lol Cowen is at it again

oh HELL yeah www.emocon2026.com

elmo voice: "elmo found a box of sharp objects! what a beautiful day!"

so strange that game 7 of the world series just ended in a tie?? literally never seen this before in MLB. I guess they're co-champions now?? idk, this seems weird...

BALL DONT LIE

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if I asked you "how many teams would you guess are in the Big Ten conference?" you'd probably guess 10, right? well you'd be wrong, because inexplicably the number is actually 18

they👏should👏make👏red👏zone👏for👏college👏football

New Edition, Boyz II Men, and Toni Braxton heard about the declining fertility rate in the US and knew it was their patriotic duty to take their baby-making anthems on the road www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

Academics!: do any of you have a very efficient system for budgeting through/generally dealing with the constant reimbursements? I feel like I’m always $1000+ off at any given time because of lengthy reimbursement processes, and it throws my whole personal budget off.

Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.

this is pure cruelty, full stop

obsessed with this critique of an old blog post I wrote

Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:

subtle grammatical shift I've noticed in Gen-Z: the phrase "Having said that..." has generally meant "Having said [good thing]...[bad thing]." It highlights a contrast. But for Gen-Z, it's "OK I said that...now I will say something else." For them, it signifies getting something out of the way.

lmao in my culture and so many immigrant communities there is a special designated name not only for your father’s cousin but also their cousin and that cousin’s child and that child’s child and that’s how you just know this stuff is written for a certain group of people only

deciding which airbnb to get when you're planning with a group is always so annoying because these airbnbs are always titled something like "Super close to town! Big kitchen!"

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

This is the worst argument in an op-ed filled with terrible arguments.

what?

I played in my first classical chess tournament in ATL this weekend. Since I'm unranked, I was in the Under-1200 division, which is unsurprisingly mostly children. I won 3/5 matches. It's weird to feel proud of beating children at chess, but these kids are super smart, and it was a real challenge.

buying into AI

“Last Resort” by Papa Roach playing in the waiting room at my therapist’s office lmao

honestly kinda surprising to me that this is an acceptable passport photo, like dude should tighten his tie right? idk I thought we used to have standards, as a country

Recommendations for carry-on suitcase with the four spinner wheels? Anyone really obsessed with their luggage and want to sell me on it? Mine broke and I need a new one

Jordan on Love is Blind looks exactly like Cousin Greg

easy to install, step one, use a hacksaw

A perfect table of contents.

counterpoint: yes you did

I’ve always thought being the “Taylor swift is bad” guy was an annoying look, so I’ve mostly kept my mouth shut. So you can imagine my delight now that everyone is speaking openly about how she is bland and corny

Really interesting conversations at Death Over Drafts a few weeks back, and so glad that WUGA captured some of them here (starting at 17:45): www.wuga.org/show/athens-...

USC is selling bodies that were likely donated to the university for medical training to the US Navy to literally train the IDF, seemingly without family consent. This is per reporting by USC’s own journalism school. t.co/lZ5jmQoZ1t

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Most podcasts are too damn long!

"Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty."

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence. I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

David Cross, on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

this joke honestly kind of slaps (linch.substack.com/p/intellectu...)

lmao (Chotiner interviewing Cass Sunstein)

Knew exactly which professor this was before I even clicked the link www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Really enjoyed the opportunity to speak on this panel about AI & suicide prevention w/ some impressive co-panelists. We had a wide-ranging conversation, ranging from theoretical and clinical approaches to practical solutions. If you're interested, have a look! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEU...

The REAL trolley problem: deciding which flavor to get!!! haha I’m just kidding around, folks

First time throwing a double-walled/bubble mug form. Went pretty well I’d say! what they insist on the difference is it? Is it faster?

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

what does it say about me that I *loved* these conversations as an undergrad (and still do)?