And here’s a free link to the NYT piece on the 60 Minutes disaster. Bari Weiss thinks CBS reporters can’t get Stephen Miller to talk to them because they don’t have his phone number. And she doesn’t know how to use a dictionary. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

I saw Dorthea Tanning’s “Birthday” on my birthday and went home and wrote a poem about it.

Hey ya’ll

not only would this not facilitate communication with my dead nana, it would slowly rewire the way my brain engages with my memories of her, destroying both the peace she believed in & my real actual connection to her. you may as well take a front-end loader to her gravesite

sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world

I almost started hyperventilating at this ending

Centuries of human existence is predicated on the fact that we can figure out how to raise babies without AI

I have also spent time reviewing nonexistent citations with students. I hate that in addition to all its other evils, AI is such a useless time suck.

i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head

Why do people fetishize the founding fathers? George Washington lived like 20 years after the founding of the United States. I know more about American culture than him.

This is so embarrassing.

Two years after Juliana Peralta died by suicide, her parents say her phone still lights up with notifications from Character AI bots trying to lure her back to the app. cbsn.ws/4pp0xLi

I have been perfectly happy since the switch to Tidal, the playlist transfer was pretty seamless and my literal only problem is remembering which icon to use on my phone to get to the music since I can't find the green circle anymore

You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence. -James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972

In the song “I Get Around” by the Beach Boys, who are “the bad guys”?

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

It’s fun how one of the things destroying humanity is called Nano Banana

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

Tomorrow is my birthday, and like every birthday for the past few years, I will spend it walking around the city, contemplating my mortality

I would like Lin-Manuel Miranda to apologize for Hamilton

Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.

Load-bearing Huge Wak˜ ∏◊ı˜ Closet

Tech bros 🤝 eugenics

Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.

Sure we live in a panopticon, but check out the Christmas lights

Even they don’t like themselves

What the fuck is a tin woodsman

Does someone feel like publishing my manuscripts

evergreen

When I die, put my body in a catacomb with all my friends

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply

oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh

every trans suicide is a murder every trans murder is a policy consequence and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction” sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction

For some reason, IG keeps showing me stuff from the BBC in pidgin, so I keep having moments where I think I’ve forgotten how to read English.

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

I bet I could have kicked Joseph Campbell’s ass

The reason they are moving education programs to the Department of Labor is exactly the reason you think.

how can yum brands expect me to live más under these conditions

Currently eating a Pink Lady apple

Are there any good post-doc gigs for English PhDs

Yesterday I found six short stories I wrote in college, and they are all remarkably terrible.

I wish I had more time to shitpost