Jake Wright

WE 👏 DO 👏 NOT 👏 KINK 👏 SHAME 👏

No shame, but why do so many people have a public humilation kink?

Bruterous sounds like the name of a Temu Decepticon.

Not going to lie, my immediate thought is that that professor should be fired.

My colleagues, do your fucking jobs yourselves like god damn adults. If you don't want to grade it, don't assign it.

This kind of shit is so ridiculous it wouldn’t even make the script for the next Call of Duty game.

Seriously. The number of times I’ve heard a politician say “we have to ban x because it’s haram” is exactly zero. Meanwhile, the number of politicians who publicly say that if we’re making sweet little Baby Jesus will start crying is so large I’m shocked there’s not a DEUS VULT sign at the Capitol.

“Mr. Secretary, Operation: Boom Boom Good is proceeding as planned.”

“There are a bunch of religious nuts running around this country”

[nods]

“who have deeply perverted their faith”

[continues nodding]

“and are trying to impose their theocratic values on the entire nation.”

[nods vigorously]

“These Muslims with their Sharia Law…”

[wait, what now?]

I have this incredibly vivid memory of Nelson Mandela being assassinated in a South African prison by a time-traveling Din Djarin.

Did that really happen, or am I experiencing the ManDeLorian Effect?

Here's a real quote from the announcement:

"Many universities are investing in AI. What distinguishes our approach is its intentionality."

COME THE FUCK ON, PEOPLE.

We're going to do it ThOuGhTfuLLy.

Sure, Jan. I'm sure YOUR use of the thieving bullshit engine will be intentional and thoughtful.

I just got an email from the University of Minnesota announcing a new Vice Provost for AI overseeing "responsible AI," including "AI literacy and governance… ensur[ing] that innovation matched by accountability and trust."

No.

Just absolutely the fuck not.

The position ITSELF is irresponsible.

I half expect them to send along “video instructions” for how Americans can leave, but it’s just an old VHS copy of Chicken Run.

It's 6:43 AM, and my 6YO has just described a Mario Kart item as "GOATed".

I am so tired.

a man is sitting in front of a window and saying i can handle things . i 'm smart ! Alt: Fredo in the boathouse, saying, "I can handle things. I'm smart! Not like everybody says."

Did you not hear my remarks? We’re ensuring the mission gets accomplished, but we are very clear eyed, as the president had been, unlike other presidents, about the foolish policies of the past that recklessly pulled us in to things that were not tethered to actual, clear objectives. We have plans!

Some men are born blocked, some achieve blockedness, and some have blockedness thrust upon them.

6 Conservative Voters React to Attacks on Iran Ahead of the Texas Primaries President Trump said the attacks were necessary for U.S. security and to free the Iranian people from oppression. Do people who support him agree?

Come for the usual absolutely absurd takes, including the obligatory USA! USA! chest thumping from a childish dweeb decked out in Nine Line.

Stay for the picture of the guy posing with a single onion ring like it's a legendary prize fish that has eluded anglers for generations.

Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

"After all, why not... why shouldn't I keep it?"

I was told that genAI would save me lots of time when reading articles.

And that's right! It's astonishing how much time I save!

As soon as an author says "so I just tried putting it into chatgpt" or "I asked claude to code it for me" then I stop reading!

TL;DR: you use AI, I stop reading.

Sir. SIR. Are you suggesting that a bunch of RadTrads are ignoring actual history and tradition to advance their own narrow theological views?

No idea how this happened, but in the last 15 minutes or so, my feed has become a series of Dorian Gray shitposts.

I apologize for nothing.

Grown men come up to him crying. They say, “Sir, it’s the most beautiful painting I’ve ever seen. Only you would have the courage to make a deal like that. Only the best devils would accept your terms!”

Ironically, because of the deal Stradling made to *win* the Oscar, this photograph would become progressively uglier through the years until the studio was forced to store it in a soundstage attic.

He looks like if the Picture of Dorian Grey escaped the attic.

He chose… poorly.

I love this! FWIW, I talk about your book at some length in the book I'm working on as a model for thinking about flourishing outside of more "normal" disciplines for doing so. I've tried to make the vibe/tone of my book "scholarly but informal," and I hope the voice is appropriately less academic!

Maury Povich reading a card, saying "In the case of the roadside bomb, you are not the father."

Mindfulness is being fully present in and fully aware of the present moment. But yeah, let's imagine that farming out our engagement with the world to a thieving bullshit machine will allow us to do either of those things.

What I meant was, "No, stupid. Rules of engagement!"