A friend gave me this phrase and I continue to appreciate it for framing controversial ideas, “Let me bullshit you some crazy.”

Air on Tiny Desk just dropped https://www.wprl.org/npr-music/2025-12-05/air-tiny-desk-concert

The further you are from a problem, the easier the solution appears.

gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity

The goat and the lion.
Ernest Griset, from "Æsop's fables" revised and re-written by Joseph Benjamin Rundell, London, New York: [1869?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/goat-lion/