Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this. Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’

I’m not trying to be snarky or a doomer but…why would they? Going to school no longer guarantees them a better life, or even a regular life. War crimes are being committed right in front of them, the planet is dying while we invest in oil, and there are like 3 separate disabling plagues

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

John Fetterman‘s issue is he was a loner in high school? Okay.

To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories: - Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy - Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.

When I was at NC state, I had lunch with a visiting scholar from Sweden who was visiting US universities for the first time. He described his experience as touring “hedge funds with football teams.”

The French must have a word for the sudden rush of memories unlocked from childhood in an instant, the flood of re-experiencing something totally forgotten. Whatever the word for that is, it just happened to me.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

My book BLACK CROWN is about to get its paperback edition – it's the story of the Kingdom of Haiti, with revolutionary battles, the overthrow of colonialism, palaces and castles and a visionary king. It's like Wakanda – but it's all true! www.hurstpublishers.com/book/black-c...

Reform's policy is mass deportations - but they're moaning about a larger number of people leaving the country? Are they sad that they won't get to lock them up and thump them first? It's much cheaper if they leave voluntarily! (also the main factor here is the *bigger* drop in numbers *arriving*)

having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

This will live rent-free in my head until she’s inevitably fired.

I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥

At this point, these kind of stories are just plain race-baiting. We know what this is. We know what this does. We know who makes the Mac and cheese and who doesn’t. Cmon now.

Seems bad for us to build an entire economy on Mechanical Turks.

Their favorite sitter was on schedule again.

I’m sorry but there’s no way Larry Summers is teaching 5 classes this semester. How many credits are we talking? There’s no way he’s some fount of unknown knowledge undergrads will be ruined without. Harvard is telling on itself so loudly.

We are watching Jungle Book and the vultures are supposed to be the Beatles, right?

Cats straight up lying to the cat sitter right now. “We are indoor-outdoor, didn’t she sign the permission slip?”

who the fuck does Ezra Klein thinks actually writes the overly convoluted regulations he despises? It's not progressives or anybody even tangentially related to good faith reform movements, it's unchecked corporate power, you insufferable brunchlord

when @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I started working on this book, it felt excitingly ambitious to imagine it being used by students at a range of levels in literary studies ...and now we hear it's being picked up by high school teachers, historians, professors of law, and more -- I'm truly floored

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/18/w... could not be prouder of my fellow workers. 💕

All joking aside, the heartbreaking thing about this story is seeing how a white “journalist” with poor prose & worst journalist ethics gets to repeatedly crash out & land plum jobs while so many poor, trans, Black, Native journalists never get in journalism’s door. Like…

Thank you, FFS nobody needs reminding that the guy who looks like the anus judge from The Wall “desires desire” ever. Send each other letters with wax stamps or something.

Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.

this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”

In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.

"The plan would reorganize the departments and their faculty members into an array of “schools,” “centers” and “institutes.” Among those that administrators have floated are the School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions & the Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies"

I did not ever need to know this much about the sex lives of political journalists

I dunno, I have liked some genuinely weird people a whole lot so she’s got my sympathies for that part, but this is another level of needing an editor.

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Them: You better not be a cunty fish vase when I get there Me:

'A House of Dynamite' but it's your uncles trying to deep fry a turkey.

happy monday, taps sign⬇️

A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.

It was in guides on blogs so we’d know to expect it! Absolutely weird how long we put up with this.

And invite candidates to parties in said hotel rooms, sometimes not even suites, that you felt obligated to attend even though it was so uncomfortable and you would inevitably get waylaid when trying to leave by an emeritus hanging in the doorway who wanted to talk about Beasts of the Southern Wild.

HEAD CHEF IN THE KITCHEN! #BillsMafia

So. Was standing at my kitchen sink washing my hands when this bald beauty landed in my yard right in front of me at eye level! 👀 Life in the PNW! Brain was all "Do not move fast to get camera, do NOT MOVE FAST..." Also "Do not rinse soap off hands, just wipe on towel slowly" #birds #becurious

My undergrad’s faculty senate had a whole fight over the relationship policy when I was a student before they finally settled on “Okay I GUESS we won’t fuck students in OUR program.” Undergrads need care not creeps, what is wrong with people?

Thank you, the scholarship is often trash that would never make it through review today. Every last one needs to be shunned.

Let’s be clear: any of these people can/did get funding on pedigree and name alone. They are chummy with Epstein because they want to fuck children.

I think it’s some AI rewriting the headline for maximum clicks.