"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.

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp is the best.

liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

Just about to finish my first one of these. I’ve got a lot of red yarn. And this pattern works for fingering, DK and worsted weights.

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats

📉25% LOWER ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY! Wowzers—one of the largest long-term safety studies ever undertaken: “Among 28 mil adults, those who received an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine were less likely to die in subsequent 4 years than unvaccinated, corresponding to a 25% lower risk of death from all causes.”

“It remains unclear why Gottumukkala needed to use ChatGPT.” (None of these people are interested in why guard rails or policies exist. Also he probably has no skills of his own because he’s outsourced them to genAI. Imagine his terror upon being expected to do this job with his own brain.)

Catholic philosopher* Eleonore Stump has a few words about ICE. *I realize this is like calling Prince “a guitarist”

ok the full clip is way better than the little one going around. her whole team try to get her to bail on the event and she's like no, I came to speak. incredible example.

I just assume most eulogies and wedding speeches are generated by chat gpt now because it’s largely well meaning people who have been sold on the idea that this is a tool to help you do “a good job,” when the actual point of you being up there is to say what you’re feeling even if it’s clumsy.

If you've ever wondered about the difference between Southern Baptists & American Baptists (formerly known as Northern Baptists), the Twin Cities are showing it. An SBC church has a pastor who's an ICE leader. An ABC church a block from Pretti's execution is ministering to those terrorized by ICE:

Literally made a Bluesky account so I could come up here and say it was me who created this polish. The vest has been ordered!!!

Passive voice cited as cowardly distancing maneuver, say some experts

Noel’s been talking to me about this piece for weeks. I know I’m biased, but after reading it, I honestly don’t think anybody could have written it better.

Her stitch pattern collections have been, and will continue to be, the building blocks that creative knitters turn into an infinite wealth of designs. She is our Linnaeus and our Diderot. Barbara G. Walker, Guru to the Kniterati, Is Dead at 95

Its happening!

Hi hello it’s me, I love TV Club Classic and my old-school AV Club shirt has been long since reduced to rags. You too? What are the odds?

What a coincidence, I started one of these hats yesterday

Catch as Catch Can, by Francis Picabia, 1913

June 2024: "Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack‘s [(R)] son James Phillip Womack was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine." Jan. 2026: Trump pardons James Phillip Womack. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

[Me, prior to watching screeners of the new season of The Pitt] Pitt. Pitt. Pitt. Pitt. [Me, after watching the season premiere] PITT! PITT! PITT! PITT!

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

“Why are Americans mistrustful of AI?” asks the morning briefing thing I’m skimming while I “no” through literally a dozen questions being asked to me by a robot who stands between me and the person I need to talk to to schedule the x-ray that I really, really need

this thread makes me crylaugh every time i run across it and read it again. please, treat yourself.

In all cultures throughout all of history, people have loved turning things into little guys

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

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MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

Tech companies tell us genAI is always getting better, and these live experiments enable that progress. Reminds me of how poisoned children used to be the only detection system for lead paint in old houses.

they should invent a kitchen trash you can take out that is less than 106.8% full

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

Buffalo Drive, by William R. Leigh, 1947, 📸 by @sickoscommittee.org

90 days until Opening Day

What's interesting is that he seems to have gotten right to the edge of the realizing that cultural concepts structure how we experience reality and then said "nope!" and ran the other way.

When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By the end of autumn, it was clear that this figure wasn’t really a person at all. It was a concept. It was a frog.

the registration page for the Flock x Palentir Santa Tracker™ keeps complaining that the password i want to set is *too* strong 🫩

7. A heist that took all of seven minutes and made international news on October 19, 2025 occurred at what historic site? DODGER STADIUM, LOS ANGELES #LL107 #bestwronganswers

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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Hey science fiction and fantasy readers, the SFWA want your input on their policies regarding LLM use for award-submitted work. This survey is for EVERYONE, not just writers. I know I have strong feelings about this, and I bet you do too. Please respond thoughtfully!