Why the Pumpernickel Bagel Is Disappearing At shops around town, a once-standard flavor has become an endangered species.

Even the small tragedies hurt.

literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots

Bovino fired and maybe eventually Noem et al too is only step 1. There need to be criminal charges against the ICE agents as well as against the leadership that conspired to create this situation and its tragedies.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.

and additionally, this is why all the warnings about normalizing white supremacy and violent rhetoric were so prescient and it should be a lifelong stain on those who ignored it

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting every agent and leader of the agency in Minnesota is a bare minimum moral stance and any politician who falls short, Republican or Democrat, should be run out of office.

And yet here we are. Throw in those statistics about how much more of the population is represented by Democrats in Congress (in the Senate, it’s something like 50 million).
The system is so broken.

Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Ok, let’s go, take notes, this is how it’s done.

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

JFC now do I have to cancel my Guardian subscription too?

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Anyway, it’s okay to say AI was a mistake. If AI people didn’t want everything to be lumped in with the nonsense LLMs are forcing onto society, they had a decade to draw that distinction and never bothered to. Now the branding is stuck, sorry guys you have to have ideas now not just sneers.

Thinking it’s impossible for a person to be cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, AND a bumbling incompetent on the order of a Scooby Doo villain is a crazy take during the Era of Donald J. Trump, who is relentlessly all three.

They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.

Maybe they were standing in the office doorway? 😆

When’s the episode of “the CBS question”? Oh, there isn’t one, because we already know the answer (hint: it involves journalistic integrity and not having any).

Course and college policy for fabricating sources/citations is a 0 on the assignment

About 15–20% of my students this semester submitted research papers with hallucinated sources.

Speaking of smart art historians, two of them wrote this, one of the best pieces I’ve read about AI in education, and how to push back against it.

Read it and create some friction.

Yes to more parsnips! Also, though, let’s stop pretending turnips are edible.

Deep down, perhaps every right-leaning man wishes that chatbots could be the endlessly supportive and sexually receptive secretaries they saw in 70s movies or in porn.

This is why almost every AI system is voiced by default by a young-sounding woman.

Let me say as an art historian, the discourse around the Vanity Fair White House photos gives me enormous pleasure. Critical visual analysis unpacking symbolism through close looking? Oh, that’s cool? Huh. Maybe there should be a field devoted to developing those skills, that’d be neat.

It sure seems that way

See also: State of Massachusetts

Maybe instead of pouring billions of dollars into their plagiarism machine, they should give that money to the many, many brilliant scholars and creatives who have a surplus of ideas but lack the time and resources to execute them.

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork