The issue here has nothing to do with a failure to mention what caused the death, as I see some people suggesting. That’s not unusual. It’s a nonsensical arrangement of words. If you don’t see the problem with the syntax here, you are as bad as the people who wrote and approved this

This all goes for using LLMs to generate prose-as-writing, too.

Strong seconding of this. That show was amazing. Not famous enough for there to be a gif of the chaplain saying “Amen,” so here’s the whole clip.

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Also I think we shouldn’t let gambling sites pretend they report breaking news. Degenerate scope creep.

And, yeah, if you missed it, the Trump-appointed head of the National Capital Planning Commission delayed the vote on the ballroom today because there were so many opposed comments/speakers.

Psyched about these Firefly reboot rumors

Also a good reminder to have a prearranged signal with staff that you can see from the lectern that means "red alert wrap up now!"

I was actually coming here to say how good it feels to solve a thorny transition in a story by just hitting return a couple times, typing "BREAK," and then just getting on with the next bit. But now this is all way better.

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

I have to believe Corey will stand by her.

Maybe like a gong, or shepherd's crook?

This is a good reminder to try not to be the kind of person who other people will let this kind of thing happen to.

This is amazing; am watching on C-SPAN3. If she had a staff member who liked her, that person would've walked up to her 15 minutes ago to whisper in her ear to get out of there. But no one is protecting her. Any one of these attendees can break the news to her on live tv.

New "we didn't start the fire" dropped

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

Say what you will about Wired (where I was an editor and writer for 20 years) but this could not be more incorrect. Journalism is not there to help people make stock choices. You could get an R01 grant in how to be wrong and not know more about how to be wrong. garryslist.org/posts/trae-s...

That’s precisely how advanced the AI is

And what it all comes DOWN to Is everything’s gonna be

I have been part of the cast of more than one TV pilot that did not go to series.

We have always been at not a war with Eurasia.

Traveling shoe salesman/shoe factory owner/back to sales; car mechanic/rabble rouser with a stint as a salmon fisherman in Alaska.

Well, that does seem suspicious, yes.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

Congress should authorize postal banking *and* allow USPS to ground lease its land to multifamily homebuilders (provided any project on a lot holding an operating post office includes a new, renovated post office on the ground floor).

Me too! I also think about this!

Borg collaborators

Gundam is an initialism??!!

Uh huh, OK, so, is there like a manager or someone more in charge we can speak to?

After Grenfell, the UK government considered a few options for what the single-stair height limit should be, given the sense that the old unlimited height was not good. They chose the most conservative one. It is now six stories – the height CAL FIRE’s firefighters could not get comfortable with.

I asked grok... I asked ChatGPT... I saw Donald Trump say... they're just generating language! There's no *meaning* behind it. It's just a plausible series of tokens.

wait what

There's something magical about how very-online quantitative social scientists are letting AI Sokal Hoax their discipline.

It only seems that way because we kept all the best ones

Well, I would love to see this show. catsthejellicleball.com

Pathetic

Remember they tried to fire that guy?

You simply do not comprehend how hard it sucks that my dad was right about all the antisemitism being everywhere all the time. Like I argued with him *constantly* about this. Welp! More fool me.

Well also a newspaper could decide to only publish op-eds it thought were good or smart and not publish the dumb ones, and then we’d know who we were dealing with. And if there were a lot of newspapers, we could choose.

Anyway the new season of Primal is great, for my fellow niche dwellers. Got a Batman TAS reference in the latest.

They made the points count more than the stuff.

OK but

You don’t even have to fake a Big Store con any more. The secret machine that gives you early race results is real! www.ap.org/media-center...

Can't decide if Trump's neck rash is pathetic fallacy or objective correlative.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Really gonna make me sit here with “the rash is from a lotion to prevent something that’s a secret,” huh? Like I’m just supposed to shrug and nod? www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

What are the pre-teens riding to 7th grade? A 6000W illegal motorcycle.

I truly don't love watching everyone in the industry I spent 20 years working in turn into nazis! It didn't have to turn out this way. We all started as gift economy ideologues.

It’s weird that a drug that doesn’t do the thing a few people say it does would be”polarizing” somehow.

NEW: More evidence that those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election are working with Trump administration officials to set the rules for the 2026 midterms. @dougbockclark.bsky.social