Rachel Nolan

Syracuse University must protect faculty who criticize Charlie Kirk (Your Letters) To maintain the ethos of thorough inquiry at universities, "we must protect professors from institutional interference in the things they say and write," says the letter writer.

Academic freedom should protect honest criticism of Charlie Kirk, even if the criticism is delivered with an irreverent tone.

My new opinion piece on Syracuse.com:
www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

Moreover, if a hypothetical rape survivor wanted to make fun of Jeffrey Epstein, even to mock his death, it would be far more important to remember Epstein's horrible deeds than to castigate the victim for her tone.

Bobby Hill saying "That's what the elves call 'Justice of the Unicorn' to Hank Hill"

RE Charlie Kirk:

Yes, killing people is generally bad. But I have no room in my heart to feel sadness for a man who made a very conscious choice to spend his entire adult life profiting from sowing division, fear and hatred, gleefully putting a target on the back of vulnerable minorities every time he spoke. Sorry!

This thread gets it. Potential Democratic candidates minmaxing the "how far under the bus can I throw trans people to increase votes w/o alienating too many?" question is absurd. If the result of the calculus is > 0, they're fucking up even if they throw Trump's tactics back at him (Newsom *cough)

I was trying to make a joke that mimics Sean Penn's reviled novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" after seeing an article titled "Chat GPT5: It just does stuff". I tried this in Google's AI mode and I think I hit levels of meta-commentary I can't quite fathom here (aware of the irony, certainly).

Today's thought exercise that's taxing my cognitive ability instead of doing my actual job:
Rewriting "Not Like Us" so it's about our dog Margie.

"Why you rollin on the floor/ain't you tired?"
"Trynna get a toy/and its prolly a Bite Bear"

*her rope bears we call "Bite Bears"

Our 3yo had like a hundred fuckin questions about the rules & logistics & moral implications of how mogwais become gremlins, but ZERO questions about "sometimes people change from girl to boy" or "sometimes boys marry other boys" or whatever, kids dgaf, the problem has ALWAYS been bigot ass parents

I was told by @saraburke.bsky.social that this was opaque, so:
I'm referring to the line in "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones where Merry Clayton's voice breaks with intensity (supposedly this performance caused a miscarriage). After that you can hear Jagger/Zuck going "Woo!" on the recording.

Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines

"Raaaayyyyyype, Meeeuuuurrrrddderrrr, they're just a prompt away, just a prompt away" - Merry Clayton, voice breaking.

"Woo" - Zuckerberg:

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is legitimately one of the most beautiful pathos-invoking pieces of art I've ever seen. This will go on the list of things I look at when I want to sob my eyes out at the general wonderfulness of dogs along with those ancient Roman dog obituaries.

I got added to a 7000 member block list for spreading "AI Disinformation" I've never felt so honored.

@econmarshall.bsky.social As the only "real econ" person I know or follow, give me your thoughts on Yanis Varoufakis. Read a piece by him in the Guardian and def want to know more

So like, normally I would quibble with assigning a gendered pronoun to an AI bot, but honestly, when a string of text appears discussing white genocide a la Jar Jar Binks on twitter, I think we all know that whatever produced it is a white guy.

that's still a lot of people, let's not focus on the negatives

The original text was going to be “Fuck off and die, Nazi scum!”

I'm obligated to also say that this is completely a joke. Don't try this at home, etc ,etc

YouTube video by MetalSonic7 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Simpsons

I think we all know there's only one logical way this Corey Booker thing can end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8im...

The trump administration remains the world's most tragic version of Remembering Some Guys

YouTube video by Yep Roc Records The Baseball Project - "Panda and the Freak" (Official Audio)

Shit is shitty right now, but at least #MLB is back. Listening to The Baseball Project all day. As I said on fb, "1976," about Mark Fidrych does Big Star as well as Big Star could hope to do itself. If you're all about "Remembering Guys", check them out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmuN...

Exceedingly lukewarm take, but of all the songs out there that might encompass the fundamental gist of rock n roll, "Handle with Care" by the Traveling Wilburys might be the most accurate.

...and then they took Berlin. I want Kermit singing Leonard Cohen

I think if we can get a few more posts about what democrats should do at the state of the union we'll crack this thing wide open. We're this close

Here is Alec from Technology Connections describing mass-market large language models as "the purest form of lazy anti-intellectualism." The analogy he draws between algorithmic curation and algorithmic text is imperfect but thought-provoking.

This one, got a princely racket That's what I said, now Got some big seal upon his jacket Ain't in his head, now You marry him, your father will condone you How 'bout that, now You marry me, your father will disown you He'll eat his hat, now

Is it an exaggeration to call Bob Dylan the greatest American poet? No. He was a phenomenal lyricist:

Most AI takes are like Bart Simpson saying “we need a Butlerian Jihad. Thin out their ranks” but this is more “look on my works ye mighty and despair”

Drake rn: