There’s a decent Wikipedia entry on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones?wprov=sfti1

Tl;dr is they are a secret society at Yale comprised of legacy kids (I believe both presidents Bush were members, for example) that has initiation rites that are supposed to be humiliating which creates a bond. Apparently they have changed quite a bit from their heyday in the first half of the twentieth century.

To be fair, there does seem to be a real tradition of “we get together and do things that are embarrassing and possibly illegal to have mutually assured destruction by way of blackmail.” Skull and Bones is supposedly based entirely on that framework.

First Facebook and now TikTok. Social media companies love hiring former IDF people

I think this is super accurate. I might have in a moment (or twelve or a hundred) of weakness eaten a whole box of these in a single sitting.

Wait, what? I thought it was about camaraderie as well. I mean, yeah, I wish I was getting laid but I’d honestly rather have a community of people around me who provide mutual support to each other.

A moment of envy?

You don’t like their song about weird kids?

https://youtu.be/eTeg1txDv8w

Seems to satisfy the ask.

I mean, I knew medical research was misogynistic but this is still somehow shocking.

That would be distracting, but if you really want to distract people, you would need to start redistributing wealth, starting with giving people homes reclaimed from the hedge funds that have been buying up residential properties.

She looks like Riki Lindhome here.

Because you were going to get curry.

I think Moorcock does recognize the value of having empires in fiction, his point is more about the underlying philosophy revealed by the protagonist(s).

Is MacOS no longer supporting terminal apps? I imagine you could use neovim in macOS.

The article actually shouts out Apple as doing things really well, which was surprising considering he’s focused on Linux which is only barely an option on current Mac machines.

I’m a bad enough dude to get killed in the first stage.

He’s more or less said that exact thing.

I feel this a lot. Between people moving away and turning inward, I have maybe one or two really good friends.

Ah, an evergreen meme.

To be fair, the LotR trilogy is 3 movies at ~3.5 hours, which is 10.5 hours—close enough to 11 hours.

Now, if you’re not getting character development and world building in much less time than that, it’s either a problem with execution or expectations.

Yeah, it’s pretty fucked that the male actor didn’t say something about the intimacy coordinator not being present, the fact there wasn’t prior notice, and so on. Definitely makes him complicit at best.