Nick

Former musicologist, current law person. UT-Austin and Kansas alum. He/him. Views and opinions are my own / not my employer’s, etc etc. Ad Astra per Aspera 🌻

[Nick @nkc____]

Gonna start telling people that this is voir dire

[Nick @nkc____]

Absolutely bonkers. Wow

[Nick @nkc____]

Probably going to be added to his facial recognition panopticon ban list for this tweet smh

[Nick @nkc____]

Idk who is actually to blame for the MSG watch party falling through but given Dolan’s track record I doubt there are even a dozen people in the whole city inclined to believe he isn’t the one at fault

[Nick @nkc____]

@FatsFats1 @Amtrak Technically yes but functionally no

[Nick @nkc____]

@Amtrak Because Amtrak WiFi is less functional or reliable than circa 2004 dialup

[Nick @nkc____]

Have never seen a single Minionsverse film but I gotta respect how absolutely unhinged they’re getting. Like wdym the minions summon Cthulhu and shoggoths and there’s a 15-minute sequence spoken entirely in minionese

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘MINIONS & MONSTERS’ will feature a 15-minute sequence spoken entirely in Minionese.

(Source: https://t.co/eFjZZWQsMN)

[Nick @nkc____]

My favorite multiview lately has been the NBA playoffs + NHL playoffs + WNBA + SVU combo. Just a slightly different sort of three-letter acronym with that last one there but you know what why not

[Luis Paez-Pumar @lppny]

I would be terrified of someone who would want to multibox OKC-Spurs with Jen Psaki’s MSNBC show. Genuinely bone-chilling to think about.

[Nick @nkc____]

You can donate to Spinal Cord Injury BC at https://t.co/0cT66ld9YR.

I dedicated my donation to FIFA’s misplaced priorities and had the notice sent to FIFA’s Legal and Compliance Division.

[Nick @nkc____]

Classic FIFA—they’ll let you bribe your way into hosting a World Cup, but raffling off a pair of tickets for charity is apparently a bridge too far

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Story @TheAthleticFC

A Vancouver-based non-profit which assists people recovering from serious spinal injuries organized a raffle of two World Cup tickets.

Then the cease-and-desist letters came from FIFA.

Free to read

https://t.co/ljGKZ83GNL

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.

[Nick @nkc____]

I know we don’t really care anymore about logical consistency or the longstanding historical meanings of words anymore but like cmon man

[Nick @nkc____]

Truly baffles me how Polymarket can claim with a straight face to not be a sports betting platform when they straight up buy ad space on the side of the hockey rink to say LIVETRADE TONIGHT’S GAME ON POLYMARKET

Like my dudes we already have a term for that. It’s “sports betting”

[Nick @nkc____]

Mamdani is already making NYC more affordable

[Sarah McCrory @sarahhmccrory]

You can get virtually nothing for under $6 in New York City, but you CAN go to a Mets game

[Nick @nkc____]

You’d think that Microsoft’s AI would be able to guess that in an email reply to a Christina, the first word was very likely going to be “Christina.” But no. Its best guess was “Christmas.” Copilot might literally be worse at this than pre-smartphone T9 predictive text

[Nick @nkc____]

Barely exaggerating here: the other day I was replying to an email from a Christina. Had typed in the first six letters of her name when the copilot autofill recommendation appeared. It thought the first word of my reply to Christina was going to be “Christmas”

[Nick @nkc____]

At work we just got copilot in outlook, which so far seems to do nothing but suggest what word I might want to type next with a lower hit rate than random chance

[Nick @nkc____]

@alittleleader That is the most unhinged thing I have ever heard

[Nick @nkc____]

@lexlanham Yes

[Nick @nkc____]

@saniyafatma1278 What a fascinating engagement bait account. Based on a quick scroll of tweets from just the past twelve hours, Sara has had at least six different pets die today, lost several others (as well as a husband) over the past few weeks, and it’s maybe eight other pets’ birthday today

[Nick @nkc____]

Getting harder and harder for NYT Pitchbot to be any more ridiculous than actual real life NYT headlines

[Nick @nkc____]

At work we just got copilot in outlook, which so far seems to do nothing but suggest what word I might want to type next with a lower hit rate than random chance

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers tells users not to rely on it for important advice https://t.co/SxtS4xSPmC