SURELY YOU JEST, MADAM.

And their bleeding heart SMELL-fare program

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Long ago, when the Earth was young, the Vauxhall was the first London gay bar I went to! I rapidly discovered there were lots of Irish guys there - all having escaped from gay persecution in Ireland, like me. Nowadays, trans ppl are making the opposite journey, to Ireland to escape persecution.

AI can pry my em-dashes from my cold--and dead--hands.

"Live the moment"

"Live the moment"

Cocaine Fridays with Joe Rogan, 5 PM on CBS

For the past 30-40 years, society sold us the lie that you could just "individual responsibility" your way out of having to do politics. But politics is just decisions about how we organize society, and "not doing politics" is the same thing as giving up your voice.

This sort of nothing story shouldn't be on the BBC. This isn't even updated public exhibition text, it's guidance for museum employees on how to respond if, say, a visitor asks them "why did the guy this museum is dedicated to write a letter advocating for the genocide of Indians like me?"

SURELY YOU JEST, MADAM.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Another beautiful California day. Banana slugs & redwoods.

Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈

Re: Sally Hemings. "That Jefferson managed to evade the scrutiny of white Americans for nearly two centuries tells us a great deal about the power of enslavers to bend reality to their will." (p. 100) Really enjoying this book. #booksky

The leftists responding here saying there is not great right-wing art are wrong. There is: Pound, Eliot, Mishima, Dostoevsky, Céline. The real question is why contemporary MAGA conservatism seems incapable of producing anything close to art of that level.

Am struck by how effectively Ossoff incorporates a form of Black preacher style and cadence while still sounding true to himself.

Just a few of the amazing vegan meals I had during two weeks in England! Parle Pantry, Chiswick, London

One of the top ranked podcasts in the US. On Apple Podcasts TC’s show is #6 in the category of “news.”

AI can pry my em-dashes from my cold--and dead--hands.

Taught my students this term last semester and it was revelatory for them.

Taught my students this term last semester and it was revelatory for them.

Kurt Vile is in South Philly today giving away free vegan cheesesteaks to anyone who buys his new album and I just love this city so freaking much

Wife just got back from a 3-day doctors conference and she told me that one of the keynote speakers mentioned AI during his presentation and the doctors in the audience booed. Loudly. Someone tell that Google CEO it's not just college kids who hate this shit.

This is my fave meme about the bands pulling out of the 250th jamboree

Kurt Vile is in South Philly today giving away free vegan cheesesteaks to anyone who buys his new album and I just love this city so freaking much

A new study finds that a vast majority of police officers at top departments do not support "Abolish the Police" as a policy platform. It is time we get viewpoint diversity represented in these spaces.

Blessed are the people who figured out Brussels sprouts could be delicious and not just boiled depression era fillers.

Delaney Hall is an internment camp. Whether it’s Delaney or Dilley- these are inhumane places. It’s not detaining “the worst of the worst”-it’s a wholesale terrorizing of immigrants-threatening those who are in the US 4 a better life with deportation or detention. share.google/FN6mfIT6vZiw...

This is the opening scene of a heist caper movie.

(Still chuckling over this moment in Westminster Abbey last week.) Me (pointing at the bust of a particularly dashing poet in Poet's Corner): What do you think? Was this guy a looksmaxxer? Student (who wrote his paper on looksmaxxers): Mmm. Clavicular might clown on him for his receding hairline.

Can't forget this little gem.

Sounds like Robert Clivilles (founder and namesake of C+C Music Factory) was never on board with performing at Trump's tinpot circus.

Sounds like Robert Clivilles (founder and namesake of C+C Music Factory) was never on board with performing at Trump's tinpot circus.

Do not let AI write for you.

People will tell you that Cartesian dualism is a thing of the past, but then go on and on talking about how machines can be conscious without even wondering for a moment how having a body, what emotions, desires, pleasures, and pains shape what we know as consciousness.

Looking forward to giving this talk on ecology and theories of disenchantment at the University of Oslo on Monday! Please join if you're in the area! (I am also entertaining any and all Oslo vegan recs)

Can't forget this little gem.

Looking forward to giving this talk on ecology and theories of disenchantment at the University of Oslo on Monday! Please join if you're in the area! (I am also entertaining any and all Oslo vegan recs)

Damn near perfect vegan chicken Caesar. (Mildred's, Covent Garden, London)

I'm at the MIT president decrying the denial of funding for basic scientific research/I'm at MIT closing three libraries to manage their shortfall/I'm at the combination -

Please check out & share this incredible new digital humanities archive w/ interactive map, the Black Church Burning Project. blackchurchburningproject.org It exists to identify & document every Black church & congregation that was burned, bombed, or otherwise attacked during the Civil Rights era.

Still haven't forgiven my brother for "lending" our Dreamcast and collection of ~50 games to a friend and never getting it back. Maybe after another 15 years I'll be able to let it go.

My new book is out in the UK and will come to the US in the fall. Grateful for this review. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Joseph Highmore, Study of a Female Full-length in an Architectural Setting, https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126319

Great analysis supplemented by some important research on AI's damaging effects on creativity here: "Green’s research shows that A.I. has the largest homogenizing impact on students who... have unique perspectives, including neurodivergent students and those from racial and linguistic minorities."