I'm pretty sure Garbage would say "mission accomplished."

I feel like Garbage is one of the few bands with the balls to cover Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the ability to back it up.

"We all have our priorities; mine is not to pander to apps that want to destroy my privacy."

Love it. Great video!

Great read. I love me some DeLillo, and love how the '60s - '80s gave us all these literary giants -- DeLillo, Pynchon, Oates, Auster, Rushdie -- who all seem to embrace some form of "low" pop culture (sports, movies, etc).

Was not a huge fan of the original, but really enjoyed this one after the first couple of episodes.

Plant sale was a success, in the sense that we spent over $60 and got a ton of plants. And good exercise walking there and back. Now to get more by planting them.

Great stuff this week (as always).

Learning new vocab's one of my favorite side effects of reading poetry. :-)

Another great one hit wonder:

I sent them a link to this article, but they haven't responded. Maybe they don't trust the folks who published it.

Another weekend, another plant sale. Drinking coffee to get prepped for it.

The NTSB just released the report on the Key Bridge collapse, so it's been back in the news -- maybe that's what you heard about? I haven't heard any other stories, though it's been a crazy news cycle, and a smaller one might not get as much attention.

I feel like HN Bot works because it's really the only one of its kind here. We've already got issues with links from some sites getting not-quite-spammed, but bots would only increase that.

That said, a bot that's only occasionally posting (like the one @0xbitcoiner suggests) and which is surfacing old and/or overlooked content sounds like it has potential.

This strikes me as smart politics by the Dems, as Nickel[^1] notes in the piece, since otherwise they're ceding the issue, and that leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy where "crypto" and Bitcoin become inherently Republican. Warren can't hurt her election chances in MA short of shooting someone on Fifth Avenue (to quote someone else), but the other party members don't want to chase away votes.

But yeah, I don't believe for a second that they care about anything other than making sure the banks can sell their ETFs and funnel their profits into donations.

[^1}:Also, "Wiley Nickel" is a hell of a name.

Great piece, and the piece linked within it has a quote that perfectly sums it up:

The only thing that I do think is left out of both pieces is acknowledging that feedback itself can be useful (or even vital) to the platform, and that's the tension. You need to create a mechanism for feedback to be heard (and to be listened to, which isn't the same thing) while managing expectations around that. I don't envy developers.

"Disposed" means "closed," which can be anything from dropped to pled out to whatever (IANAL, just someone who reads a lot of crime fiction and nonfiction, so obviously I'll defer to @siggy47 or others here). Given the speed, though, "dropped" seems pretty likely (and by "dropped," I'm guessing it means "PGA brings in a lot of money to Louisville").

Here's the final #1 hit from Huey Lewis and the News, a song written by Bruce Hornsby, but which Bruce hated when he recorded it, so he gave it to his pal Huey.

Just replicated the error on Chrome on a Mac. @k00b @ek.

Glad you read and enjoyed it, though I do think nothing replaces the original text. For starters, not getting the insight into the internal thoughts of the characters allows a lot more room for interpretation. It especially allows more interpretation over why MacBeth gave in and how much he resisted.

While there are people who revel at being evil (when you get to Titus Andronicus, you'll meet Aaron, and in Othello there's Iago), flawed heroes (and MacBeth certainly starts the play as one) tend to be more compelling, personally. Even Hamlet's Claudius, one of his more evil villains is shown to be capable of guilt.

As for MacDuff, it's because he really didn't think MacBeth was evil. Usurping the throne is one thing, killing rivals is another, but going after the family was considered out of bounds.

And yeah, the Witches are such an enigma. Were they simply revealing what was destined? If he'd never encountered them, would he have been tempted? Was their second prophecy meant to make him complacent?

Shakespeare doesn't always use the supernatural; it's just a useful tool depending on the story he wants to tell.

If you're a fan of fantasy, though, I do recommend Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, which starts with a comparable group of witches and a royal plot, but goes in very different directions.

He hardly thinks it's good today, just that AI's going to make it even worse.

I only sort of remember it when it was first came out, but it was in Donnie Darko, and like "Mad World," seems to have picked up steam since then. I definitely see the Bowie influence you're talking about.

I feel like song has more life in it now than it did when it came out. I seem to hear it everywhere and in all sorts of TV shows.