This is an amazingly horrible and also funny thread.

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

This is weirdly close to rightwing credit dystopias, but I don't hear many complaints from them.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Jo Adell — he of the 3 home run robberies in one game on April 4 — is a land of contrasts

58 years ago today, 5-foot-5, 140-pound Freddie Patek made his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the game, he was asked by a reporter how it felt to be the shortest player in MLB. “A helluva lot better than being the shortest player in the minors,” he responded.

we went to college together and he wore way worse shit than this like this is a massive improvement

the real scandal here is that she let him out of the house in those shorts

Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.

It’s June 1 which means it’s time to bust out my best tweet.

holy shit this is *literally* true

The thing about a spoils system, & one of the reasons it lasted for most of C19, in order to revoke it, the majority party has to be willing to diminish its own power in anticipation of future as the minority. I don’t expect to live long enough to see spoils system Trump has erected get dismantled.

Grilling as a Vacation

A Weberian state is one that has a tradition of barbecuing on its Independence Day.

Biden was the second president of the Trumpfiriato

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This should bring down the government. Like, this afternoon.

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Yves Chaland

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Killer kicker on this WSJ story about a man who was driven insane by ChatGPT. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Good morning

New for the Vibecession Debate. Working paper argues that using microdata to get household-specific inflation rates (rather than aggregating first like CPI), you find -lotta variation in household inflation -greater avg inflation during price upturns -lower real wages for lower income people

Finally, all my biggest fears combined into one even bigger fear!

Rep. Sara Jacobs reveals that the Biden admin could have forced an end to the UAE backed genocide in Sudan, but chose not to because it would affect the UAE's support of Israel in its genocide of Palestinians. Its all connected. Theyre all pure evil

I’m reading this right now. It’s fascinating. I haven’t killed anything with it, though.

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My son learned how to hiss at me from the cat.

So, to recap our takes on Homeric color epithets: “white-armed” yes; “wine-dark” no.

When Trump won I didn't necessarily imagine this headline *specifically* but I did imagine that the headlines would look something like this

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Impossible to discuss the Kars for Kids scam without sounding insane

Happy 18th anniversary of the time Manny Ramirez high-fived a fan while in the middle of turning a difficult double play.

the two genders:

The board consists of three semi-literate car dealers who were the state’s top GOP donors. Their top priority is fighting wokeness in the Potato School by putting up a statue of the confederate general who owned the largest potato farm in the state in 1859.

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Public opinion update: I live in Rogers Park in Chicago. My precinct had literally 12 Trump voters in one of his elections, out of 1000+ votes cast. But there’s one old white guy who sits in the Starbucks by the Loyola campus in a MAGA hat, I think looking to shock the students who study there.

my favorite genre of international dialogue

Literal quixotism.

The sun is shining.

Big Philosophy doesn’t want you to know that “pre-Socratic” philosopher Democritus outlived Socrates by like 30 years

"pushing up educational attainment doesn't vault everyone to the upper middle class, but instead pushes down the relative outcome of every educational group. It's not hard to see how this sort of expectation-betrayal would frustrate people" peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/04/09/h...

oh shit

I need one of those “I’d rather be listening to” bumper stickers but for Sleep’s Dopesmoker

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Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.