Alex Remington
@alexremington.bsky.social
Atlanta baseball fan. Music lover.
This is the answer.
The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” www.wired.com/story/chrome...
This Chrome Extension Turns LinkedIn Posts About AI Into Facts About Allen Iverson
The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.”
www.wired.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is the answer.
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Ask a stupid question, get an amazing and really fascinating answer
Oh hello! I wrote the OED entry for this, and found the earliest known example, which is 1927, in a Mae West play. It's also in A Farewell to Arms (1929); Orwell uses it in the 1930s. These examples are all clear. So, definitely established by the 1920s.
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ask a stupid question, get an amazing and really fascinating answer
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you already know what's up
(steam sale rec thread is what's up)
as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help.
so, onwards!
(steam sale rec thread is what's up)
as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help.
so, onwards!
December 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
you already know what's up
(steam sale rec thread is what's up)
as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help.
so, onwards!
(steam sale rec thread is what's up)
as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help.
so, onwards!
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Hey, so. The world is awful, etc. And because of that, I'd like to ask a favor: Please spend a few minutes between now and New Years sharing the work you were most proud of this year. People might have missed it, but also, it's nice to see people feel good about the work they do
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hey, so. The world is awful, etc. And because of that, I'd like to ask a favor: Please spend a few minutes between now and New Years sharing the work you were most proud of this year. People might have missed it, but also, it's nice to see people feel good about the work they do
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"Aristotle, Søren Kierkegaard, and Henri Bergson have all offered theories of comedy to explain the origin and purpose of laughter. But none dealt with the most important source of laughter, one that has united cultures throughout time: butts." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
This movie is a classic of silliness—no ifs, ands, or butts.
www.rogerebert.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Aristotle, Søren Kierkegaard, and Henri Bergson have all offered theories of comedy to explain the origin and purpose of laughter. But none dealt with the most important source of laughter, one that has united cultures throughout time: butts." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
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After brief consideration I have decided to hand it to “Communist Party of Nepal (Communist)”
December 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
After brief consideration I have decided to hand it to “Communist Party of Nepal (Communist)”
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Listen others have noted that this study is flawed, but hey, so many people right now are living in their own horrible, shitheaded realities, let me live in the one where eating SHARP CHEDDAR leaves me with a SHARP MIND.
"A new study has found that eating 50g or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia. That means all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content, including brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...
Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.
www.sciencealert.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Listen others have noted that this study is flawed, but hey, so many people right now are living in their own horrible, shitheaded realities, let me live in the one where eating SHARP CHEDDAR leaves me with a SHARP MIND.
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I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
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First one is an onion kugel. It's what was left of a traditional meat kugel, likely a version of the OG kugel mentioned over a millenia ago.
During the war, when meat was scarce, my great-grandfather aunt, Trana Twersky, Skver Rebbitzen, continued making it just with the sautéed onion. And it stuck.
During the war, when meat was scarce, my great-grandfather aunt, Trana Twersky, Skver Rebbitzen, continued making it just with the sautéed onion. And it stuck.
December 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
First one is an onion kugel. It's what was left of a traditional meat kugel, likely a version of the OG kugel mentioned over a millenia ago.
During the war, when meat was scarce, my great-grandfather aunt, Trana Twersky, Skver Rebbitzen, continued making it just with the sautéed onion. And it stuck.
During the war, when meat was scarce, my great-grandfather aunt, Trana Twersky, Skver Rebbitzen, continued making it just with the sautéed onion. And it stuck.
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I am often telling people that — despite the widespread belief that kugel just means sweet noodle kugel with fruit and cheese — kugel actually is a generic term that best translates to casserole. And seeing kugels that I not only haven't had, but don't recognize, fills me with such joy!
Happy (at least) 3 kugel Shabbos to all who celebrate!
גוט שבת, א גוטן חודש, און א פרייליכען חנוכה!
