An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

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I’ve tried to stay out of the more lib brain nonsense that this app houses but I implore you that you cannot allow this man anywhere near the White House

not a cell phone in sight. just a group of kids looking at a dead body, living in the moment.

None of this is a game. Living, breathing human beings are dying and being terrorized. If you literally watch this and imagine it’ll help create a “blue wave” or whatever the hell, you need to log off and turn off cable news. We’re in an actual crisis. Lock the ever living fuck in.

If you are, in any way, watching growing fascism and the brutalizing of people and destruction of their rights and lives as “beneficial” for the next election, not only have you lost the plot, you need to get help.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Here’s my faculty argument for my “right to refuse AI”: I have academic freedom. I’m not fucking doing that. Thank you.

Honestly yeah this.

no patience for anyone that uses AI, and zero love for someone that uses “oh well I don’t have a Writing Education“ as an excuse. I have zero education, I worked with glass until I was in my mid 30s and I can write. you have to be willing to work, to try , and to fail by your own hand.

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This news makes my nipples hard for some reason?

Maybe Sinners should be required viewing for St Patrick’s Day this year

Excited for the "Eddington was good, actually" discourse to begin any time now.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Also, I’d argue that Michael B. Jordan actually plays three distinct roles in #Sinners. Two characters during the day, and then three at night.

Michael B. Jordan's acceptance speech for his first-ever Oscar. “I know you guys want me to do well and I wanna do that cause you guys bet on me. Thank you for keeping betting on me and I’m gonna keep stepping up.” See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

My 14 year-old thinks Michael B. Jordan is the same person as the NBA player and she thinks Timothee Chalamet “looks like a rodent.”

Mmmmhmmmm.

FUCK YEAH JAVIER

Fuck Sean Penn. It should have been literally any of the others. (My vote would have been for Delroy or Benicio.)

IF SINNERS DOESN’T WIN BEST ORIGINAL SONG I’M GONNA LOSE MY GODDAMN MIND

Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.

if you don’t live in a temperate climate you might not know that during heavy snowstorms the snow particles can reflect light and fill even the darkness of night with an eerie luminance some old-timers still refer to as the Shovelman’s Gloaming

When I was 5 I took ballet lessons in the basement of a mall & one evening someone bought a lizard at the pet store & threw it at all of us tiny ballerinas & my mother let me bring the lizard home, I named it Dino. Anyway, this also happened in suburban Minneapolis.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

"A department generating high credit-hour production across the university but with few declared majors is not an inefficient department. It is a department whose students are not being counted in the metric being used against it."

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what's cute about this story is that they have no idea how the internet works. my dudebros in doge, it is too late.

I’m down by 5 with two hours left! 😬😬😬

Just over 8 hours left and we’re still neck and neck—don’t forget to vote!

Wrong it’s “British quote mark-la”

I’m up against Hootie & the Blowfish AND @kjmoulton.bsky.social??? Go read & vote! marchxness.com#/2ndround-ho...

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Every time I see something that’s supposedly “Lynchian” that doesn’t have room in its dreamy/nightmarish haze for something absurd or hilarious I feel like I got kinda ripped off, ngl

No, but I would like to (burn every data center involved)

I might be more willing to use AI if the the AI enthusiasts didn’t talk so much like -people recruiting for a religious cult -frat boys at my first college party trying to get me to drink the mysterious dark liquid from the red solo cup they just handed me -19th century snake oil salesmen

When you support indie booksellers and bookstores, you are supporting human curation, the exercise of judgment and taste, the storefronts that make cities interesting. You make it possible for writers and readers outside the mainstream to be found again. You support real people who love literature.

"Reading old books" how dumb do you think we are Marc

I’m bad at math! And time zones!

A little over 12 hours left to vote—consider casting yours for “Linger” by The Cranberries!

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Calling in sick for International Women's Boxing Day

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

My essay on The Cranberries is up today! Vote for me?