We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Not just any crab. A crab of mischief!

dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful

Just played around with some of these examples and damn.

Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...

GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.” Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.

When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???

Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

LOVE ME TIL MY HEART STOPS

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

BRB, need to make another donation to Wikipedia.

Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.

Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.

I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious: 'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'

Maybe some more nuance is that in general, I enjoy reading with my kids. But, on the 37th read of That Volcano Book From The Library I am so damn tired of it but he remains obsessed. Sometimes I am just powering through it for the kids' sake...

Silicon Valley loves to pretend it's all about science and logic, but it's run by the least logical, least evidence-based, most emotional men on the planet.

WHAT

It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike. ‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”). ‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’ 🤯

Portuguese has "anteontem" for the day before yesterday which is also great

my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.

Pittsburgh is known as the City of Bridges with, allegedly, 446 of them. The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River. #UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography #cityscape

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

HDYGH, @josephgalbo.com ? Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard. Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him

wrote this last month!

Strange little guy from the church in Cley, Norfolk

swoon

Locutus usability tip: There will be no more user interface problems after you become the machine.

handed the mic over to the em dash—read its response to the AI allegations in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net 🎤🎤🎤

I want the job of writing an age analysis algorithm. I wouldn't use statistics or machine learning. I'd just write the most undeniable `isMillenial(account)` function ever designed

the chilling of speech on college campuses is wild, and it's happening directly because people fear the government (Trump) will punish us if we say things he does not like. this is gross. triblive.com/local/fence-...

NEW GALLUP POLL: the pendulum has swung **drastically** on immigration since last year. 🟢 just 30% want immigration decreased (55% last year) 🟢 79% of Americans think immigration is GOOD for the country (record high) 🟢 Path to citizenship (78%) beats mass deportation (38%)

"NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X" niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Kid home sick from school so we are hard at work in the combination auto shop ice cream shop.

I'm doing some research for my next advice column and see from Bluesky posts that the term "mansplaining" has been adopted in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

Everyone stop, this is important

Our pressure worked: The State Department has finally issued guidance for how individuals can proceed after a federal judge blocked President Trump's anti-trans passport policy. If you or your loved ones are affected by this policy, we're here with more information.

magic teacup hat

"elon musk is autistic! and he's on ketamine!!!" so are all my friends, stop making him sound cool

My book club votes on books after reading a selection of ONLY one star reviews and it is always hilarious, but also often illuminating about what kind of book it is.

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

This is brutal

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Watch @gianniantichi.bsky.social (and Ludo) answer the question Why NINeS?

Catholic trading cards are called prayer cards, and you get them at baptisms, weddings, funerals, and ordinations. You also find them randomly in coat pockets and prayer books and desk drawers in any Catholic house.

Never try to relight fireworks, America!

Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.