That’s not what “immutable” means

Pastor, starting today’s children’s sermon: A tree in my backyard got struck by lightning, so we had to take it out. Kid: I think you’ve told us this story before. Pastor: Maybe I have, that happens! But I promise there‘s a new part you haven’t heard. Kid: We’ll see.

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They should put a buncha rings in Lord of the Flies and a shitload of flies in Lord of the Rings just to blow people's minds and whatnot.

They always proudly include the part of the chat where the bot tells them how amazing and unique they are. A normal person has the self-awareness (or sense of shame) to edit those parts out. The only explanation is that, in their thinking, the flattery is part of what proves the bot’s insight.

There are objectively worse people in the world (Hitler, Pol Pot, maybe others) but nothing activates a Pavlovian anger response in me more than adult men stealing home run balls from children

UPDATE: Here’s what I look like a few hours later.

Have you heard the tale of King Solomon? The wise ruler was confronted with two parents, each of which claimed sole custody over their child. Solomon stroked his chin and then said "ok so if you open and then quickly cancel the trade window you can do the dupe exploit and get two babies"

Dave Mason had a long and distinguished career, and yet in our household the mere mention of his name will prompt my wife to say, "A little Dave Mason..." and then start singing this early '80s beer commercial that she heard on the radio repeatedly as a teen. youtu.be/1x7TLm4iKzY?...

Right into my veins, please.

Same exact experience for me.

"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"

“Read the book, not the summary. Write the piece, not the prompt. Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”

I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff

not sure what is more odd: that it apparently didn't crack the top three, or that it is being advertised on the DC metro

Donald Trump does not understand believing in something. He does not believe in a God above and beyond him. His being is the sum of his own libidinal urges, nothing but feelings and lusts and hates.

If you're not in the habit of contacting your congresscritters, the easiest way to start is 5calls.org! Put in your location. They'll look up your congresscritters and their phone numbers and give you a script. You can do it!

Re: my last repost … Mohsen Makmalbaf’s A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE is available in full on YouTube. 75 minutes to change your life. youtu.be/l-WZ2sqlOkM?...

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

We absolutely don’t talk enough about how hilarious W. C. Fields was.

I have built load-bearing portions of my personal philosophy and theology on ideas that were in the footnotes of the books I read. You can't assume that the "important stuff" is clearly identifiable, because the meaning of "important" is "important to me, a unique human reader."

this one made me log off for a whole 2 days fam

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Loved this episode. Vote Berube!

I'm compiling a list of "don't use AI, here's why" reasons for my incoming students. Any one of them could be (and has been) expanded into essay form). Kudos to @coltranethedog.bsky.social for saying a perfect truth, perfectly.

Break out the hosannas, friends.

My college senior is genuinely upset that Hegel is so relevant to their life.

One of the first gifts that @donnadb.bsky.social gave me not long after we started dating was The Soul Of A New Machine, one of her favorite books. It kicked off a love of non-fiction for me that still burns strong. Kidder's brand of reportage was one-of-a-kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

"The pink-hat-wearing liberal women who have marched consistently against Trump...are regularly discarded as “wine moms.' But this is wrong. Those marches mattered." Agree very much with @aselrod.bsky.social here: Wine mom politics is good.

INVENTOR: i have just created the push button MARKETING GUY: should i do a press release INVENTOR: that’s how it works, yes

They canceled his citizenship interview and he drove in the winning run to beat the US. Eugenio Suarez is a gem.

Should this ceremony really be allowed to give an award out for sound?

Italy has an espresso machine in their dugout ☕🇮🇹 📸 Chris Vaccaro on X

got inspired by some questions from phd students the other day — and also really irritated by senior academics who seem to refuse to get the issues and continue to blame students; hope useful for you! 🩷 olivia.science/cheating

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

Hey all, just noticed that THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is airing at 6p Eastern today. You know I love this, gonna try to make it ^PG #TCMParty #31DaysOfOscar

Couple things here: 1. What the fuck 2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen 3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE

(joan jett voice) i love sitting down sitting on the couch and sitting, baby

I also love every step of the process though I’ll go one further. Skipping any step of the process is fatal atrophy in our craft and a total surrender to mediocrity and luck ChatGPT will never make anyone a better designer. I stake my career on it.

"When it messes up, people often don't know why or how." I would amend this by removing the "often."

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

This video made my brain melt out of my ears.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

i told my computer to “dial in” my spreadsheet and now I know which d-line prospects have leadership potential, am I doing this right

Hello heterosexual men! When a woman is recommended to you for a job, do you expect “aesthetic details”? If the initial recommendation does not contain them, do you follow up with questions about the woman’s looks? As a woman, very curious about this practice, apparently so commonplace.

Whenever someone asked how my fall was going, I would tell them this story. Everything I said to @chronicle.com was what I told them: change this fast cannot account for the lived reality of faculty and students across diverse programs.

Trevor Noah is so good at this.