Keep this list in mind as you consume news about Iran.

Glad to know a portion of U.S. counterterrorism efforts are in the trusty hands of this guy:

When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day

Perhaps I spelled dipshittery in the non-standard way but it's all, nonetheless, a singularity of dipshittery.

Wow, all the different kinds of terrible people I follow collapsing into one singularity of bizarre and/or malevolent dipshitery

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

They want to cut suicide prevention among veterans even as they drag us into another war.

School administrators from K to university insisting on the implementation of chatbots in classrooms have blood on their hands.

Maybe they should cancel it

🎵🎶"Cylons to the left of me, Her to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you..." 🎸🥁🎵🎶

BRB, adding "helped persuade Rolling Stone to delete a post (and maybe an article)" to my CV

As I once wrote in an essay about David Brooks, this breaks the sound barrier of tone-deafness. Tell us about the abuse so there can be accountability and justice. Don't give us a bunch of random fucking facts the only purpose of which would be to humanize the inhuman.

Maybe after a year of surviving on nothing but mothballs, cryo, and the occasional LinkedIn cookie, my social media brain is starting to thaw out

When you've spent the past few years lathered up in Elon's cash and meditating on how to take the light of human consciousness into the stars, like Jack has, I guess it's easy to trade in human beings for AI. Guess that's just his definition of spirituality

I've been working on a 4200-word proposal for 4+ months and now that it is done I simply CANNOT write the 150-word cover letter. Too much. Too hard. Let all my toil be for naught 🎻🎭😭

Antisemitism has been weaponized by the right, who are often incredibly hypocritical about that issue (among others!). But yes pure hatred of Jews, outside of legitimate political protest, does exist among some on the left too and when we see something we should say something. Something like, "yuck"

She’s been released 🙏🏽

Fml just accidentally deleted probably my favorite skeet since returning to social media a month ago, after a year off. I really don't know how to do this, do I

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

This right here

Wait for it

About to read this like it's Sports Center (in the 90s), 60 Minutes (in the 90s), my Facebook feed (early aughts), Twitter (next decade), and an AI chatbot in front of a kid struggling with attention issues, combined.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

Tired: AI recommending the apocalypse, not very Godlike or superintelligent-seeming Wired: We should all raise our p dooms another 20-40%, humanity is cooked Inspired: Well God sent a flood and wiped out everything except one dude and his boat full of stuffies, so actually this PROVES AI is God

Neither the Delphic Oracle nor the prophet Isaiah nor the author of the book of Revelations could have come up with a chart like this. God-level soothsaying

Not watching this trash, not for any especially high-minded reason but just because I happen to be *tired*, and if you were tired I would tell you to take care of yourself and save your heart and energy for moments that really matter, so...

I had a well-connected person in the media suggest that I reach out to Bari, and let me just say, I would turn down eight figures.

This was one of the most fun podcast interviews I've done and an honor to help launch an important series about humanism with the @americanhumanist.bsky.social.

Brilliant. “I didn’t know who he was,” is an insufficient response. “I am doing serious self-examination as to why he invited me” is better.

Today a journalist asked me to do a word association with AI and what came to mind was "Cultish." I am gonna guess these bros would... disagree, but they are not helping their case

Who knew the random bedtime thriller I picked last night would turn out to be the main conversation starter on this website tonight, because it, a movie about nice Minnesota ladies battling one another to the death, somehow got confused with SpongeBob. What a time to be alive.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Can anyone make w/tech skills make me a short clip from a movie on HBO Max? Dame Emma Thompson has a great monologue (in Minnesota accent!) in her recent film Dead of Winter that I want to share w/ the Harvard Class on interfaith dialogue that I'm lecturing for soon...very Sisyphean/existentialist.

“The vast majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, if any, has been conducted, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT and collaborators found.” www.zdnet.com/article/ai-a...

Just totalitarian control of the classroom to ban the most basic questions people ask at every bar- what makes someone gay, why are blacks poorer than whites, does a sexist boss mean women can't get equal treatment? Literally every text I teach in my Social Inequality class would be banned in FL

And the women’s team: - the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China - the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character - the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)

Certain people were inspired when Revelations prophesied a lake of fire, burning with sulfur, 2000 years ago. Similarly-minded people were awestruck when Jonathan Edwards threatened sinners with fire and brimstone in 1741. And their Silicon Valley soulmates ♥️ this doomer stuff today:

U2 has a new record, featuring a eulogy for Renee Good, and...one of my favorite poems, Wildpeace by the great Israeli humanist poet Yehuda Amichai. I often read it at funerals, protests, vigils. I might ask my son to learn it for his Bar Mitzvah. Enjoy: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54294/...

Board. Of. Peace. As in, "I want a piece."

Paging my city of Somerville, MA, the first city in America to declare racism a public health emergency, and one of the first to ban facial recognition. Wanna be progressive? Try fasting from surveillance tech.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

All this mis- and disinformation we already have to deal with from our government, and AI, and then your own daughter *insists* she will only eat her quesadilla if you pack her "sour crap"—definitely not cream, she will refuse to eat that.

Can't two bros just enjoy a beachside brunch as a military strike force amasses outside Iran?

Established music artists justifying the use of AI to make videos, like, "I have been exploited so much by big tech that there is absolutely no choice but to choose to use tech that will exponentially increase the exploitation of artists like me, to advance/destroy my music career." Brilliant.

We were giving an award to the late Carrie Fisher at Harvard, but she wandered into the wrong venue which happened to be a reception for Stephen Hawking. She approached him excitedly assuming he was there to celebrate her. Her little French Bulldog Gary may or may not have nipped at his wheelchair.

The Washington Post opinion section would not have allowed this to run.

Ah, memories of when Johnny Fucking Depp inexplicably (at the time) started showing up around organizations representing Humanist, secular, & nonreligious Americans. Every community has prominent people for whom it should apologize profusely. If you think y(ours) doesn't: THAT=a dangerous delusion

Reading about the "special" relationship between lingerie billionaire Les Wexner & Jeffrey Epstein (no fucking relation). The condescension 25 years ago when I told someone influential I might apply for a "Wexner Fellowship." I was a nonreligious humanist; those—of course—were only for believers.

Oh, thank goodness we’re deporting those really bad hombres like … (*reads further*) … um, little babies with bronchitis?