I’ve convinced myself that it’s a secret genius test like the unsolved equation on the college blackboard

I love that!

Google Gemini melted down as I asked it to answer my 4th grader’s math homework. (Which, in fairness, so did I 🤣)

It went on for pages and pages before just deleting the ??

“Give me liberty or give me … a racist rodeo clown for an Emperor”

-Right-wingers

Iykyk

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

I say this not to valorize the founders or exempt any of the past and ongoing harms of the US but to simply note that the constitutional order is failing despite being structured specifically to avoid this exact problem, now broken by two whole branches of Salacious Crumbs en thrall to a Jabba.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Tech scam website

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

A big thanks to @mit.edu. Their saying NO to the compact will hopefully make it easier for smaller schools to say no as well. This is a collective action problem & MIT is signalling they're choosing cooperation over self interest. Too bad @columbiauniversity.bsky.social didn't do this earlier

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Opinion | The Trump administration is fascist. But that’s okay.

by Bret Stephens

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

This is a masterpiece.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

This year, the villain of the company's Annual Training course is named "Eric" 😅