Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

‘Due to popular demand the White Sox pope hat is no longer limited to just a portion of the fans in attendance’ is a sentence I get to say

👀 this is fantastic #Pope promotion from the Chicago #WhiteSox and a pretty poignant statement for the time we are in.

Nothing demonstrates the rotted mentality of even self-proclaimed conservative “intellectuals” like the fact that Sasse is on his deathbed and he and Douthat still seem to think the #1 issue facing America is “liberal arts professors who don’t vote the way I want them to vote.”

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Even more amazing:

Congrats to my old friend Aadam Jacobs, deservingly receiving international recognition from numerous press sites for creating probably the most important live music archive of the past 30 years, simply by being Aadam.

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now. Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's a result of book censorship, and it impacts you wherever you live. bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper! 1/5

Holy cow. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman just officially named a moon crater “Carroll” in honor of his wife who passed away in 2020.

We are hiring 3 full-time lecturers in the English Department at University of Illinois at Chicago! 3/3 teaching load. Eligible for union membership (UICUF). Join us!

Someone sent me this.

They could have bailed out the Division of the Humanities. But no. news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...

“We were taken aback.” Really? Were you? Researchers expected "'benevolent sexism' — a belief that men should protect and provide for women. This seemed to them to fit with an ethos where he earns and she cooks and cares for the children." And they didn't put any more thought into it than that?

What people say after playing a prank on April 1st... 1. April fools! (English) 2. April trickery! (Icelandic) 3. April fish! (French) 4. April, April, eat some herring, drink muddy water afterwards! (Finnish) 5. First of April, frog in your ass that never wants to leave! (Dutch)

I'll also state on TDOV that beginning tomorrow you can watch a series of films directed by trans people on the Criterion channel. We programmed this series with love and with hope.

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

we said what we said @anthonymkreis.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’ve been overwhelmed and thrilled by the response to this! I’ve also gotten a lot of questions asking how I did it. So, this weekend I sat down and wrote a detailed narrative documentation outlining how, exactly, I built Mr. Chatterbox: www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbo...

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

Just be normal. Support good policies because they're good and will help people. Don't make it sound like you're trying to triangulate everything to death.

No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

This is the situation we find ourselves in

"There are no teachers, just 'guides' to motivate students. Lessons, delivered through AI-powered software, are condensed into two hours. The rest of the day, students engage in an array of workshops, from building robots to scaling obstacle courses. It comes with a hefty price tag: $55,000 a year."

What injury would you present with as a walk-on guest star in The Pitt? I’m penis stretched by taffy puller

A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Check out this Impact Library Program where you can get a no-cost Little Free Library for book sharing. I love the Little Free Library boxes. I have one of my own and it’s frequented quite often. Open up the world of reading and imagination. #SheShed littlefreelibrary.org/programs/imp...

My favourite French portmanteau describes vegan cheese. It merges faux (fake) and fromage (cheese) to get fauxmage * read on for more cheesy words and phrases from around the world (this thread may not turn out grate, but hopefully it will be gouda ‘nuff)…

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

So I'm from Virginia. I currently live in TN and I also lived here as a teen. It's a little complicated. Anyway, the Rutherford County PUBLIC library is where I spent a lot of time as a tween/teen. It shaped me. It saved me. This is a PUBLIC LIBRARY not even a school. And I'm proud of *Luanne.

This is absolutely the intent--faculty need to be united in rejecting this kind of automation (more accurately: abdication), no matter how "safe" you think your position might be now.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Just early voted and as I grabbed my ballot, the woman registering people at the next line over yelled out, “We got a first time voter!!” Then all the volunteers broke out in cheers and I almost started crying? Anyway, don't forget to vote, Chicago!

You ever see a headline and just blurt THANK YOU defector.com/vindicated-a...

i read this and it's interesting but the horrifying overhang of this story is "mrna vaccines make it relatively easy to cure cancer actually, and the main obstacle is that the FDA just banned trials of them"

Share a movie featuring ANIMALS I’ll start… ‘Grizzly’ (1976) 🖤

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

Solutions to get oil out of the Persian Gulf, wrong answers only

UNEARTHED: Texas Democrat admits to feeling LOVE, an emotion that is WOKE and GAY

In fairness, people were really confused about fictional characters in early novels! It does seem like there’s a parallel there.

Why did I think they simply canceled all of them. Nope it was discriminatory

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

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