Very rarely do I get to pull a “I wrote a book on this subject and you are very mistaken” card, but the moment has arrived.

Every now and again I pop in to see how things are going here and I remember how much fun it was, and still can be…

The film Oppenheimer nuked the Bechdel test.

And disappeared the great physicist Lise Meitner, she who first comprehended that atoms could be and had been split.

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a 'Hollywood elite.'

'Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut…

Well dang, eh? Neuromancer. 😅😅😅

I've tried hard, but I've not come CLOSE to nailing the AI issue this well.

That point in life - not so very late, but still - where you're watching an apocalyptic movie and realize that most of the heroic actions required for survival would probably put your back out, and so you might just as well label yourself as 'Food' and take one for the team.

Did you notice that there was not a Doonesbury in your Sunday Paper (basically any Gannett paper, including the Des Moines Register) here it is! See the thread for all six panels! (1)

Aleksey Navalny was a fearless advocate for his beliefs who died unbroken by the tyranny he opposed. He fought corruption, inspired millions and never wavered in his insistence on free expression, the rule of law, and a Russia that is accountable to the people and not a dictator.…

I'm sorry, and cancel me all you want, but this is genuinely feeling a little genocidal now.

I ride a bicycle & walk & I 100% endorse charging pedestrians/biklings full cost for use of public infrastructure. Make it proportional to spatial needs/impact, let drivers do same.

As a show of good faith: I'd gladly pay $100/year!

That puts driver fees at $16 million.

Each.

I will take four hundred (although is there a little apprentice one just out of view, in the sea?)

Thank you for doing the Lord’s* work

* see no. 10

Yo, it’s my last day as a staff writer at The Onion. I am grateful for the opportunity that I got to learn so much and work with such talented, smart people. I am not grateful for the dork-ass herb CEO of G/O media Jim Spanfeller. Here’s a thread of headlines I wrote that I love:

People are still perplexed why MSNBC would remove Mehdi Hasan, their best interviewer, as a host and cancel his shows. Ratings are one excuse. But context also matters. The Muslim hosts at the network have been under intense pressure and scrutiny for humanizing Palestinians 1/

Joe Biden will now go down in history as the only President in Henry Kissinger’s post-Secretary of State career who could have invited him to the White House and chose not to

San Francisco City Hall is lit up for Transgender Day of Remembrance — honoring our trans siblings lost to violence. #TDoR2023

This reminds me of when I was taking highschool Latin and just googled 'cum'

Sounds very great and very modern. Maybe when the town has deliberated at length they could then tie the women concerned to chairs and throw them in a pond to see if they float.