How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this
if only a wealthy donor would endow a fund to supply classrooms with chalk and dry erase markers...
fantastic headline 10/10
word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau
Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)
olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)
Alongside that: βso when are you going to write a novel?β
non-academic at dinner last night: "wow, so what made you care about something so much that you felt you needed to write an entire book about it?"
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected
Chicago should thank me for booking a trip to Sicily this week, thereby ensuring that it would be warmer in Chicago than in Sicily
My doctor told me that my eye condition βwas written about in Ancient Greece,β which is arguably the least useful information a doctor has ever given me
i feel like I should be paid five cents every time I have to do two-factor authentication
Itβs actually very funny that Severance uses college teaching to stand in for work-life balance in the backstory
my robot vacuum is begging for mercy!
can an experienced cat owner explain to me how it is possible for my cat to shed his weight in fur on a daily basis?
let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them
it's definitely just a matter of time before Google shuts down Google Books, right?
William Stanely Jevons, May 1866: "Of course one must be criticised and abused a little. The more one's name is named now, the better for my professorship appointment."
βI am not going to get sucked into that dramaβ I say to myself as I get sucked into that drama
citing my physical copy of the OED like a luddite because I can't stand having URLs in my footnotes
shoutout to my friend who instead of asking "what is your book about?" asked "it is annoying if I ask what your book is about?"
But couldn't you plausibly read this graph in the opposite way: that more queer visibility occasioned more repression?
one thing I think chicagoans don't understand is that in other parts of the country you often have to worry about using too much water
Our extremely on-brand Valentineβs Day activity is going to hear Schoenberg and Wagner at CSO
For some reason, getting up at 5am seems fine but getting up at 4:55am feels inhumane
there are so few "fun" facts about hardy!
fun fact: every Thomas Hardy novel describes at least one sunset
Does anyone have recommendations for things to do and eat in Palermo?
despite my best efforts, I continue to write about the ninteenth century