It’s official: Of the 10 African teams in the 2026 World Cup, 9 advance to the knockout rounds. South Africa, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Cabo Verde, Senegal, Algeria, DR Congo, Ghana are in. Only Tunisia is out.

You’ve tuned your last yards.

You’ve bloc-ed your last party.

You’ve gnarls-ed your last barkley.

You’ve fostered your last the people.

You’ve yeah yeahed your last yeah.

This is good satire of how similar governments in the global south are casually derogated, but it also suggests how Brexit was essentially a structural adjustment program turned inward—with all of the usual results.

BLOCKBUSTER: The Milwaukee Bucks are trading franchise icon Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis to the Miami Heat for Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakucionis, 3 first-round picks (including No. 13), 1 pick swap and 1 second-rounder, sources tell ESPN.

Merch idea: A T-shirt that reads, “There are better vessels than Bessel.”

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Toddler lunch goes crazy. Just a plate of vanilla pudding, kiwi, cucumbers, and cereal. Yes, I’m jealous.

Côte d'Ivoire strike first 🫡

OG Anunoby Sends Parade Crowd Into Frenzy With Celebratory Nod

Tracy Morgan: "New York City that's where King King died... and we told Godzilla you next motherf*cker. You, the three headed monster, the flying turtle, all y'all can all get it."

Two of the last three NBA Finals MVPs have been named Ja(y)len. It is only a matter of time until *all* Finals MVPs have that name. I, for one, welcome our new Jalen (and Jaylen, Jaylin, etc.) overlords.

Congrats to the Knicks, but my crank conspiracy theory is that De’Aaron Fox and Harrison Barnes won the championship for their former coach Mike Brown and are getting honorary championship rings for their 2023 Sacramento Kings.

Maybe the best 82-0 possible? www.82-0.com/share?id=ypC...

82-0, and I don’t think this one can be beat: www.82-0.com/share?id=WQt...

82-0, and an all-time team:

I managed to put together a hypothetical 79-win team, but I think this is the one I’d most want to see play: www.82-0.com/share?id=uRU...

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

Spurs-Knicks NBA Finals means:

“We are proud to announce that we have agreed to a multimillion dollar contract with Pyros to use their proprietary ‘library of the world’. This one-of-a-kind product will cost us only four times the original cost of our physical library.”

“Pyros has informed us that its AI has accidentally deleted a root file, and all of our digital copies have been lost. They also informed us that they have already incinerated all physical copies previously held by our library.”

“We at Alexandria College have long prided ourselves on our world-class library. But, today, we are announcing our partnership with the VC-funded EdTech start-up Pyros, who use AI to transfer our complete physical library to the cloud. They assure us that there will be no knowledge lost!”

“We at Alexandria College have long prided ourselves on our world-class library. But, today, we are announcing our partnership with the VC-funded EdTech start-up Pyros, who use AI to transfer our complete physical library to the cloud. They assure us that there will be no knowledge lost!”

A service technician left some tools at my house, so I called the company to let him know to come pick them up. It took five minutes on hold to be transferred to a virtual AI agent, who transferred me back to a fifteen minute hold for a human agent, who says they’ll call me back. Customer service!

My new essay is out in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre’s special issue on “100 Years of Du Bois.” It’s open-access, so you can read it here:

Oh my gosh, this is real. I’ve already been a DDG user (mostly avoiding Google) for years. But this is now set as my home page. noai.duckduckgo.com

My new essay is out in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre’s special issue on “100 Years of Du Bois.” It’s open-access, so you can read it here:

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Woke II: Vatican II, Redux

If this is the case, then we will probably get a full episode on the trauma plot backstory of the nuclear bomb that culminates in it beating Jacob Elordi bloody.

40 years ago neoliberalism said the markets will solve all problems, now everything is broken, four men have more money than God, and I need to teach high school freshman how to do an elevator pitch in an AP History class.

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Good news: i just discovered that I am not allergic to bee stings. Bad news: ask me how.

buffy season 1 episode 8 is about a demon that gets scanned into the internet from a medieval manuscript and it's basically about ai psychosis

“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Very bold of companies to still be sending out spam emails advertising ocean cruises right now.

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

I hate to admit it, but when you are coughing up perfectly spherical balls of green phlegm, the theory of bodily humors suddenly starts to make more sense.

My fantasy is that someone buys the Hampshire land and buildings and turns it into a kind of 'institute for advanced study' for humanities research & public education

One thing about turning 40 nowadays that no one tells you is that it is impossible to tell if you are having midlife crisis thoughts and feelings or if those are just everyday interminably compounding polycrisis thoughts and feelings.

Slightly diminish a book A Farewell to Armoires