When was the last time journalists buying copies of a book to hate-read on social-media pushed up the sales by like 30%

Why does New York get all the cool candidates?

“…and that nose which looks like she brought a Michael Jackson poster to her plastic surgery consult and said ‘give me this’”

An actual human being looked at that shot of the cat pulling down the tree and said "yeah, that looks great!" Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons from the 50's had more realistic depictions of movement and gravity than this ad does.

i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool

So Tom Cotton was lying about this, too.

Every now and again I think of Mark Burnett hiding all of the "Apprentice" footage of Trump dropping N-bombs and what an insane impact on the country Burnett being 100% MAGA has had.

Persuasive calls to action need to (implicitly or explicitly) identify the agent of change, and need to be seen as doable by said agents. “Hope and change” worked because we were the ones called to have hope and work for change. “MAGA” works for the same reason. This utterly fails on this basis.

At least with BTC and NFTs we didn't let the whole economy get built around the technology before realizing that it provided almost no return on the massive costs.

This is a candidate for best tweet of all time.

If only I had been raised without ethics, an innate sense of compassion for others, or an appreciation for people different from me, I could be rich right now doing this shit. ...as could anyone with half a brain, but still.

From time to time in Los Angeles I meet people who were involved in the Nakatomi business. They always find this time of year difficult.

This should warrant a strike, or at least a work-to-rule action, by every professor - especially those with tenure - at OU. The essay failed to meet expectations in every way, and the response from the prof was incredibly fair and thorough. This is political fuckery into the classroom.

This is like if Coach Taylor had gone with “Clear Eyes Full Hearts Cover the Spread”.

Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.

Replacement-level reply guy here. Also really fucking goddamn mad.

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

“I was just following otters.”

“That’s a challenging wank”

"That's Numberwang!"

No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.

No human being with a functional conscience could take this kind of payout from a state school. How do you show your face in public knowing you took $53 million that could have gone to actual public service?

Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

We need to start the conversation right now about eliminating the "natural born" citizenship requirement for presidential eligibility.

Hoo boy...If there's a list of songs that break me every time I hear them, this one is near the top.

A former professor of mine lived by what he called the “principle of minimum exertion.” Put simply: if he had a choice to burn a calorie or not, he always chose “not.” I thought it was a bit at first, but no, he really lived it. Sort of amazing to watch, actually.

If you need any more evidence that our economy is run by dipshits, remember that Wall Street thinks that the company for which this guy is effectively a fractional CEO is worth ~$1.3T, and that his leadership alone deserves a $1T pay package.

>The Kings sold their 47-acre property to the county in exchange for $330,750 and a license to live tax-free on 3.61 acres of the land until both of them were dead. >Micron announced its New York project in 2022. Displacing King has been a prerequisite. Actual photo of this deal being signed:

"You are Charlie Brown?" "I hope so. I'm wearing his underwear"

File this under “Even more benefits of living in/near a major urban area.” For NFL fans, it’s particularly awesome: If your local team is on Prime video or ESPN and you don’t want to pay for those subs, you can still watch the game because every game must be broadcast OTA in the home market.

Maybe next drive the Patriots should try running it right up the middle at the goal line. The defense will never see it coming.

In hindsight, there are some linguistic tells here. American English speakers would not say "he's not assimilated." They would choose "he hasn't" or "he isn't." Also, "much easier" is objectively grammatically incorrect.

There's no argument for the Senate (or its bastard downstream effect, the Electoral College) that can overcome the feature/bug of "it's designed to make these people's votes more important than those peoples'." Who "these" and "those" are may change, but the inequitable representation doesn't.

I remember being shocked by how toxic the chat in the pre-/post-game waiting rooms could be when I started playing Halo on XBOX Live. Now that same horrific discourse is the default on Twitter. Everything has gotten so much worse.

A prof in my PhD program insisted on being called "doctor so-and-so," (which was unusual - the rest were informal with the PhD students) and her explanation of why she insisted on it had stories of stuff like this. She had worked hard and been through a lot of shit to earn the title, so she used it.

I read years ago about the way we all automatically speed, and the way that puts all of us in jeopardy of a meritless police interaction every time we're driving. We all speed so much that staying under the speed limit, perversely, is driving "suspiciously," so that's also a reason to be stopped.

Repeated-measures designs can absolutely do this, by returning to the same participants at multiple time points. AFAIK*, political polling doesn't (can't?) do this. But that's a failure of study design, not a fundamental flaw in the measurement of psychometric constructs. *Not a Poli Scientist.

It's an Ideograph (in McGee's sense). Conservatives have left "DEI" as an empty signifier which regains meaning only through the lens of those using it. By adopting Trump's (really, Rufo's) definition of the term, WSJ's use of "DEI" means "anything that benefits non-white, non-Christians"

This shit has been going on forever. I'll never forget Time Magazine whitewashing George W Bush's inability to put together a coherent though as "disarming insouciance."

We had a cat named Nigel, and one of my friends decided that was short for "The Right Honourable Sir Nigel Cuthbert Parsons, P.C., G.C.M.G."

"Why should we fund your AI startup?" "Our CEO has a proven track record of building infrastructure..." "Good. We like that" "....and he definitely hates poor people..." "Oh, that's even better." "...and he's 100% amoral. A terrible person. Makes Altman look like Kant." "Please take my money"

When you read the emails documenting the close personal relationship between people taken seriously in polite society and the world’s most notorious sex criminal, and the first thing you feel is nostalgia.

what the actual fuck

I nominate this guy

The internet was a huge mistake for a lot of reasons, but this goes a little way towards redeeming it.

I'm just going to leave this here.