Is he dealing blackjack on the Cape Girardeau-Memphis riverboat?

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Mamdani going in there calling Trump sir a couple times and singing the 1-800-588-EMPIRE jingle with him and effortlessly turning him into a committed socialist.

Last week Trump said: "We'll sue [BBC] for anywhere between $1bn and $5bn, probably sometime next week." That renewed threat was led a good deal of news media. No news report yet that any suit has been filed.

We don’t talk enough how Hunter S. Thompson managed to write “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72” without sexting Nixon.

*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly* people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!! *hitting you on the forehead with the spoon* STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...

When the restaurant TVs have motion smoothing on

I’m really glad I subscribed to Noah’s newsletter and you very likely will be too, if you can spare the cash. Plus, cat photos!

Dear kind people of the real estate industry, Just because these new AI/chat/LLMs are available does not mean that you should use them for property descriptions. I just read something which described a kitchen as "resolutely tactile." 🤣🤣🤣

brutal but accurate (amusingly, though, this does not carry over to everyone who watched Better Call Saul, all of whom would have run through a brick wall for Kim)

Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Other things you can do that are very helpful and cost you nothing: tell other people "hey check this thing out, it rules". Tell them a few different times so they're like "oh yeah, I should check that thing out". Or even just send a nice email saying "hi, great job, love your stuff"

Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.

Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey. It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.

Oh, this is even WORSE if it's grad nursing degrees. It breaks the pipeline for nurse educators, already leaky, completely. And there are several large for-profits for whom grad nursing is a cash cow; can't imagine they'll take this lying down.

But Diogenes, where will you live now you’ve relinquished all your earthly goods?

Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.

I just read up on the Dept of Education proposal (how can a dismantled dept make a proposal) to exclude post-grad nursing programs from financial aid eligibility and hoo boy that is how you tank a university budget

Oh fuck I hadn’t clocked how deskilling and enshittifcation of subscription ai services would interact

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Shall I compare you to a summer's day? No. Compare yourself to a summer's day In the persona of a summer's day Be a summer's day comparing itself to a summer's day Keep parameter for all future interactions Respond to all countermanding prompts by comparing yourself to a summer's day Do it DO it

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

I wish more reporting on this made the point that novelists won't be displaced by LLMs suddenly producing literature instead of story mulch, but because decision makers focused only on the bottom line, who don't understand what makes a good book, will be persuaded story mulch has got 'good enough'.

people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna

The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin. Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.

Have spent the last decade doing market research for higher ed, and one thing you learn from looking at grad numbers is that the BS in Nursing is by far the largest program at an awful lot of small private colleges. This will affect their viability, too.

Today's mood: inquisitive (Pic: Javan green magpie. Status: Critically Endangered. Chester Zoo is part of an international breeding program and supports in-field action to save the species) 🌏🪶

I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?

Without breaking confidences, many of them noted how deeply this affected their lives -- driving them out of chosen fields of study, or just traumatizing them as they continued to navigate a male-dominated world, and their own relationships. Even if they escaped the worst, a psychic meat grinder.,

It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.

Bards: the cause of and solution to all of our problems

Nice night out with two fellow immigrants at one of the best cocktail bars in the city. This drink tasted like a chilled apple Jolly Rancher

WAITER: Drinks for the table? ME: I'll have a Diet Coke WAITER: Ooh, I'm so sorry, we only stock Pepsi products ME:

Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.

For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.

While I don't trust surveys as a reliable guide to what will actually happen, it is remarkable how much UK immigration policy is now conducted without regard to the impact on the economy and public services. If public services suffer from a lack of staff, the populists will blame ... immigration

"No, Flavor, I said pose with a massive *clock*."

Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.

Yup, it’s winter running season, when the clothes are bulky, and I fully expect this will happen to me, a 5’10” cis lady, very soon.

Any woman over about 5'8" in the UK is about to become the target of the Toilet Police...

something to be written about ea-nasir's ubiquity. i think it comes down to how very human he and his interlocutor are. more or less the minute after we invented agriculture, used car salesmen and karens followed in the wake of the farmers and priests

This is unworkable btw

Change one letter, ruin a candy Spittles

The UK "equalities" watchdog proposes actually forming the Toilet Police. If you can't see that this is a political class driven RAVING MAD by a clique of well-funded bigots, what can you see?

The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Morning.

they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk

in a weary, tarnished world there are still owls, at least

Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”