Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape

do taylor and travis have a the knot page?

lol he signed it at VERSAILLES? the place famous for treaties that do not last???

we also have @tonyhotran.bsky.social with a lil Sad!-libs to put you inside Trump's glorious head slate.com/news-and-pol...

Sam and many others (@schweather.bsky.social, @rebeccaonion.bsky.social, @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, @lukewinkie.bsky.social, @fredmkaplan.bsky.social, @calllmenadira.net, @madelineducharme.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, still more) helped me break down the cultural recesses of Trump's brain:

Theater employee scanned my ticket for The Backrooms. Before he could tell me the auditorium number, I said, "Let me guess: the room in the back?" His angry silence is a sound I will never forget.

This is my Barbenheimer

reupping for the morning slate.com/technology/2...

Announcement: My essay about my family’s return to Vietnam has been selected for The Best American Food and Travel Writing. I am so grateful to @slate.com for providing me the space to write, my editors who helped shape the piece, and @marinerbooks.bsky.social for selecting the piece.

Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.

Really funny to me that you can rate the Pope's new encyclical on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Babe what’s wrong you haven’t touched your shrimp ass chips

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

There's 60g of protein in building affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods.

Is anyone else a lot more okay leaving in grammatical and spelling errors in things nowadays? Like sure, I wrote "your" when I meant "you're" but at least it shows an A.I. didn't write it.

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

Morbid fact: The hantavirus has such a high mortality rate (~40%) that its chances of becoming a pandemic are relatively low. As anyone who's ever played Pandemic can tell you, a virus that kills its hosts too fast doesn't spread well.

New from me: Elon Musk Is Probably Going to Lose the OpenAI Case - But he’s not doing this to win. slate.com/technology/2...

We need to arm schoolteachers with ballrooms.

This is my type of humor. This is the dumb sh*t that makes me literally laugh out loud.

But what will Rob do about the NCAA stealing 4 wins from the Iowa Hawkeyes' 2023 season?

NEW: It was supposed to fix cable news. Instead, it morphed into something much more familiar, revealing, and insidious. @nitishpahwa.com on the strange evolution of NewsNation slate.com/business/202...

Chicagoans have a chance to earn extra credit by supporting MORE THAN ONE local independent bookstore. More than two, even. Post your score Monday morning.

in a cosmic sense, the saga of Allbirds' A.I. pivot and (brief) stock rally is very funny. but as an indicator of where corporate America is trending after the early-2020s tech hype cycles, it's a grim sign of worse to come. on a beloved shoe's desperate last grasp: slate.com/technology/2...

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The thing no one is factoring in: a major natural disaster in the near future. Big wildfires/hurricanes/floods happen every year. But imagine one hitting while the administration is already stretched thin by Iran and economic strain. I do not see this presidency recovering from that.

The conclave was rigged. You had dead cardinals voting, cardinals voting with no photo ID, mules depositing huge stacks of papal ballots into unmonitored dropboxes. No one's ever seen anything like it.

NEW: Futurism interviewed the New York Times writer accused of using AI to cook up a "Modern Love" column, and her story is... complicated futurism.com/artificial-i...

I think I speak for all tech editors when I say that A.I. fatigue is real—and we're pretty hungry for anything else. Any A.I. pitches need to clear a pretty high bar to be assigned because we get TONS of them.

Alexander the Great 332 BC:

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

My stupid ass thought this was Iran's Master of Fine Arts spokesperson.

I feel like the dude in that one Twilight Zone episode screaming at all the adults in the room to do something, for the love of god, do anything about the deranged child imbued with immense power.

How are we supposed to go about our days after something like this—or really do anything at all? I'm trying to buy a house right now but can't stop thinking: "What's the point of even opening Zillow if we're about to descend into nuclear war because of this idiot?"

Zillow changed their desktop layout and I might have an actual mental and emotional breakdown because of it.

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

posting "recession indicator" on my friends' fit pics

I've gone through all the pitches and replied to nearly all of them. Please let me know if you didn't get a reply.

Maybe we have already achieved AGI—but it's actually just kind of dumb and boring?? Something to consider.

The Sora cancellation "is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year." so … yeah, OpenAI is definitely feeling the cash pinch: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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i love combing through FEC data because how else would i have learned of Big Nut

Chappell Roan is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

I think what folks are missing about Trump sending ICE to the airports is that he wants to attract protestors there so he can blame them for airport disruptions rather than the shutdown, which he is prolonging.

"His vanishing cultural presence also exposed another inconvenient fact—that he was hardly as godly as the memes made him out to be." @nitishpahwa.com w/ a properly thorough sendoff of super OG MAGA soldier Chuck Norris.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

New from @slate.com Tech: One writer couldn't find a job after college—so she turned to "humanizing" AI written college admissions essays to pay rent. She made thousands of dollars, and sold her soul in the process. slate.com/technology/2...