The fun thing about AI is that it both kills the white collar jobs college students think they are training for and deprives them of the critical thinking necessary to get those jobs in the first place.

We just hosted a dinner party, and someone said, “I wonder where the word raspberry comes from?” I leapt up, shouted, “LET’S FIND OUT” and ran to my study, emerging a moment later with Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary (1883). (This is why I don’t get invited to parties.)

"i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" yeah well i asked for whom the bell tolls

The Onion never misses

Unbelievable. Read the quote tweets: full of people who, like me, have memories of living or shopping in Tajrish.

This is Tehran, during attacks A musician playing the violin in the street for his neighbours so they don't hear the explosions It's so cinematic.. soulful and so Iranian

zeenat aman, parveen babi & shabana azmi

America so deindustrialized we don’t even manufacture our own consent

tragedy and farce

Calligraphic Islamised Ganesha, Java

Guess which little princess is about to celebrate her very first birthday? That’s right! Moo Deng! 🥹

Found neem leaves pressed between the folios of a manuscript at Cambridge. These must have been placed in here at Lucknow around 1876 i.e, from where & when the ms was acquired, with the aim of protecting the work from pest attack

Safa geldiniz / Welcome! Tekke wall art in Sarajevo

browsing randomly through mcgill institute of islamic studies urdu lithographs is so wild. apparently this sufi named Tajuddin was so bothered by his devotees that he went & stood naked in a british ladies' tennis court so they would put him in the insane asylum

Renowned Urdu scholar, Professor C.M. Naim, has passed away. May he rest in peace. Was honoured to call him a friend. Choudhri Mohammed Naim (3 June 1936 - 9 July 2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._M._Naim

CM Naim sahab was a great scholar of Urdu studies. Links to some of his essays/articles can be found on this page: franpritchett.com/00litlinks/nai…

Wow. Wow. They'll do it too.