It’s good to know that if you post good enough strangers will remember you fondly.

One of the greatest of the Old Twitter comedians, Mike Fossey, has passed away much too young. Truly a legend of the genre.

For those that want to tackle Moby-Dick we're starting A Month of Dick 2026 on Thursday! 🐋

I’m predicting that no amount of peer reviewed research will be sufficient to convince a lot of folks that they can’t reliably distinguish between AI and non-AI writing, no matter how well read they are.

im like if a film buff wasn't all that buff. and also didn't know or care all that much about film

Do you ever notice that someone no longer follows you and obsess over which post was the last straw? yeah me neither

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I found this notepad I was using when I was writing my book and this is the only thing in it

Godspeed You! Black Eyed Peas. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead Kennedys. Alanis Morrissey.

sir mix a lot was an early appreciator of neurodiverse women

ruin two bands by combining them: The Traveling Wilburys

I think this is horrifying and immoral and illegal. I also feel like I’m taking crazy pills because people seem to be of the view that this is at variance from bipartisan American policy, rather than exactly what we’ve been doing for my entire adult life

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

David fincher also has seven–the game–fight club and the social network–the girl with the dragon tattoo–gone girl, which are also pretty strong (unfortunately zodiac as abutted by panic room and Benjamin button)

Learn statistics and you too can be just like Mark

Team "All Billionaires are Bastards" faces its strongest test yet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

Semiotic paradox alert!

*spits coffee all over the screen in James Cameron* 🔵🔵🔵

Keir Starmer's face is not noticeably modified, Katy Perry has just been put through a grin filter, Reeves is just a different person altogether and Polanski is just a standard anti-semitic caricature; got to wonder if an AI made these

I'll start replying to my emails like this. #science #academia #academic #philosophy #philsky

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

My ob-gyn has a display case with various types of medication and I just realized that one fairly generic looking box just says PLACEBO 🤨

I use these words in speech constantly; perhaps I should take up oratory

Fisherman

Read the SEP article on the coherence theory of truth, and this seems like .... a very very bad theory of truth*?!?!? * Except for moral/counterfactual/mathematical discourse, in which case it seems like a very good theory, but not necessarily of truth per se.

Of course Bolsonaro likes going to hospital; when he's not in hospital he's in prison

This is exactly why Mr Shepherd is such an excellently drawn character. Even many Austen readers would be hard-pressed to remember his name. Unlike Dickens' caricatures like Mr Tulkinghorn, a good practical lawyer should not even be noticeable.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't by 5ive, 911, Bad Boys Inc or PJ and Duncan

hmmmm

Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone? OZ-Y MAN-DIAS Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone OZ-Y MAN-DIAS If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care OZ-Y MAN-DIAS Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair OZ-Y MAN-DIAS

unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre

They're desperate to rationalize "heritage American" as if it's some serious intellectual theory and not a white nationalist twitter meme. Which doesn't work because it is, in fact, just a white nationalist twitter meme.

When I've appeared on people's podcasts it's only ever been men who've gone "oh btw we're gonna be recording video, is that ok?" literally right before we start. Please don't do this!

john leguizamo is an actor where i feel like he could get away with portraying people from a huge variety of ethnic backgrounds and they’d mostly be honored rather than offended

I'd have wanted to but it never seems to be on

In a grad seminar I made a point and the prof responded in a way I found unpersuasive so I made a face and the professor goes ‘you know Noam, this stuff is actually really hard, so when you go [impression of my face] you look really stupid’

Seems bad

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it

"You are not immune to propaganda" speak for yourself buddy I totally am and so are like 30% of the population at the very least

John McClane walked through broken glass in his bare feet so Judy Hopps could hopp

impressive bait

What if the years greatest called shot was also an incredible shitpost

until morale improves

Just saw someone describe Die Hard, a film in which it's made very explicit that all the cops except two are incompetent and one of the two exceptions has shot a child on the job by accident, as copaganda