‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

That’s my university baybeeeee

It's genuinely crazy to me that people spend thousands of dollars on Very Breakable dryers in California. I mean it was 100 degrees last week. And very few people live in HOAs where it's declasse or whatever. They beat your clothes up though I concede they do fluff towels better than the sun.

"His stage name wryly reflected the fact that Stalin was sometimes referred to as 'Country Joe' because of his rural background. The word 'Fish' was taken from Mao Zedong, who wrote that revolutionaries 'must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Gimme an F!.. gimme a U!.. gimme a C!.. gimme a K!.. What's zat spell?! What's it spell? What's it SPELL?!.. Country Joe is dead just when we need the Fish Cheer most. (Woodstock rendition of Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag down thread, for who don't know it.) www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Del Toro doing the early American novel Wieland about a devout Christian tricked into mudering his family by an itinerant man who ventriloquizes the voice of God.

things you don't learn in grad school include how to grade the papers of students whose countries of origin your own nation is presently bombing the crap out of.

another thing about Claude and OpenAI is that their databases are overwhelmingly English-based. This means a lot of info will be missing, will be heavily Orientalist, or will need to be translated and force-fit into heavily flawed translation systems, in addition to filling in "blanks" in English.

Thank you.

kind of the perfect emblem for Viewpoint Diversity: giving a racist and fascist equal billing with people who fought against those things, because Ideas are Ideas

Wow. During the Cold War a sizable proportion of grad students in fields like aerospace engineering at MIT were not only service members, but writing classified dissertations. In fact classified dissertations became a flash point for anti-Vietnam War campus activism. Wow.

TV and movies had a good run. Back to the only incorruptible medium: photocopied pornographic zines

hard-wiring of "behavior" into brain "circuits" sounds like old-school eugenics to me. This is the prof who blurted racist stuff & tried to cover up by blaming it on her kid. Bio: "underlying neural circuits guiding social behaviors w the goal of ID-ing beneficial/pathological neural adaptations."

How can any Democrat stay inside the chamber after this kind of xenophobia? What are they even accomplishing by politely subjecting themselves to this?

this sounds like an actual speech somebody worked on, unfortunately, tho it is still 82 unrelated things strung together by force of time passing. Sounds like grandpa got the GOOD drugs tonight, too.

one tiny step to happiness! especially back archives of Sophisticated Boom Boom. "Female-fronted pop from the past, present, and future; from all over the globe. And the occasional man."

1988 news article on Jesse Jackson visiting my town to support factory workers in a former family business, maker of Laffy Taffy, bought out by Nestle. He returned in 1996 to support plaintiffs in the largest sexual harassment suit in US history and open supply channels to non-white contractors.

Wow.

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I guess it was that or give back the caryatids

Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan Joshua Schlachet｜UH Press uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/nouris...

Fascinating read of how allegory and form work in national versions of "we're on the brink" storytelling in Japanese anime, specifically Astro Boy, versus US superheroes.

this "literary agent "John Brockman is truly odd--a BA from a business college (Babson) then an MBA...how did he parlay himself into authority for EITHER science or humanities/"culture"? Making his debut with 1975 "The Pocket Calculator Book of Games" straight to "My Einstein"--quite the whirlwind!

Spending a year on an article about the Humanities without talking about the effects of xenophobia and student debt on de-funding is ...a choice. Embarassing. As for monopoly, er shouldn't we be talking of attrition, failure to support topics typically helmed by language and literature?

good grief, LA's dumbass version of boosterism makes this city such a cowtown sometimes... laist.com/news/la28-bo...?

every time I read about the "tranche" of documents in the Epstein files, it reminds me of the Mariana Trench (as seen by me on maps)--unfathomably deep, dark, with life forms that have evolved to be capable of surviving in those conditions...

huh.

going great already lmfaoo

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

very positive review in the Wall Street Journal film section today..."By highlighting his cinephilia, this wonderful book brings Kurosawa closer to the film buffs who will undoubtedly make up its grateful readership." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

This IS very good advice, and concise, too!

This isn't financial advice but As You Sow has resources on how to not invest your retirement accounts in private prisons prisonfreefunds.org

the word "tuition" appears 1465 times in the Epstein files (acc to the latest records). paging through, it's college tuition, middle school tuition. international school tuition, researchers' children's tuition...such a perverse support of education in the service of domination...

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Wow, iirc this guy put up quite a fight for Mapplethorpe and the art world in the late 80s...in the Jesse helms years. Yikes. How the context turns... www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

The National Diet Library is exploring the possibility of extending its Digitized Transmission Service for Individuals (DCTI) to those residing outside of Japan. To understand potential demand, the NDL and CULCON have created a survey. Deadline for responses 3/31! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

I kind of feel like if a middle-aged finance dude wants to pay you a $$$$ to write a book on _Lolita_, and you are a "world-class" scholar who realizes the book is a scathing critique of Humbert Humbert, you might want to either run, or fleece him bigtime, as he has obviously not even read the book.

The right way to get into the Epstein files.

Thank you for this timely and beautiful piece! Here sharing a petition of possible interest you as an SFSU alum. Last year, Cal State University contracted w/ OpenAI to provide ChatGPT to all students. We’re asking the CSU not to renew this unfortunate contract: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

L.A. Metro relocates buses with 'Melania' ads after 'extensive and severe' vandalism

I'd rather watch "Requiem for a Dream" with my parents than a single minute of Darren Aronofsky's AI "1776" series.

lotta uniforms in the background too.

For those not familiar with "destructive scanning", this means Anthropic would buy up millions of physical books, use “hydraulic powered cutting machines” to chop them up, scan the pages on “high speed, high quality, production level scanners,” then send the pages to recycling companies!!!

Yikes, I thought Burbank was the sleepy airport...

Fake ivy installed along U.S. 101 in downtown Los Angeles to deter graffiti

I love rock n roll, but some times you gotta just stop and listen to some Adult Music. Saw a great show by Arooj Aftab et al last night, and here's some more. With Anouskka Shankar.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.