The headline works because I now know whose work is bullshit. Thanks for introducing me, Wired!

so you want people to think you’re smart without doing the work. got it.

In a world full of problems, I hate that this technology boils our engines of hope down to empty non-interaction. My school recently polled to see how the faculty feels about using AI for GRADING. At what point is it just robots talking to each other? Where is the humanity in these humanities?

I hate that teaching has become policing and surveilling. I hate that learning has become evasion and shortcuts. I hate how AI papers say nothing at all; they have no capacity for originality, contribution, or social change.

Students tell us they use AI because it makes their writing better, cleaner, more likely to get an A. But it also makes it empty. LLMs like ChatGPT generate, by design, the most likely ideas and sentences. It is, by definition, impersonal and unoriginal.

I am in a massive war with Asian lady beetles, and I will win. They are not ladybugs. They are disgusting stink bugs.

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This is why I called it an attack all along

A seemingly frivolous indulgence that I think is worth it is paying for the ad-free tiers of the various streaming services. I don't like the extorionate element of it, but you're effectively buying protection from having your intelligence insulted every 12 minutes. It's like clearing up pollution.

Dig through the ditches… “The coffin does not have a parachute.”

This is not a normal statement or appearance by an FCC chairman. This is a would-be authoritarian lackey bragging about creating a Thought Police. Don’t be okay with this.

It cannot be stressed enough how much legacy media hates activists. The whole basis of the "objectivity" artifice is that human dignity is up for debate, so anyone who thinks it isn't makes them uncomfortable and is inherently the enemy.

I gotta say, that WSJ story about a Fortune employee (do not call them a “journalist”) using AI to write seven stories a day pushed me over the edge. I have no interest in working in media anymore—not that it seems to want me these days. I’m just going to make weird throw pillows. Muse out.

Scab.

Oh COME ON. The worst freaking timeline.

Capt. Cragen in the Pitt!

Cable guy was 45 minutes early and I’m the Lenny “please don’t tell anyone how I live” gif.

Still remember the time I finally realized the building I was in was a major piece of labor history. It was when a FIRE ALARM went off and I noticed the plaque while evacuating

Wednesday marks the 115th anniversary of the fire there that 146 workers perished in. Now, NYU students research fruit flies and ant brains on the building’s upper floors. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/25/t...

Foxes to guard henhouse

Happy Opening Day, Part I!

I really hope someone is writing this dissertation.

This is the happiest car I have seen

This aligns with my POV.

Everything is terrible, but I just got a carpet spot cleaner, so I’ve got that going for me.

Read the whole thing.

don't look back in anger... look forward in anger, by thinking about what you're going to do to the guy who killed all this

the only solution to nostalgia is revenge

the antidote to "CEO said a thing!" journalism

Radio news being dismantled is an access and public safety issue. There are news deserts in which radio is the only way to get local news, especially in areas with low literacy rates (they do exist). Look up the 2002 Minot, ND train derailment to understand the consequences of media consolidation.

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

It’s incredibly depressing to watch your industry be dismantled.

now players will get pregame death threats too!

Yes, I’m two days late and there is much more horrific stuff happening, but this WSJ article on Banksy being identified is one of the most depressing things I’ve read in a while. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of the tensions between art and commerce. Utterly joyless.

“I was alive, and I waited for it. These people can move mountains.”

people seem to believe criticism is the same thing as "things I didn't like" in art and that's fine in casual conversation but no one has to take it seriously in writing

Hard to express just how much I loathe this kind of reporter, whose ilk is a big part of the reason we're all in this mess to begin with. www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

*Misty Copeland sneaks up on Timothee Chardonnay, yanks off one of his white timberlands and beats him with it while quoting lines from “Black Swan”* *Kylie doesn’t intervene because she’s too busy texting Timothee’s replacement*

After listening to the Streisand audiobook, I am waiting for her to make some off-hand remark about some sort of food while doing this Redford tribute.

One of the many ways in which AI, no matter how “good,” will always fall short of humans at being human. From Another Way Of Telling, by John Berger & Jean Mohr, 1982

It's just an experiment: shootmenintospace.com

Listen to music Paint your toenails Get really into plant parenthood Ride a bike Teach yourself a language Man when I look back at my youth I was so fit because I was so bored and I'd just go ride my bike.

You can also teach yourself to play an instrument Watch a movie Sew a quilt Paint Draw do a crossword puzzle lay on your back contemplating the ephemeral nature of being alive. Journal Take a walk

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

“The Village Green Preservation Society” by the Kinks is… brilliance.

crypto is just words. thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."