Google thought long and hard how to finally kill its flagship product for good, and came up with a surefire plan.

Your periodic reminder that, at least for now, adding "-ai" to your Google searches will defer most (not all) AI crapola [Returns to researching alternative search engines]

having billions of dollars is basically like walking around with a nuclear bomb, politically speaking, and there's a reason we do not let individuals have nuclear bombs to set off entirely at their own whims

Wikipedia is what the internet could have been, now it's a lone beacon in the wasteland.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

A charlatan in religion is sure to like other sorts of charlatans.

Post a meme made by you

Grown-ups, shmown-ups, this is a good novel for all time. And James was just jealous. All respect to the modernists, tho. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pick a Bond from the photos already on your phone.

John Roberts says racism is over in the South and that’s why we don’t need the Voting Rights Act anymore

Abolish ICE.

“Also, Middlemarch is better than Moby-Dick,” the Pope stated, conclusively resolving the debate.

Dorothea, Maggie, Silas, Gwendolen, Romola, and Tito

And now we will turn back to the point where we have cited the passage from Thucydides, and I wish you, by way of preliminary, to go with me through all my notes on the Latin translation.

WIC used to have bipartisan support because even Republicans said "Well of course we want to make sure pregnant women and babies have enough to eat, we're not monsters," but now they say "Screw those freeloading babies, we've got a gold-plated ballroom to build"

Trump gathered all of the very worst people in the country in one place and got them to break a million laws and then pardoned all of them, and now local law enforcement has to go get them one by one as they commit new crimes.

Personally, I think it's less of a problem that some academic liberals speak like academics than the President sounds like a mobster in memory care.

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Happy and disruptive May Day!

If we can get students practicing an instrument or sport or any other skill without being monitored in class, we can do the same for writing. If that sounds odd it's because of the way we've framed writing in school contexts. The experiences of writing are open to everyone if we value the experience

Like… When I was 6, I presented to my mother a handwritten contract which correctly used the terms "undersigned," "attest," "insofar," "liable," "in perpetuity," & "potential ineptitude." This was because I a) read a lot, b) of Calvin & Hobbes, & c) had a Mom in Law School. Some kids are just nerds!

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

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Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

Happy Birthday George Henry Lewes!

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Less firin', more hirin', Less Wall Street, more Main Street, Less ICE thugs, more nice hugs, Less droppin' bombs, more helpin' moms, Less shootouts, more cookouts, Less hypocrisy, more democracy. - Gospel of George and Whatnot

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

Hats off to historians. Y’all must be real tired.

Just shocked to hear this! What next? AI is bad for them too?? 🙄

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

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Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

Exciting live footage from the dark side of the moon!

There’s one sort of fellow sees nothing but the end of his own nose, and another sort that sees nothing but the hinder side of the moon.

Go Bruins.

Beat SC!

He's busy rereading Said's Culture and Imperialism

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

This ruling confirms what we've said: Border Patrol cannot round people up just because they are brown, speak Spanish & work hard. The court made clear the Border Patrol raid on day laborers in Sacramento, like their raid on farm workers near Bakersfield was unconstitutional. 1/

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes AI?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists. www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

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Very, very good resource. www.salon.com/2026/03/24/m...

Just when I thought I couldn't love Zero Mostel more than I already do, I learn this: "In the early 1940s, Mostel’s contract with MGM was terminated for a number of reasons, among them his protesting of the MGM film Tennessee Johnson (1942) for its downplaying of Andrew Johnson’s racism."

I will never use AI to write anything. Even if it weren't ethically dubious, using AI to write is like having a robot do the reps during weight lifting. Your writing skills will deteriorate. Your voice will atrophy. I genuinely don't understand why any writer would do it. Makes no sense.