my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

It should have been called Alien Vs Predator, Who is Also An Alien, But A Different Type Of Alien To The First Alien In The Title

Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

Only the Guardian and CBS get it right.

RIP Tom Stoppard. Thank you for the library of life-changing, soul wrenching gut busting work. For me, Arcadia was the one.

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”

The child advocacy nonprofit Fairplay issued an advisory warning people against buying AI toys this holiday season. It's not the only group.

Personally, I’m celebrating Black ‘Fro Day instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...

BOYCOTTS DON’T APPLY TO BLACK BUSINESSES. On Black Friday (and every day!) we’re skipping the companies walking back DEI & riding for fascism. So Word In Black pulled together the Black-owned brands we actually spend money on — from skincare to books to apparel. wordinblack.com/2025/11/if-y...

Remember. Don’t buy jack shit today.

Ten years!

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Psychedelic collage poster for the Acid Test, November 27, 1965 by Ken Kesey

He is risen

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:

They plop their massive, polluting data centers into black neighborhoods They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....

This remarkable obit carries a century of American cultural, social, racial, and political history in it. (As H. Rap Brown, Al-Amin has a one-sentence cameo in my book Pictures at a Revolution, describing Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in language not shareable here.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Blade (1998)’s Udo Kier.

Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

I, too have “questions”, NYT, like: Kash Patel has a girlfriend?!

I’m a cynic but i do believe relentless economic punishment could be effective if it became a mass movement

Dumbfuck Diplomacy, Vol MCVXXIII

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Remember when just two weeks ago Larry Summers was like “The Crimson should be investigated” and then two days later the Epstein emails dropped and I was like get hiiiiiimmmm Crimson? Well anyway every alumni subscriber got this in the mail lol Got heeeeem @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social lol

Good article. Do you best not to say "I told you so" after each sentence. Try. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/i...

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

The Trump admin is like a hapless student who can't decide whether to say they plagiarized or wrote the terrible essay they submitted. It's a lose-lose situation, really.

I hear your voice It’s like an angel sighing I have no choice, I hear your voice Feels like flying I close my eyes Oh God I think I'm falling Out of the sky, I close my eyes Heaven help me

not sure this one can be topped

Well I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes So you can wipe off the grin I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies

If this is correct, and Rubio’s comment seems to confirm it is, this is a degree of blundering incompetence that is not only extreme, but frightening. Lives and global order are on the line here, and Trump and his WH seem utterly lost.