Nothing makes me happier than children's theater stage combat

I think we should shut down computer science departments, and every professor should be required to teach basic coding in a 1st year humanities course. That's what we do with writing and research already, right?

It's too bad the #emmys couldn't find any musicians who worked with Quincy Jones to sing the In Memoriam song.

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din

Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god

My table saw apologied for cutting off my fingers.

No peace, no justice, I guess

meme t-shirt with all the things Nathan hates in a list separated by ampersands

If this dumb Marvel movie prevents me from being able to see Sinners in 70mm I will be so angry.

(Go see Sinners.)

This is gonna be four years of the dumbest motherfuckers alive painfully discovering why things worked the way they did before they broke them, then reinventing a shittier version with more nazis.

Just because people give an answer doesn't make it correct. If the category is "countries in South America" there's no reason Africa can't be on the board!

AI is just Family Feud, y'all. Survey Says!

J D Vance is a lot like Grima Wormtongue but I worry that he's even more like Tom Riddle.

The cool part about The Onion in print is people leave them around coffee shops and workplaces. Kids steal them and bring them to school. People love this shit, which makes the staff happy, which makes the paper better, which makes business better. We consult no algorithm. We just make fun of jerks.

I just saw Pirates! A Penzance Musical on its first night of previews and while the show did a great job of relocating the original in New Orleans, including musically, the overt Indigenous erasure of the last song and the half-hearted attempt to justify it spoiled what was an otherwise fun show.

Muppets Little Shop of Horrors has to have a human dentist, right? But who?

I mean, we all know the reasons, but I'd like someone opposed to the idea to explain the difference between the two.

Visiting the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, I wonder why, if the US can justify dispossessing a community of its land in Nevada for national security, it can't also justify dispossessing billionaires of their property for the same reasons.

But seriously Columbia how did anticipatory obedience work out for you

No thanks, I'll stick to the unbiased US ai companies! /s

This is why Johann Hari is a better read on the subject than the terrible, awful, no good Jonathan Haidt.

Indiana's finest desserts!

Enjoying gumbo and beignets at Copper Vine for Cherene Sherrard Johnson's book party! #mla

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

Democrats moving right to pick up voters is basically the same as the humanities touting their utility for medicine and business.

The way I’ve come to think of it is like this:

Tech wants to go fast and break things. Nuclear needs to go very very slowly and nothing can break.

That means getting nuclear to power a very rapidly developing AI boom may not work.

Josh Rutner

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