield tops 5% as inflation fears batter bond markets"
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 15/09/2026
No man, we can’t go public this year, are you fucking stupid? Do you not get it? If we go public then everyone can see how powerful this shit is and the world will end. God, you people are so dumb sometimes. Just give me more money and stop asking stupid questions.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 13/09/2026
I'm saying it as a professional carnival size-guesser with 30 years on the job.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 13/09/2026
He's the gentleman on the left
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 13/09/2026
Dear god, Andy Burnham's son is an extraordinarily large one, isn't he? It feels rash to dedicate to memory any British Prime Minister just yet, let alone a PM's progeny. But this lad, as I'm sure he's accustomed to doing, has already just shoved his way into my brain.
A photo of U.K. Prime Minister (as of the evening of September 12, 2026) Andy Burnham and family, including Burnham's parents, wife, and 3 children. One of the Burnham children is a terrifically grand boy, easily the size of his siblings combined and then some. I've not learned the considerably-sized lad's name yet, as it feels premature to dedicate memory to a member of a British Prime Minister's family just yet, even one occupying as much space as this man does.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 11/09/2026
Once I learned that espresso and tonic can be legitimately good I changed my mind on the idea of non-sugary espresso martinis. I no longer drink, so I haven't had a chance to verify, but intellectually I can see it making sense as a real, bitey cocktail.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 09/09/2026
They started playing God Bless America at baseball games and then never stopped. They should have cut that out before playing around with the extra innings rules and pitch clock.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 08/09/2026
As someone who lived at Elizabeth & Grand from 2001-2004 I would like to say "no fucking shit." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
nytimes.com
After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)
New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 08/09/2026
I just learned that not only did Linda Blair-- the actor who played the possessed girl in The Exorcist-- date Rick James, but that he would go on to write “Cold Blooded” about her after their breakup.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 07/09/2026
The owners of the Goonies house are remarkably less cool, but it's sort of the same deal. A sign that says "Yes, this is the house. No trespassing. Be quiet. Don't do the Truffle Shuffle."
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 07/09/2026
(a product of @jordantyranny.bsky.social I believe)
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 07/09/2026
This is your new favorite web site. Remember web sites? They ruled. Before everything was just a link to a discrete piece of content, web sites were places full of interesting and gratifying words all of a theme. This is web site: jtierney.net
jtierney.net
Where to Find Me in the Afterlife
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 07/09/2026
Oh wow, this rules. TIL that My People have for centuries had their own diagnosis equivalent to CRPS. And Elfshot at least gives a cause beyond the "lol idk, let's put a computer in your spine" I got for the $2M+ spent on American doctors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfshot
en.wikipedia.org
Elfshot - Wikipedia
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 07/09/2026
Yoda’s corner store, the Dagobah Bodega.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 06/09/2026
They’re the among the youngest nations in the world, even younger and more self-discordant than we are. Right now they’re still just trying to piss off their parents.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 01/09/2026
“They took the letters from me!” is an amazing lament.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 01/09/2026
I’ve been back in NYFC for 45 minutes and it’s genuinely stupid that I live somewhere else.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 30/08/2026
Is this James Patterson’s ghost writer ghost writing for Mr. Beast under the James Patterson “author brand”? Things are so weird.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 26/08/2026
(if your brain is automatically calling out the ad-libs along with this song then you and I should be friends)
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 26/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bm...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 26/08/2026
2many drag queens 2soon
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 26/08/2026
My teenaged kids and their friends feel safer in a Waymo and mostly avoid Ubers. Taxis in Sam Francisco were useless even before Uber, so this is at least one use case for Waymo.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 25/08/2026
Sarah Lawrence College has class interviews this week and apparently a meeting for FLMH 3149 R 1 "Divadom and Drag" was meeting when the Dolly news broke. Can you imagine being in a Zoom of prospective students for a course in Divadom and Drag when you got news that Dolly Fucking Parton had died?
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 25/08/2026
“I was thinking about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie”
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 25/08/2026
Everything should be closed. Now.
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 20/08/2026
A photograph of an open on the ground, covered by a metal grate. Painted on the brick wall in front front of the grate are the words "STAND ON GRATE / PISS ON WALL." Under this someone has added the words "SLEEP ON THE FLOOR / DREAM ABOUT ME" in reference to the song "Anthems for a seventeen year-old girl" by Broken Social Scene
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Jacob Carlson @jacobwcarlson.me · 19/08/2026
I did this my freshman (and only) year of college. I always got an F with increasingly perplexed, then pleading, and then annoyed comments asking what the fuck I thought I was doing.
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