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...

"As soon as possible": Urgent, but low pressure. Complete the task as time allows "ASAP": Threatening, critical, must complete the task immediately or the bomb goes off and everyone dies.

Pittsburgh City Paper is back!

Hey Boston! Come see me and @maryharris.bsky.social tomorrow evening at @wbur.org, live in conversation with MIT president Sally Kornbluth and Boston mayor @mayorwu.boston.gov get your tickets here: www.wbur.org/events/10586...

Jesus fucking Christ.

Trump didn't give this contrite of a response after the U.S. bombed a girl's school and killed 170+ people. But no, for some reason this strike on a gas field doesn't require an investigation before comment.

Use of this site is having an effect on the American left not altogether dissimilar to someone taking a power drill to their frontal lobes

NEWS: The Associated Press calls Daniel Biss as the next Democratic nominee for U.S. House succeeding Jan Schakowsky, defeating Laura Fine and Kat Abughazaleh

ALL RISE FOR THE CHICAGO NATIONAL ANTHEM

Juliana Stratton wins the Illinois Senate Democratic primary, overcoming $10 million in crypto industry opposition spending. www.followthecrypto.org/2026/electio...

Robin Kelly was always going to be a longshot but Stratton is far from the worst case scenario here.

Bad night to be a pastrami on rye at Manny's Deli.