It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.

This game brightened my day. I love the little frogs. ☺️

Jazz will be replaced by Buzz

same

ScanDisk. My anxiety started here.

I'm telling myself that if I color-code my 2026 reading log spreadsheet, I'll read more books. 🤷‍♀️

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

They updated the display name and turned over the @NYCMayor account but all the old Adams tweets are still there so now they have Mamdani's name over them.

I'm starting the year behind on work because of eye strain, so it's already going great. 😣 But, you know, a year ago, I figured we'd be in full Civil War II / Societal Collapse by now, so I can't *really* complain. (yes, I know things are very bad, I did not say they aren't very bad)

felt attacked by this one

Seeing this video at age 13 changed the course of my life.

I finished 16 books this year (that I wasn't being paid to read), which is a new low for me and feels pathetic, but I *am* comparing myself to my friends from a book-related message board back in the day who have somehow kept up their teen-level reading habits in their 30s/40s...

today in words I'm indexing for the first time: bishōnen

nonfiction titles today: First Things: Why The Morning Ends (And Why It Doesn’t Have To) Pasta Fabulous 1927: The Year Before 1928 What Costco Can Teach Us About China, and What China Can Teach Us About Strategy www.thechatner.com/p/what-every...

I have my coffee

-get paid for a crossword puzzle -remember how to make time for non-work reading -stay on my concertgoing BS -improve my business income after it uhh un-improved this year for various reasons -the big one and the least likely to happen (see above): move to a walkable part of the suburbs

if there's ever a "non-interactions with people in the specific contexts in which they could be considered celebs" thread, I'm ready (e.g., elevator at AMS with just me and Richard Taruskin avoiding eye contact)

When 90s conservatives were freaking out about gay men raising children, this was probably not what they had in mind, but my daughter is atm refusing to fall asleep unless we play her the triumphal march from Aida.

I got my first opera premiered! It's about the poet Amy Lowell going back in time to visit Sappho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Dickinson, using exclusively the poetry of all four. If you like women artists, female voices, literature, or gay shit, give it a listen youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY?...

Simply one of my favorite stories ever. RIP to one of the great artists of our age www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

Two of my picks made the list (I'm With Her and Molly Tuttle)!

The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) [archive.org]

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I got a tablet for Christmas, installed apps for ebooks and word games and nothing else, and put it in grayscale mode. It's just Big Phone and I know that, but it *feels* more wholesome.

The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.

there's a New Yorker diaeresis in it and everything

I should just put a post-it on my desk with "lifelong, longtime, long-standing" so I can stop looking them up in M-W all the time. #copyeditorproblems

I've learned to live with myself at this point and am not tempted by the computer telling me it wants to be my friend, but I can absolutely imagine a younger version of me having an AI bestie, and that version of me is Worse.

thank goodness I woke up to people pointing out that the heartwarming coats story is obviously fake; I saw it being shared by generally reputable people last night and had some "we're no better at reading than the Facebook boomers" despair but didn't have the energy to get into fights about it

Hi, this post starting to go around is fake. If you Google the names or sentences from it all that shows up are Facebook posts and tweets repeating it word for word, weird typos and sentence structure and all. Please take like 30 seconds and check before reposting some bullshit

Joanna Newsom

The longtime pastor of my little church retired a couple months ago, and we've been DIY-ing it until we can get an interim pastor (hopefully in the next few months); I'm on the worship planning group, it's been a ton of work & meetings, and we made it through Advent!

All you AI haters need to accept that our feeble human intellect cannot compete with the overwhelming

I got my first ever nice* watch for Christmas after ~25 years of replacing cheap ones when the battery dies, and I don't think I'm at any risk of becoming a Watch Person, but I might be starting to understand why there are Watch People. *nice like $250 refurbished on eBay for $90, not like $5,000

shel silverstein was a prophet

Year 2 of making going to concerts by myself my whole personality (though I went to #1 with my parents and #9 and #11 with my sister). Shout-out to self-employment, Amtrak, a credit card with triple cash back on travel, Rising Sun Presents, and my flight credit from skipping last year's AMS.

wait I can't believe I forgot to tell you guys about the hilarious dream I had last night where Barack Obama decided to write a cozy murder mystery and gave me an advance copy to review it and give him feedback and I didn't know how to tell him it was really, really bad

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

aw hell no

not sure why I loathe the word "webinar" so much but

heck yeah

love this descant 😭 #9lc

that moment every year when I look at Hark! and am surprised and a little alarmed @ where the downbeats are #9lc

WOOOOOOOOOOOOORD #9lc

seven verses is so many (but I'm not complaining) #9lc

here we goooooo #9lc

double Rutter with no consensus on here about which one is the only valid one #9lc

the audible sarcasm quotes on "that I may come and 'worship' him also" #9lc