In a world filled with AI slop and corporate-approved “content,” be like Tom Cox instead.

This is art. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/at-...

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

People keep asking Alan Moore questions about comics he's disowned when they could spend more time asking him questions about things he actually gives a shit about—and get answers as glorious as this.

It is astounding how everyone thought Elon Musk was the real-life Tony Stark, and then it started to look like he was really Justin Hammer. Now it turns out he was actually Milhouse all along.

RING THE BELL. After falling behind 3-1 in the series, the Philadelphia 76ers defeat the Boston Celtics in Game 7.

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

Someone tell @parkermolloy.com new unhinged social media graphic just dropped

The Depeche Mode prophecy has been fulfilled.

how much money does the marine corps lose

Dr. Teeth is the most unsettling Muppet if you assume, as I do, that he does not have unusually expressive sunglasses but instead has translucent eyelids. Like a punishment from the elder gods. Serious body horror.

The 2025 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts was $210m

American Pie for the AI dystopian age

I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments but Not in a Threatening Way www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Slept in my Billy Ocean shirt and woke up to find a girl in my car.

Yes! This! “…management is a specifically human practice that seeks to get the best from a group of people by aligning their individual talents, motivations, and creativity with clearly communicated goals and opportunities. Good management centres the humanity of each employee…”

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

Well I don’t love that

this is hell

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

reader you are not prepared for the embedded audio here

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

I remember learning about Roman vomitoriums (which are really just a modern myth anyway: www.scientificamerican.com/article/purg...) and thinking, “What kind of depraved society would do something like this?” And now I know. It’s this one.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

Was also his WHAT and WHAT This headline really hits you with a big finale

A civilized country with an actual, functioning government would not leave critical public health research to private industry.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

So the Plagiarism Machine known for hallucinating to fill in the gaps in missing data isn’t a doctor, you say? 🤦‍♂️ So glad I’m reading this AFTER I just had sinus surgery. Terrifying.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

💯👇

In fact, he’s right. But the “really hard criminals” are the dudes wearing the tactical cosplay and masks and terrorizing American citizens. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

Didn’t have the Trump administration being the one to finally abolish the second amendment!

To be fair those are some of the more inoffensive camps that Heritage Foundation is pushing

This is the thing. I’m so glad Liam is home but I can’t stop thinking about the other 3800.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Yeah but what if the Melania movie was called Seven Samurai instead? And then when you went to see it they just showed you Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai? I bet you liberals would *love* it then. Typical.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?

sticks and stones may break my bones but names will make me shoot you

There are two Americas. Pick your side wisely. One ideology always loses.