One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

This is a great post and follows up to a fantastic point about the meaningful optimism of immigrants. This has historically been the source of a lot of American civic virtue. The people who thought America was the land of opportunity came here and made it that way

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and: 1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character 2) we should make more actors do this

Even better Ed Asner was the chairman of the parent company to the NBC analog that wanted a fight with an overreaching FCC. Has any actor meant more to the business of fictional television than Asner?

Not food-related, but important information! The National Toy Hall of Fame at the Strong Museum (in beautiful Rochester, NY) has just announced the 2025 players' choice nominees for induction into the HoF! Thoughts? See link in replies to cast your vote!

i refuse to choose, i live in america, by god, if i want katsu curry for breakfast and tandoori chicken pizza for lunch and a sushi burrito for dinner, i barely even have to leave my neighborhood

Honestly, I think a solid number of them are afraid of being killed. I don't want to give Ezra Klein et al. more credit than is strictly necessary, but I think they'd be nuts if they weren't thinking that at least a little, which explains the bizarre media behavior.

I wonder if there's a word for an actual economic downturn which bums you out like a vibecession, but it's not just vibes.

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE CAESAR LOST AT PHARSALUS: "Honey, would you pass the Pompey dressing? This salad you made is utterly flavorless" "Fuck off, ASSHOLE" "Fine, I'm ordering a pizza from Little Pompey's"

Yes, literacy is important -- but literacy means more than "how to use X". It also includes understanding what X (here, LLMs) is and when NOT to use them. Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.

Big news: Snack Stack is back with a deep dive into the cultural history of Chicken in a Biscuit It's weird, it's fun, it takes some surprising turns! snackstack.net/2025/09/07/t...

EIGHTY PERCENT?

Genuinely a wonder account just because, but also it's like listening to trance songs where we see the periodicity of various patterns create new points of contact, networks from A Few Good Men, San Andreas, and The Producers. This account is the shuttle on the loom, and I love it

This is one of the greatest posts of all time

those who have made this connection and understand its implications are who are most opposed to LLMs invading everything. setting aside what could be done to improve the tech, we're always back to it being a shortcut for thinking.

*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

Happy Labor Day 🙂

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Florida Orders Cities To Remove Rainbow Crosswalks https://theonion.com/florida-orders-cities-to-remove-rainbow-crosswalks/

We lost something as a nation when the ecru stopped making this music… i need the pinkish to get back to the garage!!!

planet of the apes!

Having to use 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 so an executive making 300k a year knows • which part of the email they 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 read.

This is some of the finest work in American Studies, truly and sincerely.

I wonder what we're actually measuring here. I feel like "the average person slightly favors rock" is the kind of pop psychology factoid that you can learn on Tumblr and maybe young people know that and try to compensate? Old people know there is a "normal" answer and want to be normal?

anyone else ever think about how one day you're going to be 85 and saying things like "lol"

This is utterly, completely false. Math and science were ruined in Germany and Italy approximately instantaneously, because the best scientists fled. Hilbert, who stayed in Germany b/c he was not a target and was too old and disabled to leave, openly said academic math was dead in Germany.

There are people who believe it is meaningful to be born indebted to the colossal national project that enabled their world to exist and those who hate and resent it and want to burn it down. Fundamental American philosophy is literally the former. The latter people genuinely hate America

Last time I taught science fiction with an interesting in history and philosophy of science was 2021. Might be doing it again soon and uhhhhhhhhhhhhh it might be different this time around

Me liking random posts on Bluesky.

oopsie, economics! @econcat.bsky.social

Future audiences will feel like this is a parable that's a little too tidy to be realistic, a Midas story that has a lesson but surely in a big on-the-nose

Godddd '90s multimedia kicks ass

Read this thread and like I'm not saying that there aren't broader gender problems, because there surely are, but just like when people talk about right-wing politics and "boomers" they almost certainly mean "white boomers," when they talk about "young men" they likely mean "white" ones specifically

good morning btw i’m watching this for some nostalgic entertainment

But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.

I was flipping through Griffith's last night because of that guy's post. "There is simply no substitute for calisthenics."

never tell me to "cool down." you may not talk to me in this way and i do not accept commands regarding what emotions i'm allowed to feel and when i'm allowed to feel them. i mainly have this problem with my exercise bike, but now that i'm thinking about it, this goes for everyone else too

they are attempting to create a way for white guys who wear gingham shirts to start claiming you’re racist toward them

“The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species.” The pet lives in her house, DEREK. Do you think that female pet owner has to text her cat, who is in her house, 15 times to make plans, DEREK

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Sure, Trump is insulting a bunch of his followers, but his posts are heavily filtered by the media. Most folks don't see them. The only people who'll see him calling Epstein truthers weaklings are the hardcore QAnon freaks actually following him on Tru—oh, OH, this might not go well 🍿

Y’all the last real ones left… stay low 🫡

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Look if someone can come up with a better explanation for the problem of evil I will go with that one but for now this one makes a lot of sense

Superman is an action movie, a comedy, and also a horror movie, because a journalist types a massive exposé straight into the CMS and hits publish while on some kind of janky spaceship mobile hotspot

{𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone {𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone except Michel Foucault