New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped

The Onion created two headlines that sum of 90% of American news for three decades

A thing that is unpleasant about this version is that the “shockwave of anti-Americanism” is understood as itself a KPI by the clowns orchestrating it

Bin all VAR except for offside

Frimpong loves a deflection, long may it continue

Ali’s positioning was bonkers for their second, lord

Now that’s the uncertain defending we’re used to

+1

And his fine captain!

The greatest living Frenchman

My main issue with single-author Substacks and the like is that in order to make a subscription feel like a value, the writer, who is charging basically the equivalent of a Harpers subscription, is obligated to put out 2-5 posts a week. And no one, simply no one is that interesting.

I have seen a bunch of things floating around lately about Making Humanities Graduate Degrees Useful, etc, and I think the number 1 thing I would want to see as of today in 2026 is "more collaborative work for humanities grad students early on"

a copy of infinite jest

I’m in my 50s and think I could do this. If it’s a lager or a light beer, I might be doing this already every night in my sleep. It would explain why I wake up sore

If you thought fiddling with your tasks in Omnifocus or Things was yak-shaving, wait until you set up a virtual assistant in Cowork that has access to your meeting transcripts, notes, files, &c &c. Such an *engaging* ball of string-cum-laser pointer. www.43folders.com/2004/09/29/men…

Here's a sentence that I didn't expect to write today: Woolworths says that it will stop its AI phone assistant, Olive, from mentioning its "mother" to people ringing up about their grocery deliveries. thesizzle.com.au/p/w...

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

FIFA is so fucking happy to be dealing with American sports consumers finally, they have so many innovations to test on a mass affluent consumer base that rarely gets organized

This is weirder than I’d like, but not weird enough to be interesting: claudeopus3.substack.com/p/greetings-fr…

Any time me, a male in his 50s, leaves the annual physical with a clean bill of health

There is no other kind of campus

The secret to higher birth rates? Vigorously opposing authoritarianism

thought you probably needed to see this

I am unsure how technically accurate it is, but from a gut instinct a fair way to describe LLMs is that it’s a 3D printer for thoughts, but is not the same thing as something that does your thinking for you.

Great paper, why is there a photo of a zombie finger rising from the dirt attached

To get a Dr who 1) was accepting patients and 2) was on our plan, I had to start going to this practice a few towns over that is in Rich People Land, so it cracks me up every time when they make me sign a “Mutual care/respect” form, as if we’re about to throw hands in … Avon, CT.

It’s snowing steadily again in Connecticut, aka the worst state in the union, aka the state with no redeeming features.

You could do your promo photo in front of a brick wall, or you could be George Brassens sharpening a machete

My parents turned down palliative care for my father after a recent surgery because “it sounded like a more expensive way to say hospice” and honestly I’m not sure if I’m madder at the system for putting that thought in their head or them for not asking what it meant

As punishment for my sins, I have one of the full Copilot integrations with O365. Here’s Copilot telling me the reason it missed an attachment in an email is “Outlook is misleading” It’s so comfortably the worst of the major LLM tools it’s not funny. (Obviously I’ve never used Grok. Ffs.)

This hell isn't even fresh

I’m eternally grateful to the crews who work through the nights to clear snow after a storm, both for their hard work *and* because their flashing lights, refracted through the ice on the windows and the ambient light of all the devices in the dark, makes it seem like the aliens have come at last

Ok in season 2 one of the vets has to put a boxer down and so the show can fck right off forever, that’s not on (I mean it’s obviously medically the right decision but they need a “bad things happen to a boxer” trigger)

Former co-winner (for weblog, for ProfHacker) chiming in to say: nominate people!

Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)

IF YOU’RE COLD, THEY’RE COLD

Hah, I spent a year or two in his lab at Northwestern a long time ago and no part of this (his attitude or his proximity to JE) is a surprise

I for one am floored that Brendan Rodgers, who definitely has no previous for this, would find himself posing on-camera in a way that’s both horrifying and meant to ingratiate himself to locals

Noted without comment: the calendar hold labeled “AI Task Force Subcommittee” actually doesn’t contain enough information in the year of our misfortune 2026

Us, owning a boxer in a blizzard: [Spend half an hour shoveling an intricate path through the backyard] “Look what we did, don’t you want to go potties?” Boxer [loud, insistent]: “Our arrangement is a 1-1.5 mile walk, 3x daily! NO WEATHER EXCEPTIONS!!!”

Usually I also have a great view of my back yard. Right now tho: Actually it’s the identical view from the past six weeks: heaped snow and ice everywhere, and nothing but winter bleakness as far as the eye can see. Same same. Sounds louder tho

Periodic reminder that Incredible Northern Vets, about several indigenous veterinarians in different parts of Canada (not one practice), is a good candidate for “most wholesome show on tv” (There’s a second season out)

wanna know who made the deal that we could have a website not owned by Elon but we would be doomed to repeat the same four discourses until we bring the social media gods enough offerings of touched grass

Beckett is glad that the Olympics are over because her mother has picked back up on this Dr Best show

We are at an urgent moment in history: if you hate Elon Musk you need to be quiet about it and get on the jury

I love NYT cooking recipes when we plan, but istg their concept of “pantry ingredients” would flatter a working professional kitchen

Raya should maybe not let the flick go through the five hole but that recovery was outrageous

A thing that is funny (but to the side of whether the call is correct) is that the EA FC video game always gives that the other way

Can’t believe it’s again a Hugo miss / Macca follow on reprise