Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 17th newyorker.com/cartoons/daily… via The New Yorker

BREAKING: High-ranking Democratic Senator Chris Murphy drops bombshell, reveals that he has requested an investigation into the “national security risk” poised by the fact that Elon Musk got so much money from Saudi Arabia to buy Twitter. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THIS INVESTIGATION!

I have a stalker. Recently, she contacted my employer in effort to get me fired. She is racist, and has begun contacting ASIAN ACADEMICS connected w/ me on this platform. So, if that is you, there’s a chance she will send a similar letter to your employer. If this happens...

please contact me immediately and I will put you in touch with my investigator. This has been going on for almost a year. I have NEVER met this harasser. I have NEVER engaged with this harasser. This is my first time publicly acknowledging this person. Please retweet.

If NYTimesGuild members don't have a deal soon, we’re asking readers to not engage in any The New York Times platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

World Cup fever sparks joy in hospitals npr.org/sections/healt…

Amazon claims the Amazon Smile program didn’t have an impact. I can tell you as an animal not for profit it made a huge difference to us. That $9400 meant the world. That isn’t nothing to us. #amazonsmile #amazon @amazonsmile

xkcd.com/2743/ But hand dryers still make too much noise and scare kids (and some grownups) so much that they skip handwashing.

Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 31st newyorker.com/cartoons/daily…

(UPDATED) TONIGHT'S AURORA FORECAST: Based on current data, we've moved our possible Northern Lights viewing farther south. A moderate, strong, or severe geomagnetic storm is possible. Aurora viewing is likely in the United States tonight as Earth is impacted by a strong solar

In 2023, we witnessed a record-high of mass shootings in America.   That's classmates, neighbors and loved ones stolen from their families. Communities changed forever.   In 2024, we must do better to stem this loss.   We must pass a nationwide ban on assault weapons.

This is fascinating. I never would have found this cogent analysis of what AI is actually doing---shortening not summarizing---on my own. Thank you Nate.

I have lived long enough to see a former U.S. president make a dick joke about another former U.S. president and it is a worthy, subtle and gracefully delivered dick joke. If after I am departed from this vale, anyone claims I died unhappy they are lying.

Just a reminder: Trump didn’t have a bad night. This is just who he is, and has been all along, visible to anyone who looked past the sanewashing. Probably this is also who Harris has been all along, but now she has broken through the negative narratives that have clung to her.

A #songofcomfort for anyone who needs it.

OUR HERO OF THE DAY: This is Washington Post Editor At Large Robert Kagan. He resigned from the newspaper today in protest over the paper's decision to holdout on endorsing Kamala Harris. Join us in wishing him well in his next career move.

Going to miss my daily games like crazy. Folks who make them deserve decent contracts though. *sigh*

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