Maggie Koerth

Neeps and tatties are good, actually.

Panic! At The Discourse

Pedro Pascal in a dark red suit and black turtleneck

Classical Electrodynamics by JD Jackson, white print on red cover

Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️

Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread

One of the jobs different from my own that I think I would have loved doing is … and I swear I am not making this up … space lawyer. Every few years I get to write something on space law and find myself instantly delighted by it.

I always thought it was Gregor Samsa

It’s the 8th anniversary of the best preschool drawing my oldest child ever did.

Merry Christmas, you old Paint Water.

This is the fastest I have ever lost Whamaggeddon. Thanks, CUB.

Without Roadrunner and Coyote, kids will never learn the seductive dangers of trompe l'oeil

Ironic porn purchase leads to unironic orgasm

There was literally a story in Newsweek before they even announced what the “secret project that would revolutionize transportation” actually was that had a not insignificant number of adults guessing it was a transporter.

I cannot stress enough how much this was the Fyre Fest of its time.

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If you don’t talk to them about mergers they’ll learn on the streets

Just a normal afternoon, explaining media conglomerates to my 10-year-old.

I can't believe we are never going to get an explanation for what happened last night at Cities97.

Bathtub hooch for the caucus drinking game.

I know the issue mostly from my step-father (who owns an outdoor supply store in another state) talking about what he has seen there. It's frustrating to see how widespread this is.

This is something I've been interested in for a while and I'm really glad to see the Reformer covering it!

Well thank god I can go back to forgetting Cities97 exists.

AND NOW OUR WATCH HAS ENDED

I wish I still had an alarm clock so I could set it to Cities 97.1

My girlfriend feels like this has numbers station vibes and wants closure before she can sleep

Wow Lunds must have a Sh**ton of food left from the holiday weekend, there is a HUGE sale right now and prices are the lowest I've seen in ages! 25% or more on a lot of popular items. Eggs lowest I've seen in a year, Their branded soups 25% off. Soups, broths 40%+ off! BOGO pork tenderloin.

December 2, 2025 Minneapolis officials respond to Trump administration targeting Somali immigrants YouTube video by cityofminneapolis

City of Mpls press conference youtube live link: www.youtube.com/live/jFdRnc8...

Yeah. That was how I got the second video right. All the shop signs were real words.

That said ... it did help on the second video that all the shop signs in the background were real words and not gibberish.

This reminds me of an interview I heard (don't remember what I was listening to) pointing out that fake photos have existed for years. AI slop is less something totally new than it is everyone getting really good at Photoshop suddenly. And the skills you learned to avoid Photoshop slop still apply.

AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.

The interesting thing about this quiz is that getting the right answers is less about spotting "tell tale" signs of AI video and more about just, like, stopping and thinking through whether the scenario and camera angle make any damn sense.

I got them all correct.

www.npr.org/2025/11/30/n...

Some context for the rumors spreading around town right now.

Thought this was just a normal dig at the Boomers. Took me a second to process it was the Bard.