I am working with two returning students this semester who are the delight of my work. They are complements to each other and they make the whole class better.
This is glitchy anyway. I either don’t need a jacket, or it’s going to snow.
Earth is broken.
“If SINNERS becomes the third movie by a Black filmmaker to win Best Picture but not Best Director, then we can’t pretend the director’s Blackness isn’t the main reason why,” writes @thirdmanmovies.bsky.social about why Ryan Coogler deserves the Oscar.
the great gatsby is an unusually accessible and easy-to-read piece of high literature.
What part of, “I don’t like LLMs, find they create more work, and waste my time and energy” is hard for people to understand? This is not green eggs and ham. Stop offering me snake oil.
They’re Florsheim shoes. Order them in your proper size. He won’t know the difference. In fact, he’ll be so pleased with himself that he guessed the right size!
Why are they doing this to themselves? How are they *all* this stupid? Are they really this helpless without women?
He thinks he can just change the channel and tune out the consequences of his reckless illegal war.
No.
In early 2025, someone pointed out that the first Trump cabinet had people whose background was living in/managing material reality, whereas this new cabinet was full of people who thought vibes were reality.
I bet Rex Tillerson knows how important the Strait of Hormuz is.
And where it is.
Been thinking about this thread a lot recently. It is one of the most correct reads of what’s unfolded. The Trump admin is doing untold damage and every step of it has been an unforced error on their part
Oh, well, I’m sure Iran will listen to the President of the nation they’re at war with.
Finally, the truth.
Everything sucks and is getting worse.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
“We didn’t want to call out the President for disrespecting the dead, so we decided to disrespect them instead AND lie to the public.”
The disrespect here is incalculable.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
Do it, Luis. You have the green light for the first time in your life
It’s actually a substantive problem, just for a niche office. The guy who fails senators’ sons as a hobby doesn’t have that past. That’s a character that can’t exist, even in a story where privilege is a veneer.
The Holdovers. As an adjunct, the whole thing falls apart right at the moment it’s supposed to come together. (That’s not even petty. My petty objection is that he’s only up to the Peloponnesian War at Christmas break.)
I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together.
The US and Iran have obviously not been at war for 47 years, as regime propagandists tell us. What has been going on for 47 years is the Saudi-Iranian regional proxy war. So the propaganda defines us as a Saudi proxy state.
T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”
I want to quit my job because it’s being ruined by LLMs, but the jobs I’m qualified for are training LLMs or using them to “optimize research.”
I hate everything.
I desperately need a win in my life. I can’t even buy one right now.
