Reporter: "What was the turning point of the game?" Bill Self: "It was a tough battle. We were up 42-40. But, then, Professor Yung appeared on the jumbotron. It was like looking into the sun. The Jayhawk players averted their eyes from such magnificence. The Utes didn't. I knew victory was ours."

Apparently Utah was equally blinded because they have only scored 3 points since my jumbotron appearance. You're welcome.

The refs were so blinded by my beauty on the jumbotron at the KU v Utah game that they haven't been able to see several fouls since. My bad.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

I don't want to speak rashly here, but I'm starting to get the feeling that the Trump administration is *not* actually concerned with holding pedophiles to account?

Worst named Olympic event: "Normal Hill." Were the marketing people unavailable when it was added to the Olympics?

Once again, I must point out that cryptocurrency is just money laundering technology. The fact that all the worst (rich) people love it is a giant red flag.

Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.

Watching luge and skeleton, I understand the NASCAR fans who are just there for the crashes.

Rooting for US curling mixed doubles team Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin because they rose above parents who didn't know how to spell.

Tired: Turing Test Wired: Is the AI an asshole?

My streaming algorithm has gained sentience because only an intelligent asshole would keep recommending that I watch The Rise of Skywalker.

Our pediatric dentist has a drop tile ceiling with one tile taken out and a TV that plays cartoons while the kids stare up at it and get their teeth cleaned and I want to email my dentist and be like why don’t you do this

Remember the shitty men in media list? Someone needs to compile a big list of all of these men, circulate it widely and make sure they’re never allowed around young women again

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

The Epstein Administration

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Watching the second episode of Shrinking this season, I'm not sure I can make it through any more. It's just so emotionally intense. I'm not sure why it hits me so hard.

On the bad site, the Trumpist right is debating whether the inclusion of mandrakes in The Lion King make the depictions of the Obamas as gorillas/apes not racist because their brains are fried beyond all recognition.

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

Compromise position: rename the Epstein files to “The Epstein files featuring Donald Trump”

Trump is always focused on the issues important to ordinary Americans.

"Moving forward, Oklahoma institutions without R1 status must offer fixed-term, renewable contracts. ... Tenured faculty members at Oklahoma’s two R1 institutions — the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University — will be subject to post-tenure review every five years."

"She's 16. It's not like she's four" are the most cursed words ever spoken in English. For once, I wish these highly paid talking heads would speak to at least one expert on criminal law and child sexuality before spouting whatever nonsense they've internalized from places like X.

Men have finally made a true sport of dick-measuring.

Times article has an incredible illustration

As a doctor, I am horrified by what I saw at the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. No medical protocols. No real medical care. No nurse on site when I visited. No beds. No real blankets. Extremely cold temperatures. Minimal food. These conditions are inhumane and unacceptable.

Once again, I'm begging the media to stop reporting what a politician says (eg Trump talking about using a softer hand in immigration enforcement) and focus on what they've done.

It's not a moral panic. Delusions about satanic sex abuse rings in daycares, that was a moral panic. Salem witch trials also fit the bill. Epstein is about specific known people who are either directly implicated or at least suspiciously in his orbit for one guy who really was raping kids en masse.

Someone's jelly that a different Epstein is getting all the attention.

Wait wait is that … is that how men ski

the most damaging moral panics currently are directed at immigrants and trans people. the "Haitians are eating your pets" moral panic; the "they're forcing kids to be trans" moral panic. moral panic is the signature style of the right. 1

Counter to the ongoing bleakness, this is my new favorite news story of 2026.

They are trying to make this a thing. A "moral panic" is not just public outrage at immorality. It is a concept with independent meaning and history. An essential element of it is media distortion, which Lehmann and Soave are contributing to. See Stanley Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972).

This is not "how men behave." This is Gelernter's version of Trump saying "locker room talk"— a projection of his own pathologies onto a whole gender in order to buff up his own manly-man credentials in his mind.

Portland has inflatable animals. BYU was hymns. WWE audiences shout "Fuck ICE." We all protest in our own way.

if not gestapo why gestapo shaped, etc.

It's like the DOJ lawyers redacting the Epstein files have never used find-and-replace before. It's beyond stupid to redact all instances of "ma."

I've never used the law review submission stressing spreadsheet before. So, I don't know if this is unusual. But, there are 80+ people currently on it and Google says that some features have been deactivated b/c too many people are editing it. You all need to relax. This is not healthy.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Amend sec. 1983.

"Dungeons and Dragons is a a Satanic cult" is a moral panic "We have hard evidence that a man and his associates physically abused and raped children" is not a moral panic; it's a description of a criminal conspiracy.

New life goal just dropped

Me: I study and write about sex offenders and sex crimes for a living. As awful as the details surely are, nothing I learn about Jeffrey Epstein will shock me. .... WTAF????

TIL that Jeffrey Epstein bought Woody Allen 31 pairs of luxury boxer shorts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

Honestly, this should be something that leads to a professor’s termination. And no, piss off if you’re going to try to say he was exercising "academic freedom."

Gelenter's fellow Yale prof Amy Chua was reported to have told prospective female clerks how to improve their looks for an interview with Kavanaugh. But even she didn't mention looks in the actual rec letter.

This is insane. Under absolutely no circumstances should a prof ever discuss the physical appearance of a student in a rec letter! I can’t believe I even have to say that!