Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen. James Brown James Taylor Pink Floyd Norah Jones Lucinda Williams

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

The heavy squirrels galloping over the roof sound like they've eaten already. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

Listening to a little more music can't hurt.

My big year-end storm chasing flick premieres on at 7:15 PM CT this evening! I'll share a YouTube link when it's available but wanted to put it on your radar if you're not traveling and want to join me for the live premier!

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

“I haven't said a word since you been gone That any liar couldn't say as well.” -Cohen

My 2026 #Chicago desktop calendars are now available! You can get hem here > www.etsy.com/listing/4403...

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

How to make a random astronaut-senator a presidential contender in one easy step.

Annual shameless self-promotion! This book is for anyone who has ever wanted to leave civilization behind for a spell of personal growth & refreshment by a stream in the mountains far from town. Makes a great gift!

I see a mag wants to gin up MFA controversy just in time for recommendation season. In fact I'm writing this instead of finishing recs, even as the prompt pile grows in my inbox (shout out to UT for their customary TWO emails). Consider: an MFA is more expensive than boxed beef & lousy in goulash.

Ethan Rutherford’s new novel, North Sun, is up for one of the biggest awards in American literature.

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

I can't even read the story about Kennedy and the CDC. This American self-mutilation, a country with prodigious resources to better humankind, is just beyond everything. All because of the internet. The fucking internet.

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Poets... Now is your time

A woman in the car next to me looked in every bit as bad a mood as me. If it were TV, we'd have nodded in mutual respect.

This is tonight! Please join the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative online or in-person for "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond"!

I almost hope Trump does this, just for the volcano it would uncap.

I don't think they'll release the files in any comprehensive form. Comical redactions or swaths omitted or only a list of Democrats and Hollywood stars--anything but the real portfolio. But what they might be miscalculating is the outrage on both sides that will ignite.

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Something seems off about these officially released Epstein files (first fifty limited edition signed by Pam Bondi)

Everybody in Denton wants to know this, too. We're tucked into one of America's most convoluted districts, sprawling from the caprock in the panhandle to a tiny corner of the northern DFW Metroplex.

Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise. I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.

If Joan Didion were Kevin Spacey

Once upon a time if you brutalized enough nuns and priests in this hemisphere, the United States would drop enough bombs on you to help General Dynamics blow through its quarterly earnings projections.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Thursday Night Football showed a childish "heat map" graphic depicting how well the Jets' offensive line protects Justin Fields. The caption said it was "AI powered." I think Vince Gilligan is right this is all bullshit.

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A future president of Baylor, world's largest Baptist University. Hugs!!

His argument will be that the British monarch (he loves the monarchy) can dissolve parliament even now upon the request of the prime minister, so he will do so at the request of Mike Johnson, or the severed head of a squirrel RFK jr carries in his satchel.

$50 on an executive order dissolving Congress

I'm wrong about more than I can tally these days, but I always assumed the worst possible historical Epsteinary by Big Orange was baked in, that MAGA knows or assumes it and doesn't care. Maybe that's not so? Or is it just our side alarmed by this?

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

I hate conspiracy theories, but it's still disorienting, even nine months later, how Nico traded Luka Dončić to anyone for anything without some other, unknown motivation.

Is it possible people don’t know that SCOTUS stayed (froze) the lower court order to pay SNAP benefits? That most states did not get their November SNAP funds disbursed in time before Jackson did this? And the administration is now trying to claw back the SNAP money in states which *did* disburse?

"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” -Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906

I don't know. Millions of people were about to go hungry. I mean really hungry. Do you have food in your house? I have food. Maybe that skews our perspective. D.C. Republicans are monsters. Sometimes you have to pay the ransom and try for justice later.

I would like to think they're caving because American history's most vile gang of inbred bandits and criminals is happy to starve 42M people, half of which are kids and old folks. But I think it's actually because the US professional class will not tolerate another week of canceled flights.

The Oklahoma sky has provided some really gorgeous sunsets over the last couple of days! #WxSky

Tornado tracks by rating (left) and duration (right) While highly rated/long-tracked tornadoes are biased towards the Southeast, long-duration tors are found even up to the High Plains. Credit to @theasandmael.bsky.social for her incredible dataset!!

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

Nice typo. I'll allow it.

Never heard/ speech so electrifyingly pro labor from a major U.S. pol

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

Put this one on upset watch. This is a Trump +20 district.