You know the old saying, "Never judge a book by its cover. Hire racists to build a cover-judging machine for you."

not saying all people in academia (or CS) are reliably hard-right conservatives (although you'd be surprised). i'm saying a lot of deeply conservative, profoundly racist people in CS (& academia more generally) specifically enjoy the toothless liberal environment of academia and exploit it to thrive

Let's fucking go. The big corporations with their expensive lawyers keep getting out of these jams, but they're only delaying the inevitable. Justice will be served eventually when one of these suits sticks.

Apparently my husband just found out about Good Charlotte this week. I haven't listened to them since like 2005, but I'm happy for him. Now he's downstairs blasting a mix of early 2000s alt rock and pop punk. It's adorable.

Same! There was even a great Steelers game I watched and enjoyed on Sunday afternoon, but I'm still thinking about those game 7 innings!

This is such an amazing opportunity to work with a leader in the field doing really important work! As much as I'd love to apply, I already know I can't move to Dublin for 2 years. But someone else out there is going to get this awesome job. Is it you?

Here’s a list of publications I’d love to read this week on Cheney’s death or Zohran’s election. — Gawker — BuzzFeed News — Teen Vogue Politics — Village Voice — Megan Carpeniter’s Guardian US opinion page — Splinter News Unfortunately, none of them exist anymore

Probably the best, most honest Cheney obituary.

Mint/Susan is an amazing person and artist. If you are interested in cute keyboard stuff, buy from her shop while you still can!

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

The ONE time I avoid SNF so I don't have to hear his voice, he finally says something moderately interesting?!

Now THIS is shitposting

That was the greatest baseball game I’ve ever seen.

The details are in the implementation. And nobody trusts the Bluesky leadership+devs to make the implementation a good user experience. Because they have not been trustworthy on moderation decisions / comms. We don't want a "what's hot" default feed algorithm. Keep it simple & leave it alone.

again I would like our electeds to explain the time change to my cats

HOOTIN and HOLLERIN these boys really want it.

lol I'm sorry, *trying* to get hit, and then actually getting hit and bitching about it is deeply funny. like, Andrés, buddy, come on now.

My online business ethics students are cooking. One of them said of ethics in business "the real question is not whether business ethics "makes sense," but whose sense of ethics is being protected or ignored." Followers, I had to stop and sit with that for a moment. Whose ethics INDEED.

And one of them got passionate about a pedantic point and LITERALLY said "sorry I know I'm being annoying but..." NFL broadcasters would NEVER be this self aware. I'm now officially an ESPN radio world series booth team fan. (pls I hope this isn't a milkshake duck situation)

I've been listening to the world series games on ESPN radio and I was thinking earlier that I think I like their booth team. Now in this half inning w all the drama, they are popping off and I love it.

I recently heard a youth (under 30) refer to Doc as "[Marty's] grandfather from Back to the Future" and I thought about correcting them and going into a whole thing but I realized it would be an *old man yells at clouds* moment and kept it to myself. Is this "aging gracefully"?

remember what they took from you [geocities]

baseball is the microsoft excel of sports

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

I like how people say "manage your depression" like it's a stock portfolio but you're heavily invested in sadness

I did not expect this post to resonate with so many people, but it makes sense considering how many people have been laid off or are going through layoffs rn. Gen X and Millennials were also taught to prioritize work and our careers, only to see homes become too expensive to buy and wages stagnate.

from Gaza to the US, starvation is a favored weapon of the American ruling class

I was so excited to watch the Steelers tonight... then I heard Cris Collinsworth's voice and now I'm trying to convince my husband we have to watch it on mute.

if baseball is america’s pastime how come none of the players have ribbons in their hair

The cruelty of this hits really hard. If it happened 25 years ago, my 4 younger siblings and I would have starved to death. And now, unless private citizens and communities step up to fill the gap, the lives of thousands of families of today are in danger. Those in power do not care at all.

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

In addition to this being a sign of Where We're At Right Now as a country... This infographic isn't doing much for me. The helpful, color coded borders in the graphic don't actually appear around them in the real world, so these are all just dudes with guns in vests, hats, and/or camo to me.

Search on the web is so full of slop results now. We had it pretty good for years and now it’s done

Making room for the ballroom.

Finally saw the 2023 Dungeons & Dragons movie and my main takeaways are (1) Holga is My Type. (2) It would never work out because we'd always be fighting over who gets the last potato. (3) Everything about Chris Pine's performance makes me feel validated in my own choices for my current (bard) PC.

Bonus points if the person holding this sign is in cosplay

A lot of these red states are gerrymandered to the hilt as well. Republicans are making it almost impossible for people to vote their way out of this mess

Please stop telling me to talk to my computer. I am 30-40 years old and I don’t need this

I've been reading PA for over 20 years now, and this comic is still one of my all-time faves.

when my department insists that I complete an annual evaluation in the year of our lord 2025

wtf does "our parents aren't having children" even mean? If you're talking about my parents... My mom physically can't anymore and my dad was a piece of shit & now he's dead. They *shouldn't* have any more children. If you mean people w/o kids don't have kids, then "parents" is not the right word.

Relevant: In one of the few longitudinal (pre/post) studies of critical thinking skills around, Arum and Roska found that business majors showed no change, on avg, in critical thinking, complex reasoning, or communication skills after 4 years. Other majors did better. This was well before GenAI.

In the AFC North you can have an offense or you can have a defense

I’ve got a great invention for you it’s called the written word and it’s going to take this country by storm

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

Can anyone explain to me why the initial catch isn't a fly out? I'm so confused.

Big yikes

My grandmother was a child of immigrants, an entrepreneur & small business owner, and by all accounts an amazing & generous woman. I never got to meet her, but everyone who knew her loved & respected her (and maybe even feared her a little because she was loud, fierce, and independent as hell).