My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time. USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time. The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time. The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time. They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

“I have been a tech journalist for nearly 15 years, and before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!” Thanks, AI! techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...

We used to be a proper country

I must admit I'm enjoying his "I'm the best at not having dementia, nobody has less dementia than me" phase. Maybe we can trick him into ending the Iran war with a sudoku.

um what?

What if we lived in a society and invested in public goods just because we agreed they were important?

Ugggggh.

The Imposter Syndrome Face Possessor? The guy who always looks like he knows he’s one follow-up question away from being exposed as a fraud but he’s gobsmacked nobody will actually ask him one? Like to the point where he wonders if we’re the ones doing the bit & not him? That guy? You don’t say.

Anyone who has never been to NYC thinks it’s the place you are most likely to have everything stolen from you at gunpoint where in fact it’s the place someone will chase you six blocks to return your dropped pack of gum and not even wait for a thank you

As my brother says, “Circular firing squad was always the best-case scenario.”

CEOs are so hype on AI everything that they don't realize how viscerally appalling much of it sounds to everyday people. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

can we skip the whole FIFA thing I feel like we have enough going on as a society

quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

The thing about Fetterman is that everyone hates him.

My team at work spans three countries (and coincidetntally three continents). There are many ways in which colleagues in Europe and Brazil have a much better deal ("despite" lower salaries). The Brazil folks are unionized, even the engineers.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

the thing of "trans people just pushed too hard on the sports stuff" is so ahistorical that it makes me mad, when did you hear about trans sports before 2020 outside of the occasinoal human interest story on it

Six months ago I would have been moved by his death, but now I’m just glad he’s no longer able to sneer hate speech at my trans friends. The NYT won’t do more than acknowledge it because they agree with him, but his deathbed plea to discriminate more against trans people will define him forever.

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Users: We don't want AI Google: What if it were an Ask Gemini button Users: no Google: What if we drafted reply emails for you Users: NO Google: What if we redid search to be an "experience" Users: WHAT PART OF NO ARE YOU NOT GETTING

The University of California (and other universities) should apply for compensation from the DOJ “anti-weaponization” fund and then bring a bunch of due process and other constitutional claims when they don’t get anything.

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

It's weird that google is getting rid of google

sir, this is an Arby's where we talk about Deep Space Nine

“You have a fake job where you don’t actually do anything” says the vice president of the United States

I was at home on a reduced salary using my laptop to teach dozens of students while this guy was collecting book royalties checks

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

Uhhhh will do JD thanks

[Insert obligatory is-it-happening post]

It seems a little odd for him to campaign against the regime he's part of, but ok! Yes, will do!

I put so much effort into avoiding listening to Trump, it's good to be reminded every once in a while that this guy also exists, and that he is such a petulant, whiney loser who genuinely hates vast swaths of other people.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

See, most normal politicians would say "You had to go out during Covid and BUILD" and leave the "unlike those pussies" implied, but JD Vance goes out of his way to shit on a group of voters that the GOP is already having real issues with because we vote in midterms a lot.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

DUH

"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand." A real thing that was said, without shame, at a Christian prayer rally.

This.

Wow, it’s just like the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

"at a school in Florida" is a bold way to describe UCF, the largest school in Florida

"There's a big future coming and you only have a place in it if we deem it so." "Why are they booing me?"

In Louisiana, raising the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75 has failed by 50 points, if you want another data point for how voters feel about the gerontocracy problem.

🎶Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl...🎶 And Steven! And Grogu.

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

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Hey @ianjathome.bsky.social FYI:

New men-will-literally-X-before-going-to-therapy dropped!