there is no way these are real names or photos or actual dudes of any kind

the woman featured in this piece was previously an advocate for raw milk and ending gmos in food. the data center backlash is attracting MAHA

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

A few weeks ago, a Gen Z barista roasted my pants so badly I have not worn them since. But the other day a Gen Z barista asked me to write down the name of my shoes so they could get some. The duality of the Gen Z barista, all things in balance.

Perhaps the root of disgust with AI is being forced to stare into the void of tastelessness at the core of society. Perhaps we are not actually mad at AI but mad about what exposes about us.

A wizened Mystery is still doing PUA lessons on Instagram, like an old gunfighter in a Western.

Ken Paxton, post physique.

Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett says AI skepticism can be a strength. "It says something that a young person is thinking about the environmental impact and is a careful user," Barrett said. "Not every question is AI-worthy right now." The full story by @rebheilweil.bsky.social: bit.ly/3POIVvZ

I like how "the HHS secretary suggests circumcision causes autism" is like a 20-minute story that passes by with no impact.

Another example of what we can call The Granta Problem: do we have an AI supply problem or an AI demand problem? Why are human judges preferring the the AI essays? If you're mad about AI writing, it seems like the judges are the ones who should be sanctioned in some way rather than the users.

I will admit I was not aware of this frustration until I had a daughter, but now that I am giving her elaborate hair styles in the morning before school, we get to our bike and I discover that they don't fit under her bike helmet and I have to undo the whole thing. Is there some fix for this?

The Park Slope Food Co-Op has eliminated the filibuster.

Evidently, Waymo's 5th gen robotics weighs ~1100 lbs per robot. And Waymo doesn't secure their vital docs any better than they test their sw.

Not a crank belief. Vitamin d testing tells you very little and vitamin d supplementation is not generally helpful. Medicaid spends hundreds of million a year on vitamin d tests despite huge bodies of evidence. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

There's no cameras where Tom is, but you don't need cameras to do some trading.

What is today’s American architecture? It’s a fraught, diverse, messy & frankly impossible question to answer — but after reading a new book, I think part of the answer is resilient, resourceful, community-minded work. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91547128/wha...

A fascinating obit from a few weeks ago worth resurfacing as the Enhanced Games is still in the air. Patrick Arnold, inventor of the "the cream and the clear" died this month. www.nytimes.com/athletic/727...

I need @mikeisaac.bsky.social to reveal Zuck’s Murph time.

It’s always funny when Remember Some Guys posts a Guy that was so integral to your childhood fandom that you remember them as a huge star.

Can’t wait to see what argument people will construct about how this is actually bad and people shouldn’t have access to it and if you use it there’s something wrong with you and how it’s actually just benefitting eugenicist VCs and/or big pharma.

cosigning @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social.

Bluesky not really escaping the allegations here, with no one seemingly aware of the conceit of the entire routine of the most popular standup in the country.

“Who’s still watching this in 2026?” It’s me. We cannot forget the ancient texts.

Kid finally expressed interest in reading D’Aulaire’s Greek myths. We read it multiple times a day all weekend. She seemed super interested and engaged. Then during one story this morning she says “wait, who’s Zeus?”

Enhanced Games making me have a lot of thoughts. Given that it's really just a TRT marketing scheme, I have to say that I see so many TRT 40+ guys on Instagram bragging about their abs and their routines and their 1RMs and... they have results that are very achievable for anyone?

So steroids make you stronger but don’t do as much for skill development or athletic performance, who could have guessed?

Truly it is incredible how many executives are publicly out there screaming that they add no value and can easily be replaced (which is the only way this use of AI wouldn’t be disastrous).

Turns out we don't need the illicit Chinese pharma to create the ubermensch, the ubermensch was with us all along.

When you get to the playground it’s important to do a few pull-ups on whatever equipment is available and if another dad also does a few pull-ups after you then you need to find a place to do a muscle up.

Probably 80% of posters madness is downstream of thinking that posting on a niche microblogging platform is, in some way, important, rather than being a way to waste time on your phone

It’s so unfortunate how everything has to be on video now. People you’re interviewing act very differently when they know they’re on camera—often to the detriment of giving more thoughtful or interesting answers!

It turns out that a lot of the bafflingly poor metaphors used by LLMs (as opposed to repetitive linguistic constructs like — or “it’s not X, it’s Y”) are actually direct regurgitations from human-written bad fanfiction in the training data: tuhinchakrabarty.substack.com/p/ai-slop-gr...

When I was writing my senior thesis, I listened to a 2-song mix of Toxic and We Didn't Start the Fire on repeat, often for 6 to 10 hours straight, in the library while translating Greek. Surely unrelatedly, this is also the time of college my friends call "the dark period."

Deep in their programming, someone accidentally inserted some fish content somewhere—and now the Waymos long to return to their watery home: techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/w...

Snarky takes here, posting sincere fitness content on Instagram and having an actual impact.

Beyond how awful the specific messaging is on all these things, the idea that you’re asked to give a speech on any topic to a bunch of graduates and you pick AI at all is just mind blowingly boring.

SpaceX? The makers of Grokipedia?

This is good and correct, it won't save news: BUT just as a news *consumer* there still should be a way for me to pay a nominal (way more than $.17!) fee that I can do with one click and without entering lots of info when I want to read, say, one article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

I really don't understand this argument. It's entirely possible in theory that every elite academic kid in a Harvard class does A-level work. Punishing the professors who are giving non-deserved As feels like a better solution than randomly preventing some kids from getting grades they deserve?

Just ran this test on my Copilot. My results were a little better, it realized there was no difference but it thought that was just the reasonable conclusion from matching data sets. Copilot running Claude figured out the whole thing was a scam quickly. kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Odd story that conflates doing insane things for vanity with just trying to be healthy and active as you age. Really detrimental to put a guy on 90 peptides and the old guy who is good at pushups in the same bucket (natty or not questions about that guy aside). www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There are two beautiful fawns growing up in my neighborhood and they were just wandering around the house and I grabbed my kid from listening to her Yoto to show her the gorgeous majesty of nature as they pranced and hopped about and she said: "ugh, dad, now I have start my story over."

Actually genuinely curious to know what conversation, media, or experience got Jamie Dimon to put Nashville on this list.

Every micro-generation gets its own major media profile of Deep Springs, you get one every 2 or 3 years or so. But Simon’s Rock College of Bard and St. John’s, the other two colleges in the college book whose descriptions make you say “huh!”, they never get anything.

Every micro-generation gets its own major media profile of Deep Springs, you get one every 2 or 3 years or so. But Simon’s Rock College of Bard and St. John’s, the other two colleges in the college book whose descriptions make you say “huh!”, they never get anything.

There are two things I have any amount of specialized knowledge about—the gym and the classics. Given the last few days of chud Odyssey discourse, it’s almost refreshing to just see the usual chud gym content.

Anthropic profitable, OpenAI solves a major math problem. Feels like a big day for adjusting some priors.

It is so funny that, on top of all its other failings, BART just has a tunnel that for some reason is so incredibly loud it’s clearly damaging to your ears and they’re just like “oh well, surely this must exist in all train tunnels.”

this cannot be Zillennial.