שבת שלום, חודש טוב, וחנוכה שמח!
Shabbat Shalom, Happy New Moon, and Happy Chanukah 🕎
גוט שבת, א גוטן חודש, און א פרייליכען חנוכה!
שבת שלום, חודש טוב, וחנוכה שמח!
Shabbat Shalom, Happy New Moon, and Happy Chanukah 🕎
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I am often telling people that — despite the widespread belief that kugel just means sweet noodle kugel with fruit and cheese — kugel actually is a generic term that best translates to casserole. And seeing kugels that I not only haven't had, but don't recognize, fills me with such joy!
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Watching people trying to have a good faith discussion of a bad faith discussion is making me bonkers
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Watching people trying to have a good faith discussion of a bad faith discussion is making me bonkers
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The best thing about this thread is that despite its cadence it is in no way a joke
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The best thing about this thread is that despite its cadence it is in no way a joke
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Hello new visitors! If you’re thinking of following, please note that while I occasionally take a principled stance, I mostly just shitpost about the Talmud
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hello new visitors! If you’re thinking of following, please note that while I occasionally take a principled stance, I mostly just shitpost about the Talmud
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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90% of Israel-Palestine discourse is stupid for exactly this reason: everyone is right (yes yes bothsidesing blah blah sue me)
June 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
90% of Israel-Palestine discourse is stupid for exactly this reason: everyone is right (yes yes bothsidesing blah blah sue me)
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They still are, damnit.
Remember when they were called "emoticons"?
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
They still are, damnit.
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(sipping a soup cloud) I’m in space
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
(sipping a soup cloud) I’m in space
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Good morning. TA06 rolls on, looking at the offseason of 2005-06. We've got all the names: Jose Mesa, Juan Pierre, Lyle Overbay. Elmer Dessens. It's almost too much for one article, because back then offseasons basically took place between the Winter Meetings and Christmas.
TA06: Good Enough for Then | Baseball Prospectus
Time has a way of erasing everything but the extremes, which is unfortunate for the guys who don't have any.
www.baseballprospectus.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Good morning. TA06 rolls on, looking at the offseason of 2005-06. We've got all the names: Jose Mesa, Juan Pierre, Lyle Overbay. Elmer Dessens. It's almost too much for one article, because back then offseasons basically took place between the Winter Meetings and Christmas.
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APP NOTIFICATION: MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
APP NOTIFICATION: MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
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Hol up Home Alone Kevin is a ball knower
This is just 40 seconds of Macaulay Culkin gushing about Poona Ford, apropos of nothing
December 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hol up Home Alone Kevin is a ball knower
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I'm watching The Karate Kid (1984) and this movie rules
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm watching The Karate Kid (1984) and this movie rules
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Carlos is also one of the nicest guys on the planet, which shows up on the page
Much has been written about the journalists who have fled The Washington Post, but I think the paper's biggest loss might be a book critic, Carlos Lozada, who's just killin' it at the New York Times. Today's roundup of "grievance memoirs" is outstanding. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Carlos is also one of the nicest guys on the planet, which shows up on the page
I just verified this pub is listed by CAMRA. I never knew before this moment how much I want to drink a pint of real ale in front of a prehistoric standing stone.
11 things, including two standing stones inside a pub: www.tom-cox.com/18-th/
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I just verified this pub is listed by CAMRA. I never knew before this moment how much I want to drink a pint of real ale in front of a prehistoric standing stone.
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I know this is deeply pedantic and irrational and that shooting schedules for TV are tricky, but surely there must have been a way to coordinate the three short (definitely-not-the-Stanley) Cup victory scenes in Heated Rivalry so that the boys could accurately have scruffy playoff beards
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I know this is deeply pedantic and irrational and that shooting schedules for TV are tricky, but surely there must have been a way to coordinate the three short (definitely-not-the-Stanley) Cup victory scenes in Heated Rivalry so that the boys could accurately have scruffy playoff beards