Charles Roberts, a historian

There are too many apps and not enough websites

Robot flipping a switch on his body from "mad about politics" to "mad about football"

It's the weekend

Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently. A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

A ★★★★ review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) This is the first Marvel movie that hasn't been some combination of boring, forgettable, disappointing, or feels like homework since Avengers: Endgame. Some of it doesn't really work, but I like to se...

My ★★★★ review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps on Letterboxd boxd.it/aGynBZ

My ★★★½ review of 28 Years Later on Letterboxd boxd.it/aAqRM9

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

[through chopstick walrus tusks] divorth?

My ★★★★½ review of Superman on Letterboxd boxd.it/aozQSF

Young people won’t, or can’t, read a book. Now democracy is dying. Coincidence? | Will Bunch A viral conversation about the near-death of reading by U.S. college students in the iPhone era reveals a threat to democracy.

Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...

It’s also let’s be clear cultural - in that it’s been drilled into students that our courses “don’t matter” and that college is a certification process, something to pass through on their way, so do it as quickly as possible

I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?

Especially given that the alternative superpower is not status-quo-happy USA, as when the USSR collapsed, but status-quo-overturning China.

In a lot of ways that's the best case scenario? The USA is way wealthier and more powerful than Russia ever was; a declining USA is a threat to international order, not just local states, in a way that a declining USSR/Russia never was.

Elite centrists are really obsessed with trans people in a profoundly unhealthy and weird way, like no one does more to raise the salience of trans people (almost always in a negative way) then like the most out of touch rich busy bodies you can think of

a screenshot from a food ordering app showing a picture of chicken nuggets and the text: "Chicken Pops Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood."

aI iS cOmInG fOr YoUr JoBs

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

Maybe this is just rage bait at this point, but I find it Interesting that heating uses 4x the energy globally as cooling does, but authors of AC-shaming articles like this never call for people to just “tough it out” through the winter without heating their homes 🤔

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Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.

My ★★★★ review of Sinners on Letterboxd boxd.it/aiJS81

"Controversy" seems like a stretch to describe the ravings of conspiracy theorist weirdos.

an AI slop map of the united states that seems to be trying to indicate what the most popular food is in every state. it contains such gems as Alaska's favorite food being a reddish slab labeled "ALASKA", Oregon's favorite food being what looks like a steak sitting on top of a cereal bowl labeled "APPLE", California's being simultaneously a goblet full of red liquid labeled "SHRIMP COCKTAIL" and a beige slab labeled "TATO", Wyoming's being a crudely drawn bison labeled "WYMONG" and an oblong apple on Alabama labeled "CRANFISH". There is also a square to the right of Florida that just says "SALMON" for no reason.

the same image in context of a reddit post from the subreddit "r/dataisbeautiful" saying it's "the most popular food of each state from voting [OC]"

some frankly amazing AI slop that someone decided to try and post on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit

At this rate you may be right

Race Science is back in a big way. In ten years they'll be doing skull measurements again.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Candie from Django

Pitching the NYT

you can always tell when a product is a cool thing that everyone loves when they place access to it on places people will click by accident like its a scammy ad on a pirated sports stream

I don't like Newsome but this is why he should be considered for AG

Descartes gave us all the tools we need to survive in an era of misinformation. Simply begin with the understanding that you are real but everything else is fairly likely to be the cruel games of a demon sent to torment you specifically.