Chip Stewart

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

A win for VOA journalists:

Italy players are celebrating home runs by taking a shot of espresso

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

A delightful site!
youraislopbores.me

It was all the talk of the folks at my breakfast table - one of whom is a classical singer

Gladys Knight singing “I heard it through the grapevine” with muppet grapes on The Muppet Show

Taking in some proper culture tonight at home

How much did you get to write about eels?

US TikTok is not censoring posts, as best as we can tell from our data. But it does appear to be very stagnant right now. Welcome to normie hell, TikTok!
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Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway. Teaching restrictions were removed from Senate Bill 37 after “relentless” lobbying, but board members and administrators have since enacted strikingly similar requirements.

"Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway"

www.chronicle.com/article/cens...

(Censorship laws rarely flatly ban speech. They routinely achieve their censorship through less direct or explicit means) 🤐

Ohtani makes me feel 11 years old again watching this dumb sport. That’s the highest compliment I could ever give a baseball player. 🤯

When Nancy Mace was invited to watch a South Carolina game in the president's luxury suite, did the school make sure there was a one-seat buffer, so no one had to sit next to the notoriously volatile congresswoman?

I can only say what the documents show.

We need to see Santos as a dragon by the end of this season

not junior but this is my worst cycle ever, and I’ve been submitting for nearly a decade.

This thing on The Pitt about how Dr. King has a deposition in a couple hours? No. No one has a deposition on July 4. Carelessness

Oh dang my suspension of disbelief just came crashing down. That ain’t right.

Little dog on my lap, contentedly looking away

Little dog looking sideways, like something is up

Little dog looking back at me, definitely wants more scritches

Pleeeeease

See if you can detect the moment I stopped with the scritches

Shh Your Secret Is Safe With Me GIF ALT: Shh Your Secret Is Safe With Me GIF

I think making Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne the DHS secretary is a bad idea

crazy insane got no brain

I like fun and Twelfth Night is fun

I am banned from the library of the Supreme Court of the United States.

GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing A Senate Republican assisted several police officers in ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

My dad worked for Sears (including appliances) for about 40 years!

I also contend Wicked for Good is part 2 and and not a sequel but the other clue made it clear that had to be the answer. I may just be getting frustrated from 4 straight losses and opponents who 9(6) me every day…

Same here - I had pineapple for that last clue for hours, then switched to quince after reading that last line too many times (which I thought made it sound like cooking/canning is the norm, and raw is maybe ok). Cost me 1 point and a tie.

Trump is still going after the press in court. Here’s where his lawsuits stand. The litigation grinds on even as the president complains that lawsuits against him are distracting.

“He’s not winning these cases. The problem is that he’s figuring out this scheme to use the law as a weapon that kind of cuts the courts out.”

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I guess I have a biological grandfather I don’t really know much about but I heard he ran newspapers around some small Texas towns. Might be where I got all this from.

One was an engineer who built aircraft engines for Pratt & Whitney, first in Connecticut and then in Fort Worth. One was a Korean War army vet who was a cook, ran lunch counters, and worked here in Fort Worth for Stratoflex (making airplane parts).

Classic Chotiner interview, in that Landsman thinks it went great for him and is wondering why his family looks sad and is wearing black and there are all those casserole dishes in the kitchen

Eagle Scout here. Troop 2, Santa Monica, Calif.

Hard agree.

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