they're doing it for gender, imo

You'd think the person responsible for putting Stephen Miller on television, much less in charge of anything, would pay a heavy electoral price

This was the episode where the series jumped the shark more or less permanently, never to return to its past glory Entirely coincidentally I graduated high school a few months later

What if the president understood literally anything

One of those cases where you think it might be more complicated and then read the story to discover that it is not. The resident dean was removed after an organized campaign that surfaced speech - whether you like it or not - seemingly unrelated to their work at Harvard.

Clearest possible example of how de re and de dicto ascriptions part ways #linguistics 🐦🐦

The Wisconsin partial veto power/jurisprudence reliably makes everybody lose their dang minds

Just a total, comprehensive failure of every societal institution, including our most prominent media outlets, who soiled themselves completely in how they covered this & the Canada nonsense:

Throw "inherent authority" into this mix too

I hear Rob Schneider is available

This is essentially unchanged since yesterday. Either the administration is treating this like a game of capture the flag, or there is a major military operation/escalation yet to come.

If you’re not from Philly you can’t understand. The city is fortified for the entire year with that punishing drone of saxophones that sound like kindergarten toys and the pubescent cicada buzz of the banjos. Without it Philadelphia is vulnerable to her enemies

this is...maybe the best ad i've ever seen?

Listening to Just The Way You Are and was like that alto sax sounds like Phil Woods and damned if it isn't Phil Woods

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If I were an elected leader I would simply not say things that make me sound like a little baby

Based on the reporting so far it seems it is currently the former, Trump is describing it as the latter, and getting from A to B will require a massive and open-ended additional military operation

So, uh, we are gonna run the country without any physical presence there and while leaving the existing government in place?

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

One year.

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

Also, characterizing a presidential power as "inherent…under Article II" seems semantically inconsistent. A power that could be stripped by amending the Constitution isn't an inherent power. It's not in the nature of presidents; it's enumerated and established by law.

Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps: 1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

Yes. An adequate reckoning with Jan 6 would have had to include things like federal indictments for Ron Johnson.

Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High

I don't know where "superintelligence" falls on the visionary-to-delusional-to-bullshit spectrum, but as a linguist I am very ready to believe that language alone won't get you there

First-person output encourages us to think of LLMs as if they were discrete individuals with genuine personalities, when they are actually more like Robin Williams rapid-fire shifting from one artificial persona to another mid-interview (without any of the charm or genius)

Close enough

🎵 I want a name when I lose 🎶

He sounds like he's really mad and playing D&D

Watched the last five episodes of 30 Rock season 1 on the plane and it is just miraculously good ~20 years later, still can't believe it got made

Sgt. Slaughter real-time PSA level tracker

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

In 2028, it will be the first non trump presidential election for everyone under 35!

I would (maybe) read something on how so many of the late 80s / early 90s SNL cast ended up as rightwing cranks

Intersective modification in the scope of maximization stays undefeated

That'll get you an assistant professor for a year at most universities in America

New College is like if you took a real house and, at great public expense, turned it into a Bluth Company model home

Post a perfect album from the nineties that isn't Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (you can't)

Since that post is making the rounds again

It's always 5:00 according to someone's body clock

It fucked Wisconsin up so bad

Pleased to report that 95 from the Blue Route to the Delaware line still feels like the trench run from Star Wars

NFL broadcasts basically only work because TV has been a unionized business for a long time so naturally Netflix and Amazon look like children comparatively

They were students' worst nightmare because they were an emblem of the exam itself, a physical proxy for test anxiety