furious at kelly reichardt for making a movie called mastermind and then the guy is really actually pretty bad at art theft

which toxic trump-supporting influencer bro is gonna getting fucking clocked today

Unfinishing a book is not "not finishing" a book, a not-having-done, it's more like making a book something that now cannot be read forever; you'd have to go back to the beginning and start fresh, but you can't (bc you aren't), nor can you pick up where you left off, bc you've forgotten too much

SF waymos feeling like shit, just want her back (power)

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

an oldie but a goodie

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

It's like, how much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark.

It's good that it's going to take decades for @andrewhickey.500songs.com to finish his 500 songs because when he does, all of rock n' roll music is going to wink out of existence forever, a lot of people don't realize that

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Not accommodating a type 2 diabetic's dietary needs is a death sentence, I know because my Dad is one and I've seen what happens when his blood sugar tanks. ICE murdered this poor man. The state of Illinois had better launch a criminal investigation and start throwing these people in prison.

remember, if you have a winter cold, eat more clementines than it seems like you really should, and then eat a couple more. it will make you feel better, not in the sense of health, but just in the sense of "clementines are so good and eating them is great"

Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

it really is amazing how the websites that used to be about "connecting you to people you know and want to follow!" are now just firehouses of garbage

Hey let's have a big discussion about whether, in a handful of searches in a narrow field in a specific period of time, a few white men might NOT have gotten jobs that in another context who knows maybe they might have

Introducing, Oakland Review of Books's Oakland Syllabus! of Books! And of other things! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

fuck these ghouls forever, may they rot in hell

I bet the answers will be: America needs God, feminism is bad, and young people suck

it does kind of feel like the wheels are coming off the Trump train in a way that, on some level, everyone is starting to respond to

"He rolled his eyes, pulled faces, refused to make eye contact with those addressing him directly, had numerous side conversations, and simply walked away (at one point with food)." @maggietokudahall.bsky.social reports back from yesterday's Flock debacle: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/whipped-votes/

there are moments in life when being a white man, viewed in isolation, is a net disadvantage, and during The Golden Age of Woke, there were more of those moments than usual. It's just that "viewing those moments in isolation" is what you have to do to think they're all that significant or widespread

would it be true to say, about Noir as a genre, that it's structured--consciously or unconsciously--by a proletarian's desire to "get ahead" and become a capitalist, and by the inevitable tragedy that produces

a propos of nothing, I love this cover of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxUz...

it's interesting that Jeselnik is, like, a serious reader

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

"The gaffe occurred because an artificial-intelligence-powered surveillance system used by Lawton Chiles Middle School mistakenly flagged the clarinet as a weapon, according to ZeroEyes, the security company that runs the system and contracts with Lawton Chiles’s school district."

Cala is moonlighting some graphic design work for AI companies, looks like

(hand to earpiece) I'm getting word that someone tried to make it in show business and didn't... yes, yes, I'm being told that choppers have been dispatched, we'll have more from the scene soon

Pluribus objectively not a good show, in my humble opinion, but Vince Gilligan made it and it smells like money thrown at high concepts, and we're all nostalgic for the grand old days of prestige television, so people are working hard to overlook how repetitive, nonsensical, and driftless it is

Thread of maps, some of which I took the liberty of uploading high quality versions of.

In Springfield, Ohio — a city transformed by Haitian immigrants — Casey Rollins says she feels like the “town crier” warning of a looming family separations crisis. 19thnews.org/2025/12/spri...

oh wow you're telling me Trump responded to something in the most ugly and vicious and illiterately narcissist way possible, wow

this is the part of the Trump post about Reiner that seems new and a further escalation: he's literally saying well of course someone murdered him, he was very nasty about me and that makes people angry as it should

I hope that everyone appreciates that when I say this, it is with genuine love and sincerity: Rob Reiner's baldness was a nice window into his mensch-y comedy and its relationship to masculinity.

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

watching two voids of charisma like bari weiss and erika kirk orbit each other is almost, like, I don't know, maybe should just let them cook

Remember, care is not a "self" thing. Practice group care: if someone you love is coughing, cover their mouths yourself.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

I was literally just watching spinal tap today and it is so good

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

April 1805, Napoleon is now master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him- In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading.