Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

Nothing beats thinking you crafted a banger of an essay prompt, only to realize that about 2/3 of the students used the same LLM because everyone's first sentence is exactly the same.

I aspire to write a headline a tenth as good as this someday. Also, fuck the IDF and well done Al Kapranos for taking a stand.

It is an absolute crime that HBO released only the first season of Perry Mason on Blu-ray, not the second.

Is Jared Kushner still solving Middle East peace?

This episode, like many others from The Twilight Zone, is an excellent resource for teaching about the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism in the US History survey. Students really get a lot out of it and (sadly) are well aware of how fast finger-pointing can escalate.

This episode, like many others from The Twilight Zone, is an excellent resource for teaching about the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism in the US History survey. Students really get a lot out of it and (sadly) are well aware of how fast finger-pointing can escalate.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made" is what comes to mind here.

Hey you can’t assassinate or kidnap leaders of sovereign nations just because they are bad. Feel like this needs to be said

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Having a tough day, but Paddington 2 was on when I got home. Things are starting to look up.

Bill Simmons and The Ringer staff are about to have a seizure

Masterful Troll, TCM.

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

Started off this lovely Monday morning by getting into a fight with the copier. It won.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm* "Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky" Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000. All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing 21, 1976

Damn

If we’re talking about celebrity Olympic enthusiasts, I am far far far more fond of Flavor Flav than Snoop.

Damn.

TCM’s schedule today is a murderer’s row of classics. Pun intended.

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

Damn. Not Jonathan Moxon

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Dear future historians, When trying to understand the 2010s-2020s, please avoid focusing on the crypto and AI bubbles. Instead realize that our greatest invention was Dawn Powerwash.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Is anyone keeping track of how many gambling and AI commercials there are during the Super Bowl?

Someone bring Wynonna from the Puppy Bowl to me this instant!

AMC’s programming today: Speed, John Wick: Chapter 4, Point Break, Road House, & Days of Thunder. AMC was like, “I’ll see your Super Bowl and raise you more testosterone!”

Every four years, I become an expert in curling, luge, and the biathlon.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The rebooted Muppet Show is perfect

...So we can get better angles of the murders?

This might be peak internet

Will y’all leave that poor groundhog alone?

Will y’all leave that poor groundhog alone?

Call me whatever you want, but it sure seems like a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis seized control of a global superpower…and now they’re murdering Americans in the street, arresting journalists, and setting up a network of concentration camps across the United States.

Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52

No, no, no. No, dammit, no!

Why are Jannick Sinner’s matches always so long?

I’ve long championed Kenny Vasoli as the greatest pop-punk writer, but there might be a new king. Long live The Paradox! This song feels like a time warp to 2002.

We are about 2 years away from needing multi-factor authentication for your multi-factor authentication.

“I think I might watch Birth of a Nation, you know, to expand beyond my political bubble.” Or, stick with me here, you don’t have to engage with these things. Don’t give them oxygen. Let it wither and die.

if polling is so tilted against DHS/ICE that Laura fucking Ingraham is calling the post-9/11 creation of DHS unnecessary bureaucratic overreach on Fox News, the Democrats shouldn’t be aiming for moderate reforms as a negotiated compromise position - they should be pressing this advantage.