Spy in the House of Blave

I like the idea of these people calling themselves foodies out of sheer malice

Omg just imagining being fifteen and having everyone I know blame me directly for diaper-clad mayor mccheese marching troops down the block

Taibbi recognizing and praising self-awareness and openness, only in a machine? Yes, somehow all of this makes sense

Fortunately for people tempted to throw up by this, the little-known cockroach species is indistinguishable from the modern dairy cow

“Noodle awe.” This person loves pasta. Case closed

One day Musk will make a Grok that speaks a language of vigorous heterosexuality that only intensely repressed, self-loathing men on the internet can hear

Someone out there’s cooking up a Straight Guy probiotic for these fools

Meet the Losers Who Still Want to Read and Think With Their Own Brains

Also, counting retracted papers as fraud is fluffing the numbers a bit, isn’t it?

Bespoke underwear

The tech nerds will probably have the hardest time of all cultural demimondes when it comes to accepting that their moment has passed and they’ve fallen back into their previous cultural position

Isn’t “they’ve gotta allow full water” what he always says about flush toilets?

Please don't just boost--make a note of the number, and call.

Be polite, be patient, be firm.

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More like the Department Of Getting whoopEd

Take heart, David. A lot of them are Gen Xers

Bottom of the Patriarch

I hear he’s appearing on all the rooftops in DC now. It’s like a Garcia Marquez novel

If you just keep absorbing talking points from conservative media, these things eventually write themselves

“Look at me, JD! It’s all for you!”

The safest place when nobody understands you

From Edward P Jones’s “Resurrecting Methusalah,” an elegant, mysterious, and sometimes very funnily (if painfully) ironic story that offers a big-picture view of the way(s) one family comes apart. Fascinating story from a collection that showcases how fiction can ask powerful, haunting questions

Meanwhile npr is running a free ad for ai featuring a former heritage foundation guy they identify strictly as an academic. His take? The future of work is “everyone will be the ceo of their own fleet of ai agents.” Sweet vision of even worse computer-induced collective psychosis

I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.

Before the pandemic, it seemed like the American consumer was a valuable means of keeping the wheels of global capitalism turning. Now it feels like we’re basically just something to harvest while there’s harvesting to be done

Tony Soprano doesn’t vote because he wouldn’t put in the time: no way he stands in line with all those normies. Rather, there’s one election cycle in which politics catches his interest vaguely. He still skips the polls but lectures AJ or Chris on the subject, declaring voting their “citric duty”

Honestly just loving the idea that there’s a subset of 30 Rock viewers out there who interpret Liz Lemon as, like, a fictional Ann Coulter

Wild card if Drama’s dating a Harris enthusiast, I sure hope Democrats are paying attention

hard to imagine a more grotesquely disrespectful and just basically stupid way to be "a journalist"

Given the day’s outrage over [checks notes] an advertisement, a dumb guy tete-a-tete about the future of reading, and whether calling some kids gifted in the 80s and 90s was a sham, I feel like everyone came into this week a little hot

In my case, it was just a little irony. Take it easy out there