David Baker (not the Nobel Prize winner?)

Trump and Cuomo have been bonding over sex offenses coverups.

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

I am a pretty tolerant and patient person about most people’s food and cooking preferences, but if you use an electric salt grinder I think you should be sent to jail

A sign in a parking lot reads: NOTICE MUST BE CUSTOMER AT ALL TIMES

Welcome to America

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life. If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test. OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Statler and Waldorf in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

muppets take the big screen: thread

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

are these people serious

Arriving in Toronto and demanding an audience with Tim Horton

Congrats to Hulk Hogan for making it 7 days without using the N-word.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

wat

a spoon

platonic spoon

it's illegal not to sell me pierogies I cried

Following our lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Education has released the billions of dollars they illegally froze for essential programs for our kids.

This is a major victory, and we will keep fighting so students, schools, and families have access to the resources they deserve.

Jesus

For the next 97 days, I will post one thing per day about the late, great Tom Lehrer — one for each year of his life — unless I forget and skip a day.

Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!

Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.

‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: an oral history of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50 Mick Jagger wanted to play Frank-N-Furter, Susan Sarandon got pneumonia, and the cast were wet and half-naked most of the time. Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell tell t...

Another reason why the 1970s was a great decade... The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50.

Zohran Mamdani scores 17-point lead with Jewish voters in NYC mayoral race Mamdani's support among Jewish voters comes after accusations from opponents and some community leaders that his criticism of Israel represents antisemitism.

it’s almost like all the attacks calling Mamdani antisemitic were vapid bad faith bullshit created by politicians with no policy plan other than smashing the “scary muslim” button

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.

A very fun thing to know about NYC is most of us don't have guns.

And if you want a gun legally it will take awhile. Like 7 to 8 months. They ask for letters of references and shit. Which means you have to find someone who is willing to say in the record you are someone who should have a gun

How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire The late songwriter’s targets are mostly forgotten—so why do new generations keep discovering him?

The late songwriter Tom Lehrer’s targets are mostly forgotten—so why do new generations keep discovering him?

horrifying

I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL