Everyone's remembering Rob Reiner for the incredible depth of his career or his personal decency, meanwhile, I'm just remembering his panicked delivery on "No! The acclaimed director of When Harry Met Sally would never do that!" on 30 Rock.

Rather famously, the Duke of Aquitaine in 740 had only a single compilation of scooter fails, now on display in the Louvre. It's hard to imagine a time where that was a display of considerable wealth and status.

Water your tree.

I mean "task an external party to produce a section of writing, knowing that you'll alter what they write to fit publication" is a job that existed before AI. It's called being an "editor" and it's a unique skillset that builds on your expertise as a writer.

Shakespeare got in on making fun of this shit 400 years ago.

"a mental object ie mobject." is gonna sit in my head for a while

Happy Feast of the Saints and Blessed of the Society of Jesus! May they pray for you and be your models of Christian life. AMDG. Image: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.

Congratulations to Kansas City for opening a major expansion of its streetcar system today, increasing the total length of the system by more than 50%! KC Streetcar was already one of the most successful small rail systems in the US, seeing 2M riders per year, and has more expansions in the works!

Chants I heard in St. Louis: "Pro-Palestine, Provel All fascists go to hell!" "314/Says No More!" "636/Trump Gets Nixed!"

Maybe my sign got ruined, maybe my bus was late, maybe it's raining cats and dogs out here in St. Louis, that's no reason not to show for the protest #NoKings

"File wasn't working"

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Ebony and Usury is the serious dark horse here, it's such a good name something.

A shitlib is going to protest—will you?

Not a fan of the Ceiling Hole in my classroom. Combines ominous energy with inscrutable darkness.

The intersection of singular and plural in "You" feels like a root of our current moment. "I'll fight for You" capitalizes on it, that I'm fighting for You (individually), but by the nature of an ad, it's always You (plural). It is both a simple task and a self-contradictory one.

This is how you know Trump voters are fundamentally insincere in their beliefs: "I think abortion is murder, I think you, very literally, murdered a baby, but... that's nothing to end our friendship over" is a completely insane thing to say, but a necessary statement for this poll.

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

A lot of responses to this are focusing on the hypocrises of OP's supposed worldview, but it's really no deeper than "How dare you know more about something than me?" So much of Discourse isn't any more coherent than the primal rage at being made to feel bad in any way.

“This meeting could have been an email” has been a corporate proverb for decades now. Why would we want to have meetings WITH THE COMPUTER to do basic tasks

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.

can't have an approval ceiling if you're standing on the roof

There's a connection between the data economy and the gong farmer that might make a good essay. In both, the leavings of people's day-to-day activity fuels the fundamental economic engine, but they're on completely opposite ends of social regard.

...I'm sorry, what happens in Anna Kendrick's memoirs to make it "Sci-Fi and Fantasy?" Is she friends with an elf?

Gavin Newsom discourse is Bluesky saying, "The problem with Democratic Primary Discourse is that it just doesn't start early enough," and I do not see any reason to encourage that thinking.

Jesus, this was literally a Dave Barry joke in the 90s. "Airline computers working to ensure that no two humans pay the same price for a ticket."

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Well, shit, if the President says we can't talk about it, I guess we can't talk about it anymore.

The Grink does this sometimes, it is known.

When I was a child I went to Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and a peacock jumped on my head.

Oh my God if we go through all this for Trump to refuse to sign the damn bill...

We're currently in the period where automobile companies are tearing out streetcar tracks so that we don't have a choice but to make our lives orbit this technology. It's not inevitable, no more than car-dominated cities were inevitable, and just like cars, it'll cost us a lot to undo it.

The human body is 15% skeleton, which means we're already effectively 1/6th members of Lord Dominatus's deathless army of the night.

There should be a special presidential status flag because the way things work now, you see a flag at half-mast and it means it’s either a bad day or the best day ever. Very inconsistent signaling.

just so everyone knows, literally at the exact same time JD Vance started trolling on here the NSC was having a meeting on Iran he's angry that he got sidelined to the kiddy table and decided to lash out genuinely pathetic stuff

Fingering prayer beads, chanting like a mantra, "Trump always chickens out" "Trump always chickens out" "Trump always chickens out"

Gonna hit up the "KINGS ARE OUR THING GET YOUR OWN THING" protest

Lady, there's a reason you put two trucks on the cover and a third on the back page. God ain't the one moving books for five year olds.

Dr. Marino showing us the contrast, that you can do incredibly regrettable, reputation-harming things while perfectly sober.

Hell of a way for the employees of the Alcatraz gift shop to learn that they're being laid off.

Bloody hell, Thomas Aquinas was massive. I think he's the only kaiju to have been a Doctor of the Church.

The success of Conclave reflects a clear demand from America: Whichever photojournalist can get a shot of an actual Cardinal vaping is going to go majorly viral.

Please clap for voters number 175 and 176! Voting, coffee, and treats is what keeps the #gilmandezes going!

It’s Election Day #stl. Get out there and vote!

"Either we make a Land Acknowledgement in our Shareholder Reports or we have to prepare a Ground Acknowledgement for our stock price."

Shout out to the Vampire Castle, they definitely called it on Russell Brand. Honestly, good job vampires.