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Find someone who loves you as much as Eric Adams loves weird crimes

Pretty bleak to have Tablet re-running the Ground Zero Mosque play

Especially hilarious given that the last two episodes of Douthat’s podcast were on aliens and Epstein.

Gaza is one of the richest archaeological landscapes on the planet, with thousands of years of continuous occupation and layer after layer of history going back to the Neolithic. The destruction of that is nothing next to the human cost, but it's still a cruel, thoughtless act of destruction.

Um, @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social did you see this?

Truly, it’s the racism.

Rooftop water heater logos are clutch

“Em dashes are an AI tell” is lawyer erasure. We 👏🏻 exist 👏🏻

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Huge if true

Wait a sec.

Last year NYC had 171 firearms deaths on a population of 8.3 million.

Louisiana had 1,266 deaths on a pop of 4.6 million, which is on the order of 12 times as many. You are twelve times as likely to be killed by a bullet in Louisiana than in NYC.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Telling that game companies are using AI to replace their level design teams rather than — I don’t know — making better products. Creating a sufficiently challenging computer player in “Civilization” has beguiled developers using traditional methods but seems like a great use for AI. And yet!

One of my college friends is a deeply religious small town Texan who organized her local No Kings rally and I think often about how she’s the type of person who actually pushes our lines forward

Preemptive strike is truly the only way to win the War on Christmas

man lived to about 150, had an amazing life of comfort, and (even outside the context of everything else going on) I won’t pretend that this is a tragedy. His public life was all gift. And, still, I’m crying like a baby. RIP the best to ever do it. (Also the only one to ever do this particular it)

Obama felt powerfully the need to (for lack of a better term) “move on” — seen in the decision not to aggressively pursue the perpetrators of the 2008 financial crisis. Which was, incidentally, another huge mistake.

Would be a great time to get a 3D printer to make for yourself some of the little tchotchkes likely to jump in price — but you’ll never guess where most 3D printers and supplies are made

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Tom Lehrer was a genuine inspiration to young nerds who, like me, needed to see in others the joy that we found in learning www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

It’s a mark of how thoroughly World War I has faded from public consciousness that so many memes about the French center their early surrender in World War II rather than their near-suicidal bravery in 1914-18.

Especially considering how the latter helps explain the former.

my favorite fact about tom lehrer is that he dropped out of public life because it was annoying. he wouldn't do interviews and would tell people who wanted to interview him that they could print anything about him and he wouldn't deny it. my favorite song is poisoning pigeons in the park.

Cotton Hill would know what to do with these people

Democrats’ 2026 Rallying Cry Is Staring Them in the Face Plus: The big difference in where money for the midterms is going so far.

The Democratic party "has clearly begun to string together a cohesive narrative that Trump is not a scourge of, but a protector of, the elites, and he has abandoned the working-class voters he promised to help." Better late than never. @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

God these people are insufferable

TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding

VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.

Spotify “picked for you”: “Why dating in 2025 feels so tough”

Silicon Valley: AI will soon be so powerful that it will answer every scientific question ever and make all human activity obsolete

Spotify algorithm on the account that I have shared with my wife for ten years: Hey have you noticed dating is hard

What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?