REJECTED from a top journal

how computers work

I desperately want this to be the one story my daughter doesn’t abandon after one paragraph.

Julia Holter should release a new record

Anthrax has the worst discography of the Big 4 by a mile probably but they seem the least personally off putting so I hold a place in my heart for them

Truly the funniest thing about the report is that it’s the clearest evidence yet that Axios just makes up bait for the butterfly site

Allistic folks can and do enjoy activism and they’re still allistic because activism is inherently ignorant

boc maxima

I haven’t enjoyed Colbert since the Report ended but man does it piss me off that he’s had his show killed

This is what it is to know ball

Could literally always rewatch 30 Rock

Look, Liz Lemon, we’d all like to flee to The Cleve

It might seem impressive that AI solved an ope problem in pure math, but it could never conquer the heights of applied math, where we rely on the techniques of: trying to do integration by parts, trying to do a Taylor expansion, trying to do an integral transform, or giving up and killing ourselves.

Subway Takes guy: what's your take Dr. Mahmood Mamdani: The nation made the immigrant a settler and the settler a perpetrator. The nation made the local a native and the native a perpetrator, too. Once we learn this history, we might prefer to be survivors instead. Subway Takes guy: 100% disagree

unfortunately I think jeff bezos would probably be the favorite to win if he ever got the republican nomination, amazon is like the most trusted institution in america

haven’t read the DNC report but I’m gathering that at least the version we’re seeing in fact got killed because it was kinda dogshit work?

Good morning

9:30AM and I’m already stun locked by the “hbomberguy is a milkshake duck if he thinks loli is indefensible” discourse. Fine work this morning.

Prince Matchavelli

I jerked him now

For some reason somebody other than me gave a talk (my talk) on my work and apparently it was well received, so that’s a nice little win for today

We need a woke clavicular to promote clitmaxxing and femaleorgasmmogging

“Do u want my newsletter about how much AI sucks” right next to “model disproves longstanding conjecture in discrete geometry” is nuts

On this date in 2016, Car Seat Headrest - 'Teens of Denial' was released. 📈 #10 for 2016, #390 overall rateyourmusic.com/release/albu...

transgender for everyone solar for everyone taco trucks for everyone

The establishment would have you believe that the collapse in global starvation rates is due to advancements in farming and distribution of staple crops – but in fact, it’s almost entirely attributable to the existence of DoorDash

Robots That Can’t Dance has gotta be one of the funniest parts about life in the Future

Something people don't really remember but is true is that one of the *top* political issues the media covered in the runup to the 2014 midterms was the idea that Barack Obama had badly mismanaged an Ebola outbreak because 10 total Americans had gotten it

Like damn sometimes you just have to give it up for rice. Breakfast lunch or dinner it’s rice that fucking delivers

If you want Medicare for All (and I do!), you (yes, you!) are going to have to pay more taxes for it. That is simple math. No, you can't just tax billionaires. No, you aren't taxed enough already, and why are you adopting the slogan of reactionaries who want to dismantle social welfare programs?

This is peak mid 20th century CIA-style work www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Man was born to live más, but everywhere he is living menos

Lights should be flashing red for journalists: you guys have fucked your institutional role so badly that people on BlueSky are running interference for Tom Steyer pro bono

Accusing my cat of being ai because she has too many toes

The people mad about this are effectively arguing that humans working in Trust & Safety should be necessarily exposed to a lot of traumatizing stuff (CSAM, gore, etc.)

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

The actually interesting thing about tom steyer being a billionaire is that billionaires are almost uniformly People Who Want Power, and it’s worth considering why that profile is becoming more attractive to rank and file Dems

Billionaire tom steyer doesn’t know Wired’s EIC? Wow. Crazy. Who doesn’t know Wired’s EIC?

I saw this on Facebook (there was no creator credit) so now you have to as well. It hurtsses us.

Our Sci Fi/Fantasy book club meets tonight in Cambridge! Come hang out with some other nerds for a bit. We'll be discussing There Is No AntiMemetics Division!

I set up an RSS feed this week for a bunch of sources (Guardian, BBC, FT, etc), and honestly it’s pretty decent

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Some of the most annoying people in the world are gonna be so mad if Zero Parades is good after all that

“Opposition to data center build out is bipartisan!” yeah man that’s a hint that it’s fucking stupid

briahna joy gray is a fascist, that’s just the long and short of it. We should spend as much time thinking about her as we do any other fascist thought leader: as little as possible

the difference between windows jank and linux jank is that how well linux works is a reflection of the state of your own soul and how well windows works is a matter of which trickster deities you've caught the eye of