Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

Good morning #aas2025! Come see the JapanLab at UT Austin at exhibit hall booth #107! The booth will be staffed from 10-3 Friday/Saturday and from 10-12 on Sunday. Come learn about our games for teaching Japanese studies classes and the undergraduate intern model we used to develop them!

Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

I feel like one or two days every couple of months I need a shirt that reads, "I am very cranky today for reasons that aren't fully rational and I'm trying very hard not to make it your problem, please don't test me."

A lot of people are posting and rightfully mocking bad takes from the other site on how AI will make all entertainment individualized, and it just makes me think how the most joyful conversation I had this week was a surprise "wait you watch Star Trek too??" one I stumbled into at the library.

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.