Joel

Teaching STEM without teaching the Humanities is how you get Spider-Man villians. Teaching Theater without teaching the Humanities is how you get Batman villians.

This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

It has deep roots, too.

Corn flakes and The Secret are both branches of the same US medical woo tree as Kennedy’s nonsense, if you trace them back far enough.

17th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2015.

IOCCC winner code entry

This IOCCC winner entry (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) made me smile. The code draws the current moon phase to the console.

Real answer: they’re calories poor people can newly afford (since Bourlag)

Science-shaped answer: deodorized/rancidity-resistant oils throw off omega 3/omega 6 balance

Proximate answer: 20c/21c diet fads are like 18c/19c cults; they’re using it as a shibboleth (eg. they’re fine w/ olive pit oil)

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

i continue to think that “family annihilator” is a useful frame for the trump administration futurism.com/white-house-...

We all know this is going on under the table.

"The first kind of monumental horror-image is the appearance or discovery of a being in a place where no one ought to be, in defiance of what characters believe can be real, possible, or otherwise in compliance with norms..."

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

Nothing secedes like succession I guess

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

This is a great explanation of why so many people are crazy about LLM AIs
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Ok but you begin with mean and end with median

I think you’re right though: when I made less money and tried to spend less on my car, it wasn’t really feasible: income distributions are far more skewed than car expenses, even considering Veblen brands

I hope so, but anecdotally I am not certain it will go that way.

My (otherwise relatively progressive) MIL won’t ascribe any of the death or destruction to him because to do so would call into question her rejection of germ theory, which is an article of faith to her.

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

I hear it helps to always carry a sword.

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

The old holding hands meme: Democratic Party holding hands w/Hollywood in: Taking the wrong lesson from every success

Digital artists keep fucking telling you: the product is fucking vapourware. We’re arguing philosophical hypotheticals when the product doesn’t work, and the claims are a deliberate attempt to justify wage theft…

I was thinking Cymothoa would eat the pigeon

Smithers lies to Monty Burns that his boos are people chanting “Boo-urns.”

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

Sometimes the room reads you

Have we tried introducing Trump to Liz Truss?

He would technically have to give up being a monarch, if this were still a constitutional government

Or a willingness to face dire risks (that they underestimate) so long as people they feel are unworthy end up dying en masse

He’s got that worm in him!

A Gallup popularity chart showing the Pope at +46, Bernie at +11, AOC at -4, Trump at -16, Musk at -28.

Two most popular politicians on this list are Bernie (the rare double-digit positive opinion) and AOC. Elon Musk is one of the most unpopular people in the world.

A general project awaits us. #Reconstruction2.0

My neurologist told me he wants me to be more consistent in calling in for my ADHD scrip or he won't believe I actually need it.

I hear the note and I'm taking the note insofar as my life will benefit by having meds more often, but also, I'm not sure what he thinks ADHD is.

Breaking911 @Breaking911 : REP. MIKE FLOOD, (R-NEB.): "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?" TOWN HALL CROWD: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"

lmaooooo this dumb shit just doesn’t fly anymore